Bolaffi Auctions Bring Schiele, Picasso, Warhol to Turin Art Week

Aste Bolaffi will hold sales of modern and contemporary art on November 7 and 8, 2023, in Turin, coinciding with Artissima and Turin Art Week. The auction features 80 works on paper, including a top lot by Egon Schiele, Nudo sdraiato (1910), estimated on request, held in a private collection since 1974 and previously exhibited in Vienna (1935) and New York (1971). Other highlights include Joan Miró's Paysan catalan (1930, estimate €45,000–60,000), Picasso's Nu allongé (Dora Maar) (1938), and a lost Otto Dix painting, Ragazza davanti allo specchio (1921), of which only a black-and-white photo and a preparatory sketch survive after being confiscated in 1922 and lost during WWII. Alighiero Boetti offers six unpublished tapestries from the first Ordine e disordine series (1973), exhibited in 1975 at Galleria Area in Munich, estimated at €50,000–80,000, sold individually or as a set. Filippo de Pisis's Natura morta con pesce e quadro (1932) from the Riccardo Gualino collection is estimated at €40,000–60,000, and his Funghi e uccelli (1949) at €18,000–25,000. Andy Warhol's two serigraphs Ladies and Gentlemen (1975), printed by Alexander Heinrici in New York for Luciano Anselmino's Milan editions, are estimated at €8,000–12,000.