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皮耶罗·多拉齐奥-

Piero Dorazio * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Rome 1927–2005 Perugia)
Untitled [Contro il rassegnarsi], 1967, Signed, dated, dedicated and inscribed on the reverse, oil on canvas, 100 x 100, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Piero Dorazio, Milan and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity

Provenance:
V. Pirozzi Collection, Rome
Sale Farsetti, Prato, 27 May 2000, lot 303
Anfiteatro Arte, Milan
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Milan, Galleria Anfiteatro Arte, 1999, exh. cat. p. 47 no. 15 with ill.
Genoa, Dorazio, Marco Canepa Arte Contemporanea, 2006, exh. cat. with ill.
Padua, Piero Dorazio, Anfiteatro Arte, 1 February – 18 March 2007, exh. cat. p. 74 and 75 with ill. (label on the reverse)


Literature:
M. Volpi Orandini, J. Lassaigne, G. Crisafi, Dorazio Catalogo ragionato delle opere, Alfieri Editore, 1977, no. 8 (in the addenda at the end of the catalogue)

The subject of the painting always drives from the previous painting, hence there is no reason for inspiration. One tries again, keeps on trying to do what he has already done…
Piero Dorazio

Of all the great first and second generation 美国 painters I have known since 1953 (the third generation is not yet discernable), Kenneth Noland is a truly singular case.

He is from North Carolina and Washington, i.e. the provinces, rather than the artistic milieu of New York.

[...]In the 1950s and 1960s I never understood whether some artistic circles in the Metropolis or certain isolated artists like Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis, Georgia O\'Keeffe in New Mexico or Andrew Wyeth in Pennsylvania were more provincial. Although isolated, Louis and Noland were already the most modern of modern 美国 painters in the early 1960s. They were a surprising revelation when discovered and presented by the critic Clement Greenberg at the 法国 and Co. Gallery in New York. Their exhibitions in that gallery between \'59 and \'60 remain by far the most exciting of the decade.

Kenneth Noland\'s painting has nothing to do, therefore, with all the clichés of 美国 painting disseminated here by European critics who have framed all expressions into schools or categories or groups (Action Painting, New Dada, Abstract expressionism, Pop Art, Minimal Art etc.) letting what were actually the most creative values and personalities slip through their fingers. [...]

Ken Noland established himself, from the late 1960s and 1970s, among those few artists defined as \'Colour field painters\' or \'Post Painterly Abstraction\' not as a group but rather as a trend: Helen Frankenhaler, Morris Louis, Jules Olitsky, Friedel Dzubas, Larry Poons. There was a convergence of interests among these painters for colour as an element that defines large spaces and long periods of time for the observer, who is induced to meditate because he is immersed in the rhythm of the lines and chromatic masses of a truly abstract painting, devoid of any allusion or reference to the real, the metaphysical or the subjective temperament. Painting that refers on the one hand to the decorative character of early Matisse, and on the other to the secular spirit of Constructivism. Among those painters, Noland was always the one who, with tenacity and clarity of purpose, was best able to sublimate \'pure visibility\' into a highly lyrical personal poetics. His nature as a colourist and his technique inspired his constant formal research into surface-colour and material-colour relationships. [...]

In these works chromatic fantasy and refined sensitivity, arranged in a precise structural order, bring the brushstrokes and pictorial matter to life in decisive and delicate spaces and lights and rhythms, expressing a constant reflection on the inevitable characteristics of reality. Constancy and appearance, the negative and the positive, fullness and emptiness; our gaze is entertained and delighted by this repertoire of perception, emotion and mind.

(Piero Dorazio, Il singolare caso di Kenenth Noland, in “Rigando dritto. Piero Dorazio Scritti 1945-2004, pp. 425-427)

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SPARTIANUS, AELIUS, et al.:[Historia Augusta], Aelius Spartianus: De vita Hadriani.... Venice: [Joannes Rubens and] Bernardinus Rizus, Novariensis, 1498.
Folio (307 x 208 mm). 104 leaves, Roman letter text, spaces for initial capitals. Early 20th century half calf and cloth, edges colored in blue. Rubbed, dampstaining throughout, margins slightly trimmed, some ink annotations.

Part 2 only, lacking Suetonius, Vitae XII Caesarum, not included here. This edition was printed through quire C by Joannes Rubens, the remainder of the quires being struck and issued by Bernardinus Rizus, including the colophon which lists him as printer, and is dated October 1489. The credited authors of Historia Augusta include Aelius Spartianus and six other authors, although their true identities or even their actual existence has never been verified — the names may have been nothing more than satirical pseudonyms. Goff S-341; GW M-44252; Hain 14562; Proctor 4951.

