Millea Bros. Select Auction
November 16, 17 & 18 at 10 am
Boonton, New Jersey
www.milleabros.com
info@milleabros.com
973-377-1500

BOONTON, N.J. — On November 16, 17 and 18 Millea Bros. unleashes its latest live, in-person “Select” three-day auction. The sale features a collection of art, design and antiques from prominent New York area estates — including paintings by Alexander Calder, custom furnishings from a Peter Marino Palm Beach commission, the third and final sale of museum-quality tribal art from the Faith Dorian and Martin Wright Art Trust and a once-in-a-generation, single-owner sale of Eighteenth Century porcelains

Day 1 features Modern and contemporary art and design, including two Alexander Calder gouaches on paper. The 1945 “Victory,” an early work of pure abstraction, dates to Calder’s “Constellations” series, works in dialogue with the famous gouaches by Joan Miro. The painting was later given to experimental composer Edgard Varese and retains a pencil inscription to the composer. In contrast, 1969s “The Pheasant” is a light figurative work that captures the joyful exuberance associated with Calder’s later paintings. Both works are registered with the Calder Foundation. Other Modern art highlights include a Jean Arp bronze deaccessioned from the Foundation Mireille and James Levy, a Rufino Tamayo watercolor from a New York collection, a circa 1925 Arthur Davies “Dancers” oil mural study, a Chryssa lightbox, an Andrew Lord ceramic sculpture and a large Dale Chihuly glass work.

Design highlights include more than 50 pieces of furniture from a Peter Marino Palm Beach Commission, including a Jean Dunand daybed finished in a volcanic copper and gold lacquer. The collection also includes contemporary furniture and lighting designs by Peter Marino Architects and Art Deco pieces by Jean Michel Frank, Eugene Printz and Paul Dupre Lafon reproduced by Ludwig & Dominique, Paris. Other design highlights include a pair of shagreen-clad chairs by Jean Michel Frank for Chanaux & Pelletier, a custom circa 1935 T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Lotus console, original Wiener Werkstaette pieces by Josef Hoffmann, Otto Wagner and Koloman Moser and a group of American Studio works deaccessioned from the Museum of Art and Design. Interspersed with the modern designs are more than 30 Nineteenth Century African and Oceanic artifacts from the Faith Dorian and Martin Wright Art Trust, many with JJ Klejman and museum provenance.

Day two offers Asian, British and American arts, including more than 50 pieces of ancient to antique Chinese objects from the collection of Lewis Stein. One of the original SOHO artist pioneers, Stein amassed a formidable collection of Asian artifacts over four decades and a reputation for scholarly connoisseurship. Highlights from the Stein collection include a 4-foot-tall early Ming era wood carved guanyin seated on a Buddhist lion. Only a handful of similar examples have come to market, with near identical carvings in the Met and other museum collections. There are also notable examples of Song to Qianlong ceramics, archaic bronzes, ancient Chinese stone carvings and a selection of antique Korean porcelains.

American and British art highlights include a John Singer Sargent watercolor and a Daniel Ridgway Knight oil on canvas, once part of the collection of famed financier and philanthropist “Diamond” Jim Brady. A single-owner collection of rare Eighteenth Century English porcelains includes figural, center and serving pieces by Chelsea, Dr Wall Worcester, Derby and Bow. Assembled in the 1920s and 1930s, the collection has remained in the same family for two generations. Examples of Native American artifacts from the Faith Dorian and Martin Wright Art Trust include a complete Nineteenth Century Sioux bow and arrow set, good Nineteenth Century Iroquois and Inuit masks, rattles and carved ritual objects. The sale closes with a group of letters and government documents from the Charles Sigety collection, including examples from the hands of George Washington, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson

Day 3 features continental art and antiques, including the remainder of the firm’s porcelain sale from 565 Park Avenue, New York City. This continental porcelain group includes 10 pieces of the earliest Bottger and Hausmaler Meissen dating to the start of the Eighteenth Century, as well as early pieces of Mennecy, St Cloud, Delft and Doccia. Artworks from the same collection include a Pieter de Hooch Dutch School oil on panel and an imposing 7-foot-tall oil portrait from the circle of Diego Velazquez.

Other artworks include period Durer engravings deaccessioned from the Albertina Museum, Vienna, and post-impressionist lithographs, including Degas, Matisse and Toulouse-Lautrec. Antiques highlights include a group of Moser jeweled glass, a Galle “Parlant” coupe, Nineteenth Century Bessarabian and Persian carpets from the collection of a Media mogul and a selection of Seventeenth Century military weapons.

Auctions and previews will be conducted at the Millea Bros. gallery at 607 Myrtle Avenue. All property will be available for preview on Monday, November 14, 11 am to 7 pm, Tuesday, November 15, 11 am to 5 pm, Wednesday and Thursday, November 16-17, 9 am to 5 pm, and Friday, November 18, from 9 to 10 am. In addition to live gallery bidding, online and telephone bidding will be available. For additional information, www.milleabros.com or 973-377-1500.

PREVIEW HOURS:
Our doors will be open for preview on Mon, Nov 14 from 11am to 7pm, Tue, Nov 15 from 11am to 5pm, Wed, Nov 16 from 9am to 5pm, Thu, Nov 17 from 9am to 5pm, and Fri, Nov 18 from 9am to 10am.
Millea Bros. 3-day Fall Select auction dazzles with blue chip modern art, a historic sale of 18th c. porcelains, and a renowned collection of Tribal artifacts. Top lots include two authenticated Alexander Calder gouache paintings, and a Jean Arp bronze deaccessioned from a renowned art foundation. Exceptional Old Masters to Post-Impressionist works from 565 Park Avenue include a life-size Circle of Velazquez oil portrait, a 17th c. oil panel by Pieter de Hooch, and the rarest prints by Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, and Degas. A once-a-generation single- owner sale of the finest 18th c. English and Continental porcelains include 175 lots of the rarest figural, serving and center pieces by Chelsea, Worcester, Bow, and early Bottgre Meissen. An extensive collection of ancient to antique Chinese & Korean objects features 50 works from the estate of Soho pop artist Lewis Stein, including Imperial porcelains and a monumental early Ming wood carving. Our third and final sale of African, Oceanic and Native American artifacts from the Martin Wright Collection includes mostly 19th c. examples, many with Klejman Gallery or museum provenance. Exceptional Modern Design from an important Peter Marino Palm Beach commission features a phenomenal c. 1930 Jean Dunand lacquered bed, and modern and Art Deco inspired designs by Peter Marino. Other highlights include a custom 1930s TH Robsjohn-Gibbings lotus console, ceramics and furniture by Gio Ponti, period Wiener Werkstatte furniture, Chihully glass, and a group of American Studio Craft deaccessioned from the Museum of Art and Design.