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朱塞佩·桑托马索-

Giuseppe Santomaso * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Venice 1907–1990)
Nero e giallo, 1959, signed and dated, oil on paper laid down on wood, 66.5 x 47 cm, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Santomaso, Galleria Blu, Milan

Provenance:
Alitalia Collection
Sale Finarte, Asta della Collezione Alitalia, Rome, 8 December 2009, lot 132
Sale Farsetti, Prato, 28 November 2014, lot 405 (certificate of provenance available)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Rome, Santomaso, Galleria Pogliani, 28 November - 20 December 1959, mentioned in the exh. cat. (with wrong medium)

Literature:
L. Alfieri, Santomaso. Catalogue raisonné 1931–1974, Alfieri,
Venice 1975, no. 318 (with wrong medium)

The great achievements of the Alitalia airline between 1960 and 1961 also comprise the exact period in which the nucleus of the entire collection was formed. The idea of bringing works of art on board aircraft was Corrado Cagli’s, who had to garner the support of engineer Bruno Velani. He had two clear objectives: to make the flight more pleasant by stimulating the traveller\'s aesthetic sensibilities and to disseminate 意大利 artistic culture abroad. Cagli, helped by his friend and gallery owner Bruno Herlitzka, directly commissioned some of the paintings exhibited in the aircraft from the most talented young artists.

[...] Taken as a whole, the collection constitutes a rare compendium of what was happening mainly between 1954 and 1962, thus documenting a good part of the major trends in the 意大利 art world (Burri, Fontana, Gruppo degli Otto, Forma 1, etc.).
(Cfr. Finarte, Asta della Collezione Alitalia, Rome, 8 December 2009)

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KEPLER, JOHANNES. 1571-1630. :Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo nuper ad mortales misso a Galilaeo Galilaeo. Frankfurt: Zacharias Palthenius, 1611.
8vo (162 x 90 mm). Woodcut device on title page. Modern blue morocco, ruled in gilt. Even toning, minor staining and some ink underlining.

Third, pirated edition of the Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo, following the 1610 Prague and Florence editions. The work is an open letter to Galileo, responding enthusiastically to Galileo\'s telescopic observations published in Sidereus Nuncius in March of 1610. Galileo sent a copy to Kepler in April 1610, and Kepler felt it was necessary to publish a response in order to disseminate the knowledge of Galileo\'s discovery and its importance to the widest possible audience. He was also more than a little relieved that Galileo\'s conclusions did not undermine his own theories. The publisher of this edition, Zacharias Palthenius of Frankfurt, had also published a pirated edition of Galileo\'s Sidereus Nuncius in 1610. Caspar 34; Zinner 4277 (both for first edition).

开普勒，约翰内斯。1571-1630. 沙漠和修女西德雷奥云从加利利送到死者那里。法兰克福：撒迦利亚斯·帕罗修斯，1611年。

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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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托姆布雷-

Cy Twombly * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Lexington, Virginia 1928–2011 Rome)
Untitled, 1963/1964, signed Cy Twombly, colored pencil, wax crayon on paper, 86 x 67 cm, framed

Provenance:
Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Private Collection, 德国y
Kunsthaus Lempertz, 3 December 2016, lot 450 - acquired there by the present owner

Literature:
Nicola Del Roscio, Cy Twombly, drawings, catalogue raisonné, Gagosian Gallery, New York (Ed.), Munich 2011, vol. 4, no. 20

Cy Twombly occupies a unique position among US artists. Twombly lived and worked in Italy, far from the 美国 art world, and felt free to experiment. In Rome, Twombly refined his distinctive artistic language. Twombly\'s visual language is informed by classical literature, ancient history, poetry and mythology, as well as his own life experience. Since the 1950s, Twombly\'s drawings have been dominated by rhythmically repeated line progressions, swirls, dense tangles and isolated numbers. Pencil, coloured pens and ballpoint pens enabled Twombly to make this \'scriptural\' drawing, which ultimately includes the signature of the artist himself. On the white of the paper, the pictorial elements provoke by appearing as scribbles, appearing as if randomly distributed on the surface.

