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Unsold Lots from our 20th Century Art & Design Auction
December 7th, 2003 ALL ITEMS ARE SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE! |
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For more information on lots listed below, contact:
Arts & Crafts items: Don Treadway/John Toomey - 513.321.6742 or 708.383.5234 Painting items: Thom or Jim Pegg - 314.727.6249 1950s Modern items: Lisanne Dickson - 708.383.5234 |
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571. Dines Carlsen (American, b. 1901), "White Azelea", c. 1940; oil/board, 15" x 12", signed; estate stamp from Campanile Galleries verso. Son of painter, Emil Carlsen. Dines painted in Connecticut, and exhibited at the National Academy of Design, Carnegie Institute, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (1910s-40s). 3000-4000 |
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575. Alexander J. Drysdale (American, 1870-1934), "Louisiana Bayou", c. 1910; oil wash, 19" x 26", signed. Drysdale exhibited from the 1880s-1920s, and specialized in local scenes executed in this medium, which he developed by diluting oil paint with kerosene, and applying it with brushes and cottonballs. His work is in the collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana State Museum, Delgado Museum, and the Supreme Court Bldg., Louisiana. 4000-6000 |
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576. Leonid Gechtoff (American, 1883-1941), "Winter landscape", c. 1930; oil/canvas, 28" x 29", signed. Gechtoff worked mostly in Pennsylvania, but also traveled and painted in the Southwest. His palette and execution were unique, and he painted mostly landscapes. 1400-1700 |
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577. Alan Hughes (American, 20th century), "Western Illustration", c. 1935; oil/canvas, 21" x 33", signed and dated. 1000-1500 |
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589. Max Kuehne (American, 1880-1968), "Gloucester Street Scene", c. 1925; pencil/paper, 8" x 12", signed on verso with estate stamp. 800-1200 |
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591. Robert Shufelt (Shoofly) (American, b. 1935) "Soldier", c. 1970; pencil drawing, 16" x 12", signed. Shufelt was well known for his drawings and illustrations of western subjects. He studied at the University of Chicago, and worked as an illustrator in Chicago for nearly 20 years. He then moved to Arizona. 1000-2000 |
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595. American School (Hill), "Bunte Holiday Candies", c. 1940; oil and collage/canvas, 43" x 37", signed, "Hill". Bunte Candy Company was located in Chicago, and was credited for making the first chocolate covered candy bar, the "Tango", in 1914. This illustration was reproduced as an advertisement poster for the company. 4000-6000 |
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601. Matt Clark (American, 1903-1972), "Shoot-out at O.K. Corral", c.1946; drybrush/paper, 17" x 32", signed and dated. 600-800 |
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609. William Arnold Eyden, Jr. (American, 1893-1982), "Indiana Beech Trees", c. 1930; gouache/board, 18" x 24", signed. Important Richmond, IN painter and teacher. Eyden studied with J. Bundy and T.C. Steele. He exhibited at the Richmond Art Association (1910s-40s), Hoosier Salon (1925-1981), John Herron Art Institute, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. His work is in numerous public collections throughout Indiana. 800-1200 |
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612. Edmund Quincy (American, 1903-1997), "River Scene with Bridge", c. 1940; oil/canvas, 23.5" x 28.4", signed with estate stamp on verso. The canvas is not stretched and is mounted under glass. 700-900 |
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613. Hugo M. Fisher (American, 1878-1946), "Notre Dame", c. 1950; oil/canvas, 26" x 29", signed. He was the son of Hugo Anton Fisher. He spent sixteen years in Europe and made trips around the world in the 1930s. 1000-1500 |
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616. Joseph Henry Hatfield (American, 1863-1928), "Young Girl with Rose", c.1900; oil/canvas, 14" x 11", signed. Boston area painter. Hatfield studied in Paris with Constant and Lefebvre (1880s-90s) at the Academie Julian. He exhibited at the Boston Art Club (1888-1902); Paris Salon (1891); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the National Academy of Design (1890s). REF: American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, Fink. 1000-1500 |
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618. F. Elim (French, 20th century), "Place de la Concorde", c. 1950; oil/board, 10" x 14", signed; label verso: Les Caders Modernes Paul Rene, Paris. 1000-1500 |
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622. Eliot Candee Clark (American, 1883-1980), "Snowy Mountains", c. 1930; oil/canvas, 32" x 40", signed; numbered by estate, EC256. 3000-5000 |
