Important American and EuropeanPaintings

Important American and European Paintings

Tuesday, 12 June 2012 10:00 AM

IMPORTANT AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PAINTINGS

Sale:

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:00 AM

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Auction Code: 1007

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Front cover: Lots 63 (detail)

Back cover: Lot 27

Inside front cover Lot 18

Inside back cover Lot 70 (detail)

Page 3 Lot 22

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Including Property from the following:

Distinguished American Collector

Of a Lady

Of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Of a New York Gentleman

A New Jersey Collection

A Southwestern Lady

New England Family

Private American Collector

A New Jersey Gentleman

Historic Park-McCullough Association, North Bennington, VT

A Distinguished New England Family

A Private Collection

A Distinguished Midwest Collection

A Long Island Collector

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Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

3British School

Pair of early 18th century Portraits of a Man

and a Woman

Oil on canvasIn early carved and gilt wooden frames (2) 30 x 24 inches (oval)

$4,000-6,000

Provenance: Purchased by the present owner at Hubley’s Auction Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1970

Property of a Distinguished American Collector

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British School, late 16th Century

Portrait of Dorothy Petre, Lady Wadham (1534-1618), 1595

Inscribed with sitter and age upper rightOil on Canvas36 x 29 inches

$5,000-10,000

Provenance: Newhouse Galleries, circa 1960’s

Dorothy Wadham (1534/4-1618), the daughter of Sir William Petre, co-founded Wadham College at Oxford University with her husband, Nicholas Wadham. A simi-lar portrait of her is in the collection of Petworth House, in Petworth, West Sussex, England, where it is accompanied by a companion portrait of her husband.

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British School, late 16th Century

Edward Hastings, Baron Hastings of Loughborough (1512/15-1572)

Inscribed variously versoOil on cradled panel 35 x 27 inches

$6,000-12,000

Provenance: Newhouse Galleries, circa 1960’s

Exhibitions: National Portrait Gallery, 1866

Edward Hastings, Baron Hastings of Loughborough (1512/15-1572) served as a privy to Queen Mary I. He was elected to the Order of the Garter in 1555, and is pictured here wearing the Order’s collar around his neck. The inscription surrounding his coat of arms, “Honi soit qui mal y pense” refers to the Order’s motto. This pic-ture was exhibited at the First Special Exhibition of National Portraits in April 1866 at the South Kensington Museum in London, England, which was organized to display portraits of signifi cant people in the history of England.

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Property of a Lady

4Attributed to Roelof Koets, (1592-1653)

Grapes, Quinces, Plums and Pears on a Tabletop

Unsigned

Oil on panel 20 1/2 x 32 5/8 inches

$8,000-15,000

Provenance: Donald Antiques, London, England, October 1951;By descent in the family

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Another Owner

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Attributed to Jost Amman (Swiss, 1539-1591)

Sampson Carrying Off the Gates of Gaza

Ink on paper 10 x 6 1/2 inches

$5,000-10,000

The drawing includes two collector’s marks. This fi rst (Lugt L.2672), distinguished by the inclusion of a lion, belongs to the Austrian collector Ludwig Zatzka (b. 1857) whose collection included around 2,000 folios, European paintings and bronze sculptures. The other mark (Lugt L.2347), which includes the initials “SAG”, is unidentifi ed but possibly belongs to Count Saint-Germain or the Artaria publishing house in Vienna.

6Italian School, 18th Century

Italian Ruins

UnsignedOil on canvas 30 x 40 1/4 inches

$2,000-4,000


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9Attributed to Thomas Doughty (American, 1793-1856)

Rushing River through a Ravine

UnsignedOil on canvasRetains its original spandrel frame 34 1/4 x 44 1/4 inches

$10,000-20,000

Another Owner

8Edward Moran (American, 1829-1901)

Unloading the Boat, Sunset

Signed lower left “Ed Moran”Oil on canvas18 x 14 inches

$5,000-10,000

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Property of a New York Gentleman

7Harry Fenn (American, 1845-1911)