SPARTIANUS、AELIUS等人。 [奥古斯塔历史]，阿尔留斯·斯帕蒂努斯：德维塔·哈迪亚尼……威尼斯：[乔安妮·鲁本斯和]贝尔纳丁斯·里祖斯，诺瓦里安西斯，1498年。

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安杰洛·萨韦利-

Angelo Savelli * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Pizzo Calabro 1911–1995 Dello/Brescia)
Untitled, 1973, signed and dated on the reverse, acrylic on canvas on tulle, 163 x 136 cm, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Angelo Savelli curated by Luigi Sansone and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity

Provenance:
Kodama Collection, Osaka (label on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Angelo Savelli. The master of white
Angelo Savelli. The master of white, Marca, Catanzaro, until 30 March 2013
Calabrese by birth, Roman by training and 美国 by maturity, Savelli continues to be an isolated case within post-war art.

Savelli’s season of transition from figuration to abstraction is, under the banner of light, a sort of dynamic of the sign that weaves nervous filaments in an entirely emotional space.

Then, at the turn of the 1950s, came the choice to work exclusively in white. This was nothing to do with the Monochrome Malerei and the Manzonian achromia of the same years. Savelli thinks differently, of a purified idea of structure, of the point at which the formal mechanism manifests itself to the essential degree, before any attribution.

Savelli works primarily on the spatial dimension. He gives life to real places that breathe a formal mysticism that becomes a transcendental mood: one could say he works through paradox, giving an appropriate and unrelated physical consistency to the abstractness of geometry.

His work is above all silent. It is the poetic condition that Savelli chooses, and never relinquishes in decades of lucid, sweetly estranged research.

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HORTUS SANITATUS. :Ortus Sanitatis. De herbis plantis. De Animalibus reptilibus. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius Johannes de Tridino alias Tacuinus, 1511.
Folio (302 x 207 mm). Double column, 53 lines and headline; initial spaces with guides; four-piece decorative woodcut title border with scrolling foliage and dolphin motifs, more than 1000 column-width woodcut illustrations, and three full-page woodcuts, two within white-on-black borders. 367 (of 368) leaves, lacking the final blank. Title remargined, some light browning, gathering cc with some lines crossed out in ink.

First edition printed in Italy and fifth edition of the Latin text. The woodcut are reverse copies of Johann Prüss\'s c.1496 Strasbourg copies of the woodcuts of the first edition, printed in Mainz by Jacob Meydenbach in 1491. Two full-page woodcuts depict physicians, one based on the famous illustration in Ketham\'s Fascicolo di medicina, the other a repeated from a 1504 Venice edition of Guillelmus de Saliceto, Chirurgia. The pseudo-Galen tract De facile acquisibilibus is added for the first time. Tacuino\'s woodcut title border with dolphins, is \"one of the most influential pieces of ornamentation of the sixteenth century\" (Mortimer). Adams H-1016; Durling 2468; Essling 1723; Hunt 1:12; Mortimer Italian 238; Nissen BBI 2368; Sander 3470.

霍图斯·桑坦提乌斯。 奥尔图斯卫生。赫比斯和普兰蒂斯。动物与爬行动物。威尼斯：Bernardinus BenaliusJohannes de Tridino别名Tacuinus，1511年。

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Hans Hartung，当代艺术I-

Hans Hartung * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Leipzig 1904–1989 Antibes)
T 1964 - E 40, 1964, signed, dated Hartung 64, titled and inscribed and with directional arrow on the stretcher, acrylic on canvas, 81 x 130 cm, framed

This work is registered at the Foundation Hans Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman, Antibes, and will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by the Foundation Hartung Bergman, Antibes (confirmation via email 3. October 2022).

Provenance:
Galerie Kallenbach, Munich
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 18 June 2021, lot 302 - acquired there by the present owner

Hans Hartung\'s entire oeuvre is characterised by abstract, non-objective painting. This interplay of light and shadow, structure, texture and airiness would become the formative elements of his later works. The non-figurative painting T 1964 - E 40 offered here also belongs to his catalogue of work. The canvas is primed in yellow, the upper part of the painting is dipped in a rich black. Above this is a layer of dark blue paint splashes with white accents, which the artist has worked on with a steel brush and scraper. A particular focus of the work is the complementary contrast of blue and yellow as well as the contrast between surface and stroke. The pictorial space is composed of light, shadow and their contrast.

The multitude of brushstrokes and scratches, the result of the painter\'s activity on the canvas, represent Hartung\'s style of the 1960s. The compositional scheme of the work offered here is reminiscent of the depiction of fireworks. The rockets explode in the night sky and colour it a sulphurous yellow.

