Set of ten colored steel engravings including Yellowstone Thomas Moran, Catskills, Baltimore, William Hart, etc. sight size 10 x 7 and 7 x 10. Provenance: Property from Credit Suisse’s Americana Collection
Grandy Brodie 1925-1975
pair of oil on canvas
Abstract
written and signed on reverse: For Ruth and Herman Stone with warm gratitude Grandy Brodie
9 x 14
One box lot: Contaflex outfit including Contaflex Alpha with Pantar 45/28 and case, Steritar Stereo attachment with instructions, Pantar 30/4, and Pantar 75/4.
Federal cherry secretary desk in two parts, upper section with two blind doors on lower section with slant lid over four drawers, all set on French feet, circa 1790-1810. ht. 78 in. wd. 41 1/2 in. dp. 18 1/2 in. Provenance: Property from The Estate of W. Scott Van Alstyne of Essex, Connecticut.
Three piece lot to include a pair of Greek Revival urns on marble bases one handle repaired and a brass urn with woman head handles. ht. 21 in. and ht. 18 in.
Five framed paintings including oil on board of strawberries, oil on board still life of apples, oil on canvas of a cat 10 x 18, oil on board boats 13 x 10, and a watercolor of yellow flowers 20 x 15.
Francis Luis Mora 1874-1940 Oriental Interior Scene Arabian Pastime watercolor / gouache on paper signed top left: F. Luis Mora sight size: 19 1/4 x 9 1/4 Frederick Baker label on verso A very rare Orientalist painting by one of Connecticuts favorite early 20th century artists.This painting was painted on one of Moras trips to Spain to visit his extended family in the first years of the last century.Mora often liked to paint what was popular at the time he visited Spain.In later years he even dressed like a 8th century Spanish painter when he painted in his Connectiicut studio.In 1910 Mora had a one man show at the Watercolor Club of New York.This painting was in that exhibit and is the only Orientalist painting he seems to have painted.
Two pairs of etchings Architectural Caratides etching marked Robert Benard Born 1734 and Rococo Biblical etchings Le Masacre Des Innocens signed in plate Pierre Jean Mariette 1694-1744
Silhouette, full length of gentleman turned to his right, signed on bottom Samuel Metford, New Haven, Sept. 1842. Provenance: Estate of Nancy Sachse, Hamden, Connecticut 10 x 5
