John McInnis – 2025 New Year’s Week Exhibitions and Auctions
January 3rd, 4th, 5th
76 Main St Amesbury, MA
978-388-0400 Mcinnisauctions@yahoo.com

AMESBURY, MASS. — John McInnis Auctioneers bursts into 2025 with three important auctions set for January 3, 4 and 5, both online and live in the Amesbury gallery at 76 Main Street. “We’re kicking off New Year’s week with three exhibitions and auction sales,” said John McInnis. “Collectors and decorators should mark their calendars.”

The Friday, January 3 Fine Art Collections auction, starting at 2 pm, features more than 200 lots of collections from private estates, including Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American and European artwork, together with 60 original paintings by Carl Ivar Gilbert (1882-1959).

The star lot of day one, and the undisputed headliner of the three days, is a large oil on canvas abstract painting by Edward Clark (American, 1926-2019), one of the early African American pioneers of abstract painting in the post-war era who placed his large canvases on the floor and painted with a push broom. The work, 72 inches by 48 inches, is expected to bring $75/150,000.

The Saturday, January 4 Important Estates Collections auction, starting at noon, is loaded with 473 lots of period furnishings, fine art, Midcentury, maritime, clocks, Oriental carpets, folk art, Americana, bronzes and a nice selection of 60 weathervanes locally handcrafted, mostly from the original E.G. Washburne molds and patterns.

An expected day two top performer is the spectacular Northern Essex County (Mass.) one-drawer oak dowry chest dated 1685, embellished with applied, chip-carved moldings, half columns, spindles and bosses. The chest, 27 by 47 inches, has descended by direct lineal descent through at least seven generations of one family and is projected to sell for $30/60,000.

The Sunday, January 5 Oklahoma Collection of Decorative Arts auction, also starting at 12 noon Eastern time, contains 227 lots of decorative arts, paintings, bronzes, sculptures, Asian art and objects, porcelains, clocks, furniture, lamps and chandeliers from a prominent Oklahoma collector.

Certain to attract bidder interest on day three is an extraordinary Nineteenth Century French Rococo gilt clock garniture set of monumental proportions, with a rare double-sided porcelain dial signed “Ws. Masse,” and a nine-light candelabrum supported by a nude female being uplifted by a merman. The garniture, with the gilt professionally restored, has an estimate of $10/30,000.

Returning to day one, a graphite on paper “Portrait of a Girl” by the American Impressionist Lilian Westcott Hale (1880-1963), is expected to fetch $10/25,000, while an oil on Masonite painting by the Naïve figure-market genre painter and puppet maker Hope Shipee Bunin (New York, 1908-1970), titled “Dusk (Planes Over the Philippines),” signed and dated 1941, should finish at $2/4,000.

Back to day two, where a rare, carved and painted wood piece by John Haley Bellamy (1836-1914), titled “Don’t Give Up the Ship,” has an estimate of $10/20,000. The untouched piece, in white, is 9 inches tall by 26 inches wide. Also, a mahogany tall case clock by Nathaniel Monroe (Concord, Mass.), having a pierced gallery crest with the original faceted ball finials and painted dial, plus brass inset fluted pilasters, is expected to command $6/12,000.

Finally, day three features a classic Art Deco bronze sculpture of a nude woman seated and holding a shawl above her head by Maurice Guirard Riviere (French, 1881-1947) sitting on a black marble base. It is expected to make $5/15,000. An exquisite pair of female form French cast-iron torchieres of Val d’Onse quality, each one 60 inches tall, which have been painted over in brick red paint, carry an estimate of $4/8,000.

Internet bidding is provided by LiveAuctioneers and Invaluable. Phone and absentee bids are also accepted.

John McInnis Auctioneers also invites the public to join the firm for live previews in the Amesbury gallery from New Year’s Day, January 1 through January 5, from 10 am to 6 pm daily. The previews will be open throughout the auction sales.

For more information, 978-388-0400 or www.mcinnisauctions.com.

2025 NEW YEAR’S WEEK EXHIBITIONS AND AUCTION SALES At our Gallery, 76 Main Street, Amesbury, MA FINE ART COLLECTIONS FRIDAY, JANUARY 3RD AT 2 PM Collections from Private Estates to include 19th and 20th century American and European Artwork with lots to discover together with 60 Paintings by local Mid-Century Artist Carl Ivar Gilbert (1882-1959)
IMPORTANT ESTATES COLLECTIONS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4TH AT 12 NOON
Fine Period Furnishings, Fine Art, Mid-Century, Maritime, Clocks, Oriental Carpets, Folk Art, Americana, Bronzes, and a selection of over 60 Weathervanes locally handcrafted mostly from the original E.G. Washburne molds and patterns
OKLAHOMA COLLECTION OF DECORATIVE ARTS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 5TH AT 12 NOON
Decorative Arts, Paintings, Bronzes, Sculpture, Asian, Porcelains, Clocks, Furniture, Lamps and Chandeliers from a well-known Oklahoma Collector
Join us for our Live Previews for ail sales opening New Year’s Day, Wednesday, January 1st thru Sunday, January 5th from 10 to 6 each day. Preview is open throughout the auction sales.
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