Showplace Auction
May 22, at Noon
40 West 25th Street, NYC
www.nyshowplace.com
auctions@nyshowplace.com
212-633-6063 ext. 808

NEW YORK CITY — Auctions at Showplace will present fine art and design on May 22. The sale is a 145-lot auction featuring a collection of works spanning centuries. The auction brings together fine art by Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque, Salvador Dali, Stuart Davis, Edgar Degas, Jim Dine, Emma Fordyce MacRae, Gaston Lachaise, George Morley, Martin Johnson Heade, Ken Price, Martin Rico Y Ortega and Yvonne Thomas. The catalog will also feature furnishings from the likes of Philip and Kelvin LaVerne along with a collection of jewels.

Offerings come from New York City estates and collections, including pieces from the Pound Ridge, N.Y., residence of Jill and Ken Iscol.

Fine art highlights include a ‘’Cubist Cup,” a vibrantly colored abstract ceramic sculpture by American sculptor and pioneer of the Finish Fetish movement Ken Price (1935-2012). It is followed by two works by the noted abstract expressionist Yvonne Thomas (1913-2009) “Cinema” and “Spring Vase.”

The sale continues with “Femme au Collier,” a portrait by French post-impressionist Henri Joseph Lebasque., who was called the “painter of joy and light” by friends and critics. This example is a colorful portrait of a young woman wearing a blue hat, red dress and a pink necklace.

Next is a 1910 vibrant spring scene by French post-impressionist painter Georges D’Espagnat titled “Le Printemps.” It is followed by a pastel on blue paper by Edgar Degas. The impressionist drawing depicting a figure of a laundress figure ironing has the “Degas” estate stamp in red ink to lower right and is housed under glass in a carved and painted wood House of Heydenryk frame with scalloped edges.

Highlights continue with “Nets,” a colorful Modernist gouache on paper by Stuart Davis in the proto-pop art style for which the artist is celebrated.

The sale also includes a pair of oil on board tropical Florida landscapes by the American painter Martin Johnson Heade. Each is housed in a Heydenryk wood frame with stickers from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on verso from a special loan for the exhibition of Mr and Mrs Ernest T. Rosenfeld.

Next is a rare color lithograph by Marc Chagall from Daphnis and Chloe, “Decouverte de Chloe par Daphnis (Daphnis Discovers Chloe),” 1961. Also featured is “Icaro,’’ an acrylic and watercolor painting on paper depicting falling abstract figures in a muted palette by Spanish/Columbian artist Alejandro Obregon.

Old Masters include a portrait thought to be Charlotte, Countess of Lichfield, inscribed and dated 1673, by Sir Peter Lely (Dutch, 1618-1680). Lely was the principal painter to King Charles II.

The sale also includes works by Sergio Bustamante, Salvador Dali, Gaston Lachaise, Edouard Vuillard, Marie Adelaide Kindt, Emma Fordyce MacRae and Ottone Rosai. Prints and multiples include works by Jim Dine, Gene Davis, Sean Scully and Richard Serra.

Also of note are a collection of Louis Comfort Tiffany favrile glass vases and a collection of rock crystal obelisks, spheres, and tazza in the Grand Tour manner.

As for jewelry, there are multiple Patek Philippe timepieces, including a perpetual calendar moon phase 18K yellow gold automatic watch with the original alligator strap and buckle, a pair of 18K gold 12mm South Sea pearl and diamond earrings and a diamond tennis bracelet available for purchase.

Furnishings being offered include a Philip and Kelvin LaVerne “Marriage Whirl” Midcentury Modern scroll cocktail or coffee table in bronze and pewter, with Asian Modern motif in hand painted polychrome enamel, signed on the top, with original makers label on bottom, circa 1960.

Silver seekers will find an English George III sterling silver large bread basket hallmarked London 1781 by John Wakelin & William Taylor and a Continental Baroque, possibly Seventeenth Century German, dome covered silver marriage casket engraved with hunting scenes.

All auctions can be previewed at Showplace 40 West 25th Street in Manhattan ten days prior to each sale and are all immediately available for online preview and bidding at www.nyshowplace.com. Sales are online for bidding approximately 30 days prior to the auction date. Showplace can be reached by telephone at 212-633-6063.

Grand Tour Rock: Crystal Edgar Degas Pastel Ken Price ‘Cubist Cup’
Modern Art Ceramic, 1973
Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque Louis Comfort Tiffany
& Porphyry Obelisks on Paper of Woman Ironing
George Ill Silver Bread
Basket London 1781
Pietro Chiesa Fontana Arte
Art Deco Table Lamp
Martin Rico Y Ortega
Venetian Canal Oil on Board
Stuart Davis “Nets” Modernist
Gouache on Paper
Yvonne Thomas “Spring Vase”
Abstract Oil on Canvas
Patek: Philippe Perpetual
Calendar 18K Gold Watch
Martin Johnson Heade Platinum 6.50ct. Pear Shaped Dale Chihuly “Jasmine Basket”
“Tropical Landscape” Oil Diamond Eternity Ring Art Glass Sculpture
Portrait of a Woman Favrile Glass Vase
Sir Peter Lely Attr Portrait
Countess of Lichfield
Emma Fordyce MacRae
“Eve” Post-Impressionist Oil
Continental Silver
Marriage Casket, Antique
Arne Jacobsen For Fritz
Hansen Egg Chair & Ottoman
14K While Gold Diamond Edouard Vuillard ‘La Patisserie’
Emerald Flower Brooch Oil on Board
LIVE STREAMING ONLINE – ABSENTEE & PHONE BIDS ACCEPTED
DCA# 2055937-DCA – Auction conducted by Amy Papola (DCA#l244348-DCA)
Full catalog at www.nyshowplace.com