In Britain, several Paul Temple radio series were broadcast from the 1930s to the 1960s. Other lots include a leaded glass and bronze Wisteria table lamp created circa 1903 by Tiffany Studios, set to fetch between US$400,000 and US$600,000, and a hand-knotted William Morris Hammersmith carpet from around 1890 that could achieve as much as US$100,000.Paul Temple was "born" as a radio detective. “In many ways it anchored the collection at Temple of Wings, echoing the architect’s conception of the house as a Roman villa maritima, overlooking Berkeley and the bay just as its antecedents had looked out over the Bay of Naples,” according to the auction house, which noted it was an early acquisition for the collection. Depicting three women on a marble bench at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, “ A Coign of Vantage has come to be regarded as one of the artist’s quintessential masterpieces,” according to Christie’s. “A Coign of Vantage,” a 1895 oil on panel painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, is priced at between US$2.5 million and US$3.5 millionĪnother highlight is A Coign of Vantage, a 1895 oil on panel painting by Alma-Tadema that’s priced at between US$2.5 million and US$3.5 million. … The opulent home, located at 35-37 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, now houses the British Embassy in Paris,” according to marketing materials for the sale. “ Le Printemps was part of the decorative scheme of the Salon des Saisons of the Hôtel Pereire, the home of the Parisian banker, parliamentarian, and railroad industrialist Émile Pereire, who commissioned Bouguereau to decorate two rooms of his house in 1857. The painting helped establish the artist in France after he returned from Italy. The piece features three “classicized figures participating in activities associated with springtime” and was commissioned for a 19th-century Parisian home, according to Christie’s. “It was a magical place.”Īmong the lots is Bouguereau’s Le Printemps, which is expected to fetch between US$250,000 and US$350,000 under the hammer.
The interior of the Berkeley home “blended the earnest tenets of the Arts and Crafts movement, the magical productions of Tiffany Studios, and the aesthetic costume of Fortuny with Roman maidens of Leighton and Alma-Tadema,” Jonathan Rendell, Christie’s deputy chairman of the Americas, said in a statement.
The Gettys bought the property in 1994, subsequently filling it with art and furnishings from the turn of the 20th century. Dubbed the Temple of Wings, the Greco-Roman style house was built in 1924 for a local artist.
The auction will include pieces from the couple’s Berkeley, Calif., home.
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