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Toomey & Co. Auctioneers to hold Fine Art + Furniture & Decorative Arts on June 9
OAK PARK, Illinois
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LOT 440: Thomas Francis Dicksee, Lily Langtry as Viola in 12th Night, 1866. Estimate $10,000-20,000
On Wednesday, June 9, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will offer close to 400 lots in
Fine Art + Furniture & Decorative Arts. With material drawn from distinguished artists and makers who worked primarily during the early 20th century, the auction includes paintings, prints, sculpture, furniture, lighting, metalwork, silver, jewelry, and textiles. Logistical details and bidding instructions are provided below the sale highlights.
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Painting, Prints & Sculpture
The auction on June 9 boasts an oil on canvas portrait with a Shakespearean theme of
Queen Cleopatra: Femme Fatale of Ancient Egypt
Cleopatra was born in 69 BC to Pharaoh Ptolemy XII ‘Auletes’ and became the very last pharaoh of Egypt because her liaisons gave Rome control of Egypt after her death. Cleopatra had two famous lovers: Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony - both incredibly powerful Romans. But the temptress ambition and seduction, which first augmented her empire s prestige, would later bring about her, and Egypt’s, downfall. In 1866, Jean León Gérome painted
Cleopatra with Julius Caesar, an allegorical piece based on the codes of seduction of one of history’s most successful temptresses.