Current Auctions

Pair of Lifesize Allegorical Female Garden Statues
one depicting summer in a light dress holding her harvest of grapes, the other depicting winter in her thick fur coat as she holds a cluster of acorns, each mounted on pedestal base, carved sandstone
total height 85 inches, height of base 24 inches
Condition: very good condition, minor chipping to edges of bases, some natural discoloration and losses

Estimate: $2000 - $4000

George Wayne Lundeen (American B.1948)
“The Thomas Jefferson Statue”
Lifesize bronze statue depicting the third president of the United States writing the Declaration of Independence while sitting on a bench, other editions of this sculpture include one featured at Sorrel Sky Gallery with an asking price of $90,000, one located at the University of Missouri next to the David R. Francis Quadrangle, as well as one located at Booth Western Art Museum, Georgia
Patinated bronze and cement
Length 60 inches, height 53 inches
Condition: overall good condition, normal outside wear

Estimate: $5000 - $10000

Frank Alfred Bicknell (American 1866-1943)
“October on the Lieutenant River”
Oil on wood panel
Signed lower left “Frank A. Bicknell” signed and
dated on verso, handwritten provenance label on verso
12″ x 16″
Provenance: Estate from Old Lyme, Connecticut,
The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT
Condition: very good condition

Estimate: $800 - $1200

George Matthew Bruestle (American 1871-1939)
“Fleeting Clouds” (Rocky Landscape)
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left “Bruestle” signed and titled verso
“Fleeting Clouds by Geo. M. Bruestle”
12″ x 16″
Provenance: Estate from Old Lyme, Connecticut
Condition: relined and restretched canvas, supported with backboard, possible inpainting to clouds, craquelure throughout

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

Bruce Crane (American 1857-1937)
Autumn Golden Hill Landscape
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right “Bruce Crane”
Inscription on frame verso “Cullen Yates 939 8th
Ave New York”
12″ x 16″
Provenance: Estate from Old Lyme, Connecticut
Condition: overall good condition, framed under glass, some paint flaking, craquelure throughout

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

Henry Ward Ranger (American 1858-1915)
“Windy Afternoon” Autumn forest landscape, 1912
Oil on board
Signed lower left “H.W. Ranger”
Verso has forest sketch, dated 1912
12″ x 16″
Provenance: Estate from Old Lyme, Connecticut,
The Cooley Gallery, Lyme, CT
Condition: overall good condition, thick impasto, some craquelure

Estimate: $800 - $1400

Laura Coombs Hills (American 1859-1952)
Still Life of Pink Peony Flowers in a Vase
Pastel on paper
Signed lower left Laura Hills
29″ x 24″
Provenance: Bakker/Bocelli, November 5, 2000 ($34,000)
Butler Engravings, Etchings and Picture Frames, New York
Condition: overall very good condition, framed under glass

Estimate: $6000 - $10000

Laura Coombs Hills (American 1859-1952)
Still Life of Pink Peony Flowers in a Vase with Orange Wallpaper
Pastel on paper
Signed upper left Laura Hills
29″ x 24″
Condition: overall very good condition, framed under glass

Estimate: $8000 - $12000

Robert (Henry Cozad) Henri (American 1865-1929)
“Au Champ de Mars, Paris”
Oil on board
Signed lower left Robert Henri
4″ x 6″
Provenance:Estate of William J Levy Park Avenue, New York
Christie’s New York, Rockefeller Center, September 26, 1991, lot 222 ($12,100)
A Family Collection: Drawings, sculptures and oils by American artists, selected from the collection of Lucille and Walter Fillin and their children; exhibited 1962-1963, Parrish Art Museum, New York, Skidmore College, Albany Institute of History and Art, Everson Museum of Art, Davis Galleries, The New Britain Museum of Art, Williams College Museum of Art
Condition: overall very good condition, some surface grime

Estimate: $5000 - $10000

Attributed to Theodore Rousseau (French 1812-1867)
French Countryside Landscape
Oil on wood panel
Numbered on verso F374 along with name plaque
7 1/2″ x 9 3/4″
Condition: presents well, heavy spot varnish, craquelure throughout, edge ware, inpainting concentrating upper right

Estimate: $2000 - $4000

Will Sparks (American 1862-1937)
Arizona Night Scene, Stucco Fort
Oil on board
Signed lower right Will Sparks
4 1/2″ x 5 3/4″
Provenance: Maxwell Galleries Fine Paintings, San Francisco, CA
One Hundred Years of California Paintings from 1849
Condition: overall good condition, some craquelure

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Louis Aston Knight (French/American 1873-1948)
Conversation by the Parisian Riverside
Featuring a young man and women talking amongst flowers
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right Aston Knight, Paris
16 1/2″ x 20 1/2″
Condition: overall very good condition, framed under glass

Estimate: $2000 - $4000

William Lester Stevens (American 1888-1969)
Still Life of White Peonies (Flowers in a Vase)
Oil on canvas
Signed and inscribed lower right W.Lester Stevens N.A.
28″ x 25″
Provenance: Estate of Joyce L. August, formerly from Jack August Restaurant in Northampton, Massachusetts
Condition: overall good condition, surface grime, edge ware

