Shannon’s Fine Art Auction
April 27 at 6 pm
49 Research Drive Milford, Connecticut 06460
www.shannons.com
info@shannons.com
203-877-1711

MILFORD, CONN. — Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers will host a spring fine art auction on Thursday, April 27, starting promptly at 6 pm Eastern time. The sale, featuring 139 lots, includes numerous examples of paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings.

Modern and contemporary art will headline the auction, with works by American Modernists. A George Tooker painting titled “The Watchers” depicts three figures staring wide-eyed and with their mouths agape. Other figures are visible around them. The group must surely be observing a suspenseful scene evidenced in their expression. Dated circa 1962, this work is expected to realize $250/350,000.

Following the previous season’s successful sale of a Lynne Drexler oil painting for $450,000, Shannon’s will offer four works on paper by the artist. Each watercolor is vibrantly colored and dated 1962. The works will be sold individually and estimated at $30/50,000 each. A fourth work is more experimental, composed of a wax resist with a colored ink wash. This work should bring $20/30,000.

In addition to Drexler, a painting by another Hans Hofmann alum, Michael Goldberg, will be featured in the sale. The painting, dated 1959, is an oil on paper mounted to canvas, 11 by 14 inches ($40/60,000).

Other contemporary paintings in the auction include a large Paul Wonner still life measuring 72 by 48 inches ($30/50,000); a rare, 48-inch-tall bronze by Latin-American artist Angel Botello titled “Coquette” ($25/35,000); and four paintings by New Haven outsider artist Winfred Rembert, each depicting scenes from the artist’s life and memory.

In the American Impressionist category, there is a 50-by-60-inch Richard Hayley Lever work titled “View of the High Bridge Over Harlem River,” circa 1913. This large canvas is housed in a custom Lowy frame. This canvas is from a private Connecticut collection of American paintings ($50/75,000).

From the same collection, there is a landscape titled “Summer in Connecticut – The Old Barn at Branchville,” by J. Alden Weir. Weir lived in Branchville and is famous for his Impressionist landscapes of rural Connecticut. He was also a founding member of the famed American Impressionist group “The Ten.” The painting is estimated at $12/18,000. Other highlights from this Connecticut collection include another large Richard Hayley Lever work, “Sunshine in the Hills,” painted during the artist’s time in England ($60/80,000). Also, an Ernest Lawson view of “The Lock, New Hope” is expected to achieve $5/7,000.

A rare beach scene in Boston by American Post-Impressionist Maurice Prendergast is featured in the sale with a $100/150,000 estimate. The busy scene depicts women and children walking along the esplanade. The work is painted in Prendergast’s typical style, with broad brush strokes. Closely comparable to the work of French artist Georges Seurat, Prendergast was more interested in creating a mosaic effect rather than the science of color.

Shannon’s will feature several works from some of the best-known artists of the Hudson River school. Jasper Francis Cropsey’s “Bend in the River” should reach $30/50,000. The painting, exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1892, depicts sheep grazing along a river bank. The luminist sky and fall foliage are typical of Cropsey’s works. From the same collection, a Thomas Doughty work, titled “Promenade on the Hudson,” from 1839, has an estimate of $25/35,000. The painting depicts a couple walking along a path with the Hudson River and highlands in the distance.

In the Nineteenth Century American paintings category, a Martin Johnson Heade rendering titled “Vase of Roses” leads the still life offerings at $80/120,000. Other still lifes by John F. Francis, Levi Wells Prentice and Abbott Thayer will be included in the auction.

Other notable American paintings in the auction include a large seascape by Alfred T. Bricher of the “View at Grand Manan” ($25/35,000); a tender portrait of Bobbie by his father William Merritt Chase ($25/35,000); a 1928 watercolor by Charles Burchfield titled “November Plowing” ($25/35,000); a 30-by-40-inch barn scene by Regionalist artist Dale Nichols; and William James Glackens’ “Flowers on a Pink Table” ($15/25,000).

Bidding for the auction will take place by phone, absentee and live on Shannons.com. The public preview opens on Monday, April 17, through Wednesday, April 26, Monday through Friday from 11 am to 6 pm, and Saturday, April 22, from 10 am to 3 pm. Shannon’s is at 49 Research Drive, Unit C, For information, 203-877-1711 or www.shannons.com.

PREVIEW DATES & TIMES:
April 17-26th (weekdays from 11AM-6PM) Saturday, April 22nd (10AM-3PM) Closed Sunday
WILLIAM JAMES GLACKENS | Flowers On A Pink Table
RICHARD HAYLEY LEVER | “High Bridge Over Harlem River”, Ca. 1913 GEORGE TOOKER | The Watchers, Ca. 1962
ELIZABETH GILBERT JEROME | South American Sunset, 1870
UPCOMING
Maurice Prendergast Martin Johnson Heade Andy Warhol Pierre-Auguste Renoir Charles Burchfield Guy Carleton Wiggins Michael Goldberg Elliott Daingerfield Levi Wells Prentice Lynne Mapp Drexler Dale Nichols
Jasper Francis Cropsey John Fulton Folinsbee Paul Wonner
John Marin
Winfred Rembert
Angel Botello
Thomas Doughty
Alvan Fisher
Charles Burchfield William Merritt Chase Alfred Thompson Bricher James Henry Cafferty Winfred Rembert
Leo Vernon Jensen
Eric Sloane
Rufino Tamayo
Leon Kroll
Frederick Mulhaupt
Peter (Henrietta) Miller William Tolman Carlton
John Carleton Atherton
Jack Lorimer Gray
Frederick William Macmonnies Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
J. Alden Weir
William Frederick De Haas Robert Motherwell
Hans Baluscheck
Rafal Olbinski
and more!
Sale Contact: Sandra Germain info@shannons.com
+1 203 877 1711 shannons.com