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MILFORD, CT SHANNON’S FINE ART AUCTIONEERS SEPTEMBER 17 Fall Auction
On September 17 Shannon’s Fine art Auctioneers will host its fall sale with more than
200 works from 19th-century to contemporary hitting the block. Highlighting the sale are items from the Jeanne and Carroll Berry Collection, which was assembled over 30 years and includes pieces from 16 of the original “Irascible Eighteen.” Leading the group is a work on paper from Adolph Gottlieb’s Burst series and a Jackson Pollock work on paper from 1952-56. Each piece has a presale estimate of $80,000 to $120,000.
Other auction standouts include Charles E. Burchfield’s Steel Mill Homes and Buzzard Cabin and Marsden Hartley’s Still Life with Pears. Also available are traditional 19thcentury works including Hudson River School and impressionist pieces, such as Charles Courtney Curran’s Wind on the Cliff (est. $70/90,000) and By the Lake, by Jasper Francis Cropsey, which has an estimate of $30,000 to $50,000.
MARLBOROUGH, MA SKINNER INC. SEPTEMBER 25 Fine Paintings & Sculpture
Skinner Inc. will host an online-live event on September 25 at noon for its Fine Paintings & Sculpture sale. The auction, live streamed with bidding online and by telephone and absentee, will include artwork by some of the biggest names in American art.the headliner of the sale is a watercolor by Andrew Wyeth titled Spruce Timber (est. $100/150,000) depicting two men felling a tree for Wyeth’s home in Cushing, Maine. Another by Wyeth, Race Bridge (est. $20/40,000), is also available. Wyeth’s father, N.c.wyeth is represented in the sale with the charcoal drawing View of a Destroyedtown,worldwar I (est. $10/20,000).
Two by Alexander Calder also will come to market— Young Rain and Osaka—with both having estimates of $50,000 to $70,000. Jane Peterson is represented by the garden scenes Elihu Vedder Fountain and A California Garden, which are estimated at $40,000 to $60,000 each. Fern Isabel Coppedge’s Lumberville in Winter (est. $20/30,000), as well as works by Milton Avery, Gifford Beal and Charles Demuth, are also highlights of the sale.
DALLAS, TX HERITAGE AUCTIONS SEPTEMBER 26 Texas Art Auction
Heritage Auctions’texas art director Atlee Phillips says the auction house’s upcoming Texas Art Auction on September 26 “is shaping up to be similar to some of the best Texas art auctions we have had in the last decade.” That includes a painting by David Bates titled Crab Legs that dates to when he was beginning to make a name for
himself in the art scene.the work, from 1984, is expected to sell between $30,000 and $50,000.
Another notable in the sale is Robert William Wood’s landscape After the Shower, 1952.This work, estimated at $15,000 to $25,000, “reveals the influence of two of the best early Texas artists, his teacher, Jose Arpa, and Julian Onderdonk, the Texas landscape impressionist who is considered the standard-bearer when it comes to painting bluebonnet flowers.”
CHICAGO, IL HINDMAN SEPTEMBER 30 American and European Art
Nearly 100 lots of paintings, sculpture and works on paper will hit the market during Hindman’s September 30 American and European
Art auction.the sale has a number of highlights, with one of its most noteworthy being Marvin Cone’s oil on canvas Interval from the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, estate of Nancy Holmes. It features a clouded landscape of the artist’s home state of Iowa and has an estimate of $60,000 to $80,000.There also will be a selection of works from J.G. Brown including the 1883 oil on canvas Blow, Johnnie,
Blow (est. $20/30,000). A streetscape by regionalist painter Dale Nichols titled Chicago (est. $400/60,000) also hits the block.
Joe Stanfield, Hindman’s director of fine art, adds,
“The auction will include a number of important works from top-tier American artists, and we are looking forward to another successful season. Interest has remained high in quality works and we expect to see strong results again in the fall.”
GENESEO, NY COTTONE AUCTIONS OCTOBER 3 Fine Art & Antiques
On October 3, Cottone Auctions will offer Rockwell Kent’s Tree Tops & Mountain Peaks, which has been in a number of museum exhibitions, including The View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent’s Adirondack Legacy at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, in 1999.The painting comes from after the artist purchased his homestead, which he named Asgaard, in the Adirondacks in the 1910s and continued to visit. In his essay for the catalog, Scott R. Ferris wrote of the piece, “…by reducing trees, fields, mountains, and clouds to modeled forms, and layering these forms in distinct, overlapping planes that recede to the horizon, Kent transposed luminism into 20thcentury prose.”
The painting, coming from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. William M. E. Clarkson of Buffalo, New York, has been with the consignors since they acquired it in 1960 from Larcada Gallery in Newyork. It has a presale estimate of $80,000 to $120,000.
DALLAS, TX HERITAGE AUCTIONS OCTOBER 16 Illustration Art Auction
A private collection of 46 pinup paintings will be hitting the auction block during Heritage Auctions’ October 16 Illustration Art Auction, including five works by Gil Elvgren. Included among them are the circa
1960 work Bow Spirit (est. $50/75,000) and Let’s Go, a 1957 painting that is expected to sell between $50,000 and $70,000.Also in the collection is Haddon Hubbard Sundblom’s Summer’s Day (est. $40/60,000), Alberto Vargas’ Brunette with Blue Flowers
(est. $8/12,000) and Enoch Bolles’ Seated Beauty (est. $10/15,000).
“Heritage is excited to be offering this collection of pinups.the consignor is not only a Formula One driver, but also an avid classic car collector,” says Heritage Auctions’ senior vice president Ed Jaster.“it is no coincidence that many of the works in his collection feature classic cars.”