NY Showplace – Important Fine Art & Design
SUNDAY OCT 22, 12pm
40 West 25th Street, NYC
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NEW YORK CITY — On October 22 Auctions at Showplace will present its fall fine art and design auction. The sale will feature 145 lots of fine art mixed with modern design from New York Metropolitan area estates and private collections from Park Avenue to Central Park South. The sale features fine art by Christo, Alfred Henry Maurer, Henri Lebasque, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Emilio Sanchez Perrier, Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn. Prints and multiples on offer include works by Pablo Picasso, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Diebenkorn and Louise Nevelson. The sale includes furnishings by Piero Fornasetti, Louis Majorelle, Preben Juhl Fabricius, Michael Coffey and Philip & Kelvin LaVerne. As for jewelry, there are timepieces by Cartier, Breitling and Rolex on offer as well as antique, vintage and modern diamond, ruby and sapphire gold and platinum pieces. Many more lots of fine and decorative arts, including works by Tiffany, Grueby, Daum and Loetz, make this a standout sale.

Highlights open with a 14K yellow gold Neoclassical Revival manner trophy by Reed and Barton for the Jockey Club Gold Cup. The yellow gold lidded trophy with two handles was awarded to Prove Out (1969-1990) an American thoroughbred racehorse best known for his wins over Secretariat in the 1973 Woodward Stakes, and Riva Ridge in the 1973 Jockey Club Gold Cup. Next is a Steinway & Sons “Empire,” Egyptian Revival, or “Retour d’Egypte” style rosewood art case piano,

Fine art highlights open with “Running Fence Project for Sonoma County and Marin County, State of California” by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, which is a mixed-medium blueprint drawing of the historic installation of the white nylon fence running 24 miles. Next are a pair of post-impressionist portraits of women by Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque.

Landscapes ranging in style take center stage. Of note are a pair of Fauve mountain landscapes by American painter Alfred Henry Maurer. Next is a Post-Impressionist watercolor by Maurice Brazil Prendergast depicting a waterside landscape scene with purple mountains in the background. Landscapes continue with Emilio Sanchez Perrier’s oil painting on wood panel that displays a riverside scene with a figure in a boat and a trio of Modernist pastel landscapes by Wolf Kahn. Next are three landscape paintings by Provincetown painter Anne Packard followed by Curt Walters’ painting “Homestead Herald” depicting a springtime landscape scene with flowering trees. Landscapes conclude with Morton Livingston Schamberg’s cubist landscape on board with a Salander-O’Reilly Galleries label to verso.

Abstract work by Emily Mason, George Morrison and an acrylic on paper by Theodoros Stamos “Infinity Field” from the “Lefkada Series” continue the offerings. Also of note is an abstract mixed media construction by Matilde Perez and a large 1970s mixed media collage of handmade paper depicting geometric forms. Also on offer are a Dutch Amsterdam cityscape by Jan Hendrik Verheijen, a watercolor of a seated nude by Maurice Brianchon, a large painting of a blue iris by Lowell Nesbitt, an antique portrait attributed to Ammi Phillips and a Francois Joseph Kinsoen attributed oil painting on canvas depicting a portrait of an aristocratic family group, circa 1825.

Prints and multiples on offer open with Richard Diebenkorn’s “Tri-Color” drypoint etching in colors, numbered in pencil edition 16/35 from 1981. Next is Helen Frankenthaler’s 1987 etching and drypoint “Broome Street at Night ” expressing fluid shapes and spontaneity. Next is Louise Nevelson’s “City-Sunscape” relief sculpture created for the Louise Nevelson Laboratory at the Sloan-Kettering Institute and issued by Pace Editions in 1979.

Sculpture is highlighted by the Art Deco “Egyptian Dancer” by Romanian sculptor Demetre (Dimitri) Haralamb Chiparus. This bronze sculpture depicts a standing nude female with raised arms, ornamented with headdress, scarab belt and jewelry, the marble base inset with bas-relief plaque depicting a musician playing a lyre.

Among a collection of furnishings, highlights open with a wall-mounted console dressing table by sculptor and furniture maker Michael Coffey designed 1992 and of carved Mozambique wood. Coffey started his career at Directional Furniture, created a wide range of custom furniture for private clients and founded what is now known as the New England School of Architectural Woodworking. Next is a rare L&JG Stickley Arts and Crafts settee, circa 1905-07 with a leather cushion and relief-carved back splats from a Brooklyn townhouse. It is followed by a Louis Majorelle “Modele Chicoree” Art Nouveau carved mahogany sideboard cabinet or buffet, circa 1905.

Decorative objects include American and French art glass and ceramics from the turn of the century. On offer is a collection of favrile decorated art glass vases by Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tiffany & Co, Loetz and Daum.

Silver seekers will find a collection of silver opening with an Elizabeth II period sterling English silver dinner service for 14 by S.J. Shrubsole, London, 1953, in the Fiddle, Shell and Thread pattern. The sale also includes a collection of George III pieces, including a sterling silver meat tray from 1819, a pair of George III sterling English silver octagonal entree dishes by Paul Storr, London from 1814 and a set of sterling English silver place plates with maker’s marks to underside for Orlando Jackson, London, 1772.

Auctions can be previewed at Showplace, 40 West 25th Street, 10 days prior to each sale and are all immediately available for online preview and bidding at www.auctions.nyshowplace.com. Sales are online for bidding approximately 30 days prior to the auction date. Showplace can be reached by telephone at 212-633-6063.

Louis Comfort Tiffany Favrile Red Glass Vase, 1896
Christo “Running Fence” Drawing Collage, 1976
Reed & Barton 14K Jockey Club Gold Cup 1973 Trophy
Wolf Kahn “Slender Pines” Pastel on Paper
Grueby Pottery Matte Green Vase, ca. 1905
George Morrison “Heal” Oil on Canvas, 1957
George III Sterling Silver Entree Dishes, Pair
Piero Fornasetti & Gio Ponti Demi-Secretaire 1990s
Philip & Kelvin LaVerne Chan Coffee Table
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DC A# 2055937-DCA – Auction conducted by Amy Papola (DCA#1244348-DCA)
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