Bunch Two-Day Sale Of Fine Art And Works On Paper
October 29 and 30, 2018 at 10 am each day
Preview: Friday, October 26, 9 am – 5 pm EDT
Sunday, October 28, 2018 | 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Monday, October 29, 2018 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm EDT
Bunch One Hillman Drive, Chadds Ford, PA

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The first day of the sale will offer a single-owner collection of fine and rare prints, including woodcuts, wood engravings, etchings, copperplate engravings, drypoints, lithographs, and serigraphs.
The collection was compiled by a serious patron and collector of the mid-20th century who made his fortune as a prominent attorney in Rittenhouse Square. He lived and bought bi-continentally in Philadelphia, New York, and Paris, and personally knew many of the artists he collected. The stately collection of over 1200 items has been finely preserved out of frames since purchase. Nearly every piece is delicately mounted in an acid-free passe-partout, and all were carefully stored away from light and dust from the time they were acquired until now. The Day 1 sale includes work by 128 artists and spans the 17th-20th centuries. The following is a list of artists represented in the collection: Simon Abeles, John McDonald Aiken, Henry Alken, Benny Andrews, Pierre-Francois Basan , James Basire, Lewis Baumer, William Ward Beecher, Alfred Bendiner, Frank Weston Benson, Thomas Hart Benton, George Biddle, Michael Biddle, Richard Bishop, Edmund Blampied, Frank Brangwyn, Arthur Briscoe, Auguste Brouet, Joan Brown, Charles William Cain, David Young Cameron, Federico Castellon, Asa Chaffetz, Philip Cheney, Roland Clark, Jef Codron, John Costigan, Armand Coussens, Miguel Covarrubias, Honore Daumier, Warren Davis, Adolf Dehn, Gaston DeLatenay, Jan de Ruthm Danielle Dillemann, Raphael Drouart, Frank Eckmair, Sheldon Fink, Joseph Floch, Richard Florsheim, Jean Louis Forain, Charles Forget, Ivan M. Garden, Francisco Goya, Gordon Grant, Joseph Gray, Marion Greenwood, Chaim Gross, Francis Seymour Haden, Axel Haig, William Lee Hankey, Lily Harmon, Rosella Hartman, Arthur Heintzelman, June Hildebrand, Jacques Hnizdovsky, Morris Henry Hobbs, William Hogarth, Albany E. Howarth, George Huardel-Bly, Henri Jourdain, Dominique Jouvet-Magron, Troy Kinney, Doris Klein, Jean Emile Laboureur, Jacob Landau, A.W. Langster, Jean Lattre, Doris Lee, Sydney Lee, Alphonse Legros, Leonard Lehrer, Auguste Lepere, Henri Le Riche, Morton B. Levin, Louis Lozowick, William Douglas MacLeod, Fletcher Martin, Franz Masereel, Naoko Matsubara, James McBey, William McKim, Jean Francoise Millet, Thomas Moran, William E.C. Morgan, John Nicholls, Bror J.O. Nordfeldt, Louis Orr, Frederick Owen, Eduardo Paolozzi, Joseph Pennell, Salvatore Pinto, Charles E. Pont, Lili Rethi, Grant Tyson Reynard, George Ritkai, Frederick Robbins, Felicien Rops, Salvatore Rosa, Louis Conrad Rosenberg, Ernest David Roth, Aegidius Sadeler, Ralph Scharf, Carl May Scultheis, Charles Haslewood Shannon, Edward Sharland, William A.  Sherwood, Tavik Frantisek Simon, Philippe Simonneau, John Stockton de Martelly, William Strang, Sir Robert Strange, John Williams Taylor, Sam Thal, Diana Thorne, Clara Tice, Sidney Tushingham, Karl Uchermann, Arnold van Westerhout, Robert von Neumann, William Walcot, Herbert Gordon Warlow, Levon West, James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Gaston Wick, Norman Wilkinson, Charles Banks Wilson, Solomon (Sol) Wilson, Grant Wood, Anders Zorn.

The second day of the sale will offer an array of original artwork by artists from the Delaware Valley, Eastern Pennsylvania, and Southern New Jersey region and items from their personal collections.
Local aficionados and gallery connoisseurs have been championing a conversation
about the unexamined “Philadelphia School” of art for years. Fusing urban tendencies towards the large format and abstract with the countryside’s métier of soft impressionism, 20th century artists from eastern PA, northern DE, and southern NJ, created tonal, naturalistic artwork with strong brushstrokes and bold color choices. Still lifes and landscapes abound, most often incorporating sentimental regional backdrops and crumbling, yet poignant architecture.
We are proud to feature art from the estates of the Pinto brothers, an Italian-American family of artists patronized by Albert C. Barnes. Angelo, Salvatore, and Biagio began their training in the Barnes Foundation art education program, where Dr. Barnes took a special interest in the three boys. He took them to France to meet Henri Matisse and to Northern Africa to paint. In 1932, he purchased four of their paintings to display in the Barnes Foundation; the Pintos were the first Philadelphia artists featured in the collection. Today, the Barnes has five of Angelo’s paintings and two of Biagio’s on display and a hold of Salvatore’s work in the private collection kept in storage. Our sale includes 151 lots of artwork both by and from the collections of the Pinto brothers. It is the largest contingent of Pinto art to be auctioned at once.