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632. Hananiah Harari (American, b. 1912), "Classics Aloft", c. 1942; oil/canvas, 22" x 16", signed; signed, dated, and titled on stretcher (verso). In a statement written by the artist regarding this work, Harari says, "Classics Aloft is my deeply-felt tribute to the sculptural motifs to be found in this precious heritage from Greece and Rome.", and "I regard this painting...as a poem in paint speaking love for what is so ubiquitously our most useful art." 3000-5000 |
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636. Philomee Obin (Haitian, 1892-1986 ), "Teleida Obin Chez une Amie", c. 1977; oil/board, 24" x 30", signed. In dramatic contrast to the school of Haitian art which featured an over abundance of figures and objects in a single composition, the Cap-Haitian artists, especially the Obin family of painters, executed stark, simplified, almost vacant interiors. The absence of "clutter" provoked a powerful intimacy between the artist and the viewer. 4000-6000 |
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639. Antoine Obin (Haitian, 1929-1992), "Le Celebre Peintre Philome Obin et Son Fiene Seneque", c. 1960; gouache/board, 15.5" x 18.5", signed. Antoine was an important member of the famous Obin family of Haitian painters, led by Philome (the subject of this work, and Antoine's father). 2000-3000 |
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641. Marcel Vertes (French, 1895-1961), "The Morning After", c. 1940; lithograph, 12" x 10", signed in pencil. 400-600 |
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653. Nicolai Cikovsky (American, 1894-1984), "Expansive Landscape", c. 1900; oil/board, 22" x 28", signed. Cikovsky was born in Russia and studied there before emigrating to the U.S. around 1930. He exhibited extensively from the 1930s-60s, and taught at the Cincinnati Art Academy, Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame. 2000-3000 |
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668. Dennis Leon (American, b. 1933), "Drawing #5", c. 1963; gouache, 8.5" x 8.5", signed and dated; titled verso, with label: Gallery 1015 (Wyncote, PA). Leon studied at Temple University, and exhibited from the 1950s-70s at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Kraushaar Gallery (NYC). He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1967. 300-500 |
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672. Samuel Joseph Brown (American, 1907-1944), "Nubian Prince", c. 1939; oil/canvas, 20" x 24", signed. Sam Brown was an African-American artist working in the Philadelphia area. He studied at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Arts, and exhibited from the 1920s-40s at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Harmon Fund, Howard University, and the Museum of Modern Art. He also exhibited in Chicago at the Southside Community Center (1941), where many well known Chicago African-American artists exhibited there work. 3000-5000 |
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676. Thurman G. Nicholson (American, 20th century), "Clown", c. 1937; ink drawing, 10.5" x 10", signed and dated. 300-500 |
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677. Sargent Johnson (American, 1888-1967), "Homage to Goya (Majas on the Balcony)", c.1940; oil and sand/board, 34" x 25", unsigned, original frame, accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins. Highly important African-American artist. Johnson studied at the A.W. Best School of Art, and then in 1919, attended the California School of Fine Art, under sculptors Ralph Stackpole and Benjamin Bufano. He began exhibiting at the San Francisco Art Association in 1925, and won a gold medal. He became associated with the Harmon Foundation of New York in 1926, and exhibited there for the next 13 years, winning numerous prizes for his sculpture. In 1948, he moved from Berkeley to Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. By this time he had completed several important public commissions in San Francisco, and that year was the chairman of both the sculpture selection and award juries for the Sixty-seventh Annual Exhibition of Oil, Tempera, and Sculpture at the San Francisco Artists Association. 15,000-25,000 |
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683. Hugo J. Pieper (American, 20th century), "Water Tower, Chicago", c. 1949; oil/canvas, 29" x 29", signed; label verso from E & E Gallery, Evanston, IL. Pieper exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1940s and early 1950s. 3000-5000 |
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694. Pal Fried (Hungarian, American, 20th century), "Nude before a Mirror", c. 1950; gouache, 39" x 27", signed. 2000-3000 |
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715. Suzanne Duchamp (French, 1889-1963 ), "Fille en Jardin", c. 1940; oil/canvas, 21.5" x 25.5", signed. Duchamp, the sister of Dadaist painter, Marcel Duchamp, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and had her first major exhibit at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in the early 1920s. It was in the late 1910s that the first of her Dadaist works appeared. In 1967, her brother Marcel helped organize an exhibition called Les Duchamp: Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp. Some of this family exhibition was later shown at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris. 2000-3000 |