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Gilden’s Arts Gallery

GEORGES BRAQUE 1882-1963 (French) Theseus / Thésée, 1931

Original Stamped Signed Oil Painting on Panel 21.9 x 31.9 cm / 8.5 x 12.5 in

Provenance: Private Collection, France (sale: Pierre Bergé, Paris, 1st December 2004, lot 100) Private Collection, Switzerland (purchased at the above sale; sale: Sotheby’s, London, 6th February 2008, lot 534) Purchased at the above sale by the present owner.

GEORGES BRAQUE 1882-1963 (French) Mythological Figure, 1958

Original Hand Signed and Dated Ink Drawing on paper 40.5 x 26 cm / 15 x 10.3 in Provenance: Galerie Darga & Lansberg, Paris Private Collection, Paris (acquired from the above in 2005) The authenticity of this work has been kindly confirmed

by Claude Laurens in his certificate of authenticity dated 20th December 2002.

Mr Laurens is Braque's heir and the son of Braque's friend and colleague, the sculptor Henri Laurens.

GEORGES BRAQUE 1882-1963 The Raptor / Le Rapace, 1963

Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in Four Colours on Arches paper 37.6 x 27.8 cm / 14.8 x 11 in

HENRI MATISSE 1869-1954 Head, circa 1943

Original Hand Signed Pencil Drawing on Arches wove paper 52.8 x 40.6 cm / 20.7 x 16 in Provenance: Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (no. L.2779).

Mel Ferrer, Santa Barbara, CA., by whom acquired from the above by 1967, and thence to his estate.

Mrs. Lisa Soukhotine-Ferrer, Santa Barbara, CA., to whom gifted from the above.

MARC CHAGALL 1887-1985 The Easel with Flowers, 1976

Original Hand Signed and and Numbered Lithograph in Colours on Arches vellum paper 75.8 x 50.8 cm / 29.8 x 20 in

MARC CHAGALL 1887-1985 The Wedding, 1968

Original Hand Signed and and Numbered Etching and Aquatint on vellum paper 75 x 55 cm / 29.5 x 21.7 in

JOAN MIRO 1893-1983 Figure and Stars IV, 1979

Original Hand Signed and hand numbered Etching on Arches vellum paper 90.8 x 63.2 cm / 35.7 x 24 in

JOAN MIRO 1893-1983 Figure and Stars II, 1979

Original Hand Signed and hand numbered Etching on Arches vellum paper 90.8 x 63.2 cm / 35.7 x 24 in

JOAN MIRO 1893-1983 Gaudi No. 4, 1979

Original Pencil on paper Original Hand Signed and Drawing Numbered Etching with Aquatint on vellum Arches paper 65.2 x 50 cm / 25.6 x 19.6 in Size: image 23 x 32 cm / 9.1 x 12.6 in

PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973 Still Life with Pitcher and Lemon, ca. 1955

Hand Signed and Numbered Etching with Aquatint and Pochoir on BFK Rives vellum paper 50.2 x 65.5 cm / 19.8 x 25.5 in

FRANCIS BACON 1909-1992 Triptych inspired by Oresteia of Aeschylus, 1981

Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph on Arches paper 53 x 104 cm / 20.8 x 40.9 in

SALVADOR DALI 1904-1989 Kabuki Dancer, 1973

Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph on Japon paper 76.8 x 50 cm0.2

x 19.7 in