Rushing Forest Stream

Signed lower left “H Fenn”Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches

$4,500-6,500

Provenance: Private collection, New York


10American School, 19th Century

Fishing at the River’s Edge

Oil on canvas18 1/2 x 32 inches

$2,000-4,000

Property of a New Jersey Collection

11James Brade Sword (American, 1839-1915)

Wish We Could Go Play, 1883

Signed and dated lower right “J B Sword ‘83”Inscribed with title versoOil on canvas24 x 15 1/2 inches

$3,000-5,000

12James Gale Tyler (American, 1855-1931)

Busy Harbor

Signed lower left “J. G. Tyler”Oil on canvas22 x 18 1/8 inches

$2,000-4,000

13Samuel S. Carr (American, 1837-1908)

Picking Goldenrod

Signed lower left “S.S. Carr”Oil on canvas10 x 14 inches

$5,000-8,000

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Property of a Southwestern lady

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David Johnson (American, 1827-1908)

Sunset on the Unadilla River, New York, 1856

Signed and dated lower left, “D Johnson 1856”

Inscribed and titled on a label affi xed to the frameOil on CanvasRetains the original frame19 x 28 1/8 inches

$50,000-80,000

Johnson claimed to be self-taught, but records show he studied at the National Academy of Design, and with Hudson River artist Jasper Cropsey (a student of Frederic Edwin Church).

Johnson exhibited at the National Academy of Design regularly and became an associate in 1860 and a full academician the following year. His works also appeared in exhibitions at other major American art centers, including Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia, and Scenery on the Housatonic was shown at the Paris Salon of 1877.

Johnson’s Sunset on the Unadilla River from 1856 has the infl uence of Frederic Edwin Church in use of brilliant salmon colored ground in the sky, and meticulous detail in the foliage. This work is not only a classic painting of the Hudson River School, characteristic of the very best of Johnson’s work, but has an engaging subtle narrative which leads the viewer through the landscape from the fi gure on the bridge to the homestead beyond.

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17Alexander Lawrie (American, 1828-1917)

Mountain Lake with Rocky Shoreline in Autumn

Signed lower left, “A. Lawrie”Oil on panel An old label verso from Curtis H Moyer of Hartford, Connecticut 6 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches

$500-700

16George William Whitaker (American, 1841-1916)

Rainbow after the Storm, 1898

Signed and dated lower right “G W Whitaker / -98-”Oil on canvas 16 1/8 x 24 3/8 inches

$3,000-5,000

Various Owners

1519th Century American School

Landscape with Native American Warrior

Signed on stretcher in chalk “T J Jones (?)” in early 19th C. scriptOil on canvas 20 x 26 3/4 inches

$1,000-2,000

Property of a Georgia Family

18William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)

The Otter Cliffs, Mount Desert Island, Maine, 1866

Signed and dated lower right “WM T Richards / 1866”Oil on panel backed canvas36 1/4 x 29 inches

$40,000-100,000

William Trost Richards returned from Germany in the spring of 1866. He traveled to Mount Desert Island, Maine, perhaps encouraged by fellow artists, Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, Jervis McEntee and William Stanley Haseltine. This is one of the few paintings extant from that trip. It signifi es an important transition from pure landscape painting to his atmospheric coastal scenes, a subject that would occupy him for the rest of his prolifi c career.

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Another Owner

19Edward Mitchell Bannister (American, 1828-1901)

Sheep Grazing in a Newport, Rhode Island

Landscape

Signed lower right “E M Bannister”Oil on canvas12 x 16 inches

$8,000-12,000

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20Henri Rondel (French, 1857-1919)

Young Girl Fishing at a Stream

Signed lower right “H Rondel”Oil on canvas 12 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches

$1,500-2,500

Various Owners

21George William Whitaker (American, 1841-1916)

An Opulent Fruit Still Life with Grapes, Oranges, Plums and Pears with a Silver Charger, 1899

