Showplace Live Estates Auction
Sunday, Sept. 12
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NEW YORK CITY — Auctions at Showplace will open the autumn auction season with a sale on Sunday, September 12, featuring 280 lots from New York City metropolitan area estates. Fine art highlights include Modern works by Joan Miro, Josef Albers, Ludwig Sander and Alexei Sundukov, as well as contemporary sculpture by Robert Courtwright. The sale features chairs by design pioneers Gerrit Rietveld and Frank Gehry. Jewelry is highlighted by an antique American Waltham Watch Co. 14K yellow gold pocket watch with a fob chain.
Fine art highlights include “Brain” by Alexie Sundukov. The 1995 modern Surrealist oil on canvas depicts a brain worked in black and white with figural details. Featured art continues with

Joan Miro’s 1980 lithograph on paper titled “Incivisa,” signed in pencil lower right numbered 17 from an edition of 75. Next is a Midcentury Modern color field-style abstract composition in yellow by Ludwig Sander. It is followed by a color screenprint by Josef Albers titled “Emeraude” from the 1965 “Soft Edge-Hard Edge” portfolio number 32 from an edition of 50. Also featured is a large, abstract expressionist composition by Kyle Morris titled “Fall Series ‘64 N0. 1.” The oil on canvas bears a Kootz Gallery (New York) label on reverse. The sale continues with a large oil on canvas titled “Ostia Beach” by Nicola Simbari bearing a Wally Findlay Galleries label on verso. Sculpture highlights include a large bronze of an abstracted torso by Michael Shacham and a monumental papier mache parrot on a perch by Sergio Bustamante.

Next are two mixed media sculptural works by Robert Courtright, one in red and one in blue, each titled “Mask” that were exhibited at Gibbs Art Gallery in 1983. Highlighted sculpture also includes a large abstract iron sculpture by David Secrest and an abstract work crafted of molten bronze forms by Klaus Ihlenfeld. The sale also includes works by Guillermo Conte, Marcia Marx, Karel Jan Van den Heuvel and Herman Hershel Kahan.

Offered will be a collection of furnishings ranging from antique to modern. The sale includes a collection of three early 1980s Frank Gehry Postmodern “Easy Edges” corrugated modular cardboard etagere shelves that can be used individually as side tables or together as a shelf. Next are a pair of Frank Gehry Postmodern “Easy Edges” side chairs in laminated cardboard, circa 1980. The sale continues with a Gerrit Rietveld Bauhaus Red Blue chair issued by Cassina and a Mies van der Rohe for Knoll MR chaise lounge 241LS with cantilevered tubular chromed steel frame and upholstered in brown leather, originally designed in 1927 and used in the Weissenhof exhibit in Stuttgart, Germany, marked “Knoll Studio” on the back frame.
Next is a Karl Springer modern lacquered goatskin round dining table with two leaves. Also included are two Josef Hoffman modern enameled and perforated metal umbrella stands manufactured by Bieffeplast. Modern offerings conclude with a suite of Brazilian modern furniture, including a marble and jacaranda wood coffee table by Liceu De Artes & Oficios and pieces by Jorge Zalszupin, Branco & Preto, Sergio Rodrigues and Celina Moveis. The sale continues with a Nineteenth Century Continental neoclassical sécretaire à abattant with fall-front burled and figured maple case with banded and inlaid drawers and compartments. Also included is a Rose Tarlow walnut center table in the Biedermeier taste with parcel ebonized details and a “Rose Tarlow Melrose House” label inside the drawer.

Lighting is highlighted by a Verrerie des Hanots French Art Deco gilt-bronze five-light flush mount, circa 1930. The frosted glass sphere shades around the frame are decorated with motifs of clouds and flowers.

Decorative arts highlights include a Zsolnay Pecs Hungarian Art Nouveau pottery lustre glazed vase with a starfish motif along with three additional lots of antique Zsolnay. Next is a Leon Kann Art Nouveau bronze “Thistle” vase with insert, relief flowers along the bottom.

Tableware is highlighted by a Herend hand painted partial porcelain service in the “Queen Victoria” green pattern with gilt details and decorated with butterflies, floral blossoms and peonies. Also of note are six lots of Davide Fuin Venetian Murano blown glass water or wine goblets from the collection of Jill and Ken Iscol.
Silver and gold highlights include a pair of early German silver four-light candelabra decorated with winged dolphins and bearing the city mark of Augsburg (Bavaria). Also of note is an elaborately decorated Judaica sterling silver covered Elijah cup by Robert Hendery (Canadian, 1814-1897). Next is a 30-piece Wallace “Grand Baroque” pattern sterling silver partial flatware service.
The sale also includes a large collection of fine and costume jewelry lots.

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Kyle Morris “Fall Series
’64 No. 1″ Oil on Canvas
Zsolnay Pees Art Nouveau Pottery “Starfish” Vase
Joan Miro “lncivisa” Lithograph on Paper, 1980
African Dogon Bentwood Figure, Mali
Ludwig Sander Abstract Oil on Canvas
Chilean 8 Escudos Bust of Carlos IV Gold Coin
Gerrit Rietveld Bauhaus Red Blue Chair by Cassino
Alexie Sundukov Surrealist “Brain” Oil on Canvas
Vintage 18K Yellow Gold Torque Clip Hoop Earrings
Sergio Bustamante Sculpture of a Parrot
Michael Shacham Large Bronze Figural Sculpture
Robert Courtright Mixed Media “Mask” Sculpture
Judaica German Silver “Tree of Life” Menorah
Jorge Zalszupin T lnvertido Leather & Chrome Sofa
Vintage 14K Gold Diamond Tennis Bracelet
Early German Silver Candelabra, Pair
Herend ‘Queen Victoria’ Porcelain Service, 42 pc.
Des Hanots Art Deco Gilt Bronze & Glass Flush Mount
Auction conducted by Amy Papola (DCA#1244348-DCA)
Showplace Luxury • Art • Design • Vintage – – 212-633-6063 ext. 808 – auctions@nyshowplace.com
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