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Salvatore Rodriguez reclining nude, unframed view
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Salvatore Rodriguez: Naples and the Female Figure

Salvatore Rodriguez (born Naples 1957), the Italian figurative painter of reclining nudes and women at rest, working in the line of the Macchiaioli and the Impressionists; his Nu sur le lit blanc opens the Aurora & Athena autumn sale.
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Paolo Forcella oil on board: Venetian canal with boats and a church façade
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Paolo Forcella: A Neapolitan Painter from Cairo to Venice

Paolo Forcella (born Naples 1868), brother of the Orientalist Nicola Forcella, who painted Cairo streets and then the canals of Venice in the tradition of the Neapolitan vedutisti; his Venetian Canal with Boats is at auction with Aurora & Athena.
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Paul Flaubert pointillist oil on board: sailing boats in the harbour
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Paul Flaubert: Pointillism after Signac

Paul Flaubert (1928–1994), the French painter who kept the neo-Impressionist dot alive into the 1990s, from the Seine at Rouen to the Mediterranean ports; his pointillist marine is at auction with Aurora & Athena.
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André Lynen 1936 oil on board: steamer in the harbour with red-roofed houses
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André Lynen: Belgium’s Painter of the Sea

André Lynen (1888–1984), founder of the Royal Society of Belgian Marine Painters and lifelong painter of the harbours of Nieuwpoort and Ostend; his 1936 Steamer in the Harbour is at auction with Aurora & Athena.
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Henri Laulhé oil on canvas: fishing boats in the port of Saint-Tropez
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Henri Laulhé and the Painters of Saint-Tropez

Henri Laulhé (1908–1978), painter of the Basque harbours and of Saint-Tropez in the tradition of Signac, Marquet and Camoin; his Fishing Boats in the Port of Saint-Tropez is at auction with Aurora & Athena.
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Vittorio Botticini gouache: Venice, canal with a gondola at sunset
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Vittorio Botticini: Brescia’s Paladin of Modernity

Vittorio Botticini (1909–1978), the Brescian labourer-turned-painter who fused Cézanne, Picasso and Venetian colour into a lyrical post-Cubism; his gouache of a Venetian canal at sunset is at auction with Aurora & Athena.
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Pierre Ernest Kohl 1925 watercolour: seated nude seen from the back
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Pierre Ernest Kohl: A Monegasque in Montparnasse

Pierre Ernest Kohl (1897–1985), the Monaco-born painter who refused the family business for the Grande Chaumière and the Montparnasse of Max Jacob and Modigliani; a 1925 watercolour nude is at auction with Aurora & Athena.
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Édouard Collin charcoal on paper: avenue with plane trees in a Provençal town
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Édouard Collin: From the Liberté Posters to Provence

Édouard Collin (1906–1983), Grand Prix de Rome 1932, founder member of the Salon de Mai and designer of the famous French Line posters, who ended his life painting and drawing the South; a charcoal avenue of plane trees is at auction with Aurora & Athena.
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Josef Syrový oil on cardboard: Venetian girl with a water jug
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Josef Syrový: A Czech Painter in Venice and Paris

Josef Syrový (1879–1956), the Czech painter who left Prague for Italy at twenty and spent twenty-eight years in Paris, known for his mosaic-like Venetian and Breton genre scenes; his Venetian Girl with a Water Jug is at auction with Aurora & Athena.
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Théodore Lévigne oil on canvas: river landscape with a stone bridge and mountains
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Théodore Lévigne: The Lyon School Rediscovered

Théodore Lévigne (1848–1912), the prodigy of the Lyon École des Beaux-Arts who painted everything from military scenes to misty Loire landscapes and is now being rediscovered by the auction houses; his River Landscape with a Stone Bridge is at Aurora & Athena.
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Henrique Franco oil on canvas: nude seen from behind before an oval mirror
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Henrique Franco: A Pioneer of Portuguese Modernism

Henrique Franco (1883–1961), the Madeiran painter of the Cinco Independentes, professor at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts and one of Portugal’s great fresco painters; his Nude before the Mirror is at auction with Aurora & Athena.
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Our current selection of artworks available for private sale may be viewed in our Online Gallery.
Selected works may also be viewed in our showroom by prior appointment.
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For auction purchases, payment is due within 14 days of the auction. For gallery purchases and private sales, payment terms are agreed individually.
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For auction purchases, where applicable, KYC documentation and payment must both be completed within 14 days of the auction.
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