The untitled work offered here is a vivid example of Twombly\'s unique pictorial language. The pictorial elements merge into an abstract composition that is both delicate and dynamic. The work was created in Italy between 1963-64. Twombly lived in a 17th-century palazzo on Via di Monserrato in Rome at the time the work was created. Untitled is emblematic of the groundbreaking work Twombly produced in the 1960s, widely regarded as a critical and highly fruitful period in his long and illustrious career.

“Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don’t like oil because you can’t get back into it, or you make a mess. It’s not my favourite thing... pencil is more my medium than wet paint.”
Cy Twombly

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ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. 1835-1915. :A Monograph of the Felidae or Family of the Cats. [London]: Published for the Subscribers by the author, [1878]–1883.
Folio (598 x 480 mm). 43 hand-colored plates. Contemporary green half morocco and marbled boards, protected by a contemporary cloth sleeve, some light wear to spine ends, corners and extremities, front hinge cracked, cords firm, the sleeve with splitting and dust soiling, a few text leaves and 3 plates with short marginal tears and minor dampstaining, a few leaves becoming loose at end.
Provenance: Edward James Norris (1851-1927), President of the Educational Publishing Company, presented to him by the country of France, 29 September 1889, as an honorary \"Medaille d\'Or\" accompanied by a diploma granted to \"A Popular éducator, Massachusetts\" (available as photocopy).

FIRST EDITION OF THE DEFINITIVE WORK ON THE FAMILY OF CATS, in which Elliot describes and illustrates all the species of cats then known. \"Among the Families which constitute the Class Mammalia no more attractive one can be found than that of Felidae, as its members possess in the highest degree a beauty, both of form and coloring, most gratifying to the eye, and are also endowed with physical strength and weapons of offence not surpassed by any known creature now living upon the earth. The Family comprises not only the largest and most ferocious of the beasts of prey, but in which Elliot describes and illustrates all the species of cats then known also the graceful little animal that delights to make its home within man\'s abode\" (Introduction). Wolf worked from specimens provided by Elliot, who visited all the great museums and zoological societies on both sides of the Atlantic. See Nissen ZBI 1279; see Wood p 332.

埃利奥特，丹尼尔·吉拉德。1835-1915. 猫科或猫科的专著。[伦敦]：作者为订户出版，[1878]–1883。

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HEVELIUS, JOHANNES. 1611-1687. :Selenographia: sive Lunae descriptio; atque Accurata, Tam Macularum eius, addita est, lentes expoliendi nova ratio. Danzig: Andreas Hünefeld for the author, 1647.
Folio (336 x 217 mm). Half-title, engraved additional titles by Jeremias Falck after Adolf Boÿ with portraits of Alhazen and Galileo, title printed in red and black, engraved portrait of the author by Falck after Helmich von Iwenhusen the Younger, 112 engraved plates (including 2 additional plates, RRR and the solar eclipse plate) by Hevelius, some printed recto and verso, and including 3 double-page plates, plate 21 complete with volvelle and string, 26 illustrations in text. Modern morocco, edges stained blue. Some light marginal dampstaining.

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST EXHAUSTIVE LUNAR ATLAS, Hevelius\'s four-year observations of the surface and phases of the moon, recorded in his greatest work, accompanied by an account of his instruments and telescopes. \"No finer book on the moon has ever been published. In scores of illustrations, drawn and engraved by the author himself, Hevelius tracked the moon through every phase of an entire lunar cycle, and then incorporated the information gained into three large moon maps... the two other maps, though less often reproduced, are much more splendid examples of lunar cartography. One shows the full moon as it actually appears through the telescope—that is, with no shadows. The other is uniformly (and artificially) shadowed to show the craters as they appear at mid-morning on the moon\" (Ashworth, The Face of the Moon Linda Hall Library p 45). Brunet III:150; BYU/Hevelius 1; Cinti 120; Houzeau Lancaster 1252.

