IFLA Amsterdam 2023
17.-18. August 2023
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Art Libraries Conference, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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1An outstanding Flemish Book of Hours with 14 high-quality illuminationsBook of Hours (use of Rome).Southern Netherlands, probably Ghent, ca. 1500.
€ 150.000,00An outstanding, unpublished Book of Hours, produced around the year 1500, at the apogee of Flemish book illumination. The quality of illumination is remarkable, both in the borders and the full-page miniatures. The execution is neat and flawless.
At least three different miniaturists worked on the illumination cycle of this precious Book of …
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2Due trattati, uno intorno alle otto principali arti dell'oreficeria. L'altro …Florenz, 1568.
€ 18.500,00Erste Ausgabe des einzigen Werks Cellinis (1500-71), das zu seinen Lebzeiten und überhaupt im 16. Jahrhundert veröffentlicht wurde. Die Abhandlung über die Kunst der Goldschmiede und Bildhauer enthält zahlreiche wichtige technische Vorschriften aus der unmittelbaren Arbeitspraxis (Emaillieren, Vergolden, Bossieren, Modellieren, Bronzeguß etc.) …
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3Aus dem Besitz von Prinz Alfons von BayernIl tempio Vaticano e sua origine. / Templum Vaticanum et ipsius origo.Rom, 1694.
€ 18.000,00Erste Ausgabe des prachtvollen Werks über den Vatikan, mit lateinisch-italienischem Paralleltext, illustriert von Alessandro Specchi nach Zeichnungen von Carlo Fontana. "Sein bedeutendstes Werk, vereinigt seine technischen Studien mit historischen. In demselben Werke veröffenlticht Fontana auch ein Projekt zur Erweiterung des Petersplatzes, auf …
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4Das Künstleralbum des kaiserlichen Deckenmachers J. F. Hörmannspergerdes Deckenmacher-Gesellen Johann Franz Hörmansperger.Wien, 1736.
€ 85.000,00Unikales Dokument der bürgerlichen Handwerkskunst des Spätbarock von musealer Qualität: Das Album enthält neben 58 sauber ausgeführten Textilentwürfen Hörmanspergers 7 großformatige Gouachen, die den selbstbewußten Urheber derselben bei der Ausübung seines Handwerks im Atelier, im Umgang mit der Kundschaft bei Anpreisung und Verkauf seiner …
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5Mechanische äquatoriale Tischsonnenuhr. Signiert "Jo. / Antonius / Schega".Bayern oder Österreich, späteres 18. Jahrhundert.
€ 28.000,00Seltene mechanische äquatoriale Tischsonnenuhr von J. A. Schega, der in Augsburg, München und Wien tätig war. Geboren in Neustadtl (Rudolfswerth, heute Novo Mesto, Krain, Slowenien) als Sohn des Büchsenmachers und Waffenschmieds Andreas Schega und dessen Frau Katharina, wird der Instrumentenmacher Johann Anton Schega erstmals 1771 als "Künstler …
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6Autograph letter signed.Glasgow, 12.03.1875.
€ 3.500,00To an unidentified journalist and friend, thanking him for an article on Doré's work in Le Progrès de l'Ain, a local journal in Doré's hometown Bourg-en-Bresse, and particularly praising his "protest against the systemaric ostracism" that excludes Doré "from all decoratif works for the state": "Voici vingt jours environ que j'ai quitté Paris …
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7Autograph letter signed.Paris, 26 May 1875 postmark.
€ 4.500,00To his only female student Éva Gonzalès, informing her that the art dealer Templaër is willing to exhibit a painting of hers, which she should finish "fast and well" and for which she should ask 1500 to 2000 francs: "Mademoiselle, Templaer exposera votre tableau quand vous voudrez. Dépêchez-vous de le terminer vite et bien et joignez-y une petite …
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8"I am having fun with a very nice marten called Gibeline": a cheerful childhood letter by Toulouse-LautrecAutograph letter signed ("Henry de Toulouse Lautrec").N. p., 11 Oct., no year but ca. 1878-1880.
€ 8.500,00Charming and exceedingly rare childhood letter to his great-aunt Amandine d'Alichoux de Sénégra, addressed as "Tata", thanking her for a pocket-knife and providing her with updates on the family. Toulouse-Lautrec also mentions that his mother was relieved that he has "given up one of [his] canes for the inside", which points to the fateful fractures …
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92 autograph letters signed.Giverny, postmark: 5 and 19 June 1888.
€ 18.000,00To the writer Stéphane Mallarmé, thanking for a copy of the "Ten o'clock" manifesto by the American poet and painter James McNeill Whistler, which had appeared in Mallarmé's translation in "La Revue indépendante" in May 1888, and well as in an offprint. On Whistler's behalf Monet requests Mallarmé to mail a copy to the sculptor Jean-Joseph Carriès, …
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10"Dear Poet": Renoir's portrait of Stephane MallarméAutograph letter signed ("Renoir").Paris, "Lundi matin" 15 March 1894, postmark.
€ 6.500,00To Stephane Mallarmé, explaining that he has not forgotten his portrait but had been suffering from a toothache and fever with chills. He promises that they will be more at ease after "this idiotic exhibition". Following a somewhat cryptic remark that he would like to put his painting on display "before the face that it makes", Renoir mentions the …
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11Between Paris and Polynesia: Gauguin and his patron Ambroise VollardAutograph letter signed ("Paul Gauguin").Hiva Oa, March 1902.
