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Sale Date:
June 5 & 6, 2004
Cincinnati, OH
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Lot Numbers and Descriptions
Estimate
701. Moser (American School), lot of three watercolors of similar subjects, one pictured: “Fishing”, c.1960; watercolor/paper, 10” x 8”, signed and dated.
400-600
702. Hans von Wecke (German, 20th century), “City Scene”, c.1952; oil/board, 16” x 12”, signed and dated.
700-900
703. Theodora Kane (American, b. 1906), “Woman with a Guitar”, c.1953; oil/board, 28” x 23”, signed and dated. Kane worked primarily in Washington, D.C. and exhibited extensively throughout the 1950s.
500-700
704. Michael Ross (American, 20th century), “Still Life with Lute”, c.1960; mixed media/masonite, 17” x 21”, signed.
300-500
705. William Henry (American, 20th century), “Apollo and Daphne”, c.1957; watercolor/paper, 9.5” x 11”, initialed and titled.
250-350
706. French School “Two Young Girls”, c.1960, signed indistinctly, oil/board, 24”x18”.
300-500
707. A.T. Machotonardo (American, 20th century), “Siblings”, c.1950; oil/board, 28” x 21”, signed.
300-500
708. Pierre Chevalier (French, b. 1935), a pair of oils, one pictured: “Still Life”, c. 1960; oil/board, 20” x 14”, signed; with another still life by the same artist.
400-600
709. David Wippish (American School, 20th Century), “Gazelles”, c.1930; mural design, gouache/board, 9”x40” signed.
200-400
710. Lezak (American School, 20th century), “A Road To Aries”, c.1981; oil/canvasboard, 18” x 24”, signed and dated verso 2/81; titled on verso.
400-600
711. Lezak (American, 20th century), “Farm Scene”, c.1976; oil/canvasboard, 12” x 16”, signed and dated verso.
200-400
712. Ann Roman (American, 20th century), “Female Nude”, c. 1950; oil/canvas, 36” x 48”, signed.
300-500
713. Ann Scott Dodson (American, 20th century), “St Louis Riverfront”, c. 1960; oil/canvas, 20” x 30”, signed.
500-700
714. Rosa Boris (American, 20th century), “Interior with Stove”, c.1959; oil/canvas, 32” x 20”, signed on verso.
300-500
715. William Henry (American, 20th century), “Island Lighthouse”, c.1964; watercolor/paper, 10” x 8”, signed; dated and titled verso. Naples, Florida painter. Henry painted in the Bahamas, Jamaica, Key West, and Mexico, as well as in Florida. He had a one man show at the Delphic Galleries in New York in the 1940s, but his career was interrupted by the war from 1942-46. He executed murals, including one for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (during the Duke’s governorship of the Bahamas).
300-400
716. Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) lot of two items: ink/paper, 8.75” x 3”, signed; with another ink/paper, 1973, 12” x 9”, signed and inscribed, “Mother’s Day”, unframed.
800-1200
717. Frank Perri (American, 20th century), “Musicians”, c.1940; ink drawing, 8.5” x 6”, signed, unframed.
100-200
718. Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) lot of two items: notebook sketch, ink and watercolor, c.1970, 9” x 6”; with another notebook sketch, ink and watercolor, 1970, 9” x 6”, signed, unframed.
800-1200
719. Oscar Bluemner (American, 1867-1938), lot of four drawings, all framed together, each 5” x 6.5”, some initialed. Provenance: the estate of the artist to a private collection, 1968-2000. Highly important American modernist. Bluemner exhibited five works at the New York Armory Show of 1913, and was intermittently part of the Stieglitz group.
400-600
720. Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) lot of two items: pencil/paper, c.1968, 14” x 17”, signed and inscribed, “Happy Anniversary”; with ink/paper drawing, three panels, 1964, 10” x 14”, signed, unframed.
800-1200
721. Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) lot of multiple items: pencil drawing, 11” x 13”; crayon and pencil drawing, 11” x 28.25”, “Chanukah” (pictured); crayon and pencil/paper, 8.75” x 24.75”; and pencil drawing/paper, 1966, 28” x 6”, “Ten Commandments”, unframed.
800-1200
722. Harry Hughes (American, 20th century), “Backyards”, c.1963; gouache, 24” x 18”, signed indistinctly and dated.
250-350
723. Rowena Fry (American, 20th Century), “Garden In Winter”, c. 1930; color woodblock print, 14” x 12”, signed and titled in pencil. Fry was a well known Chicago modernist printmaker. She exhibited from the 1920s-40s at the Art Institute of Chicago.
300-500
724. Dewey Albinson (American, 1898-1971 ), “Street Scene”, c.1940; pastel, 16” x 20”, signed, unframed. Milwuakee artist.
500-700
725. Rockwell Kent (American, 1882-1971), “The Warrior”, c.1940; lithograph, 13.5” x 10.25”, signed in pencil.
600-800
726. Frank Perri (American, 20th century) “Sunbathers”, c.1940; pastel and ink/paper, 9” x 11.5”, signed on verso, unframed.
