Ahlers & Ogletree – Profound & Transformative Auction
October 28 & 29 at 10 am
700 Miami Circle, Atlanta, GA 30324
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ATLANTA, GA. — A vibrant oil on canvas picnic still life painting by Janet Fish (American, b 1938), a Tiffany movement tall case clock in the Renaissance Revival manner of R.J. Horner and an unpublished manuscript draft of Woodie (Woody) Guthrie’s (American, 1912-1967) book I Spin You Spin (1946) are a few of the expected highlights in Ahlers & Ogletree’s two-session, online-only fall estates and collections auction planned for the weekend of October 28-29.

Session 1, on Friday, October 28, will feature more than 400 lots of Asian arts, Midcentury Modern, jewelry and silver. Session 2, the following day, will contain more than 500 lots of period antiques and fine art from prominent estates in Europe and America, plus Native American objects. In total, more than 900 lots will come up for bid, starting at 10 am Eastern time both days.

The Janet Fish picnic still life from 1995, titled “Provence,” depicts vessels, fruit, wine and flowers on a blanket in the grass. The painting, 50 inches square (canvas, less frame), is signed and dated lower right and has several gallery labels on verso. It’s expected to sell for $30/60,000. Fish is a contemporary American realist artist. Through oil painting, lithography and screenprinting, she explores the interaction of light with everyday objects in the still life genre.

The Gazo “San Juan Bautista” carved walnut tall case (or grandfather) clock, made in the last quarter of the Twentieth Century in the Renaissance Revival manner of the renowned Nineteenth Century American cabinetmaker R.J. Horner, has an earlier Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company movement (1892-1900). The crest is decorated with winged grotesques, centering on a cartouche supported by figures of Father Time. The 110¾-inch-tall clock should bring $6/8,000.

The ink and graphite manuscript draft of Woodie (Woody) Guthrie’s I Spin You Spin, consists of nine lined notebook sheets written entirely in Guthrie’s hand, dated September 15, 1946. It’s signed three times by the singer-songwriter and is housed in a clamshell case. The manuscript was acquired from Bauman Rare Books in New York in August 2010 and has an estimate of $6/8,000. Guthrie is one of the most significant figures in American folk music.

It’s an eclectic sale, with items ranging from a silver 2000 Rolls Royce Seraph luxury car ($35/40,000); to a set of four video art screens by Julian Opie (British, b 1958), titled “Crows” ($10/12,000). The computer animation on four LED screens, with stands, depicts a bird’s movement, and includes Turning, Pecking, Walking and Excreting. The 2018 creation is signed and numbered 20/20, with a gallery label to the back.

A large Nineteenth Century figural Black Forest clock and cylinder music box with a case that is signed by C.V. Bergen of Switzerland, 44 inches tall, surmounted by a group of three stags on a rocky outcropping with two foxes crouching below, should fetch $8/16,000; while a second quarter Twentieth Century monumental Art Deco carved alabaster Iceberg floor lamp, multi-tiered, with polar bear and seal figurines, 81 inches tall, unmarked, has an estimate of $4/6,000.

An oil on canvas painting by Peter Artens (Argentinian, 1937-2003), titled “Flores Tropicales,” depicting a floral still life of tropical flowers in a vase resting on a kilim covered table, twice signed and framed, is estimated to reach $8/12,000. Also, an oil on canvas by Sam (Samir) Barber (American/Italian, b 1943), titled “Colors of Spring,” depicting an Impressionist-style lily pond with yellow flowers and tall grass, signed and framed, should hit $4/6,000.

An offset lithograph on paper by Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), titled “Sunrise” (1965), depicting a radiating sun, pencil-signed lower right, 17¾ by 24 inches (sight, less frame), has an estimate of $4/6,000. Also, a lithograph on paper by Sam Francis (1923-1994), untitled SF-330, abstract paint splatter with geometric shapes, pencil-signed lower left and numbered “28/48” lower right, in a 53¼-by-38-inch frame, should make $3/5,000.

Two lots with ties to England are bound to attract interest. One is an oil on canvas by English-born American artist William A.B. Kirkpatrick, titled “The Blue Shawl,” a three-quarter length portrait of a lady in a landscape holding a parasol ($5/7,000). The other is an Eighteenth Century English chinoiserie black lacquered and japanned cabinet on a later stand ($3/5,000).

Two very different lots share identical estimates of $4/6,000. One is an oversized palatial outdoor bronze fountain that has two herons, one with its head erect, fitted for water, surrounded by six cattails, also fitted, 87 inches tall by 48 inches in width. The other is a large pair of Nineteenth Century framed wallpaper panels, possibly French, overall 90½ by 64½ inches, multiple sheets depicting a tropical landscape with figures.

Live, in-person previews will be conducted October 24-27, from 10 am to 5 pm all four days, in the Ahlers & Ogletree showroom at 700 Miami Circle. For information, www.aandoauctions.com or 404-869-2478.

Staples of the Atlanta community for over three decades, Marjorie and Ralph Knowles were just as passionate about education, justice, and equality as they were art, design, and jewelry. While they are no longer with us, their legacy lives on in the positive impacts they made and the cherished belongings they left behind.
Art & Antiques from the Estate of Ralph and Marjorie Knowles