In addition to the Pinto portion of the sale, our Day 2 Fine Art auction includes nearly 100 lots of regional artwork from the collection of Chester County patron David Davis. Davis has been purchasing original artwork by local names for decades, but a move from his 17th century farmhouse into Philadelphia has prompted him to liquidate his extensive assets. Regional art buyers
will be pleased to see work by featuring 8 oils by iconic Chester County artist George Cope, well known for his Brandywine Valley landscapes and trompe l’oeil works. Additional works by Judy Antonelli, Clifford Warren Ashley, Michael Balbi, Harry Barker, Robert A. Beck, Karin Becker, Claude W. Bernardin, Bayard Berndt, Carolyn Blish, Donald Carr Booth, Tom Bostelle, Lee Branagan, George Bunker, Ellie Byron-Haley, Blendon Reed Campbell, Jerry Cable, Richard Chalfant, Roger Chavez, Beth Clark, John Clayton, George Cope, Kevin Cummins, Nancy Cunningham, Emily Sinclair Custer, Helen Clark Daldes, Suzanne Douglass, Michael Doyle, Jack Ducker, Harry
Dunn, John L. Egenstafer, Douglas T. Elliott, Frank F. English, Ruth Erickson, William “Bill” Ewing, III, Eunice Fais, Remo Michael Farruggio, Chris Fiero, John Formicola, Mark Green, Sandy Howat Haftl, Dennis Haggerty, Hillary V. Hawley, Tua Hayes, R.W. Hovey, Phillip Jamison, Jack R. Kaiser, Stan Kotzen, Karl J. Kuerner, E. Jean Lanyon, Royal Lewando, Jack Lewis, Henry Miller Libhart, James “Jimmy” Lynch, Mitch Lyons, Lois Mailou Jones, Sam Maitin, Christopher McCall, Anna Brelsford McCoy, John W. McCoy, W. James McGlynn, Jean Metzler, Dan Miller, Dennis T. Minch, Dorothy Ford Montgomery, Shah Moravati, Alberta Morris, Aileen Mumford, Susan B. Myers, Barbara Neville, Dennis K. Park, Donald Patterson, Sueann Phillips, Yolanda Pinto, Pearl Porter, Rea Redifer, Jon Redmund, Seymour Remenick, Eugenia Eckford Rhoades, Bob Richey, Dale O. Roberts, Shela Roberts, Charles R. Ross, Elizabeth Ruggles, Jean Safar, Paul Scarborough, Jeff Schaller, Ruth G. Senter, Christopher High Shearer, Midge Stires, Lajos Szalay, John Suplee, Helena van Emmerick- Finn, Robert W. Vonnoh, Connie Wahl, William H. Welch, Katrina Wensinger, Paul Wescott, Ellen DuPont Wheelwright, Esther Baldwin Williams, Walter Williams, Linda Wright, Jamie Wyeth, Ned Young, Steve Zazenski, Martha Zelt  Salvatore Pinto (American, 1905- 1966), self portrait, acrylic on canvas, 20″ 16″, from the Pinto Archive
Paul Wescott, American, ME, 1904-1970, oil on canvas, sailboats on a harbor, 15″ x 30″, 1 of 3, Collection of David Davis Phillip Jamison, watercolor, crow flying in a snowing field with farmhouse in background, 9″ x 13″, Collection of David Davis, 1 of 2
Robert W Vonnoh, American 1858-1933, oil on canvas, “Booth Bay Harbor”, 8¼” x 10¼”, Collection of David Davis  James Lynwood Palmer, 1868-1941, British, Active in NY, Canada, o/c, “Jenkintown Coach”, 20″ x 34″ , signed and dated ’95 lower left.
Biagio Pinto (American, 1911-1989), ink and wash on paper of a man and woman, signed lower right, 13″ x 20¼”, from the Pinto Archive Anna Brelsford McCoy, American, b 1940, oil on board, 8″ x 10″, Collection of David Davis
George Cope, American, PA, oil on canvas, still life with melon, peaches, grapes, apple and a glass on a tabletop, initialed GC, dated 1925, 9″ x 12″, Collection of David Davis, 1 of 7
Karl J. Kuerner (American, b. 1957), acrylic on panel, “Common Bond”, 28½” x 41¾”, framed size 32½” x 44¾”, 1 of 6
Daniel Garber (American, 1880-1958), portrait of a young man, Bucks County PA artist, charcoal on paper, 1919, 24″ x 18½”
After Rembrandt, etching on paper “Raising of Lazarus”, reverse copy, 5¾” x 4-3/8″, 1 of 3 lots
Aegidius Sadeler Flemish, 1570-1629), after Durer, engraving on laid paper “Madonna and Child in a Landscape”, 17-3/8″ x 13-3/8″ sheet
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903), etching on paper “Billingsgate”, 1859, 1 of 2 lots
Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860- 1920), drypoint etching on paper “My Models”, 1916, 1 of 4 lots
Joseph Pennell (American, 1860-1926), etching on paper “Steam and Power”, 1 of 47 lots
William Lee Hankey (British, 1869-1952), drypoint etching on paper “The Old and the Young”, pencil signed, 1 of 24 lots
Auguste Brouet (French, 1872- 1941), color etching “La Pirouette”, pencil signed, 1 of 12 lots
Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975), lithograph on paper “The Boy”, pencil signed, 1 of 7 lots
Miguel Covarrubias (Mexican-American, 1904- 1957), lithograph on paper “Rumba”, pencil signed, original AAA certificate, 9¼” x 13½” image Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942), lithograph on paper “In the Spring”, pencil signed, original AAA certificate, 1 of 2 lots
Jacques Hnizdovsky (Ukrainian-American, 1915-1985), woodcut on paper “Moppet”, s&d 1965, ed 118/250, original AAA certificate, 13¾” x 6-7/8″ image
Salvatore Pinto (Italian-American, 1905-1966), etching on paper “The Pennsylvania Railroad”, pencil signed and inscribed by the artist, from the Pinto Archive