Signed and dated lower left “G. W. Whitaker ‘99”Oil on canvas26 x 22 inches

$3,000-5,000

Provenance: Gift from the artist to Moses Brown School, Providence, Rhode Island, 1902;Gift to a custodian of the school, circa 1965;Thence by descent; Private Collection


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George Henry Hall (American, 1825-1913)

A Plea for Peace, 1861

Signed and dated lower left “G.H. Hall / 1861”Oil on board 18 3/4 x 15 inches

$25,000-45,000

Provenance: The Late Ms. Delia P. Frissora of Watertown, Mass.This work was purportedly loaned to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1972.George Henry Hall’s A Plea for Peace called into question the feminine qualities gen-erally associated with fl oral still-lifes. Hall, who earlier in his career painted historical and allegorical subjects, managed to refl ect the political turbulence of the times by depicting fl owers in patriotic colors sitting in a rifl e. In doing so Hall juxtaposed the fragility and vibrancy of the fl owers with a sense of impending destruction. Painted in 1861 at the beginning of the American Civil War, A Plea for Peace sent a clear mes-sage of what was at stake for a country newly at war.

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26Frederick Arthur Bridgman (American, 1847-1928)

Camel and Merchant at a Town Gate

Signed with initials and inscribed, “To my friend WB”Oil on panel22 x 16 1/2 inches

$5,000-10,000


23William McDougal Hart (American, 1823-1894)

Watering at Sunset

Signed lower right “W. Hart”Oil on panel10 x 16 inches

$3,000-6,000

Property of Various Owners

24Salomon Leonardus Verveer (Dutch, 1813-1876)

Figures by a Stream at Sunset, Windmill Beyond, 1861

Signed and dated lower right “S. L. Verveer 1861”Oil on canvas 15 1/4 x 22 inches

$4,000-8,000

25Alexandre Defaux (French, 1826-1900)

Study of Cows and Chickens

Signed lower right “A. DeFaux”Oil on canvas21 1/4 x 25 1/2 inches

$4,000-6,000

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Property from a New Jersey Collection

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Hamilton Hamilton (American, 1847-1928)

Sierras, 1873

Signed and dated and inscribed indistinctly with title lower right “Hamilton Hamilton ‘73 / Sierras S****” (indistinct)

Oil on canvas 18 x 29 7/8 inches $20,000-40,000

Hamilton Hamilton was largely self-taught, however, in 1870; he traveled to Europe, studying in Paris. After two years, he returned home opening a portrait studio in 1872. In 1873 he made a sketching trip west to Colorado and spent much of the summer and winter there, completing forty-seven paintings. Filled with brilliant and luminous color, few of these works are known to exist today. His Colorado paintings were chosen for exhibition in the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, PA. He later turned to impressionism, but his Western Landscapes have stood the test of time being his most sought after works.

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28Frederick R. Wagner (American, 1864-1940)

Mother and Child Reading

Signed upper right “F. Wagner”Pastel on paper 8 x 10 1/2 inches

$1,000-2,000


Public Building with American Flags

Signed lower left “F. Wagner”Pastel on paper 9 x 11 1/2 inches

$1,000-2,000

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30George W. Seavey (American, 1841-1916)

Fresh Cut Roses

Signed lower right Oil on canvas 10 x 14 inches

$600-800

Provenance: Mrs. Delia P. Frissora, Watertown, Massachusetts


Property from a Prominent New England Family

31David Johnson (American, 1827-1908)

On the Wa-wa-yan-da Orange Co. NY, 1875

Signed with conjoined initials and dated ‘75 lower rightSigned again verso and dated DJ. 1875Inscribed with title and Orange Co. NY on the stretcher Inscribed indistinctly on the stretcherOil on canvas9 1/4 x 12 inches

$3,000-5,000

Provenance: Curtis H. Moyer Pictures and Framers, Hartford Conn Label verso

Property from a Private American Collection

32William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)

Guernsey, Low Tide

Signed lower left “Wm. T. Richards”Oil on artist’s board 9 x 16 inches

$8,000-12,000

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Inner Harbor

Signed lower right “F. Wagner”Pastel on paper 4 1/2 x 6 inches

$1,000-2,000


33Harriet Bowdoin (American, 1880-1947)

