Showplace Live Estate Auction
July 24 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 a summer estate auction, July 24. The auction brings together 280 lots of fine art, decorative arts, furnishings, fine jewelry and luxury goods.

Highlights open with a large oil on canvas of a blue vase on a table by French painter Jules Cavailles who was a member of the 1935 French art group Peintres de la réalité poétique. Also showcased is a Roman mosaic panel, likely late imperial period, circa Fourth to Fifth Century CE, with squares, diamonds and hexagons composed of orange, red, white and gray tone stone tesserae from a private collection in the Pierre Hotel.

Fine art highlights include a collection of works by American painter Vaclav Vytlacil. The first offering is “Still Life with Apples,” an oil on canvas painting depicting a Cubist abstract expressionist still life with fruit and a pitcher. The piece won the William H.R. French Memorial Gold Medal at the 47th Annual Show at the Chicago Art Institute in 1936. Next is a gouache on paper by Vytlacil depicting an abstract expressionist still life with fruit, including grapes and pears. It is followed by a graphite drawing on paper by Vytlacil depicting a village atop a hill landscape scene and a lithograph with watercolor painting by Vytlacil depicting a city landscape of Munich with houses, railroads and mountains in the distance.

Also featured is an oil on canvas by Ukrainian artist Nathan Isaevich Altman depicting a village landscape with houses beside a country lane and a whimsical painting of three ladies in coordinated attire by the Columbian painter Leandro Velasco. Next is a 1970s modern abstract wall sculpture with three chromed metal elements mounted to a heavy Lucite plaque by American artist Harold Sclar. It is followed by a gouache on paper titled “Poltergeist #2” by American artist Martha Visser’t Hooft. The piece depicts five red and black figures in a shaded field and has provenance from Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York and Frank Bowers, Los Angeles.

Highlights also include works by Spanish painter Josep Coll Bardolet and Ukrainian painter Lina Pavil. The sale also includes English and French school portraiture along with works by Louis Mendez, Julius Hatofsky and Medeleine Luka.

Furnishings on offer include a North German Neoclassical bookmatched mahogany-veneered temple-form desk-bureau, possibly Berlin, circa 1835, with a brass-inlaid pedimented temple containing a locking cabinet, flanked by galleries concealing two cabinets and two hidden spring-lock drawers, above a flame mahogany roll-front desk concealing a trompe l’oeil ebony and pearwood marquetry interior desk with hidden drawers and writing slide, above three long drawers on block feet. Next is a set of four 1980s Thonet Vienna chairs upholstered in a Josef Hoffman-designed geometric fabric. The chairs are followed by a late George III mahogany secretary chest, Nineteenth Century, in rectangular form with a brass gallery to top and an Italian olivewood-veneered book-form semainier worktable.

Highlights conclude with an Eames for Herman Miller Midcentury Modern lounge chair and ottoman with black leather upholstery, marked “Designed by Charles Eames / Herman Miller Zeeland Mich.”

As for jewelry, the sale features a signed 18K yellow gold Modernist sculptural pendant by sculptor and architect Harry Abend, a Sydney Lynch Modernist silver gold and pearl brooch and a bracelet, and a Lilly Barrack sterling silver and 14K yellow gold open modern ring topped with triangular gold elements. Jewelry offerings also include sculptural works by Tod Pardon and Earl Pardon.

Silver seekers will find a Dominick & Haff sterling silver flatware set for 12 in the “Pointed Antique” pattern introduced in 1895 (approximately 73.85 troy ounces) and a George III sterling silver kettle with (possibly later) ornate repousse decoration of flowers, foliage and scrolls centering a cartouche with the crest. The kettle has marks of Robert I, David II and Samuel Hennell, London, 1802, with the George III head (approximately 46.58 troy ounces).

Also of note is an early antique Louis Vuitton leather-covered trunk with original silk lining and two fitted storage compartments, chest exterior monogrammed “H.A.J.,” label to interior with London and Paris addresses and numbered 36163, stamped to underside, circa 1885-89.

A pair of Chinese Rose Medallion porcelain bough pots or tulip vases with hand painted foliate borders with butterflies and vignettes of court scenes, gilt details and floriform handles, unmarked, 9 by 8 by 6¾ inches, has provenance from a West Palm Beach, Fla., estate.

A St Louis Cristal gold-encrusted “Thistle” pattern beverage service of 22 pieces comprises a water pitcher, a decanter with stopper, four water goblets, four claret glasses, six hock glasses and six champagne coupes, each etched “Cristal / St Louis / France” to underside.

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.auctions.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.

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Sculptor Harry Abend 18K Modernist Vintage Brooch
New York School Abstract Bronze Sculpture
Jules Cavailles ‘Le Vase Bleu’ Oil on Canvas
JM Signed Brutalist Bronze Sculpture, 1961
Earl Pardon Modern Painted Enamel Mosaic Brooch
Vaclav Vytlacil “Still Life” Oil on Canvas, 1931
Brit. School “Dog Pointing Pheasant” Oil on Canvas
Martha Visser’t Hooft “Poltergeist #2” 1952
Eames for Herman Miller Lounge Chair & Ottoman
Nathan lsaevich Altman ‘Landscape’ Oil On Canvas
Chinese Rose Medallion Porcelain Bough Pots, Pair
George Ill & Victorian Sterling Kettle on Stand
Italian Olivewood-Veneered Book-form Worktable
Roman Stone Mosaic Panel Geometric Motif
German Neoclassical Mahogany Desk-Bureau, 1835 c
Picault ‘Honor Patria’ Academic Spelter Sculpture
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