€ 26.500,00To his art dealer and sponsor Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), complaining about an outstanding monthly payment and worrying about the shipment of paintings to Marseille through the famous art dealership Goupil & Cie: "Je reçois votre lettre datée 27 Xb 1901 m'annonçant 650 plus mille francs soit au charge commission de 1618f. à cette date il …
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12An die geliebte MutterEigenh. Bildpostkarte mit U.Gastein, 03.07.1914.
€ 22.000,00An seine Mutter Anna Klimt, geb. Finster (1896-1915), in Steuerangelegenheiten: "[...] habe dem Bankhaus Auftrag gegeben die Steuer zu zahlen - bitte dem ungehobeltem Steuerkommisär [!] in meinem Auftrag sonst die Thür zu weisen - bitte mir zu schreiben ob der Commisar vom Neubau oder Hietzing (?) ist. Ich möchte mich über diesen Herrn beschweren! …
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13Fünf Tage vor Ausbruch des WeltkriegsEigenh. Brief mit U.Villach, Hotel Goldenes Lamm, 23.07.1914.
€ 22.000,00An seinen Mäzen, den Wiener Rechtsanwalt und Sammler Alfred Spitzer (1861-1923): "Ich habe bis zur Stunde leider noch nicht Nachricht ob und wieviel an Geld [ich] von Goltz und einem Kunsthändler in Dresden, von denen ich einiges erwarte, bekomme; - was also mit den Zahlungen geschehen wird, die ich diesen 25. leisten soll, weiß ich nicht, - jedenfalls …
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14Invitation to dance for Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Marcel BreuerCollective letter with the signatures of 68 teachers and students of the …Weimar, 1923.
Auf AnfrageTo the ballet dancers and choreographers Albert Burger and Elsa Hötzel in Stuttgart, who had, together with Oskar Schlemmer, conceived the famous "Triadisches Ballett" (Triadic Ballet), cordially inviting them to perform the piece on the occasion of the 1923 Bauhaus Week in Weimar: "Wir Bauhäusler möchten Sie so von ganzem Herzen bitten kommen …
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15Sergei Eisenstein sulked like a little girlAutograph letter signed.Moscow, spring 1929.
€ 48.000,00In Russian, to his third wife, Natalya Andreevna (née Manchenka, 1902-90), about some of his paintings that were sold, his return to Moscow, where everyone is happy to see him, and a presentation he attended there: "[...] Yesterday I went to the Academy to hear a presentation by Shutko on Dziga Vertov. It was quite remarkable, and I also saw three …
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162 autograph letters signed. In Norwegian.Opdal and Gothenburg, 1930s.
€ 14.000,00To his lawyer Johannes Roede (1875-1958), brother of the pianist and collector Halfdan Nobel Roede, concerning Munch's financial problems and poor reputation. In the letter on stationery from a hotel in Opdal, Munch complains about his financial difficulties despite his owning several apartments. He contemplates renting or selling his properties …
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17"Je n'irai donc pas vivre en Amérique": Marx Ernst's refusal to leave FranceAutograph letter signed twice ("Max Ernst").Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche, "Mercredi" 1939/1940.
€ 4.500,00Highly interesting letter to the collector and critic Christian Zervos, asserting that Ernst will not emigrate to the U.S., probably following his brief internment in France as an "undesirable foreigner" at the beginning of World War II. Ernst thanks Zervos for forwarding a letter from his son Jimmy and for some issues of the Cahiers d'Art, before …
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18Picasso's wartime Buffon: a very fine copy, embellished with two original drawings for his friend, the painter André Marchand2 full-page pen and brush drawings in Indian ink. In: Eaux-fortes originales …Paris, 1942.
€ 450.000,00Two unique and wholly original brush drawings, adorning a signed and inscribed first edition of this famous suite by Picasso, in perfect condition.
Limited edition of 226 copies: this is number 155, one of 135 on Vidalon vélin. This copy was presented by Picasso to his friend, the painter André Marchand (1907-98), with an autograph inscription …
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19"collaboration entre vaches et sculpteur"Eigenh. Postkarte mit U. und einer kleinen Skizze auf der Bildseite.Roxbury Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA, 9. V. 1958.
€ 25.000,00An den ungarisch-französischen Bildhauer István Beöthy (Etienne Beothy) in Montrouge/Seine, dem er seine Ankunft in Paris für Ende Juni ankündigt. Die Skizze auf der von Calder teils handkolorierten Bildseite illustriert die "collaboration entre vaches et sculpteur" ("Zusammenarbeit zwischen Kühen und Bildhauer").
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20The "beginning of a precious 'commentary'": Magritte's correspondence with André Bormans5 autograph letters signed (2 "René Magritte" and 3 "RM") with two sketches.Brussels and n. p., 1960-1965 and n. d.
€ 28.000,00Highly interesting correspondence with his friend, the Belgian librarian and writer André Bosmans, touching upon various subjects, especially semiotics and the theory of art. In the earliest letter, Magritte invites Bormans for the Christmas holidays and announces that he will show him his latest unfinished paintings: "Particularly: La Joconde, …