“The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints.”
Hans Hartung

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杰森·马丁，当代艺术I-

Jason Martin * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(born in London in 1970)
Untitled, 2008, oil on steel, 236 x 354 x 11 cm

Provenance:
Private collection Thomas Olbricht, Essen
Van Ham, Cologne, 26 September 2020, lot 333 - acquired there by the present owner

Exhibited:
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Zwei Sammler: Thomas Olbricht und Harald Falckenberg, 24 June – 21 August 2011

Literature:
Luckow, Dirk: Zwei Sammler - Thomas Olbricht und Harald Falckenberg, Cologne 2011, p. 52 (without ill.)

The British artist Jason Martin expands the possibilities of painting with his innovative approach in using unusual materials which serve as paint. He attracted international attention with his large, brushed oil paintings, executed in thin layers of paint with self-made comb-like tools – such as the one being auctioned off. Because of the light bouncing off the shiny surface, experiencing the work in person is like walking towards a sculpture rather than a painting.

“There’s never really any single point to review the work or to experience the work, it’s about moving around. But there is a stillness as well, in that the organisation of the marks all collide into a central or suggested central point. […] When you encounter a work of mine, there is an academic approach to the performative act, the gestural act. I have a series of reduced movements that then compile in a composition. And you also look through it, because there is this implied sense of looking through, this illusion. […] I would suggest that my paintings are a hybrid between that naturalism, that looking through, that perspectival space, that implied pictorial depth and the didactic, academic concerns of abstraction, which are for me physical and arm-led, or I immerse my body into the whole making of the work. And they sit very much in between these two places, these two worlds. [...]”
Jason Martin on the exhibition: Convergence. Thaddaeus Ropac, Seoul Fort Hill, 24.2.-16.4.22

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阿里吉耶罗·波提-

Alighiero Boetti * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Turin 1940–1994 Rome)
Naturale Artificiale, 1982, 2 parts, ballpen on paper laid on canvas / biro su carta intelata, each 100 x 70 cm, on stretcher (2)

The work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity, Rome, 30 May 2007

Photo-certificate, issued by La Bertesca/c.o. Masnata, Genoa, signed by the artist, Rome, October 1983

Provenance:
The artist Francesco Masnata, Genoa (formerly Galleria La Bertesca)
Private Collection, Southem 德国y – acquired directly from the above in the late 1990s

Literature:
Jean-Christophe Ammann, Alighiero Boetti, Catalogo generale, Vol 3, Milan 2015, Vol. 3, no. 1391 (with color illustration)

The work NATURALE ARTIFICIALE comes from Alighiero Boetti\'s biro drawings series. The artist created unique artistic narratives through play, poetry, measure, numbers, order and disorder, which he combined with material diversity, conceptual complexity, and extraordinary visual beauty. Boetti began his biro series in the 1970s, when he created entire sheets collaboratively using different coloured biro ink. Each work in the series contains panels of images created by different students, similar to Boetti\'s well-known tapestries. With a consistently playful approach to \"simple\" ideas, Boetti posed fundamental questions about contemporary art production. The liminal space between artist and author is a major concern in Boetti\'s catalogue of works.

The biro work offered here is a diptych of two sheets hand-coloured with red biros. Looking at the diptych as a whole, the irregular structure, gradations and patterns become apparent. Latin letters are arranged in alphabetical order on the left edge of the picture. Distributed over the two halves of the picture are small white commas in a seemingly arbitrary arrangement. A closer look at the signs reveals that they each correspond to one of the letters of the alphabet. When read in sequence from left to right, they themselves spell out the work’s title NATURALE ARTIFICIALE. Boetti\'s biro works are generally abstract images that name themselves.

\"My works arise from changing forms of collaboration. I am interested in primary things like the alphabet, maps, newspapers - not least because of the sudden surge of order and disorder. Everything has its own precise order, even if that order is realised in a disorderly way.\"
Alighiero Boetti

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EINSTEIN\'S DOCTORATE CERTIFICATE FROM HIS \"MIRACULOUS YEAR\" OF 1905.:EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955. Doctorate diploma awarded by the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zurich at its meeting on 27 July 1905, regarding the dissertation of Albert Einstein, titled: \"Eine neue Bestimmung der Molekuldimensionen\" (\"A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions\"), issued in Zurich 15 January 1906. Printed document with signatures and two seals on vellum, 698 x 523 mm. Framed.