Figures by Shore

Signed lower left “Harriet Bowdoin”Oil on panel 9 x 11 inches

$3,000-4,000

34John Henry Dolph (American, 1835-1903)

Still Life with Grapes and Pears, Butterfl ies Fluttering, 1864

Signed with conjoined initials and dated lower right “JHD, 1864”Oil on artist’s board5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches

$800-1,200


Boys Fishing on a Seaside Dock

Signed lower left “F. Wagner”Pastel on paper 5 x 6 inches

$1,000-2,000

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Property of a New Jersey Gentleman

37Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935)

Wintertime In New York, 1893

Signed and dated lower left “Childe Hassam, New York, 1893”Watercolor and gouache with pen and ink on paperRetains original gilt frame2 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches

$30,000-60,000

Literature: This painting will be included in Stuart P. Feld’s and Kathleen M. Burnside’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s works.

Frederick Childe Hassam was born in 1859, in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He mar-ried in 1884 and moved to Paris two years later. Hassam moved to New York in 1889 where he lived until his death on 1935.

Hassam, noted for his urban scenes, chronicled the constant fl ux of Boston, Paris and New York. While he was known to paint in a variety of art colonies outside of the cities, his best works are that of the streets and the many types of people that inhabit them. City life was an endless inspiration for him, from the fl uttering of leaves as a carriage passes to the swoosh of skirts of the ladies as they cross the streets; he captures the bustle of the city. This work is particularly successful, even in its small scale, as it bursts with energy.

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DETAIL

Various Owners

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Jean Francois Raffaelli (French, 1850-1924)

Shoreline with a Fisherman in the Foreground

Signed lower left “JF. Raffaelli”Oil on board25 x 30 inches

$25,000-50,000

Jean Francois Raffaelli was born in Paris on April 20, 1850. He was accepted at the Paris Salon of 1870 despite his lack of formal training. He was known for picturesque views of quaint Paris neighborhoods and focused on scenes of middle-class life. He was associated with the Realists as well as the Impressionists, yet his work does not fall into either category. While in his earlier work was characterized by a somber pal-ette, which was contradiction to the Impressionists; their infl uence is felt in his later work with a lighter palette.

The Shoreline with a Fisherman is a classic subject for Raffaelli, with the expanding middle class and the growth of the suburbs around Paris, the artist had innumerable subjects from which to paint. This work is representative of the Raffaelli’s mature style. Lighter in color, but a broad brush, and small but strong energetic fi gures.

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Proceeds to benefi t the Historic Park-McCullough Association, North Bennington, Vermont

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Hendrik Willem Mesdag (Dutch, 1831-1915)

Morning Fishing Boats at Anchor

Signed lower right “H W Mesdag”Oil on canvasInscribed with title on a label affi xed to the stretcher24 x 51 inches

$40,000-80,000

Provenance: Purchased by Eliza Hall Park McCullough and John G. McCullough circa 1900;And by descent in the family;The Park McCullough House Association, 1975

Hendrik Willem Mesdag was the fi rst of the artists to move to The Hague in 1869, followed by Maris, Israels Mauve and Weissenbruch, amongst many others. The group became known as “The Hague School” and was characterized by paintings with muted tones in warm greys. The critic Jacob van Stanten Kolff described the work as “intent to convey mood, tone takes precedence over color… almost exclu-sive preference for so-called…gray mood.”

This work Morning: Fishing Boats at Anchor, is one of Mesdag’s masterpieces, with its grand scale, and rhythmic arrangement of fi gures and boats. The subtle tonal quality of the greys, pinks and blues are visible even under 100 years of surface grime and aged varnish.

