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Two different ways of looking at a century of art history.**Between Two Centuries** takes you from the plein-air landsca...
14/05/2026

Two different ways of looking at a century of art history.

**Between Two Centuries** takes you from the plein-air landscapes of Sava Henția to the post-Impressionist nudes of Samuel Mützner, passing through Luchian, Tonitza, Iser, Băncilă and Tibor Ernő. A selection of Romanian painting spanning nearly a century of work, from the Parisian academic tradition of the 1850s to the modernity of the interwar decades.

Online from May 15, 10:00 AM. Live auction room: May 21, 7:00 PM.

**Heritage. Between Sacred Art and Silver** completes the picture with pieces of Russian, Central European and British silverware, bearing hallmarks and documented provenance, alongside a dedicated section of icons.

Live auction room: May 20, 7:00 PM.

How to take part:
Create a free account on ansazura.com. You will gain access to the full catalogues and be able to register for bidding.

Come and see the works in person at our gallery on Strada Speranței 21, open daily, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

Heritage: Between Sacred Art and Silver - Live Auction - 20 May, 19:00 CEST+1The sale presents a notable selection of Ea...
13/05/2026

Heritage: Between Sacred Art and Silver - Live Auction - 20 May, 19:00 CEST+1

The sale presents a notable selection of Eastern European icons from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illustrating the continuity of established iconographic models and the diversity of the workshops in which they were consecrated.
The principal Marian types are represented — the Mother of God of Kazan, the Mother of God of the Sign (Znamenie), and variants of the Hodegetria type — alongside images of Christ Pantocrator, Saint Nicholas and other hierarchs, together with festal icons in which hagiographic cycles unfold in registers around a central scene.
Several works retain their original silver and silver-gilt oklads, executed in the repoussé technique — chased metal revetments that framed and protected the painted surface, conferring upon the icon its ceremonial status. Other panels are presented uncovered, allowing a full reading of the pictorial layer, the gold leaf, and the preparatory drawing.
The group constitutes a substantial opportunity for collectors of Russian and Eastern European icons, for connoisseurs of religious painting, and for those engaged with the history of Orthodox decorative arts.
The pre-sale exhibition is now open to the public. We invite collectors and visitors to view the works in person ahead of the sale.
To participate, please create an account on ansazura.com and complete your auction settings in advance.

Heritage: Between Sacred Art and SilverLive Auction — 20 May, 19:00 CEST+1A George III-style silver tureen and cover, st...
13/05/2026

Heritage: Between Sacred Art and Silver
Live Auction — 20 May, 19:00 CEST+1
A George III-style silver tureen and cover, struck with the Dublin city mark and the maker's initials "GB," exemplifies the sustained dialogue between Continental rococo vocabulary and the Irish silversmith's tradition at the turn of the twentieth century.
Resting on four shaped scroll feet, the lobed body is articulated by cast acanthus cartouches at the handle terminals; the gadrooned rim and stepped, domed cover are surmounted by a finely modelled floral-bud finial wreathed in foliage — a flourish that recalls the great tureens of the Georgian dining table.
— Silver, 2,803 g
— 23 × 38 × 20 cm
— Dublin, early 20th century
— Maker's mark GB
This work forms part of a broader 108-lot selection assembling Russian silver bearing the 84 zolotniki standard and the 1896 kokoshnik punchmark, Viennese assay-stamped objects, Central European and Swiss workshop production, and a contextual section of icons and devotional works.
The exhibition is open to the public ahead of the sale — we warmly invite collectors, connoisseurs, and first-time bidders to view the works in person.
To bid, register an account on ansazura.com and complete your auction settings in advance of the live sale.

Tibor Ernő (1885–1945) — Procession (Procesiune)Oil on cardboard, 50 × 41 cm | Signed lower rightRed, yellow and orange ...
11/05/2026

Tibor Ernő (1885–1945) — Procession (Procesiune)
Oil on cardboard, 50 × 41 cm | Signed lower right
Red, yellow and orange banners rise vertically above a dense crowd of villagers, cutting through a sky broken into restless bluish and greenish striations. Ernő transforms a rural religious procession into a study of chromatic tension, where loose, gestural brushwork and a warm, earth-bound palette carry the scene far beyond ethnographic record.
Trained in Budapest and at the Académie Julian in Paris, Tibor Ernő built his career in Oradea, where he founded a private art school in 1908 and became a central figure of the city's modernist milieu. Shaped by Impressionism yet always rigorous in composition, he exhibited across Europe — from Paris and Budapest to Italy, Germany and Scandinavia — before being deported in 1944 to Auschwitz and later to Kaufering, where he died in the spring of 1945. His works are preserved today in major collections, including the Muzeul Țării Crișurilor in Oradea.

Thistles in a dark vase, set against an orange drapery — a still life in which Rodica Maniu Mützner (1890–1958) lets col...
08/05/2026

Thistles in a dark vase, set against an orange drapery — a still life in which Rodica Maniu Mützner (1890–1958) lets colour carry the entire composition. The fluid brushwork, the transparency borrowed from her watercolour practice, and the chromatic balance between the violet of the flowers and the warmth of the drapery reveal her Parisian training at the Académie Julian and La Grande Chaumière.

Shaped within the circle of the Bande noire and informed by her travels through Brittany, Balchik and the Near East, Maniu Mützner was one of the distinctive voices of Romanian interwar modernism — exhibited at Tinerimea Artistică, the Venice Biennale (1924) and the Barcelona International Exhibition (1929).

