Roland Auctions – Three March Sales
March 2, 3 & 4
150 School Street Glen Cove, NY 11542
www.rolandauctions.com
info@rolandauctions.com
212-260-2000

GLEN COVE, N.Y. — Roland Auctions NY has announced its new collaboration with the Phyllis Lucas Gallery in New York City, kicking off with the Phyllis Lucas Gallery collection, Part 1 on Friday, March 3, at 11 am.

Roland will then offer this collection over several installments in the upcoming months, presenting the selection of original prints, lithographs, etchings and paintings from the archives of the gallery, which had exclusive North American representation of all original Salvador Dali prints, starting back in 1965.

Along with the many rare original works by Surrealist Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904–1989), the inventory includes antique maps and illustrations, etchings and lithography, engravings, Modern and contemporary fine art, photography, original paintings and vintage posters.

The Phyllis Lucas Gallery was at the forefront of the Manhattan art world for decades, dating back to 1928 when Sydney Lucas established the gallery in the heart of New York City. During the 1930s and 1940s, the gallery was also a publishing house specializing in French etchings under the label “Paris Etching Society.” Sydney Lucas contracted with French artists to publish editions of their work. After Lucas died in the mid-1960s, his wife Phyllis carried on the family business, building on their collaboration with Salvador Dali, becoming the first North American publisher of his lithographs and publishing 26 editions of his images. The gallery’s partnership with Dali resulted in the Lucas Collection of Dali Originals, published between 1965 and 1974, which are considered among Dali’s best graphic works and grace the walls of museums and collectors worldwide. Dali, of course, was a frequent visitor to the gallery and a close friend of Phyllis Lucas, who died in 1995. Phyllis and Sydney’s son Michael Lucas then expanded the gallery’s selection of contemporary paintings and fine art photography.

When Michael Lucas met his wife Rachel Newman at the Phyllis Lucas Gallery, the two married and were together right up until his passing in 2021. Since that time, Rachel Newman, herself an artist and collector, has owned and operated the gallery. In preparation to now close the gallery, which had become a New York City institution in the art world all these years, Newman has entered into a new collaboration with William Roland, who co-owns the family business, Roland Auctions NY, with his brother Robert Roland.

Roland will now oversee the sale of the extensive archives, which includes the Lucas Collection of Dali Originals being sold individually and in sets, with a series of auctions that begin on March 3.

Highlights in the initial auction include an Adriaan Lubbers “New York Hudson River,” an original oil painting signed and dated lower right, circa 1930-50 ($2,5/3,500). Lubbers was born in the Netherlands in 1892. Salvador Dali’s “Raphael: Le Mariage de la Vierge,” 1974, is an original lithograph after Raphael’s “Le Mariage de la Vierger.” It is pencil-signed and numbered 232/350. This lithograph is part of the Dali suite, “Changes In Great Masterpieces,” composed of six lithographs in which he reinterprets five paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Raphael and Velasquez ($800-$1,200). A Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) lithograph titled “Most Distant Visible Part of the Sea,” 1979, exhibits rich color and depth ($400/600). Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Rauschenberg studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Académie Julian in Paris.

A Kurt Schwitters collage from 1926 is a Dada composition with shipping labels, postage stamps and text (in German and Russian), signed on cardboard at lower left in pencil “K. Schwitters” and dated right “1926.” Accompanied by a frame backing board from the Sidney Janus Gallery, it is estimated $1/2,000. An after Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) “Bacchanale” collotype, 1967, from the portfolio “La Flute Double,” numbered edition (190/500) printed by Daniel Jacomet & Cie, 1967 in Paris on specially watermarked paper has a $200/300 estimate.

Additional works will include Jacques Villon’s “Le Dejeuner,” 1929, etching, a replica of the famous painting with the same title by French artist Edouard Manet (1832-1883). Unframed, 20 by 25¾ inches, it could bring $400/600. And a J. Eiseman oil on canvas depicting Afro-Caribbean drinking wine is estimated $600/800.

Previews will be conducted on Wednesday, March 1, and Thursday, March 2, 10 am to 6 pm.

Roland Auctions NY is at 150 School Street. For more information, www.rolandauctions.com or 212-260-2000.

March 2nd • Arcade Auction
Previews by appointment only
March 3rd • The Phyllis Lucas Gallery Collection Part I, 11am
Preview: Thursday, March 2nd, 10am – 6pm & by appointment only
March 4th • Estates Sale, 10am
Preview: Thursday, March 2nd & Friday, March 3rd, 10am – 6pm