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The Property of a Prominent New England Family

40John Fabian Carlson (American, 1874-1945)

Sunrise on the Shore

Signed lower right “John F. Carlson”Signed again dated “jan, 7th 1917” and inscribed “To Susan and Boardman Tyler/ In memory of a very/ wonderful day/ From Margaret G. and John F. Carlson/ with affectionate regard”Oil on board mounted to paperboardUnframed8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches

together with May Morning

Oil on canvas board8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches(2)

$3,000-5,000


41Chauncey Foster Ryder (American, 1868-1949)

Egremont, Massachusetts

Signed lower left “Chauncy F Ryder”Oil on canvas 12 x 16 inches

$2,000-4,000

42Bruce Crane (American, 1857-1937)

Spring Walk

Signed lower right “BRUCE CRANE”Oil on canvas22 x 32 inches

$8,000-12,000

Property from Various Owners

43American School, circa 1850

Holding the Fort

UnsignedOil on canvasUnframed 20 x 16 inches

$800-1,200

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Property from a Private Collection

44Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926)

Wood Nymph With Rabbit

UnsignedOil on canvas9 x 5 1/4 inches

$15,000-25,000

Provenance: Trails End Gallery, Pasadena, California;The Hammer Brothers, New York, New York by 1957To Private Collection, circa 1972

Exhibitions: Los Angeles, California, Department of Municipal Art, August 29- September 13, 1957; San Francisco California palace of the Legion of Honor (September ‘57); Fine Art Gallery, October 1-12, 1957; Great Falls Montana, The C.M. Russell Foundation, Inc., Oct 14-26, 1957, catalogue number 77Calgary Allied Art Council

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Charles M. Russell Center for the Story of the American West, University of Oklahoma

45Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926)

The Burning of the Tonquin

UnsignedOil on canvas7 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches

$20,000-40,000

Provenance: Trails End Gallery, Pasadena, California;The Hammer Brothers, New York, New York by 1957To Private Collection, circa 1972

Exhibitions: Los Angeles, California, Department of Municipal Art, August 29- September 13, 1957; San Francisco California Palace of the Legion of Honor (September ‘57); Fine Art Gallery, October 1-12, 1957; Great Falls Montana, The C.M. Russell Foundation, Inc., Oct 14-26, 1957, catalogue number 77Calgary Allied Art Council

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Charles M. Russell Center for the Story of the American West, University of Oklahoma

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47Alexander Helwig Wyant (American, 1836-1892)

Summer Stream

UnsignedOil on canvasRetains the original frame 30 1/8 x 40 1/4 inches

$5,000-10,000

49Theodore Wores (American, 1859-1939)

The Shrine in Spring

Signed lower right “Theodore Wores”Watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board 13 x 19 1/2 inches

$2,500-4,500

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48Mabel May Woodward (American, 1877-1945)

Sketching By the Sea

Signed lower left “M. Woodward”Oil on canvas 10 x 8 inches

$4,000-6,000

Property from Another Owner

46Walter Farndon (American, 1876-1964)

The Old Grist Mill

Signed lower left “Walter Farndon NA”Inscribed with title and Roslyn, New York versoalso inscribed “From Marie and Walter” versoOil on masonite14 x 18 inches

$1,500-3,000

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Property of a Lady

50John LaFarge (American, 1835-1910)

Study on the Reef at Tautira, Tahiti, 1891

Unsigned

Watercolor and gouache on paper

8 x 9 inches (sight)

$15,000-30,000

Provenance: Vance Jordan Fine Art, Inc., circa 2002

Exhibitions: Records of Travel, New York, no. 170; Paris, no. 169

John LaFarge’s Second Paradise, Voyages in the South Seas 1890-1891: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Oct. 19, 2010- January 2, 2011; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, January 22- March 27, 2011, Catalogue number 38

In February of 1891, John LaFarge and Henry Adams were traveling from Papara along the Isthmus to the island of Taiarapu, where they met Ori, the chief of the Teva clan, who Robert Louis Stevenson had met in1888. Stevenson had written a letter of introduction for La Farge and Adams.

LaFarge painted just two watercolors of the reefs, this being the crisper more detailed of the two. Lafarge wrote in his Record of Travel, “to go to the reef which runs along exactly like a great coastway… and to see the great waves break against this wall, then run in innumerable ripples over the edge in to the quiet water inside the reef.”