赫维柳斯，约翰内斯。1611-1687. 月色学：或月球描述Accurata，作为他的Macularum，被添加进来，慢慢地表达了新的比例。但泽：Andreas Hünefeld，作者，1647年。

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RUSSIAN ART JOURNAL.:Zhar-Ptitsa/Jar-Ptitza [The Firebird]. Paris and Berlin: Russkoe Iskusstvo, August 1921-January 1926. 14 issues in 13 volumes (No. 4/5 double issue). 4to (315 x 240 mm). Illustrated in color and black and white, with many plates tipped in. Original color lithographed wrappers. Some issues missing spines with pages detached; internal tears and some loss.

A COMPLETE SET OF THE RARE RUSSIAN EMIGRE LITERARY ART MAGAZINE IN ORIGINAL ISSUES, reportedly no more than 300 copies were printed. Supplemental summaries of the numbers were provided in the back in a variety of languages including English. Zhar-ptitsa was the most influential art journal of the flourishing community of exiles who were feverishly trying to keep the culture of Old Russia alive. Due to paper shortages and extensive censorship by the Bolsheviks back in the USSR, the Russian book business was booming in Germany and France. This lavish periodical was the natural successor to S. Diaghilev\'s Mir iskusstva since many of those involved had been members of the World of Art Group and designers for the Ballets Russes. The rich selection subjects and contributors under A. E. Kogan\'s art department embraced L. Bakst, A. Benois, I. Bilibin, M. Chagall, S. Chekhonin, N. Goncharova, B. Grigoriev, B. Kustodiev, M. Larionov, V. Shukaev, K. Somov, S. Sudeikin and many other important artists. Poet Sasha Cherny was literary editor; and such important writers as L. Andreev, K. Balmont, I. Bunin, V. Khodasevich, B. Pilnyak, A. Remizov, N. Teffi, A.N. Tolstoi, B. Zaitsev, and the young Vladimir Nabokov (as \"V. Sirin\") appeared in its pages. Fekula called Zhar-ptitsa \"perhaps the most famous of post-revolutionary art journals, whose contributors threw new light on the development of Russian art at the beginning of the twentieth century.\" According to Vengerov, \"Even separate issues of the magazine, let alone complete sets of its issues, are a great bibliographic rarity.\" Fekula 5742; Vengerov Staraya russkaya kniga 105.

俄罗斯艺术杂志。 Zhar Ptitsa/Jar Ptitsa[火鸟]。巴黎和柏林：Russkoe Iskustvo，1921年8月至1926年1月。

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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”，

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赫尔曼·尼奇，当代艺术I-

Hermann Nitsch * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Vienna 1938–2022 Mistelbach, Lower Austria)
Splatter painting with chemise and impasto, signed, dated hermann nitsch 1995 on the reverse, oil on burlap, stretched over wooden frame along the right and left edge, fixed to wooden frame along the upper and lower front, 200 x 300 cm

Compare:
Hermann Nitsch. Das Gesamtkunstwerk des Orgien Mysterien Theaters, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2015, pp. 606–607

Exhibited and illustrated in the catalogue:
Ekilibrio Foundation Collection, Galleria Sirio Arte, Padua, 10 October – 7 November 2020, pp. 168-169

Photo of this work signed hermann nitsch on the reverse available.

