Sale Date:
March 6, 2005
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Lot Numbers and Descriptions
Estimate
801. Frances Chapin (American, 1899-1965), "Brittany", c. 1950; watercolor, 15" x 20", signed, label verso from Campanile Gallery. Well known Chicago painter; exhibited and taught at the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1930s. Chapin also exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Chicago Gallery Association.
800-1200
802. Spears (American, late 20th century), "Reunion in Park", c.1990; oil/canvas, 24" x 30", signed and dated.
3500-4500
803. Gibson Byrd (American, b. 1923), "Sidestreet and Evening Song", c. 1960; oil/canvas, 30" x 36", signed. Byrd studied at the University of Tulsa with Alexander Hogue. He was director of the Kalamazoo Art Center in the 1950s and later taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
500-700
804. Lou Kousens (American, 20th century), "Botanical Gardens, Chicago ", c. 1981; 24" x 30", signed on verso. Kousens studied at the Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago Academy of Fine Art, and with Milford Zornes in Mexico. Kousens exhibited at the Oak Park Artists League, and his work is in their permanent collection.
600-800
805. Ray Grathwol (American, b.1901), "The Barricade", c. 1952; oil/board, 30" x 24", signed; label verso from Akron Art Institute, 1952. He exhibited at the World’s Fair New York (1939), Akron Art Institute, Pepsi-Cola, and the Butler Art Institute.
2000-3000
806. Gianni Dova (Italian, 1925-1991), "Woman in an Interior", c. 1957; oil/canvas, 17" x 20", signed; signed and dated again on stretcher.
400-600
807. Attilio Salemme (American, 1911-1955), "Time of Inspection", c. 1950; watercolor and ink/paper, 8.5" x 12.5", signed; label on verso with artist’s address. Salemme had one-man exhibitions at the Passedoit Gallery, Saidenberg Gallery, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, and the Duveen-Graham Gallery. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the De Cordova Museum. There was a large retrospective exhibit at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art in 1959.
2000-3000
808. Myron Kozman (American, b.1916 )"Abstacted City View", c.1945; oil/board, 15.5" x 18.5", signed and dated. Kozman was friend of Moholy-Nagy and taught silkscreen at the Institute of Design. He was one of the first graduates of the Institute of Design, and his work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Library of Congress, and the Bloch Gallery (Northwestern). An example of his work is illustrated in Moholy’s book, "Vision and Motion".
1000-2000
809. Albert Pels (American, 1910-1998), "The Heart Locket", c. 1950; oil/canvas, 24" x 18", signed; titled on verso. 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.
1500-2500
810. Ben Messick (American, 1901-1981), "Dancer", c.1950; watercolor, 12" x 5", initialed; label from artist’s estate on verso. Messick worked as a sketch artist for Disney and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1940s.
800-1200
811. Louis Ribak (American, 1902-1979), "Fall", c. 1960; oil/canvas, 24" x 20", signed; label verso from First Bank System, Inc collection. Ribak was the director of the Taos Valley Art School in the late 1950s. He was a WPA artist, and he exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Worlds Fair New York, and the Whitney Museum.
2000-3000
812. Ivan Mosca (Italian, b. 1915), "Ricordo di Vienna, Icantesimon 10, Roma", c.1953; oil/canvas, 20" x 16", signed; signed, titled and dated verso.
500-700
813. Lenore Mahoney (American, 20th century), "Chicago City Scene", c. 1940; watercolor/paper, 29" x 22", signed.
300-500
814. Edna Wolff (Henner) Maschgan (American, 1907-2001), "Reclining Nude", c. 1950; oil/canvasboard, 22" x 28", signed, estate stamp.
2000-3000
815. Frank Perri (American, early 20th century), "Illinois Landscape", c. 1946; tempera/paper, 18" x 24" , signed and dated . Perri immigrated from Italy to Chicago around 1930. He exhibited at the Carnegie Institute of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, . He traveled to Mexico in the late 1930s. He specialized in figurative works and urban scenes of Chicago.
300-500
816. Frederick Remahl (Swedish/American, b.1901), a pair of oils, one pictured: "Tree People", c. 1950; oil/canvas, 18" x 20", signed; with another similar work depicting a traditional landscape, also oil/canvas, 18" x 20", signed, unframed. Remahl studied at the Minneapolis School of Art, and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1927-49), Corcoran Gallery, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Remahl’s work is included in the collection of the Chicago Board of Trade and he executed 12 WPA commissions in the state of Illinois.
500-700
817. Stanley Mitruk (Mitruck) (American, mid 20th century), "Portrait of a Boy", c. 1954; oil/board, 23" x 19", signed and dated. Mitruck exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago from the 1940s-50s.
800-1200
818. Louise Dunn Yochim (American, b. 1909), "City Scene", c.1970; oil/board, 30" x 24", signed. Chicago modernist painter.