51John LaFarge (American, 1835-1910)

Flower Study: Cobaea Scandens (Cup and Sau-

cer Vine), circa 1906

UnsignedWatercolor and gouache on brown toned paper 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches

$5,000-7,000

Provenance: Vance Jordan Fine Art Inc., New York, NY

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54Hayley Lever (American, 1876-1958)

Pears Still Life, 1943

Signed and dated lower right “Hayley Lever 1943”Signed again, inscribed and dated versoOil on board16 x 24 1/2 inches

$4,000-6,000

Property of Another Owner


Sunrise

Signed lower right center “F. Wagner”Pastel on paper 7 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches

$1,000-2,000


Path to the Barn

Signed lower right “F. Wagner”Pastel on paper 6 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches

$1,000-2,000

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56Reginald Marsh (American, 1898-1954)

Two Women on a Boardwalk, 1943

Signed and dated lower right “R. Marsh 1943”Watercolor on paper 11 x 9 1/2 inches

$6,000-10,000

Provenance: Hudson’s Department Store, Detroit, Michigan

Reginald Marsh was known for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s through 1950s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear throughout his work. Two Women on the Boardwalk is an iconic exam-ple of Marsh’s watercolors from the depression era, his women are voluptuous and powerful. The work is infused with rich color and bold pen and ink lines, which attest to his love of Tiepolo drawings, and energize the watercolor

Property from a Distinguished Midwest Collection

55George Benjamin Luks (American, 1867-1933)

Children of the Street

Signed lower right “George Luks”Inscribed with title versoOil on canvas 20 x 16 1/8 inches

$12,000-18,000

Luks made many paintings of working class subjects and scenes of the urban street. Luks’s representations of immi-grant shoppers, pushcart peddlers, casual strollers and curious onlookers of the ethnic variety characterized metropolitan, turn-of-the century New York. It was very important for the artists associated with the Ashcan school to depict real life.

Luks’s work typifi es the ‘real-life’ scenes painted by the Ashcan School artists, in Children of the Street, Luks paints a three young children, a blond adolescent , a dark haired youth and an Asian child, huddled together in a red blanket for warmth. His bold brush and thick impasto together with his social consciousness are hallmarks of his best work.

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57Jerome Myers (American, 1867-1940)

Carousel, 1930

Signed and dated lower right “Jerome Myers 1930” Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches

$12,000-18,000

Provenance: Vose Galleries, Boston, MA

Myers studied at in Paris and in NY at the Art Students League but his main classroom was the streets of New York’s lower East Side. His strong interest and feelings for the new immigrants and their life resulted in hundreds of drawings, paintings, etch-ings and watercolors. He capturing the whole pan-orama of their lives as found outside of the crowded tenements which were their fi rst homes in America.

In Carrousel, he captures the Mothers and Children of the working class enjoying the carefree festival atmo-sphere of the Carrousel and the park. The arrangement of colorful and active fi gures plays off against the broad sweep of grey ground, highlighting the buoyant environment.

Property of a Private American Collection

58Milton Avery (American, 1885-1965)

Beach Photographer, 1930

Signed lower left center “Milton Avery”Watercolor and gouache on black paper17 1/2 x 24 inches (sight)

$20,000-40,000

Provenance: Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

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59Charles Demuth (American, 1883-1935)

Two Men and a Woman on the Beach, 1912

Signed and dated lower right “C. Demuth 1912”Watercolor over pencil on paper on board 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches (sight)

$12,000-18,000

Provenance: Durlacher Brothers, New YorkNew York, The Museum of Modern Art, Charles Demuth A Retrospective Exhibition, 1950, no. 10

Charles Demuth was born in 1883 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to a prosperous fam-ily in the tobacco business, who encouraged his artistic pursuits. He studied at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia from 1903 to 1905. He traveled to Paris frequently from 1904 till 1914, living the bohemian life and associating with Gertrude and Leo Stein in Paris and absorbing the many aspects of Modernism. By 1914, he became one of the modernist artists associated with Alfred Stieglitz. He was friends with Marcel Duchamp; they spent time together in Harlem jazz clubs and Greenwich Village bars, which became the subject of many of his watercolors.

