HILARIO: ONLINE AUCTION OF ART, LETTERS AND CRAFTS
Hilario Gallery presents its XV edition of online auctions with a selection of works of art, vintage photography, cartography, engravings, traditional textiles, silverware, old books and historical manuscripts.
Specializing in the earliest pictorial currents active in South America, this time it presents an oil on canvas (lot 1) by the French mariner Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager (1814 – 1879) with a coastal view of Argentine Patagonia. That painter remained in the Río de la Plata between 1840 and 1842 embarked on the French squadron that besieged the port of Buenos Aires, in full conflict between the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas and King Felipe. In those years he made several trips to the Patagonian coast to Cape Horn and the Strait of Magellan. The offered painting is a faithful testimony of those adventures.
The catalog also presents small sets of old maps and engravings, all lots accompanied by rigorous studies. And among the most attractive points, a selection of gaucho silverware that has a huge trail of followers in Argentina; The link between the gaucho and silverware has been projected to this day with intense collecting. There are several knives that provoke admiration, and an old game of boleadoras (lot 30) that could be exhibited in any ethnographic museum in the world.
Among the books and printed sheets, a first edition by Jorge Luis Borges illustrated by his sister Norah in a good copy, and signed by both (lot 65). And to the astonishment, the printed paper that on May 25, 1810 informed the population of Buenos Aires that a new Government had been installed, rebelled against the French who occupied the Iberian Peninsula. Argentina was born and here is the form announcing it, of enormous historical value: lot 41.
The selection of vintage photographs includes a silver gelatin (lot 73) signed by Annemarie Heinrich (1912 – 1985), an exquisite portraitist of German origin active in Buenos Aires. The shot shows us the Teatro Colón dancer, Nancy López, in the photographer's studio; lights and shadows to capture magical moments.
The auction is online until Wednesday, January 26, when, starting at 6:30 p.m. in Argentina, from the first batch in more and with an interval of 2 minutes, the offers will be closed to consecrate each winner.
Galería Hilario
January 26th, 6:30 p.m. (GMT-3)
