Winter Associates – Live Auction
March 18th at 5:30pm
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21 Cooke Street, Plainville, CT 06062

PLAINVILLE, CONN. — Twentieth Century prints and a large Lautrec poster are to be sold at Winter Associates in at the firm’s live auction on March 18, along with other artwork and eclectic furnishings. From homes in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, items featured in the sale will include Midcentury Modern, contemporary and Nineteenth Century French furniture, paintings and sculpture, as well as a varied mix of Asian collectibles.

Many of the prints come from the estate of a Connecticut physician who purchased the prints in the mid-1960s from the gallery Raymond & Raymond of Hartford, Conn. They include Pablo Picasso’s 1933 etching “Sculpteurs, modeles et sculpture” and Henri Matisse’s “Jeune femme contemplant un bocal de poissons rouges (Young woman contemplating a bowl of goldfish).” Also from the estate is a celebrated Lautrec poster, “La Revue Blanche,” an 1895 two-sheet lithograph poster in four colors that depicts Misia Natanson (sister-in-law to editor of La Revue Blanche) who became a muse to the new generation of artists blooming in the 1890s. She is portrayed here in a fashionable ice skating outfit with an ostrich feather hat, fur jacket and muff. Toulouse-Lautrec, a bourgeois member of the upper class, visited cabernets and brothels, his works portraying changes in society as a result of the industrial age. Other artists featured from the Connecticut physician’s collection include Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Georges Rouault, Fernand Leger, Georges Bracque, Kathe Kollwitz and Raoul Dufy.

Many modern and traditional Asian items are from a Rhode Island collector, including a number of Chinese contemporary works, one a cubist oil on canvas by Zhu Wei (b 1966), “Cubist Style Winter Home.” There are also many pieces of contemporary pottery collected during his 1970s tour of the Far East and some furnishings. Featured traditional items in the sale include a Chinese table-top screen with a jade disc centered in carved wood frame decorated with carved and gilded calligraphy from the Qing/Republican era. Table screens originated in the Kangxi period (1662-1722 CE) to repel evil spirits from interior spaces before becoming a coveted object for scholars. Mid-Eastern items to be offered feature more than 25 Mughal hand-painted miniature paintings, both architectural and portraiture, many artist-signed.

The multi-faceted sale includes an Andy Warhol Exploding Plastic Inevitable exhibition/poster, circa 1967; this poster is the second of two brought to Winter Associates from the Steve Balkin estate. The first sold at Winter Associates’ auction in June 2023 for $9,000. Balkin was a photo-journalist and artist in the 1960-70s, lived in New York City and was part of the Warhol crowd.

From his estate there are also seven art proofs for album covers and dozens of silver gelatin prints depicting candid shots of Joe Namath and other New York Jets playing on their home field.

Eight Twentieth Century string instruments, among them a circa 1915 Lyon & Healy A-style mandolin and a 1920s custom Stromberg Deluxe natural tenor banjo; collections of US stamps and coins as well as a gold Byzantine coin, a Curta Type I manual calculator, circa 1951, Art Deco doors and other architectural elements, as well as artist Tom Rose decorated furnishings add to the wide ranging auction.

The auction will be live at the Plainville gallery at 21 Cooke Street starting at 5:30 pm on March 18 and is also available on Invaluable and LiveAuctioneers. Previews are Friday, March 15, noon to 4 pm.; Sunday, March 17, 2 to 4 pm; and on Monday, March 18, noon to 5 pm. Previewers are welcome at other times by appointment. For information, 860-793-0288.