Demuth’s works, primarily, in watercolor are characterized with an economy of sinu-ous line, and controlled application of watercolor. Two Men and a Woman on the

Beach, from 1912 is typical of his offbeat world view and humor, with a woman fully clothed in a fox stole conversing with male bathers.


60Milton Avery (American, 1885-1965)

Red Refl ections, 1959

Signed and dated lower left “Milton Avery 1959”Oil crayon on paper 15 x 22 inches

$8,000-12,000

Provenance: The Avery Trust;

David Barnett gallery;

Private Collection

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61Victor Higgins (American, 1884-1949)

Western Mountains

Signed lower right “Victor Higgins”Watercolor on paper 15 x 21 1/2 inches

$15,000-25,000

62Paul A Grimm (American, 1891-1974)

San Jacinto’s Front Yard

Signed lower right “Paul Grimm”Signed and inscribed with title verso Oil on canvas24 x 30 inches

$2,500-4,500

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Property from a Private American Collection

63Esteban Vicente (American, 1903-2001)

On Space, 1987

Signed, dated and inscribed with title verso “Esteban Vicente”Oil on Canvas54 x 64 inches

$30,000-60,000

Provenance: Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, circa 1988Purchased from the above by the present owner

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64Aaron Bohrod (American, 1907-1992)

Mother Earth

Signed and dated indistinctly lower right 19..?Oil on masonite 12 x 16 inches

$5,000-8,000

This work is a commentary on organic and inorganic substances, our material society and the passage of time.


65Lodewijk Karel Bruckman (Dutch, 1913 - 1980)

Egg, 1960

Signed upper right “Lodewijk / Bruckman / f ‘60 t”Signed, inscribed and dated verso “Lodewijk Bruckman / Providence / Cape Cod / Mass. / 1960”Tempera on canvas20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches

$2,000-4,000



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Matta left Chile as a young man, for Paris to study, New York to work and Rome to live his mature years. He did not like to be thought of as a “Latin American” art-ist. He was one of the few Surrealist artists to take on political, social, and spiritual themes directly and without abandoning the biomorphic mutations for which he was known. His most characteristic works border on abstraction and evoke fantastic subjective landscapes. This work Topologie de Illusion from 1990 has an otherworldly fantastic aura which is the hallmark of his work.

Property of a Private American Collection

66Roberto Anotonio (Echaurren) Matta (Chilean, 1911-2002)

Topologie de I’illusion, 1990

Signed lower rightSigned again, inscribed with title versoAcrylic on canvas 74 1/2 x 82 3/4 inches

$50,000-100,000

Provenance: Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, circa 1991Purchased from the above by the present owner


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68Lester F. Johnson (American, 1919-2010)

Three Women Walking

Signed lower right “Lester Johnson”Oil on Canvas 30 x 20 inches

$5,000-10,000

69Nicola Hicks (British, 1960)

Wild Boar

Charcoal on brown wrapping paper39 1/2 x 51 inches

$4,000-6,000

Provenance: Sold Sotheby’s London, Wed., Nov.26, 1997, Lot 126


67Raphael Soyer (American, 1899-1987)

The Bathrobe

Signed lower right “RAPHAEL SOYER”Oil on canvas24 1/2 x 16 inches

$2,000-3,000

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Property of a Long Island Collector

70Jean Paul Riopelle (Canadian, 1923-2002)

Folâtre, 1957

Signed lower right “Riopelle”

23 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches

$80,000-120,000

Provenance: Jane Kahan Gallery, 1992 Purchased from the above by the present owner

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Literature: Michel Waldberg, Yseult Riopelle, Monique Brunet-Weinmann, François Odermatt (Editor), Jean Paul Riopelle: catalogue raisonné, Montreal: Hibou Éditeurs, 1999, Cat No. 1957-059, illustrated

Riopelle was a member of the group Les Automatistes (founded by Montreal art-ist Paul-Emile Bourduas, the group was infl uenced by Surrealism and its theory of automatism). This movement was seen as the beginning of Canadian Modern Art. Many of this group worked in Paris and New York. In Paris in the early 1950s he was known as the ‘Wild Canadian’, not only because of his exuberant artistic style, but also because of his lifestyle. In the 1960s-80, he had a relationship with Joan Mitchell, who had a great infl uence on his work.

