The sale of Maison Piasa that will take place on Friday, February 3rd at 2pm in Salle 6 of the Hôtel Drouot is what can be considered a “small sale” including books, albums, and pictures of all kinds. It is clear that collectors or institutions looking for rarities should abstain…Amateurs, however, might find what they are looking for at reasonable prices with estimates hovering around 200€ and the highest approaching 1000 Euros.

These “small sales” that bring together prints otherwise unavailable in major annual sales also provide collectors with thematic prints by subject and specialty.

An endless flow of pictures made of 361 lots. The first 45 lots include books and exhibition catalogs. They are followed by a few historical cameras including a Verascope, and a Taxiphote (53). Then photographic albums (Beato Bonfils 66), until 81. Prints will follow covering countries, the Orient, portraits (De Gaulle), bullfights, sailboats, dogs…

Among the most interesting:

Lot 110, Giovanni CRUPI - Giorgio SOMMER and diverse:
Views of Italy and Sicily, 1865-1880 
36 vintage prints on albumin paper (one on salt paper) mounted on cardboard. Average format: 
Locations: Palermo, Syracuse, Agrigente, Naples, Florence, Rome, Amalfi… 
This collection includes a print taken in Sicily on the Anapo river featuring men in a boat and a young boy, nude. The man in the forefront could be the Baron Wilhelm Von Gloeden. 
Estimate: 1500 / 2000 €

Lot 267 Raymond LOEWY (1893-1986)
Design of different Studebaker models, from 1948 to 1963 
10 silver gelatin vintage prints. Framed. 
Average size : 20,5 x 25,5 cm with margins. 
Estimate: 1000 / 1500 €

Le lot 332 Jeanloup SIEFF (1933-2000)
Fashion, 1978. Vintage silver gelatin print. Photographer’s stamp on the back. 
40 x 30 cm with margins. 
Estimate 800 / 1000 €

Bernard Perrine
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr


Piasa
Book and photography sale
Friday February 3, 2012 2pm Salle 6
Hôtel Drouot Richelieu
9 rue Drouot
75009 Paris

Public Showing
Thursday February 2, 11-6pm
Friday February 3, 11-12h

Information

Consultante: Agnès de Gouvion Saint Cyr
Expert: Fannie Bourgeois
Pascale Humbert
p.humbert@piasa.fr
+33 (0)1 53 34 10 19