200-300
727. Robert Fabe (American, mid 20th century), “Fishing on a River”, c.1949; gouache/paper, 12” x 16”, signed. Fabe lived in Brooklyn, NY, and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Corcoran Gallery. The proceeds of this item benefit the Camp Chabad summer camp for boys.
300-500
728. F. Montgomery (American, 20th century), “Procession”, c.1940; oil/board, 36”x23”; signed verso. Chicago modernist painter.
400-600
729. Bonhumil Samuel Kecir (Czech, 1904-1987), “Still Life with Flowers”, c. 1937; oil/board, 19.5” x 15.5”, signed, unframed. Kecir studied in Prague and in Paris. There were major exhibitions of his work in Prague and in Pilsen (Czech Republic) in the mid 1930s. Upon the death of his mother in a concentration camp in 1937, Kecir developed mental illness, and was institutionalized. His work was seized and he was no longer allowed to exhibit his art.
2000-3000
730. Frank Perri (American, 20th century), “The Prisoner”, c.1940; gouache/paper, 10” x 14”, signed, unframed. Perri was a Chicago modernist.
300-500
731. Ida Shelesnyak Mirrof (American, 20th century),”Backyards”. c.1940; oil/canvas board, 16” x 20”, signed.
400-600
732. Austrian School, “Circus Scene”, c. 1930; oil/board, 14” x 18”, unsigned, unframed.
500-700
733. Bonhumil Samuel Kecir (Czech, 1904-1987), “Still Life with Fruit”, c. 1937; oil/board, 15.5” x 19.5”, signed, unframed.
2000-3000
734. Zygmund Menkes (Polish/American, 1896-1986), “Femme et fleurs”, c.1950; oil/canvas, 22” x 18”, signed.
4000-6000
735. Aaron Bohrod (American, 1907-1992), “Girl with Towel”, c. 1932; oil/canvas, 20” x 16”, signed; titled and dated on artist’s label verso.
7500-9500
736. Albert Pels (American, 1910-1998), “The Bar”, c. 1940; oil/canvasboard, 12” x 16”, signed. Pels was born in Cincinnati, and studied at the Cincinnati Academy of Art and the University of Cincinnati. He also studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League in New York. He worked as a WPA artist in the 1930s, painting murals, and exhibited extensively across the country from the 1930s-60s.
2000-3000
737. Albert Urban (German/American, 1909-1959, lot of two color lithographs, one pictured: “Piano”, c. 1945; 17” x 12”, signed and dated; with another similar print by the artist.
300-500
738. Nodel (American, 20th century), “Players”, c.1970; oil/canvas, 36” x 24”, signed and titled indistinctly.
200-400
739. Miguel Guerrero (Mexican, b. 1920), a pair of mixed media works on board, each 15” x 11”, signed.
500-700
740. Martin Silverman (American, b. 1950), “Figure Emerging from the Depths”, c.1980; bronze with green/brown patina, 22”h x 16”w, signed; Well known contemporary sculptor.
1500-2000
741. William Quinn (American, 20th century), “Abstract”, c.1974; oil/board, 13” x 11”, signed and dated verso. Quinn taught at the St Louis School of Fine Art (Washington University). His work was in the collection of Morton May, who encouraged Max Beckmann to teach in St Louis, and was one of his primary patrons.
300-500
742. Phillip Howard Evergood (American, 1901-1973), “The Glorification of Flowers”, c. 1965; watercolor, charcoal, and pencil/paper, 30” x 22”, signed and dated; partial Kennedy Galleries label and Christies stamp.
2000-3000
743. Helen Louise Beccard Niles (American, b. 1903), “Of Time and Space”, c.1988; acrylic/canvas, 27” x 27”, signed; label on verso from San Francisco Women Artists, 1988.
500-700
744. Orlando Greenwood (British, 1892-1989), “A Country Road”, c.1930; oil/canvas, 26” x 30”, unsigned; artist’s estate stamp on stretcher verso, nice contemporary carved frame.
1500-2500
745. 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.
1500-2000
746. Marion Greenstone (American, b. 1925), lot of three works, one pictured: “Tenements”, c.1949; oil/canvas laid down on board, 18” x 24”, signed and dated; titled on verso; with two small watercolor/gouache/paper (abstract expressionist style). Greenstone worked in New York in the 1950s.
600-800
747. Stein (American, 20th century), “City Rooftops, New York”, c.1951; oil/canvasboard, 12” x 16”, signed.
300-500
748. Edward Schultze (American, 20th century), “Mountain City”, c.1960; oil/canvasboard, 20”x16”, signed; signed and titled verso.
300-500
749. Edward Schultze (American, 20th century), “Rooftops”, c.1950; oil /canvasboard, 16” x 20”, signed.
200-400
750. Eda Cushing (American, early 20th century), “Ozark Landscape”, c. 1940; oil/canvas, 18” x 27”, signed.
200-400
Sale Date:
June 5 & 6, 2004
Cincinnati, OH