Affi liated with the post war modernists, he created works of heavy impasto and quite often squeezed paint directly from the tube onto the canvas. In the 50s and 60s, he frequently used a palette knife; this work Foltâre is emblematic of that which is con-sidered his best period.


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73Ilya Bolotowsky (Russian-American, 1907-1981)

Geometric Abstraction, 1953

Signed lower right “I. Bolotowsky / 53”Mixed media on cardboard 7 1/2 x 10 inches

$3,000-5,000

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72John M. Johansen (American, b. 1916)

Modernist Edifi ce, 1953

Signed and dated lower left “John MacL. Johansen / ‘53”Watercolor and gouache on paper26 x 19 inches (sight)

$2,000-4,000

Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist;By descent in the family


71Robert Arthur Goodnough (American, 1917-2010)

Abduction by Boat, 1963 (A Tondo)

Signed and dated lower right “Goodnough / ‘63”Signed, dated and inscribed with title versoOil on canvas 47 inches, diameter

$2,000-4,000

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Index

Lot

Amman, Jost 5

Avery, Milton 58, 60

Bannister, Edward Mitchell 19

Bohrod, Aaron 64

Bolotowsky, Ilya 73

Bowdoin, Harriet 33

Bridgman, Frederick Arthur 26

Bruckman, Lodewijk Karel 65

Carlson, John Fabian 40

Carr, Samuel S. 13

Crane, Bruce 42

Defaux, Alexandre 25

Demuth, Charles 59

Dolph, John Henry 34

Doughty, Thomas 9

Farndon, Walter 46

Fenn, Harry 7

Goodnough, Robert Arthur 71

Grimm, Paul A. 62

Hall, George Henry 22

Hamilton, Hamilton 27

Hart, William McDougal 23

Hassam, Frederick Childe 37

Hicks, Nicola 69

Higgins, Victor 61

Johansen, John M. 72

Johnson, David 14, 31

Johnson, Lester F. 68

Kneller, Sir Godfrey 3

Koets, Roelof 4

LaFarge, John 50, 51

Lawrie, Alexander 17

Lever, Hayley 54

Luks, George Benjamin 55

Lot

Marsh, Reginald 56

Matta, Robero Anotonio (Echaurren) 66

Mesdag, Hendrik Willem 39

Moran, Edward 8

Myers, Jerome 57

Raffaelli, Jean Francois 38

Richards, William Trost 18, 32

Ryder, Chauncey Foster 41

Riopelle, Jean Paul 70

Rondel, Henri 20

Russell, Charles Marion 44, 45

Seavey, George W. 30

Soyer, Ralph 67

Sword, James Brade 11

Tyler, James Gale 12

Verveer, Salomon Leonardus 24

Vicente, Esteban 63

Wagner, Frederick R. 28, 29, 35, 36, 52, 53

Whitaker, George William 16, 21

Woodward, Mabel May 48

Wores, Theodore 49

Wyant, Alexander Helwig 47


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We are currently accepting property for our upcoming auctions

October 2, 2012

Fine European and American Paintings,

Furniture and Decorative Arts

Property accepted through July 20

January 2013

Important American Paintings, Furniture

and Decorative Arts

Property accepted through October 2

Queen Anne Cherry wood Chest-on-chest on Frame

Connecticut, circa 1760

Estimate $40,00 - 80,000

Naïve Painting Depicting African American Circus

American School, circa 1925

Estimate $7,000 - 10,000

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