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Lawrence DURRELL

"Vaumort" : poème autographe signé et illustré par l'auteur à son amante française

1969, 30,4x39,5cm, une feuille.

“I knew that whenever
I want to be perfectly alone
With the memory of you, of that whole day,
It's to Vaumort that I'll be turning.”
 
Exceptional handwritten poem dated 1969, signed and illustrated with original drawings in graphite, markers and colour pencils [...]

1 700 €

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Vue d'optique - Décoration du feu d'artifice tiré à Londres en réjouissance de la paix en 1763

Chez Mondhare1734-1799, Paris circa 1765, 32x46cm, une feuille.

Original engraving. Optical view highlighted in watercolor, representing a view of the fireworks shot in Green Park, London in celebration of peace in 1763
Optical views, also called views, perspectives or "mondo nuovo", are engravings very fashionable between the late eighteenth and early [...]

230 €

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Silhouettes

Italie circa. 1825, 11,5x16,8cm, une feuille sous marie-louise.

Silhouettes pasted on strong paper.
Probably realized in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, silhouettes in shadow were particularly popular at that time. The fascination with these shadow profiles dates back to Antiquity according to Pliny the Elder, whom he considers [...]

80 €

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[ECOLE NAPOLITAINE] Vue de l'île de Capri

(Naples) circa. 1825, 7,8x10cm, une feuille sous marie-louise.

Beautiful original Neapolitan gouache on black paper, dating from the first quarter of the 19th century, inscribed Isola di Capri on the lower margin, with handwritten indications in German on the back.
View of the island of Capri, privileged place of [...]

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[ECOLE NAPOLITAINE] Vue du temple de Vesta et de la fortune virile

(Naples) circa. 1825, 13x19cm, gouache 6,8x11,5cm, une feuille sous marie-louise.

Original gummed print, dating from the first quarter of the 19th century.
This print, taken from the Saint-Jean district in Geneva on the right bank of the Rhone, was later added to a set of Italian landscapes in an amicorum album among engravings, lithographs, [...]

700 €

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ANONYME

Vue de la ville de Genève

Italie circa. 1825, 22,5x18cm, une feuille sous marie-louise.

Original gummed print.
This print, depicting the Bay of Naples overlooking the bluish silhouette of Vesuvius, was later added to a set of Italian landscapes in an amicorum album among engravings, lithographs, drawings, and washings.
Executed in the first quarter of [...]

230 €

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[ECOLE NAPOLITAINE] Vue de Naples et du Vésuve

(Naples) circa. 1825, 18,7x23,8cm, une feuille sous marie-louise.

Watercolor representing the Bay of Naples, inscribed in the lower margin: Napoli St. Lucia a mare

580 €

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Vue de Bâle

circa. 1825, 23x16,4cm, une feuille sous marie-louise.

Original pencil drawing, numerous stings.
This print, depicting the Bay of Naples overlooking the bluish silhouette of Vesuvius, was later added to a set of Italian landscapes in an amicorum album among engravings, lithographs, drawings, and washings.
Executed in [...]

230 €

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