Bakker Gallery & Auctions – Winter Live Online Auction
March 1, 2025 at 1pm
bakkerproject.com
359 Commercial St. Provincetown, MA 02657

PROVINCETOWN, MASS. — Bakker Auctions will conduct its Winter Live Online Auction, the first sale of the 2025 season, on Saturday, March 1, at 1 pm. With a lineup of 160 lots, this sale includes both historic and contemporary fine art with a focus on works by artists associated with the Provincetown Art Colony, Cape Cod, Cape Ann and beyond.

Of particular note are more than a dozen lots from the estate of Alice Brock who was forever immortalized by Arlo Guthrie in his 1967 song and debut album of the same title, “Alice’s Restaurant.” Brock was a legend in Provincetown and beyond, and while her loss has saddened the community, she left behind a lovely small collection of works by important Provincetown artists. Several highlights of the auction from her collection include an iconic and charming painting by Ross Moffett, “Figures on the Dock” ($10/15,000); Bruce McKain’s “Provincetown Harbor” ($4/6,000); Hilda Neily’s “Picket Fence” ($4/6,000); and a highly sought-after winter scene by Nancy Whorf, “White Night,” 1998 ($4/6,000).

Interestingly, also included in the auction is a winter painting by Julia Kelly Whorf, Nancy’s daughter — “Remembering Winter,” 2011 ($2/3,000). While in a different style, it has a similar feel to her mother’s work.

Two important contemporary masters, both in their 90s, are represented by multiple works in the auction. Three famous “smalls” by Anne Packard, perhaps one of the most famous of Provincetown’s artists, offer opportunities for bidders to purchase one of the artist’s iconic scenes, including “Wharf Scene” ($3/5,000.) Three pieces by the “grandfather” of the Provincetown art community, Salvatore Del Deo, are included in the sale, one being an early 1966 oil, “East End” ($3/5,000), which offers a glimpse into the artist’s emerging style at the time, a style he continues to use six decades later.

Several small sculptures in bronze and stone are being offered by highly collectible artists, including William Boogar with “Fox and Grapes Bookends” ($1/1,500) and Chaim Gross. Gross, whose auction records have been climbing across top auction houses in New York City, is represented by the bronze “Mother and Child” ($1/1,500) and “Sleeping Head” ($600/800), a work in pink alabaster. A special lot of six hand-carved painted heads from the early Twentieth Century that were given by the family of Frederick Judd Waugh to Nancy Whorf are certainly a unique find for collectors of folk art ($1/1,500). Also included are two pieces by Peter Hunt, a painted bowl ($200/300) and a painted foot stool ($200/300).

An oil by Ralph W. Curtis, “London Docks,” 1906 ($2/3,000) is an unusual find and an opportunity to own a piece by the artist who was a part of the elite circle of his time — a circle that included other creatives such as Edith Wharton, Henry James, John Singer Sargent and Boston’s own Isabella Stewart Gardiner. Gloucester artist Emile Gruppé is currently commanding respectable prices; included in the auction is a classic piece, “Boat at Wharf” ($4/6,000), which will certainly garner attention leading up to the sale. Other historic artists in the auction include Tod Lindenmuth, Karl Knaths, Agnes Weinrich, James Floyd Clymer and Arthur Diehl with a classic small vertical oil, “Low Tide Provincetown” ($1,5/2,000).

Also featured in the auction are Paul Balmer, Robert Cardinal, Arthur Cohen, Harvey Dodd, Mary Giammarino, Henry Hensche, Megan Hinton, Daisy Hughes, William Littlefield, Tabitha Vevers and T.J. Walton, among others.

For information, www.bakkerproject.com or 508-413-9758.

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MA Lie. #154
Lot 64: Ralph W. Curtis
Lot 41: Emile Gruppe
Lot 88: Set of 6 Heads
Lot 1: Anne Packard
Lot 50: Ross Moffett