EINSTEIN\'S DOCTORATE CERTFICATE — THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OF HIS \"ANNUS MIRABILIS\" obtained for his most frequently cited paper \"A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions\" (Einstein 1905b). During 1905, Einstein wrote 5 landmark papers including his thesis, all published in the Annalen der Physik, and all considered milestones in the foundation of modern physics. They revolutionized our understanding of space, time, mass, and energy and culminated in the world most famous mathematical equation E=mc2. The papers were:

- \"On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light.\" \"Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt.\" Annalen der Physik 17, 1905 pp. 132-148.

- \"A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions.\" \"Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen.\" Bern: Buchdruckreei Wyss, 1906. Also slightly revised in Annalen der Physik. 19, 1906, pp 289–305.

- \"On the Movement of Small Particles Suspended in a Stationary Liquid Required by the Molecular-Kinetic Theory of Heat.\" \"Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen.\" Annalen der Physik.17, 1905, pp 549–560

- \"On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.\" \"Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper.\" Annalen der Physik. 17, pp 901-921.

- \"Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?\" \"Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen.\" Annalen der Physik. 17, 1905, S. 549–560.

With a thesis on intermolecular forces Einstein attempted to earn a doctorate from the University of Zurich as early as 1901. He withdrew his paper shortly after he submitted it to Alfred Kleiner, Professor of Physics at the University of Zurich. His second attempted completed April 30, 1905 was more fruitful. On July 20, 1905, Einstein formally submitted another thesis to Dr. Kleiner, who enlisted the help of Heinrich Burkhardt, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Zurich, to check the calculations in Einstein\'s dissertation. Shortly after, on July 27 the philosophical faculty awarded Einstein with the doctorate, and issued the formal acknowledgement on January 15, 1906:

\"Unter der Oberhoheit der Behoerden und des Volkes des Kantons / und im Namen der / Universitaet Zuerich / hat die Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Sektion / der / Phiolosophischen Fakultaet / in Ihrer Sitzung vom 27 Juli 1905 / dem Herren / Albert Einstein / von Zuerich / auf Grund seiner Dissertation betitelt: / \"Eine Neue Bestimmung der Molekuldimensionen\" / und der Vorschriftsmaessigen Pruefungsausweis / die Rechte und Wuerden / eines Doctor der Philosophie / verliehen / und stellt zum Zeugnis dessen diese mit dem Universitaetsstempel versehene Urkunde aus / Gegegeben in Zurich / 15 Januar 1906 / Fuer den Akademischen Senat / der Rector Dr. Otto Haab / Fuer die II Sektion der Philosophischen Fakultaet / der Dekan: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Martin. With the paper seal of the \"Academia Turicensis MDCCC XXXIII\", under the signature of the dean the paper seal \"Philosophorum Turicensium Ordo\" in center.

In his dissertation Einstein \"combined the techniques of classical hydrodynamics with those of the theory of diffusion to create a new method for the determination of molecular sizes and of Avogadro\'s number, a method he applied to solute sugar molecules ... Compared to the other topics of his research at the time, his hydrodynamical method for determining molecular dimensions was a dissertation topic uniquely suited to the empirically oriented Zurich academic environment. In contrast to the Brownian-motion work, for which the experimental techniques needed to extract information from observations were not yet available, Einstein\'s hydrodynamical method for determining the dimensions of solute molecules enabled him to derive new empirical results from data in standard tables\" (Miraculous Year).

Years later Einstein remarked \"perhaps half-jokingly, that when he submitted his thesis, Professor Kleiner rejected it for being too short, so he added one more sentence and it was promptly accepted. There is no documentary evidence for this. Either way, his thesis actually became one of his most cited and practically useful papers, with applications in such diverse fields as cement mixing, dairy production, and aerosol products. And even though it did not help him get an academic job, it did make it possible for him to become known, finally, as Dr. Einstein\" (Isaacson).

Einstein\'s doctorate from the University of Zurich represents the cornerstone of his academic career that would take him from Zurich to Berlin and finally to Princeton, along the way transforming our perception of the cosmos, and the way we understand it.

Reference: Cawkell and Garfield. Assessing Einstein\'s impact on today\'s science by citation analysis. NY: 1980. P 32.
Isaacson. Einstein, His Life and Universe. New York: 2007. Pp 101-103.
Stachel, editor. The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Princeton: 1990. Vol 2, pp 170-182.
Stachel, editor. Einstein\'s Miraculous Year. Five Papers that Changed the Face of Physics. Princeton: 2005. Pp 31 and 37.

爱因斯坦1905年“奇迹年”的博士学位证书。 苏黎世大学哲学系在1905年7月27日的会议上颁发的博士学位证书，涉及阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦的论文，题为“Eine neue Bestimmung der Molekuldimensionen”，