Kensington Estate Auctions – Estate Fine Art & Antique Online Auction
August 8 at 7 pm
www.kensingtonestateauctions.com
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CLINTONDALE, N.Y. — Kensington Estate Auction’s online Monday, August 8, sale will bring separate worlds together. Live bidding begins at 7 pm Eastern time.

The online auction will bring together the worlds of fine and urban art, sculptures, antiquarian books, photography, antiquities, illustration art, ethnographic art, antique Judaica, modern silver, Native American rugs, baseball/sports memorabilia and more.

Spanning millennia is a collection of international Judaica. From towering intricate Havdalah spice containers, Eighteenth Century Dutch Seder plate, Torah finials from the Near East, intricate Torah breast plate, Chanukah menorahs, North African circumcision shield, amulets with handwritten parchment, Torah pointers (yad) and more will entice buyers. In addition are paintings from the Polish/Israeli artists Shlomo Katz and Louise August. For those interested in a wider span of religious art, there will be a rare retablo panel painting by the Truchas master Pedro Antonio Fresquis, circa 1790.

Transitioning to the secular, Modern art buyers will be interested in a published illustration painting by Richard Amsel, who was an American illustrator and designer. His art adorned movie posters, album covers and significant magazines. Known for his illustrations of Flash Gordon, the Dark Crystal and Raiders of the Lost Ark, the painting being offered is of Elvis Presley, which was published as the cover-art illustration of TV Guide, August 9, 1983. Boris Chaliapin, the illustrator, created more than 400 covers for Time magazine. Kensington is offering the original cover art painting for the film Oedipus Rex, 1957.

Included in this category are book illustrations from William Steig, original editorial cartoon drawing from Ann Telanes and other notable illustrators.

The firm’s modern department covers silver by Swid Powell, drawings by Paul Cadmus, etchings by Al Hirschfeld, works by Jenny Holzer, sculptures by Anthony Gennarelli, collage painting by Gerson Leiber, graffiti art by LA II (Angel Ortiz), Verve Quarterly with original lithographs from Chagall, Miro, Ratner, Klee, Kandinsky and others.

An ethnographic collection includes several Native American Navajo rugs, Edward Curtis photogravure, New Guinea tribal masks, Javanese Wayang Golek theatre puppets, Afghani nomadic objects and more.

More traditional offerings include a selection of signed miniature French paintings, a pair of bronze figures of Roman gods by Bartoli, painting by Gerhard, “Triumph of Dionysus,” painting by Franz Krischke, R. Gigli watercolor, etchings by Leon Dolice, Joseph Pennell, Luigi Lucioni and a Rembrandt etching depicting Peter and John “healing the cripple.”

The sale is rounded out by an Austro-Hungarian snuff box, collection of Japanese wood carved netsukes, Grand Tour album of Pompeii (1878), the illustrated almanacs of Kate Greenaway, collection of inscribed photographs of Beverly Sills and friends, unique Outsider assemblages, pages of illuminated manuscripts and more.

For more information, www.kensingtonestateauctions.com or 917-331-0807.

Lot 1: Retablo, Pedro Antonio Fresquis, ca. 1790
Lot 97: Near East Silver Torah Finials
Lot 71: Richard Amsel, Original Painting: Elvis Presley
Collection: Wood Carved Netsukes
Lot 34: Shlomo Katz, Sodom & Gomorrah (1 of 3)
Lot 72: LA II Grafitti Painting
Lot 97: Near East Silver Torah Finials, 19th C.
Lot 17: Navajo Storm Pattern Weaving/Rug
Lot 7: Rembrandt Etching, 1659
Lot 20: Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays
Collection: Antique Judaica
Lot 2: Swid Powell Bowl
Lot 43: Verve Vol. 1. No. 3. Chagall, Miro…1938
Lot 71: Richard Amsel, Original Art, Elvis Presley
Lot 1: Pedro Antonio Fresquis, Retablo Panel
Lot 21: Paul Cadmus, Original Drawings
Lot 10A: Bartoli, Bronze Roman Gods Sculptures
Lot 8: Mythical Winged Griffin
Registration & bidding through: www.liveauctioneers.com &/or www.invaluable.com. Left & phone bids accepted