** Heavy Snow Date: March 19th, call to confirm
Important Prints, Posters Paintings; Sculpture; Modern and French Furniture; Asian; Jewelry; Silver; Coins; Stamps; Rugs; String Instruments; Ceramics; Glass; Toys, etc.
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Previews: Friday, Mar. 15th, 12-4 pm Sunday, Mar. 17th, 2-4 pm Monday, Mar. 18th, 12-5pm or by appointment.
PRINTS: Picasso “Sculpteurs. modeles et sculpture”, Matisse “Jeune femme contemplant un bocal de poissons rouges”; Chagall “L’horloge a Vitebsk”; Miro “Plate XIH from The Ring of Dawn Suite”, F. Leger “Nature Morte a la Coupe de Fruit”, Calder “Boomerangs”. G. Rouault “Automne”, G. Bracque, R. Dufy. H. Fink, J. Friedlaender, M. Gloeckner (6), R. H. Hunt (3), K. Kollwitz (2), B. Morisot (4), Helen Noel. J. Pascin, A. L. Piza; Renoir, Suzanne Valadon, J. Villon, etc.; POSTER: Toulouse-Lautrec 51” h. “La Revue Blanche”, Warhol “Exploding Plastic Inevitable” 1967; PAINTINGS: M. Morley (2); Zhu Wei; L. N. Stocks (3), L. Ochtman, F. V. DuMond, W. E. Baiun, R. Bye, H. Leith-Ross. A. Chadbourn (2), R. G. Solbert, Anna M. R. Brewster (2), WW Quirt. Charles Gruppe, R. Lee Anderson, D. Atkins, W. Morrell (2), F. Solomon, etc.; SCULPTURE: Bronze: J. L. Sanchez. J. McDonnell, after A. Waagen;
Wood: David Kapetanopoulos, Francois Brochet, Stone: 10 unsigned; FURNITURE: Stickley dining table extends to 113” 1., 10 chair s, and sideboard; two bench-made stools; Hand-painted by Thomas L.Rose: dressing table, two chests, and side table; Mid-Century Modem: Maison Bagues and Maison Jansen tables, attr. Maison Bagues rock crystal lamp, attr. C. H. Jones Lucite chair; etc. French style: 18thT9th C. marble-top semainier, French style desk, table de toilette, center table, curio cabinet, parquetry bookcase and table, Travaille armchairs (6), etc.; ASIAN: Contemporary signed paintings: Chinese table-top screen with jade inset disc. Contemporary pottery (25+), many Indian Mogul miniature paintings, silver Taj Mahal. Korean chest; Chinese robes (3), Japanese bronze yatate ink sets (3). armchair, lacquer’ chest on stand, etc.; JEWELRY: (28) 14K diamond ring with 1,2ct center. 14K gold charm bracelet, pins, rings, pendants, cufflinks. Wakmann ladies watch, etc.; SILVER: Gorham “Melrose” 120+ flatware set; Jensen “Acorn” salad set,“Louis XV’ by Whiting, Henry Hebbard for Tiffany, etc.; COINS: Gold Byzantine coin, US and World collections; Morgans, Franklin Mint, etc.; STAMPS (6 lots): Early U.S. including Carrier 1851, Confederate 10 cent. Washington heads, etc.: mint sheets, self-made albums. RUGS: (16) Semi-antique to modem runners, scatter’ and carpets.
STRING INSTRUMENTS & MUSICAL EPHEMERA: Mandolins (3): Lyon Healy c. 1915 style A: 1970s Gibson EM 150: 1940s GretschNY; Banjos (3): Stromberg Deluxe Natural Tenor custom c. 1920’s. Orpheum Nol four string c. 1925, 1980s Hondo HB88Afive string; Guitars (2): 958 Goya G-30 Classical; 1957 Goya T-16 steel string; Stephen Balkin 6 album cover art proofs: CERAMICS: Otto Natzler, Dennis Kirchmann, Drier. Magnum, etc., Italian 44” h. olive oil jug, etc.; GLASS: Inkwells (15+), Lalique, Onefors, paperweights, demijohn, table lamp with leaded glass shade, etc.; ARCHITECTURAL: Art Deco brass doors (two pairs), wrought iron gates and doors, iron panel: TOYS: Murray Trac pedal tractor, wind ups: Steiff, Effanbee, etc.; ALSO: Marvel, DC comics: WWII ephemera letters and Norman Rockwell posters, Zeppelin photographs, George Grosz drawing of Hitler, etc.
Jose Sanchez bronze
Miro 1957 aquatint
Warhol 1967 poster
Coins
Zhu Wei, oil, 1992
R. Solbert, oil, 72” h.
1.2 ct center, other gold, diams.
U.S. coll.
Curta Type I
Linda Nelson Stocks oil, 1 of 3
Semainier, 18th/ 19th C.
15” Rock ciystal, etc.
Gorham “Melrose” stlg, 121 pcs
Picasso 1933 etching
Matisse, 1929, ed. 25
Calder litho ed. 150
Rouault 1933 litho
Chinese jade
6’7” x 11’2” Bidjar, signed
Vintage Murray Trac pedal tractor
Stickley, c. 2004, model 713, 64” w.
Stickley dining room suite: two arm and eight side chairs c. 2004, model 713; table c. 2000, model 7746, extends to 113” 1.
Chagall, ed. 300
After Waagen, bronze
Queen of Delhi, 4” h.
Toulouse-Lautrec 1895 poster
Fernand Leger litho c. 1955
1 of 2 Malcolm Morley oils
L. Ochtman oil
Akbar’s Tomb, 2” h.
Lyon Healy, Gibson and 6 others
Korean chest; Oribe type
T.Rose chest, etc.
TERMS: IN-PERSON AUCTION AUDIENCE
Auction begins at 5:30 PM. In addition to live bidding, Winter Associates will accept absentee and phone bids with a 23% Buyer’s Premium and live online bidding will be available on Invaluable.com and Liveauctioneers.com with a 28% Buyer’s Premium. A 3% discount is available to buyers with cash and approved checks. After the auction, pickup will be by appointment only, please email or call ahead and we will do our best to accommodate you.
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