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

William Lester Stevens (American 1888-1969)
Winter Landscape with a Village in the Mountains
Oil on canvas
Signed and inscribed lower left W.Lester Stevens
30″ x 35 1/2″
Provenance: Estate of Joyce L. August, formerly from Jack August Restaurant in Northampton, Massachusetts
Condition: the piece presents well overall, in need of a relining and restretching, surface grime, stretcher bar lines, some inpainting to sky, craquelure

Estimate: $2000 - $4000

Gaetano Chierici (Italian 1838-1920)
The Bear Hunt
scene of a group of villagers tying down a
mother bear while a woman and child look to a
man holding her two bear cubs
Oil on canvas in ornate gilt wood frame
Signed and dated on verso Gaetano Chierici 1871
24″ x 29″
Condition: presents very well, heavy varnish that hinders the view of inpainting, inpainting visible in the hunter, most of craquelure and along borders, repair patches to verso

Estimate: $5000 - $10000

Continental School (18th Century)
Portrait of a young boy in a maroon coat in a forest landscape
Oil on canvas
Unsigned
32″ x 25″
Condition: relined and restretched canvas, heavy surface grime, craquelure throughout, heavy varnish hindering the view of inpainting, repairs to lower left corner, vertical abrasion to the boy’s coat, discolored inpainting to face, edge ware

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Wilhelm Kray (German 1828-1889)
Seated female Nude and two Children in a rocky
seascape
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right “W. Kray”
56″ x 42″
Condition: presents well, appears to be original canvas, craquelure throughout, spot varnish and inpainting to faces, some surface grime, horizontal stretcher bar lines

Estimate: $3000 - $5000

Albert Beck Wenzell (American 1864-1917)
“The Orphan”, 1887
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left Albert B Wenzell, Paris ’87, inscription on verso by “I gave this painting by A.B.Wenzell to my niece Marilyn….in 1922… Dorothy Lanois”
36″ x 32″
Provenance: the painting passed down from Dorothy Lanois (who was married to a member of the Wenzell family) to her niece Marilyn, who was the mother of the current owner
Condition: presents well overall, restretched and relined canvas, craquelure, edge ware, repaired tear to center along the woman’s face and background, inpainting visible

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

Continental School 19th Century
Alchemists in their Study
Genre Scene interior of the Scientific
Revolution
Oil on canvas
Signed illegibly lower left
13″ x 11″
Condition: overall good condition, canvas appears to have been relined and restretched, some edge ware, inpainting throughout, concentrating in figures and bottom center, craquelure throughout, surface grime

Estimate: $300 - $500

Pair Continental School Coaching Scenes (18th Century or later)
One featuring white and brown horses driving a red buggy in front of fantasy landscape of ruins, the other featuring brown horses driving a yellow buggy in front of a forest landscape
Oil on canvases
Unsigned
25″ x 32″ each
Provenance: A collection from Southbury, Connecticut
Condition: both relined and restretched canvases, both have a heavy varnish that hinders the view of the inpainting, both have craquelure throughout, the piece with the yellow carriage has most inpainting concentrating in the lower right side of canvas, the piece with the castle has inpainting and small repairs to the sky, spot varnished

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

Set of Three Basilius Besler (German 1561-1629)
“Paeonia mas flore incarnato”
“Papaver flore multiplici incarnato”
“Papaver flore pleno rubrum”
Hand colored copperplate engravings on laid paper from
“Hortus Eystettensis” (The Garden of Eichstatt)
first published 1613
18 1/2″ x 15 3/4″ plate size
Provenance: A collection from Southbury, Connecticut
Condition: the pieces are in overall good condition, undulation to paper, some wrinkling that suggest moisture damage, slight yellowing due to age, subtle foxing throughout

Estimate: $600 - $1200

Roy Lichtenstein (American 1923-1997)
“The Great Pyramids” (Study), 1969
Pencil and colored pencil on paper
Pencil signed lower right RF Lichtenstein
19 3/4″ x 25″
Provenance: Hanford Yang, New York City, c. 1969–71 (in exchange for architectural services)
Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona del Mar, Calif., April 1973 (via Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City)
(Christie’s, New York, May 13, 1981, sale JÖRG–5055, lot 123)
Exhibitions:1973 San Diego Glenn (probably)
Jack Glenn Gallery, San Diego, Roy Lichtenstein, September 1973.
1978b Los Angeles Leavin
Margo Leavin Gallery (812 North Robertson Boulevard), Los Angeles, Works on Paper, May 25–June 30, 1978.
Literature: Alloway 1983b
Alloway, Lawrence. Roy Lichtenstein. New York: Abbeville Press, 1983, no. 44 p. 47 b/w ill.
Condition: very good condition, possible water damage to matting

Estimate: $200000 - $400000

Robert Ellis Kushner (American B.1949)
“Summer Bouquet IX”, 1998
Mixed media acrylic, gouache, gold leaf on laid paper
Signed titled dated lower right “Robert Kushner ’98”
41″ x 29″
Condition: overall very good condition, some undulation to paper, framed under glass

Estimate: $1500 - $2500

Ivan Rabuzin (Yugoslavian/Croatian)
Sunny Village Landscape
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right Ivan Rabuzin 1971
20″ x 26″
Condition: some undulation to canvas, craquelure, edge ware, inpainting along borders

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

Douglas Atwill (American B.1933)
Desert Landscape with Wildflowers
Oil on canvas
66″ x 60″
Condition: overall good condition, some edge ware, a few scuffs to canvas

Estimate: $2000 - $4000