Rafael Osona – 2-Day Online Auction
Americana, Fine Art, Decor – August 3 AT 9:30 AM
The Marine Auction – August 4 AT 9:30 AM
21 Washington Street, Nantucket Island, MA
508-228-3942 www.rafaelosonaauctions.com

NANTUCKET, MASS. — Rafael Osona’s annual August sale is acclaimed for exceptionally curated offerings. This year’s anticipated two-day auction promises outstanding finds. The catalog(s) can be previewed online or by visiting Osona’s Nantucket Preview Gallery, July 30 to August 2.

The two August sales showcase lots across key multiple categories. On Saturday, August 3, 9:30 am, fine art features an expansive selection that includes significant Nantucket-related works, led by Anne Ramsdell Congdon’s 1933 painting “View of Monomoy Beyond the Creeks,” Robert Stark Jr’s “Nantucket Rainbow Fleet” and Emily Hoffmeier’s 1936 “Fishing Boats at Nantucket Harbor.”

Osona presents select artworks by Twentieth Century American artists, including S. (Samuel) Bruce Brown’s “Nantucket Bay.” Among a “vibrant Black arts scene [in Washington, DC] for almost 50 years, Brown was a central member of DC’s “Little Paris Group.” (Alma Thomas papers, Smithsonian). The implied messages among four pencil-signed lithographs by Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton pull no punches. Donald Jurney enlivens two traditionally romanticized Bordeaux landscapes via his modern eye. There’s work by Jacob Collins, a leading figure in the contemporary revival of classical painting by Lowell Herrero, whose painterly career produced a straightforward mix of larger-than-life naivety using a pointillist technique, while Adrian Gottlieb’s classically rendered portrait evokes a more transcendent reality.

Of the Nineteenth Century and further afield, Jan van der Waarden’s “Still Life with Flowers” casts the Dutch tradition in floral symbolism among his Netherlands petals. More than a half-century later — and this artist having been one among the nucleus of Matisse’ and Derian’s French Fauve group — Charles Camoin’s “Still Life with Fruit” quite simply demands attention.

Various examples of Nantucket interest are apparent in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century paintings by Ralph (attrib.) and Martha Cahoon, George Gardner Fish, William Ferdinand Macy, Lincoln Ceely, Frank Swift Chase, Richard Hayley Lever, scarce watercolors by Doris and Richard Beer, significant works by Andrew Shunney, Roy Bailey, Robert Bushong, Ruth Haviland Sutton and John Lochtefeld.

Saturday’s auction presents highly regarded island collectibles, including a scarce set of four Benjamin Bunker (1770-1815) coin silver spoons; and Nantucket baskets — for which interest is worldwide.

Having traded in more Nantucket baskets than anyone, anywhere, Rafael Osona was founding president of the Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum, its collection now permanently housed within the Nantucket Whaling Museum collections. Among 25 antique and Twentieth Century Nantucket basket lots, a rare form Mitchy Ray rectangular basket with swing handle stands out. Four friendship baskets by José Reyes lead similar works by Stephen Gibbs and Susan Chase Ottison. From Bill and Judy Sayle, there’s a 1997 oval nest of five.

A pair of 1830s John and William Cary Regency terrestrial and celestial globes are among the top offerings during Saturday’s sale. Each globe bears hand-colored engravings on a plaster sphere, capped with a brass hour circle and mounted on a brass meridian.

American furniture enthusiasts will find a selection of period pieces, including a Pennsylvania Chippendale tall chest, circa 1790. From the Continent is a signed Jean Avisse giltwood console table, Italian pietra dura and a George IV center table with a with 108 varieties of sought-after marbles and hardstones for the top. There’s a set of 10 English Hepplewhite dining chairs and vintage, antique and semi-antique estate carpets among 21 lots.

Saturday’s auction presents an array of jewelry and timepieces. Two men’s wristwatches include a Rolex Oyster Perpetual for Tiffany & Company and a 1962 Enicar Sherpa Graph Swiss Chronograph. There are Seaman Schepps’ signature cufflinks, and for the ladies there’s value in South Sea and Tahitian pearls. American bullion gold coins minted in 1894, 1907 and 1912 are being offered in three lots.

Previews open Tuesday, July 30, through Friday August 2, 10 am to 5 pm.

Online auctions are live beginning promptly at 9:30 am EST. For additional information, www.rafaelosonaauction.com or 508-228-3942.

4 Day Live Preview July 30 & 31, and August 1 & 2, from 10 AM to 5 PM
Jan Van Der Waarden
Black Forest Collection
Emily Hoffmeier – Nantucket
Robert Stark Jr
Anne Ramsdell Congdon
Estate Carpets
John & Wm Cary Globes and Artifacts
4 Jose Reyes
Attrib. Ralph Cahoon
Martha Cahoon
4 Thomas Hart Benton
7 Woollies
Signed Jean Avisse
Estate European Bronzes
Jacob Collins Self Portrait
Wohl
Charles Camoin
Donald Jurney
Jacob Haag, 1857
Scrimshaw
Scarce Nantucket Silver Benjamin Bunker
Adrian Gottlieb
George Washington Society of the Cincinnati
China Tracie
Robert Salmon
Derek G. Montague Gardner
Wm. Yorke
Wm. Stubbs
Wm. Gay Yorke
Frederick Roux
Wm. Edward Norton
Brian Coole
Barry Mason
George Marshall
Ship Signals Port New Bedford
NOTE: BIDDING PLATFORMS GO LIVE 2ND WEEK IN JULY
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with in-house absentee and phone bidding by registration only.
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