Stephen Ongpin Fine Art

  • Stand 22
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Stephen Ongpin Fine Art is based in Mayfair in London and specializes in drawings, watercolours and oil sketches dating from the 15th to the 21st centuries.

With over thirty-five years of experience as a dealer and agent in the field, Stephen serves a client base comprised of private collectors, museums and first-time buyers across the globe.

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art has sold drawings and watercolours to over fifty international museums. The gallery mounts wide-ranging annual exhibitions twice a year, accompanied by scholarly catalogues, and participates in art fairs in London, Maastricht, Paris and New York.

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art : Giovanni BOLDINI, (Ferrare 1842-1931 Paris), Portrait d'un homme assis dans une église, Aquarelle

Giovanni BOLDINI

(Ferrare 1842-1931 Paris)

Portrait of a Man Seated in a Church

Watercolour
Stamped with the vente stamp Boldini (Lugt 272b or 272c) at the lower left.
Inscribed 12 – uomo in chiesa in brown ink and further inscribed (by Emilia Cardona Boldini) no121 atelier Boldini. / Emilia Boldini. – Cardona / 1921 on the verso.
449 x 450 mm. (17 5/8 x 17 3/4 in.)

Exhibition

New York and Londres, Colnaghi, Master Drawings, 1996, n° 48.

Provenance

  • By descent to the artist’s widow, Emilia Cardona Boldini, Ferrara
  • The atelier Boldini sale, Paris, Galerie Jean Charpentier, 30 June 1936, lot 39
  • Wildenstein and Co., Paris
  • Baron Maurice de Rothschild, Paris and Switzerland
  • Thence by descent until 1995
  • The posthumous Maurice de Rothschild sale, New York, Christie’s, 1 November 1995, lot 1
  • P. & D. Colnaghi, London, in 1996
  • Acquired from them by a private collection, London
  • Anonymous sale, New York, Christie’s, 24 January 2017, lot 124
  • Private collection, New York.

Bibliography

  • Emilia Cardona [Boldini], Lo studio di Giovanni Boldini, Milan, 1937, pl.LXXXV
  • Carlo Ragghianti and Ettore Camesasca, L’opera completa di Boldini, Milan, 1970, pp.114-115, no.317
  • Piero Dini and Francesca Dini, Giovanni Boldini 1842-1931: Catalogo ragionato. Vol.III:
  • Catalogo ragionato della pittura a olio con un’ampia selezione di pastelli e acquerelli, pt.2, Turin, 2002, pp.406-407, no.754
  • Tiziano Panconi, Giovanni Boldini: L’opera completa, Florence, 2002, p.401
  • Bianca Doria, Acquerelli e Pastelli di Giovanni Boldini dagli Archivi Boldini: Catalogo generale, Milan, 2022, p.393, no.103, also illustrated p.136.
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