Michaan’s Summer Fine Sale
Friday June 18 at 10am
Gallery Showroom:
2751 Todd Street
Alameda, CA
Annex Showroom:
2701 Monarch Street
Alameda, CA
(800) 380-9822 • (510) 740-0220
www.michaans.com

ALAMEDA, CALIF. — Michaan’s Summer Fine sale arrives on June 18, bringing rare opportunities for collectors. Works of diversity and provenance will be sold.

“Lakeside Cottages,” an oil on board by the Irish painter Paul Henry (1876-1958), is a leading highlight ($80/120,000). This is the first time the painting has been offered at auction. It comes from a private Bay Area art collection that has brought excitement to Michaan’s before. In 2016, a painting from the same private family collection — Fernando Amorsolo’s “Portrait of a Woman” — sold at Michaan’s for $435,000, including buyer’s premium.

In 1898, Henry journeyed from his native Ireland in 1898 to Paris, where he studied with James McNeil Whistler and was influenced by Whistler’s modern, unsentimental approach to painting and by his spare compositional rigor. “Lakeside Cottages,” with its earthy palette fading to blues and purples and its robust, animated clouds, has all the fundamental elements associated with this important artist whose works are on view in the collections of Ireland’s fine arts museums, as well as in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris.

Paintings of Paris, by artists renowned for the same, are featured. “Quai de Bercy, Paris,” a circa 1880 oil by Jean-Baptiste Guillaumin (1841-1927), has an impressive record of provenance ($30/40,000). “Flower Stands ($10/15,000) is an oil on canvas by Edouard Léon Cortès (French, 1882-1969).

Charles White (1918-1979) dedicated his long career to creating “images of dignity” depicting Black Americans. Michaan’s will offer White’s 1972 etching, “Cat’s Cradle,” signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/25 ($12/15,000).

African American artist Harlan Jackson (1918-1993) quickly rose to prominence after beginning his study of art in San Francisco on the GI Bill, post-World War II. The bold mixed-media work, “Camp #28,” is characteristic of Jackson’s singular vision ($5/7,000).

More famous names in the sale: Miro, Lichtenstein, Ansel Adams and Dale Chihuly, whose 1975 glass sculpture, “Navajo Blanket” ($7/10,000) was a gift from the artist to the family of the current owner. Adams’ gelatin silver print, “Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park” ($6/9,000) is just one of a large cache of fine art photographs curated for the sale by Michaan’s specialist Jenny Wilson, who offers more than 20 lots of photography in this auction. Paul Strand’s 1916 photogravure, “Wall Street, New York” ($5/7,000) is another highlight for photography collectors.

Maud Florance Gatewood (1934-2004) is recognized as one of the greatest painters to come from North Carolina. Gatewood’s large 1988 acrylic on canvas, “Sensuous and Deceptive Streaks,” is estimated $7/10,000.

“San Francisco,” an oil on board ($6/9,000) by early California artist Jules Eugene Pages (1867-1946), is an auction find for Bay Area art lovers and collectors of American Impressionism. Another San Francisco work is among the sculptures in this sale: “Ribar” by Peter Voulkos ($15/20,000). The signed bronze, accompanied by a letter from the artist to the original owners, is a partial study for the life-sized Voulkos sculpture in front of the Veteran’s Building, San Francisco.

For connoisseurs of Midcentury Modern design, the sale has something special in store: Paul McCobb furniture. Collected by design cognoscenti for years, McCobb furniture has risen steeply in value recently as his influential American designs become widely recognized around the world. Inspired by the Shakers, the New England-born McCobb imbued his innovations with a timeless simplicity. From a Marin County, Calif., estate, Michaan’s offers a Paul McCobb “Planner Group” double wide dresser, circa 1955 ($3/5,000).

The sale features a highlight from the Richard Miller estate: a pair of calligraphy hanging scrolls attributed to Yu Youren (1879-1964), scholar and poet of the Republic period. Yu Youren’s work is held in the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it is described as “deeply moving but never sentimental” ($6/8,000).

Also offered in this sale is a complete set of five gilt-bronze figures of Shakyamuni Buddha, with five mudras. This group dates to the early Twentieth Century and represents a transitional sculptural style from the period of late Ming into Qing dynasty ($30/50,000).

A top highlight of the sale is a French necklace from the estate of M. Okazaki, San Francisco, sold to benefit Spark SF Public Schools supporting homeless students. It features an oval-cut sapphire of nearly 15 carats, surrounded by more than 5 carats of round brilliant-cut diamonds and suspended from ten strands of lustrous 3.4 mm cultured pearls ($5/7,000).

Following the Summer Fine Sale by a day, Michaan’s Gallery Auction on June 19 offers diamond stud earrings, several pieces of opal jewelry, a wristwatch by Hermes and a menagerie in gold and fine gems: an Art Nouveau lion’s head pendant, an enameled panda necklace with diamonds, bird brooches, a suite of panther jewelry loaded with sapphires and diamonds. Fine art, estate furniture and Asian art will be sold.

Previews are Wednesday and Thursday, June 16-17, by appointment; and Friday, June 18, 9 am to 5 pm

Michaan’s Auctions is at 2751 Todd Street. For information, www.michaans.com or 510-740-0220.

Previews:
Wednesday June 16: by appointment
Thursday June 17: by appointment
Friday June 18: 9am – 5pm

French Sapphire, Diamond,
Cultured Pearl, 18k Yellow
Gold Necklace.
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Charles White “Cats Cradle” etching
Estimate: $12,000 / 15,000
Edouard Leon Cortes “Flower
Stands” oil on canvas
Estimate: $10,000 / 15,000
Ludwig Deutsch (Austrian, 1855–1935),
“EID-AL-FITR (Breaking the Fast),”
1902, oil on canvas
Estimate: $200,000 / 300,000
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
(American 1923-1997)
“Red Barn” 1969, screenprint in colors
Estimate: $15,000 / 20,000
JEAN-BAPTISTE ARMAND GUILLAUMIN
(French 1841-1927)
“Quai de Bercy, Paris”
c. 1880 oil on canvas
Estimate: $30,000 / 40,000
Pair of Hans Wagner CH-22 Pickled Oak
and Jute Lounge Chairs.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Chinese Blue-Ground Gilt
Embroidered Dragon Robe.
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,800
Group of Five Chinese Jade Belt Buckles.
Estimate: $600 / 800
Large Tang Pottery Tomb
Figure of an Earth Spirit.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,500
Tang Dynasty Sancai
Pottery Tomb Guardian
on Recumbent Calf.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Art Deco Diamond, Ruby,
Platinum Double Clip Brooch.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000

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