Kensington Estate Auctions – Estate Fine Art & Antique On-Line Auction
Monday, 5 August 2024 7:00pm EST
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CLINTONDALE, N.Y. — Richard Meyhew is the last living member of Spiral, the New York based African-American painter’s collective of the 1960s that included co-founder Romare Bearden. At the age of 99 years, Meyhew said what he inherited from his Indigenous forebears is not craft but inventive consciousness. The painting “Path” reflects his early vision of an American landscape.

Kensington Estate Auction’s August 5 online sale will include photography, Nineteenth-Twenty-First Century art (paintings and illustrations), art glass, bronze and stone sculptures, antiquarian books, wood carvings, Native American ethnography, antiquities, trains, coins, stamps, urban graffiti tagged art, jewelry, rugs and more.

Alexander Calder’s: Our Unfinished Revolution with the full text is a rare find. The art category also includes Beverly Pepper’s soft-ground untitled etching, serigraphs by Jon Carsman on hand-made wove paper, a work by Alain Kleinmann, oil painting by Alfred Montague, still life painting by Simka Simkhovitch, a collection of paintings by Alexander Gore, oil painting by the Dominican artist Juan Plutarcho Andujar, watercolor by the Taos artist Elizabeth Maria Becker, a rare collection of paintings by Misha Reznikoff, architectural mural studies and paintings of Robert Van Vorst Sewell, including “Charlatans” and “Jook Savages Medicine Show,” and a 1967 concert poster, to name just a few.

Unique images and photographers are represented in the photography and paper section. Hollywood stars are well represented through inscribed photos, a collection of Associated Press photographs of American presidents and world leaders, Tobias Everke photographs and published books by Douglas Menuez and from his Light Years Project enlarged silver gelatin prints of Gerald Forster. Original international lithographic posters from the 1950s were designed by Jacques Riches, Rob Gessner, Celestino Piatti, Picasso’s Museu Picasso exhibition poster, Robert Rauschenberg and others round out this category.

The ethnography, folk art and Native American category is represented by an antique Native American stamped potato basket, Flora Rodriguez Casa Grande polychrome vessel, Southwestern Native American wool blanket, Katchina carvings, Roy Henry Vickers “Black Fish,” carving from the Shona carver Richard Mteki, and Middle Eastern Bedouin women’s face veil. Southeast Asia is on display with the antique Burmese lacquered temple carving, wooden marionette theater string puppet, antique Rajasthani painted wooden shutters and a hand-carved and painted wood sculpture of the Hindu demon King Ravana. Symbols of good and evil, life and death are metaphors in the double-faced carved Janus helmet headdress mask.

Collectors of jewelry and silver will be interested in a pair of Turkmen carnelian cuff bracelets, silver prayer amulet container, Middle Eastern handmade sterling silver filagree bracelet and filigree pendant with smokey topaz, jade and diamond pendants, sterling silver cuff bracelet set with gems, Zuni turquoise and coral cuff bracelet, Taxco Mexico sterling silver bracelet with onyx and an antique hunter-case pocket watch. Silver collectibles include sterling silver cigarette cases, snuff boxes and match safes and sterling silver Royal Danish, Wallace and Mexican Plateria and sterling silver frames.

The array of objets d’art include an Art Deco vase with sterling silver floral overlay on black amethyst, Victorian-era Wavecrest hand-painted hinged dresser boxes, items reflecting the history and prestige of Napoleon, antique Emeralite banker’s desk lamp with original green glass shade, Art Deco Three Graces smoker’s stand by von Frankenberg for Frankart, signed Daum Nancy art glass vase and 1920s Art Nouveau Czech Bohemian vase by Kralik Glassworks. Bronze items include antique miniature bronze statues, French Art Nouveau figural bronze trays and a vintage reticulated pierced basket adorned with dancing women and butterflies.

Clients often look to Kensington Estate Auctions for modern and graffiti art. Consider works by LA II, the artist who historically collaborated with Keith Haring, the art of John Urbain, the magical art creating popular illustrations by the Chinese artist Tang Maohong and a surreal collection of drawings by Linda Gardner connected to poetic texts. Setting the table in this category is the midcentury Italian iron side table by Claudio Rayes.

Objets d’vertu are vast and unique. Stamp and coin collectors will be interested in collections of American coins, United Nations silver metallic First Day cover sets, real photocards and American stamped envelopes (1890-1960s). Toy collectors of any age should review the collection of postwar Lionel, Marx, American Model and Mars train cars. Antique American advertising stoneware crocks, vintage wild boar cigar frosted blue glass humidor, American folk art handmade felt grand piano by B. Peck, roaring to the finish is the American primitive hand-carved folk art lion and so many others will round out this online auction. This includes going back to the past, available will be collections of Greco-Roman and Holy Land antiquities.

Kensington Estate Auctions is at 989 Plattekill Ardonia Road. For additional information, 917-331-0807 or www.kensingtonestateauctions.com.

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Lot 10: Alain Kleinmann, Remembrance
Lot 32: Antiquities
Lot 105: LA II Graffiti Bust, David
Lot 40: Simka Simkhovitch, 1936
Lot 111: Robert Van Vorst Sewell, Paintings
Lot 28: Silver Turkmen Cuff Bracelets + Amulet
Lot 11: Richard Mayhew, Path
Lot 57: Elizabeth Becker, Painting
Lot 17: Alfred Montague, Oil Painting
Lot 1: Calder: Our Unfinished Revolution
Vintage Sterling Silver
Lot 4: Beverly Pepper, 1987
Lot 78: Misha Reznikoff, Tolstoy
Lot 5: Grace Mitchell, 1998
Lot 6: Jon Carsman, 1976