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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858):Three yotsugiri prints, and one chu-tanzaku print
Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1830-1846
The yotsugiri prints comprising a sparrow and wisteria, a sparrow and irises, and a bird in flight among blossoming cherry, each signed Hiroshige ga and sealed Utagawa; the chu-tanzaku depicting a pair of Miyakodori (Oyster-catchers), reeds, and falling cherry blossoms, signed Hiroshige ga and sealed Hiro in katakana script (4)
4 5/8 x 6 7/8in (11.7 x 17.5cm) each approximately
13 1/4 x 4 1/2in (33.6 x 11.4cm)

芥川广志（1797-1858） 江户时代，约1830-1846年，三幅yotsugiri版画和一幅chu tanzaku版画

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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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A LACQUER INCENSE-GAME SET:Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Comprising a base supported on four bracket feet, a tiered box with lid and an outer cover with cut-out sides reaching down to the base; the tiered box containing: a base with salt-makers\' kilns and rakes on a pine-clad shore; a tray with seven sets of five small boxes inscribed with the names of different incense-game formats including Kokinko (Ancient and Modern), Genpeiko (Minamoto and Taira), and Jusshuko (Ten Varieties); another tray with implements for cutting and arranging incense; a suzuribako (writing box) for recording guesses and scores, fitted with a suzuri (inkstone) and suiteki (water dropper), the lid with ho-o birds and autumn plants; a checkered board for game tokens; and a lid with blossoming cherry trees and birds in flight, the sides of the box with a variety of scenes including birds on a flowering prunus tree with frogs in the water below, and a willow tree and bridge, the top of the outer cover with flowering wisteria arranged on a bamboo framework; the decoration in gold, aokin, and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e, with shell details on the outer cover, against a ground of polished black lacquer or gold hirame flakes over black lacquer, the implements with silver and steel components
8 1/8 x 10 3/4 x 8 3/4in (20.6 x 27.3 x 22.2cm)

一套油漆燃烧游戏 江户时代，19世纪

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FUTAGI SEIHO (1884-1954):A large lacquer sakazuki and stand
Showa era (1926-1989)
The red lacquered wide wood sake cup decorated on the obverse in hiramaki-e of snow-covered Mount Fuji ascending above the clouds in the background, and the Shira-ito Waterfall of Fujinomiya and its accompanying forest of maple and pine trees over a nashiji ground in the foreground, the tendrils of water depicted in gold and silver low-relief maki-e flowing to the very edge of the dish, the surface of the rock of the waterfall cliff decorated with gold Gyobu square flakes, on the reverse of the sakazuki a blossoming prunus tree and clouds in gold in hiramaki-e and low-relief; the accompanying black lacquered stand featuring a rimmed platform with a hiramaki-e motif of two cranes in flight surrounded by gold mist, the indented rounded legs of the stand covered in the stalks and leaves of a bamboo forest, the interior of the stand decorated in nashiji; the designs of the sakazuki and stand together completing the felicitous motif of pine, bamboo, and prunus
With lacquered wood outer tomobako storage box signed Futagi Seiho saku in silver lacquer and sealed Seiho in red lacquer, and the sakazuki with its own lacquered wood tomobako storage box which fits inside the larger box, also signed Futagi Seiho saku in silver lacquer and sealed Seiho in red lacquer
2 5/8 x 7 7/8in (6.7 x 20cm), sakazuki; 8 3/8 x 8 1/2 x 7in (21.3 x 21.6 x 17.8cm), stand

福田成和（1884-1954） 大漆坂崎和标准昭和时代

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Jií（Georg）Dokoupil，当代艺术I-

Jiří (Georg) Dokoupil * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(born in Krnov 1954)
Mis Mus Sian, 2014, titled, several times signed Dokoupil on the overlap, soap-lye and pigments on canvas, 250 x 300 cm or 300 x 250 cm (the work can be hung vertical or horizontal), on stretcher

Provenance:
Studio of the artist
Kasmin Gallery, New York
Private collection, 德国y

Literature:
Kasmin Gallery, Jiří (Georg) Dokoupil, New paintings,
exhibition catalogue, New York 2015
Jiří Georg Dokoupil, Soap Bubble Paintings, Berlin 2015

Exhibited:
Kasmin Gallery, New York, Jiří (Georg) Dokoupil, New paintings,
8 January - 7 February 2015

Jiří (Georg) Dokoupil has been putting his art on canvases since the 1970s - and for much of that time without a brush. He constantly reinvents the production of artworks, expresses his creativity with the most diverse materials, such as breast milk or fruit juices, and thinks \"outside the box\". His oeuvre now comprises about 140 series, which are not at all alike. He is a quick-change artist in the contemporary art world. Like a pop culture star, he completely reinvents his art with each series.

The early flight from his homeland and the associated deprivation of a national, social and personal identity meant the artist never developed a fixed style of his own. (Compare Wilfried Dickhoff, Soap Bubble Thinking, p.5, in: Jiří (Georg) Dokoupil..

Soap Bubble Paintings, Berlin 2015)
The Soap Bubble Paintings series is one of his longest-running series. The work offered here, \"Mis Mus Sian\", is part of it.

Standing on a ladder with a metal hoop, Jiří (Georg) Dokoupil. lowers his soap bubbles onto the canvas. He uses soap suds mixed with shimmering pigments, the exact composition of which he keeps strictly secret. The individual layers of soap bubbles, their shimmering pigments and superimpositions create a sphere of their own. The result is a depth undreamed of in a two-dimensional work, which can only be properly experienced through viewing the work in person. The soap bubbles glitter dynamically on the deep blue background of the painting and evoke movement through their different shapes and orientations. Due to the enormous format of over 250 x 300 cm, the experience of the work is like visiting a giant aquarium. At first, one is overwhelmed by the work’s abundance and appearance and, as time goes by, one dives deeper and deeper into its cosmos. The artist leaves it up to the owner to hang the work in portrait or landscape format. For this reason, he has signed the reverse on two sides.
„It’s all about making something that is not doable“
Jiří (Gerog) Dokupil