Kensington Estate Auctions On-Line Auction
World View/World Wide
Estate Fine Art & Antique
MONDAY, 6 DECEMBER 7:00pm EST

CLINTONDALE, N.Y. — On Monday, December 6, Kensington Estate Auctions will present an end-of-the-year online auction.
The ubiquitous art genres include art crossing global borders — American and European art, traditional and urban. Religious items honoring the Russian church and Buddhism are available. African, American tribal, Middle Eastern and Chinese elements will cross the block. There will be antiquarian and contemporary books, jewelry, sculptures, photography, presidential memorabilia, cartoons, drawings, vintage pens, sterling silver, antique clocks and more.

Highlighting special items is a Seventeenth Century Old Believers Church Slavonic apocryphal devotional treatise retelling The Passion narrative from the Gospels; several antique Russian icons; rare mechanical Chinese theater cabinet automaton employing Thorens Swiss movement with characters garbed in traditional lavish silk clothing parading with an ornate gilt dragon complemented by musicians; antique Italian carved polychrome marble bust of a male Nubian depicting a man donning a traditional turban and cloak; a collection of erotic carved mechanical automaton walking sticks; three pence silver coin: Queen Elizabeth I 1564; and a personally signed greeting card from Walt Disney, just to name a few.

Focusing on the category of Modern and urban art, the sale will offer a Roy Lichtenstein triptych: “As I Opened Fire”; signed Faile Fashion Chimps artist proof screenprint; LA II works; Kyu-Baik Hwang; signed exhibition material and books from Christo and Jeanne-Claude; Maurius de Zaya from Alfred Stieglitz photographic journal: Camera Work, 1914; Abraham Walkowitz; James Carlin; painting by Masao Kinoshita; urban painting by Ben Messick; and so many more.
Collectors of US presidential memorabilia will be interested in the inaugural memorabilia from John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and photographs and memorabilia of the Reagans, Bushes and Clintons. Rounding out this category are political buttons and bumper stickers for Gene McCarthy. And for international buyers, there is a miniature portrait of Winston Churchill.

Estate jewelry includes 14K ruby, diamond and pearl necklace and brooch; Baltic Amber bead necklace with insect inclusions with additional rings and brooches.
Adolph Green and Phyllis Newman were a professional entertainment power couple. Together their friendships and collaborations encompassed many of Broadway, film, television and music’s greatest stars. From their estate comes a Cartier sterling silver box, Tiffany & Company sterling box, Tiffany & Co sterling silver note holders (one was given by Lauren Bacall), Jules Feiffer drawing and books, more political memorabilia and a collection of Leonard Bernstein books signed by the authors and photographers.
For the collector of ethnographic items, the sale will offer several Hopi kachinas by master carvers Darrel Youvella, Rob Nasafotie and Learder Tungovia. In addition, there is an early Native American beaded wood bow and flint arrowhead, Santa Clara pottery by Tafoya Pasqualitc, jewelry and a stonecut from the Inuk artist Joe Talirunili. Among ethnographic items are a Yaka tribal Initiation mask and from Kenya a Masai warrior shield.

Book collectors will be interested in the 1898 Geschichte der Chirurgie und Ihrer Ausubung, and UK first edition books of Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle and Mark Twain.
The American literary movement of the Beat Generation (1960s-1970s) is well represented by signed books and pamphlets from Allen Ginsberg.
Rounding out the sale are two Edward Gorey beanbags, several Nineteenth Century travel writing desks, early 1950s carved nude sculpture, bass wood clarinet, items from the estate of Hilary Knight, American folk whale weathervane, a collection of Haitian art, vintage pens, an advertisement for The Golden Boar and more.
Kensington Estate Auctions is at 989 Plattekill Ardonia Road. For information, 917-331-0807 or email kensingtonauc@aol.com or visit www.kensingtonestateauctions.com.

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Lot 71: Faile Fashion Chimps, NYC, 2011
Lot 47: Antique Italian Carved Polychrome Marble Nubian Bust
Lot 28: Walt Disney Autographed Greeting Card
Lot 73: Allen Ginsberg, Signed Books
Lot 4: Cartier Sterling Silver Box Inscribed to Adolph Green
Lot 2A: 17th C. Old Believers Church Slavonic Manuscript
Lot 40: Abraham Walkowitz Collotypes Stieglitz Camera Work #44
Lot 24: Christo & Jeanne-Claude: The Umbrellas, Signed
Lot 26: Erotic Carved Mechanical Figural Automaton Cane
Lot 3: Antique Russi
Lot 1: Antique Mechanical Chinese Theater Cabinet Automaton
Lot 78: Roy Lichtenstein: As I Opened Fire, Triptych, Signed Lot 75: LA II Urban Graffiti
Painting, LAROC