: A family portrait of Pauline De Camp, the daughter of artist
Joseph De Camp, sold for a premium price at Thomaston Place
Auction Galleries this past Saturday, May 1.
The sale, according to auctioneer and principal Kaja Veilleux,
attracted a huge amount of interest with at least one substantial
record price paid at auction established.
The De Camp portrait, one of two in the auction depicting
Pauline, had been never been out of the family and both were
consigned by the granddaughter of the sitter.
The painting, executed in 1907, was in the original frame and had
a label from a 1916 "BMFA" exhibit on the verso. Bidding on the
lot was active with it selling to a phone bidder, underbid by a
client in the gallery, at $187,000, including premium. A smaller
portrait of Pauline, executed in 1911, sold to a buyer in the
room at $49,500.
A set of nine original etchings by Pablo Picasso from the 1933
Vollard Suite did well at $35,200. Also sold, and establishing a
record price paid at auction "several times over," according to
Veilleux, was a ornately carved and decorated oak Congressional
arm chair by New York makers Bembe and Kimmel that went out at
$29,700.
A complete review will appear in a future issue.