The work is part of our upcoming auction dedicated to Romanian painting.

Online bidding: 15–21 May, on ansazura.com
Exhibition: Speranței 21, District 2, Bucharest
Saturday and Sunday, 10:00–18:00

Iosif Iser made the world of commedia dell'arte entirely his own. In this work executed in the second half of the 1930s ...
07/05/2026

Iosif Iser made the world of commedia dell'arte entirely his own. In this work executed in the second half of the 1930s — gouache and oil on cardboard — Pierrot and Columbine command the composition with an almost theatrical presence: the harlequin's polychrome diamond-patterned costume, the saturated yellow of Columbine's dress, the deep blue mantle that closes the scene behind them.
This is not theatrical illustration. It is an exercise in pure colour, where the decorative and the figurative merge with the ease of a fully formed artistic voice. Trained in Munich and Paris, shaped by his travels through the East and the luminous shores of Balchik, Iser developed a palette that is warm, direct and impossible to mistake for anyone else's. He would later become a member of the Romanian Academy.
Works from this period are among the most sought-after in his entire output.

Gouache and oil on cardboard · 60.5 × 48.5 cm (72 × 70 cm framed)
Signed lower right in white: Iser

Online bidding from May 15 · Live Auction Room: May 21, 19:00 CEST+1

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Our auction is now online! 42 lots of Romanian painting, bringing together names such as Ștefan Luchian, Nicolae Tonitza...
06/05/2026

Our auction is now online! 42 lots of Romanian painting, bringing together names such as Ștefan Luchian, Nicolae Tonitza, Samuel Mützner, Iosif Iser, Octav Băncilă and others — a journey through nearly a century of art.

Bidding opens online: May 15, 10:00 AM
Live Auction Room: May 21, 7:00 PM

Explore the lots and register at: ansazura.com

We also welcome you to visit our gallery in person at Strada Speranței 21.

Lot 2. Silver dance card case, Vienna, 1879 to 1903. Starting price: €500.The dance card case occupies an unusual place ...
06/05/2026

Lot 2. Silver dance card case, Vienna, 1879 to 1903. Starting price: €500.

The dance card case occupies an unusual place in the history of silver objects. It was made to be used, carried and seen: a personal accessory whose very smallness was part of its meaning.

At formal balls in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, guests received printed cards listing the dances of the evening. Partners were noted against each dance. The case that held these cards, worn on the wrist, was itself a statement of taste and social position.

This Viennese example, bearing assay stamps dated to the period 1879 to 1903, is a precisely and beautifully made object. Its marks locate it within the Austro-Hungarian capital's sophisticated silversmithing tradition.

View the catalogue: https://ansazura.com/en/auctions/heritage-between-sacred-art-and-silver

Lot 8. Japanese-style teapot (Meiji period), Europe, late 19th to early 20th century. Starting price: €1,000.One of the ...
05/05/2026

Lot 8. Japanese-style teapot (Meiji period), Europe, late 19th to early 20th century. Starting price: €1,000.

One of the most distinctive pieces in Heritage: Between Sacred Art and Silver, this teapot belongs to a current that shaped the applied arts of the late nineteenth century: Japonisme.

From the 1860s onward, the opening of Japan to Western trade introduced a new visual vocabulary into European markets and studios. Silver workshops were among the most receptive. The Japanese aesthetic offered an alternative to the dominant historicist idiom: less symmetrical, more attentive to natural motifs, more willing to leave surface quiet. This teapot translates that sensibility into European silver with notable confidence. It is an object that sits at the intersection of two craft traditions and belongs fully to neither.

Full catalogue: https://ansazura.com/en/auctions/heritage-between-sacred-art-and-silver

What distinguishes an exceptional silver object?Partly its marks, its provenance, its attribution. But equally, and some...
04/05/2026

What distinguishes an exceptional silver object?

Partly its marks, its provenance, its attribution. But equally, and sometimes above all, the quality of its making.

The pieces in Heritage: Between Sacred Art and Silver demonstrate the full range of ornamental techniques practised by nineteenth and twentieth century silversmiths. Niello, a black sulphide compound inlaid into engraved lines, gives depth and contrast to flat surfaces. Filigree work produces openwork structures of extraordinary delicacy from twisted silver wire. Guilloché, the mechanical engine-turning technique adopted across European workshops, creates precise geometric patterns beneath translucent enamel. Gilding, applied selectively, emphasises form and highlights ornamental detail.

Each technique is evidence. In this sale, it is read as such.
Browse the catalogue: https://ansazura.com/en/auctions/heritage-between-sacred-art-and-silver

The icons and religious objects in Heritage: Between Sacred Art and Silver occupy a particular position in the sale.They...
03/05/2026

The icons and religious objects in Heritage: Between Sacred Art and Silver occupy a particular position in the sale.

They are not its primary axis; that remains the silver. They serve, rather, as an essential contextual counterpart. These works attest to the persistence of established iconographic programmes across time and geography: the same devotional models circulating across confessional communities, adapted in material and scale but stable in their representational logic.

Collected and transmitted alongside domestic silver objects, icons occupied a specific place in the interior, at once devotional and material. The oklad, or metal cover, connects the world of sacred image directly to the craft of the silversmith. In this sale, that connection is made visible.

Explore the full catalogue: https://ansazura.com/en/auctions/heritage-between-sacred-art-and-silver

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