Provenance:
Aurelio Stefanini, Studio d’arte, Firenze (label on the reverse)
Private Collection, Italy

„… der in den exzess ekstatisch abgestiegene akteur befleckt und beschüttet… die bildfläche. oft noch spontaner, als es nur auf der bildfläche gelingt, trägt sich die intensität auf dem hemd zu. es wird automatisch befleckt, besudelt, beschmutzt, betappt, beschmiert, beschüttet, bespritzt… es ist, als ob der unsere abgründe eröffnende maler beim malvorgang in die nähe des blutschwitzens, des austrinkens des leidenskelches, der geisselung, der kreuzigung, der zerreissung des dionysos, der blendung des ödipus gerät. sein priesterkleid, sein opferhemd ist geprägt vom feuchten stempel der entäusserung… des hemd wird als höchster schmuck und trophäe auf ein bild gehängt, um dessen farbgefüge zu bereichern. es gibt bilder, die brauchen kein hemd, andere verlangen danach…“
Hermann Nitsch – aus der oben angeführten Literatur

“... the actor, ecstatically descended into the excess, stains and pours things onto … the surface of the image. often it’s even more spontaneous than just hitting the surface of the image, striking his shirt in its intensity, too. it’s automatically stained, sullied, dirtied, touched, smeared; it automatically has things poured onto it, sprayed onto it... it’s as if the painter, opening up our deepest depths, is almost sweating blood when he paints, almost drinking from the chalice of grief, flagellation, crucifixion, the dismemberment of dionysus, the blinding of oedipus. his priestly robes, his victim’s shirt is marked by the moistened stamp of renunciation. the shirt is hung on an image, enriching the texture of its colours, as if it were the most precious piece of jewellery, a trophy. there are some images that don’t need a shirt, but others demand it…”
Hermann Nitsch – from the literature cited above

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安迪·沃霍尔，当代艺术I-

Andy Warhol - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Pittsburgh 1928-1987 New York)
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, from Reigning Queens, 1985, signed in pencil and numbered 9/40, screenprint in colours on Lenox Museum Board with the blindstamp of the printer Rupert Jasen Smith, New York, published by George C.P. Mulder, Amsterdam, 100 x 80 cm, In plexiglass case

This is no. 9 from an edition of 40 + 10 artist’s proofs

Provenance:
Martin Lawrence Limited Editions, Inc., New York (label on the reverse)
European private collection

Literature:
F. Feldman J. Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, II. 334-349, p. 138 with ill.

For the realisation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, a photograph taken on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee, the 25th anniversary of her reign, was used as a reference. The sitter\'s pose remains unaltered, retaining the structure and grandeur that are typical of classical portraiture. Warhol adds the commercial medium, emphasising it. His are classical depictions that praise the importance and solemnity of the subject depicted.

The same image of the queen appears in each of her four prints but they vary in colour. This one in particular has a primarily red background, and features graphic shapes printed from separate screens. Warhol began working in this style in the mid-1970s, fragmenting the image with various overlayed shapes and patches of colour.

The association of commercial medium and traditional portraiture is key, allowing Warhol to create a product that would subsequently be hailed as a work of art. Seriality, consumerism, the concept of fame and social hierarchy emanate from the superimposition of colour fields that enhance the subject\'s femininity. The pronounced make-up and bright colours denote the Pop character of mass culture, emphasising appearance and conveying a certain frivolity - unlike traditional portraits, where character and gravitas prevailed over aesthetics. Despite beginning with an impersonal approach and a mechanical reproduction of the subject, these interventions in the image gave the work a deliberately ‘artistic’ look. In many of his female portraits, such as here, the multicoloured surfaces and suggestion of make-up enhance the glamour and femininity of the subjects. With characteristic ambivalence, Warhol explained his additions to these later prints as immaterial:

‘I really would still rather do just a silkscreen of the face without all the rest, but people expect just a little bit more. That’s why I put in all the drawing.’ (Barry Blinderman, ‘Modern Myths: An Interview with Andy Warhol’, Arts, October 1981, p.145.)

This work is published in an edition of forty with ten artist’s proofs, five printer’s proofs and three hors commerce. The work is also published as a Royal Edition with diamond dust on the drawing lines, published in an edition of thirty with five artist’s proofs, two printer’s proofs and two hors commerce.