Decorative Arts, Furniture and Jewellery
Live Virtual Auction, 19 - 21 September 2022
Silver, Furniture and Ceramics
About the Sessionincluding The Property of a Connoisseur Part III and The Property of the Estate Late Tiemen Groen
Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 40 000
About this Item
Ferenc Varga (Hungarian, 1906-1989), Sorrow
white marble, signed Varga F., minor chips, 36,5cm high, 27cm wide; with mottled brown marble plinth, chips, 7,8cm high, 29cm wide, 24cm deep
Notes
Ferenc Varga was born in Székesfehérvár, Hungary on 29 of May 1906. Demonstrating an aptitude for craft at an early age earned him a place in the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest where he studied under professors Jeno Bory and Ferenc Sidló. After graduating he would teach as Bory's assistant from 1928 to 1940. The present lot was presumably executed during this period as a maquette for a life size marble dated 1932. 1
1. Ferenc Varga; Selected Works. Varga Studios, Delray Beach, Florida.
Other lots that might interest you
A Chinese lacquer mirror, Qing Dynasty, early 18th century
ZAR 7 000 - 10 000
A pair of Chinese ceremonial white jade tea scoops, early 20th century
ZAR 8 000 - 10 000
A Japanese ivory okimono, late Meiji period, 1868-1912
ZAR 2 500 - 3 000
A Japanese and silver-mounted tortoiseshell and lacquered kodansu, Edo period, 18th/19th century
ZAR 10 000 - 15 000
A Japanese bronze vase, Meiji period, 1868-1912
ZAR 4 000 - 6 000
A rare and important Jamaican Colonial engraved tortoiseshell and silver-mounted casket, circa 1680, attributed to Paul Bennett (Fl.1673-92)
ZAR 100 000 - 120 000
