Floral still life by
Kathryn E. Bard Cherry, $20,700.
Exceeding
$1 Million with Gems, Tiffany and Fine Art in St.
Louis
ST LOUIS, MO.
The fast pace kept auctioneers and support staff in rotation over
the weekend, bringing the total sale of 1,900 lots to $1,015,452.
Prices cited include buyer's premium.
Known for brightly colored landscapes of the Rocky Mountains,
Birger Sandzen's work evolved from an early Tonalist or
Pointilist inspired approach to become much more Expressionist
and Fauve in a style similar to that of Vincent van Gogh and Paul
Cézanne. He was born in Sweden in 1871, studied in Stockholm and
Paris and accepted a teaching position at Bethany College in
Lindsborg, Kan., where he remained until his death in 1945.
Ivey-Selkirk offered two oil paintings by Birger Sandzen on
November 10: "Pines By The Lake, Estes Park, Colorado," 1927, oil
on panel, 10 by 12 inches, $26,450; and a mountain landscape, oil
on canvas 12¼ by 18¼ inches, $19,550.
Candelabra by Peer Smed, $8,625.
Among the 500 lots of paintings, prints and photographs offered
was the collection of Edwin W. Henderson. His lifelong interest
in St Louis regional paintings included Kathryn E. Bard Cherry,
born in Quincy, Ill., in 1871. She studied at the St Louis School
of Arts as a student of Richard Miller's and at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts. Her painting sold for $20,700 to an
East Coast bidder. A Thomas Hart Benton lithograph, second state
of "Huck Finn," 1936, 161/4 by 215/8 inches, brought $6,900.
The weekend started with Twentieth Century design including Art
Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Art Deco, Moderne and Contemporary
furniture and decorative arts. Highlights included a large and
important Amphora pottery vase decorated with a network of spider
webs centering cabochon jewels on a dark green ground, featured
with detail illustration on the catalog cover, and sold for
$10,637 to an East Coast telephone bidder, far exceeding its
presale estimate of $1,2/1,600. A Tiffany Studios Greek key
pattern leaded glass table lamp sold for $32,200 to a bidder in
the audience at its high estimate of $30,000.
"Pines by the Lake, Estes Park, Colorado," Birger Sandzen,
$26,450.
A pair of handwrought sterling silver candelabra by American
silversmith Peer Smed sold for $8,625 to an absentee bidder.
The jewelry auction took place on Saturday, November 9, offering
approximately 783 lots of antique and modern jewelry, watches and
accessories, numerous unmounted diamonds and gemstones, American
and foreign coins and currency. Some of the lots were from
abandoned safe deposit boxes from an East Coast bank.
A platinum mounted ring centering a pear-cut diamond weighing
approximately 5.2 carats between tapered baguettes and
accompanied by a report from the GIA far exceeded its presale
estimate of $20/30,000 when it sold for $51,750; an 18K tanzanite
and diamond link necklace suspending an oval tanzanite weighing
approximately 25.4 carats sold for $13,800 to a bidder in the
audience. Approximately 45 lots of various loose diamonds and
gemstones were offered and ranged from $600 to $6,250.
