Bidspirit auctions | Aurora & Athena Auction Nov 28

Aurora & Athena, Nov 28 17:00. 37 lots, estimates 200 - 20000 €.


Aurora & Athena -

Modern Masters II: 20th Century Art continues the series begun in October with thirty-seven works, from the Seine of the 1890s to an Accra studio in 2017. Its centre of gravity is American and international painting of the post-war decades: ‘Lilac Haze’, a 1994 canvas by Wolf Kahn, titled and numbered by the artist on the stretcher; a gouache that Bob Thompson painted in Paris in 1962 over a printed page; a large white-ground abstraction signed in Greek letters by Theodoros Stamos; and a yellow colour-field canvas by Helen Khal, the Lebanese modernist whose paintings have twice broken their estimates in our rooms.


Beside them stand Irma Stern’s view of St Mark’s and the Doge’s Palace, painted on her first journey back to Europe in 1948, and Tahia Halim’s ‘Nubian Girl with a Jar’ of 1978, acquired from the artist in Cairo. The abstract thread runs on through Nejad Devrim’s composition of 1952, Rahim El’s ‘Kairos’ panel and an ink drawing by Vasudeo S. Gaitonde; the figurative one through ‘Awo’, a stitched wax-print portrait by the Ghanaian artist Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne, and a Haitian village by Claude Phanord.


The sale opens with the painters of the French provinces and the École de Paris: Guy Bardone, Georges Simonka, Marcel Cramoysan, Paul Flaubert, Alfred Swieykowski and Louis André Mourgues, with harbours at Saint-Malo, Sainte-Maxime and Saint-Valery, the Seine at Bougival, Les Baux and a village near Tarragona, a view of Moret-sur-Loing by Jean-Charles Millet, grandson of the painter of ‘The Angelus’, and a river landscape by the Goya scholar Xavier Desparmet Fitz-Gerald. Works on paper include two pen-and-wash figures by Léon Zack, eleven etchings by the master ironworker Gilbert Poillerat, drawings by Roger de La Fresnaye and Christian Bérard, and a costume design after Léon Bakst for Ida Rubinstein in ‘La Légende de Joseph’.


The sale is held live on 28 November 2026 at 17:00 CET. Every lot is offered with a condition summary; a detailed condition report is available on request.




Lots in this catalog (37)