Sale 8732
New York, Park Avenue
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17 September 1997
Price realised
USD 6,325
Estimate
A WOOD NETSUKE edo period (19th century), signed sansho Modelled as the legendary Bambuku chagama, or "Badger teakettle," the badger's head and limbs emerging from a teakettle-shaped body 1½in. (3.8cm.) high
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An intensely autobiographical work that was made at a tumultuous period in the artist’s life — offered on 18 June
Specialist Jason Carey looks at a painting that encapsulates the the energy, innovation and dynamism of Paris in 1913