700-900
819. R. Ewald (American, 20th century), "Still Life with Violin", c.1950; oil/board, 18" x 24", signed.
400-600
820. Nildo Breviglieri (Italian, 20th century), "Via Chiavica Romeo", c.1967; oil/canvas, 19" x 23", signed and dated.
600-800
821. Konrad Cramer (German/American, 1888-1963), "Untitled", c. 1954; casein/paper, 16" x 20", unsigned; estate stamp,label on verso from Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY, accompanied by letter from the artist’s son. Cramer came to the U.S. in 1911, and became a central figure to the Woodstock Artist’s Colony. He introduced a cubist element to the landscape painting of that group. He was a good friend of Stieglitz, and became an accomplished photographer as well.
4000-6000
822. Rolf Cavael (German, 1898-1979), "No. 61/AG7", c. 1960; oil/canvas, 23" x 19", monogrammed; signed, titled, and numbered verso. Cavael studied at the Städel school in Frankfurt (1924). His first exhibit in the year 1933 in Braunschweig, which he conducted together with Josef Albers, was the event that prompted the National Socialists to prohibit him from painting. As a pioneer of the abstract, Cavael strongly supported the theoretical post-war controversy concerning the polarisation of abstract and objective art. Together with Gerhard Fietz, Rupprecht Geiger, Willy Hempel, Brigitte Meier-Denninghof and Fritz Winter, Rolf Cavael founded one of the most significant artists groups after 1945, the Group ZEN 49 in Munich, under the patronage of Willi Baumeister.
4000-6000
823. J.Jay McVicker (American, b. 1911), "Blue-Green Fragmentation", c. 1967; polymer collage, 40" x 32", signed and dated; label with title on verso. Oklahoma painter and sculptor. McVicker studied at Oklahoma State University, and eventually taught there. He painted traditional regionalism in the 1940s, and moved into abstraction later in his career. He exhibited extensively from the 1940s-70s, at the Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.
2500-3500
824. Mario de Ferrante (Italian/American, 1898-1992), "Untitled", c.1950; oil/board, 46" x 35", signed. Studied with Antonio Mancini in Italy before coming to the United States in 1922. The Futurists, led by Fillipo Tommaso Marinetti, belived that it was crucial to tear down all traditions of past painting philosophy (manifestos were written regarding art, music, literature, drama, etc), and begin a new technical and artistic endeavor. His work is in the collections of the Library of Congress, U.S. Bureau of Information (Wash. DC), Princeton, Yale, and Brigham Young Universities.
1500-2000
825. J. Jay McVicker (American, b. 1911), "Untitled", c. 1960; welded iron sculpture, 13" high, unsigned; provenance: the estate of the artist. Oklahoma painter and sculptor. McVicker studied at Oklahoma State University, and eventually taught there.
800-1200
826. J. Jay McVicker (American, b. 1911), "Untitled", c. 1960; welded iron sculpture, 12" high, unsigned; provenance: the estate of the artist. Oklahoma painter and sculptor. McVicker studied at Oklahoma State University, and eventually taught there.
800-1200
827. Douglas Abdell (American, b. 1947 ) "Pnauxae-Aekyad", c.1977, welded bronze, 40.25"h x 28"w x 5"d, on a marble over wood core base, (base measurement: 30"h x 21"w x 13"d). This lot is accompanied by an exhibition catalog from Andrew Crispo Gallery in which this work is illustrated. The preliminary drawing for this sculpture is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. The large black slabs of the Aekyad series (roughly 1977-1980) resemble arcane totems, secretive in meaning and cryptically named. Abdell arrived at the respective titles of Krefe-Aekyad and Kranae-Aekyad through a combination of phonetic fragments, giving his sculpture "an independent language in its own right." Linearity and angularity dominate the series. Abdell noted that many of the Aekyads originated as drawings; straight lines, created through simple mark-making, meet at right and acute angles to form the contour of the work. The contour is extended back through space forming the slab-like shape.
5000-7000
828 . Joseph Alexander Goethe (American, b. 1912), "Abstract Reclining Form", c. 1955, carved rosewood, 31" x 13", signed. Important California sculptor and painter. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, National Academy of Design, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Chicago Society of Independent Artists, Hoosier Salon, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. His work is included in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, and Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
6000-8000
829. Aaron Bohrod (American, 1907-1992), "Striped Horse", c. 1940; oil/wood, 4.5" x 5", signed. Important Chicago modernist. Bohrod created decorative objects and designed ceramics throughout his career.
800-1200
830. Aaron Bohrod (American, 1907-1992), "Blue Horse", c. 1940; oil/wood, 6" x 8", signed.
800-1200
831. Aaron Bohrod (American, 1907-1992), "Bull", c. 1940; oil/wood, 4.5" x 6", signed.
800-1200
832. Sybil Maimin (American, 20th century), "Abstracted Figure", ceramic sculpture, 13" h, signed.
300-500
833. Sybil Maimin (American, 20th century), lot of three painted ceramic sculptures, the largest being 3" x 5", signed. Maimin is a contemporary sculptor primarily known for her work in clay.
300-500
834. Sybil Maimin (American, 20th century), lot of two painted ceramic sculptures, the largest being 3" x 5", signed.
300-500
835. Hector Ortega (Venezuelan/Spanish, 20th century), "Primitive Figure", c. 1960; woodblock print with hand coloring, 16.5" x 13", signed in pencil.
300-500
836. Hector Ortega (Venezuelan/Spanish, 20th century), "Emigrante a Jesus Carpintero", c. 1960; woodblock print with hand coloring, 10" x 20", signed and titled in pencil.
300-500
837. Hector Ortega (Venezuelan/Spanish, 20th century), "Blue-Red", c. 1960; woodblock print with hand coloring, 18" x 16", signed in pencil. Ortega worked and exhibited in Venezuela before moving to Spain to open a school. He was a painter, printmaker, architect, and landscape architect.
300-500
838. Saint Louis Blaise (Haitian, b.1956), "Fruit Tree", c. 1978; oil/board, 36" x 12", signed and dated. Well-known Cap-Haitian painter.
1000-2000
839. Hector Ortega (Venezuelan/Spanish, 20th century), "Figure in Water", c. 1960; woodblock print with hand coloring, 20" x 18", signed in pencil.
300-500
840. Hector Ortega (Venezuelan/Spanish, 20th century), "Campa", c. 1960; woodblock print with hand coloring, 12" x 9", signed and titled in pencil, with "5-2".
300-500
841. Jesse Reichek (American, b. 1916), "Abstract Composition", c.1946; oil/canvas, 20" x 34", signed and dated, provenance: estate of Myron Kozman. Reichek studied at the Institute of Design from 1941-42. He exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, University of New Mexico Museum, San Francisco Museum of Art, and the University of Southern California Art Museum. His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Amon Carter Museum, UCLA, and the La Jolla Art Museum.
1000-2000
842. Helen Oldfield (American, 1902-1981), "Abstracted Landscape", c. 1950; oil/canvasboard, 16" x 20", signed. Helen was married to Otis Oldfield, and studied at the California School of Fine Art and the California College of Arts & Crafts. She did not exhibit any of her work until after Otis’ death in 1969, but had painted much earlier than that.
4000-6000
843. Mario de Ferrante (Italian/American, 1898-1992), "Untitled", c.1950; oil/board, 35" x 46", signed. Studied with Antonio Mancini in Italy before coming to the United States in 1922. The Futurists, led by Fillipo Tommaso Marinetti, belived that it was crucial to tear down all traditions of past painting philosophy (manifestos were written regarding art, music, literature, drama, etc), and begin a new technical and artistic endeavor. His work is in the collections of the Library of Congress, U.S. Bureau of Information (Wash. DC), Princeton, Yale, and Brigham Young Universities.
1500-2000
844. J.Jay McVicker (American, b. 1911), "Warm-Cool Encounter", c. 1974; polymer collage, 32" x 32", signed and dated; label with title on verso. Oklahoma painter and sculptor. McVicker studied at Oklahoma State University, and eventually taught there. He painted traditional regionalism in the 1940s, and moved into abstraction later in his career. He exhibited extensively from the 1940s-70s, at the Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.
2500-3500
845. Louis Schanker (American, 1903-1981), "Abstract Composition", c. 1955; oil/paper, 24" x 38", signed and dated. Highly important WPA non-objective painter and printmaker. Schanker was a member of the American Abstract Artists (NYC) and the American Art Congress. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, National Academy of Design, and the Whitney Museum. REF: Dictionary of Abstract Painters.
2000-3000
846. Frank Whipple (American, 20th century), "Visit to the Museum", c. 1960; oil/board, 5" x 5", signed. Whipple is a self-taught California painter. He was stationed in Italy during WWII as a U.S. Army journalist, and was intrigued by the behavior of the nuns, who seemed to be unruffled by the chaotic events occurring in the streets of Rome. He was obviously influenced by the work of Italian modernist painter, Nino Caffe, who painted similar subjects in a comparable style.
1000-2000
847. Frank Whipple (American, 20th century), "Visit to the Museum", c. 1960; oil/board, 5" x 5", signed.
1000-2000
848. Hubert Ropp (American, b. 1894), "Woman in Blue", c. 1930; oil/canvas, 34.5" x 28", signed. Ropp studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and also in Paris and Vienna. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Art Club, Golden Gate Exhibition, and the National Gallery. He taught at the National Academy of Art (Chicago), and was Dean of the AIC for many years in the 1920s-40s.
1000-2000
849. Peter Keil (German, 20th century), "Faces", c. 1983; oil/board, 30" x 20", signed and inscribed, "Berlin". Keil is with Elvira Bach, Rainer Fetting, and Georg Baselitz in the Grossen Wilden of Berlin. He studied with Otto Nagel, Berlin Academy of Fine Art, and with Miro on Mallorca.
800-1200
850. Myron Kozman (American, b.1916 )"Urban View", c.1945; oil/board, 15.5" x 18.5", signed and dated. Kozman was friend of Moholy-Nagy and taught silkscreen at the Institute of Design. He was one of the first graduates of the Institute of Design, and his work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Library of Congress, and the Bloch Gallery (Northwestern). An example of his work is illustrated in Moholy’s book, "Vision and Motion".
1000-2000
Sale Date:
March 6, 2005