Bakker – Online Auction
October 7, 2023 at 1pm
bakkerproject.com
359 Commercial St. Provincetown, MA 02657

PROVINCETOWN, MASS. — James R. Bakker Antiques will conduct its summer live online fine arts auction on Saturday, October 7, starting at 1 pm. The auction features artworks from local estates and several prominent Provincetown and Cape Cod collectors and includes a selection of both historic and contemporary artists.

Leading the sale is a winter scene by John Whorf depicting Lovett’s Court in Provincetown ($15/20,000), the town Whorf called home and where he raised his family. His daughter Nancy, a highly regarded and collected painter, is also represented in the auction with two palette knife paintings, “Codfish” ($2/4,000) and “Uptown Rain” ($2/4,000).

Another iconic Provincetown family of artists is represented with work in the auction: Ross Moffett’s “Blue Heron, Pilgrim Lake,” circa 1969 ($1,5/2,000), several pieces by his wife Dorothy Lake Gregory, including a watercolor from her “Totem” series, and several silver gelatin prints by brother-in-law John Gregory, who published work regularly in Time Magazine and the New York Times.

Another top highlight sure to create excitement is a striking double-sided 1973 painting by Robert Bliss, “Young Man Standing” ($5/7,000).

Other notable and nationally recognized artists include Harry Sternberg, “Enough” ($600/800); William Freed, “Bowery” ($3/5,000); Karl Knaths, “Angel’s Dance,” 1973 ($500/700); Milton Avery, “Baby Avery,” 1933 ($500/700); Jack Tworkov, “Female Figure” ($1/1,500); and two pieces by Lester Johnson.

Quintessential historical Provincetown works and scenes include “Back Shore,” 1965, by Philip Malicoat ($4/6,000), “Wharf” by Bruce McKain ($2/4,000) and works by other important figures from the art colony, including Sol Wilson, Charles Heinz, Harold Walker, Sandor Bernath, Ernest Perry and James Floyd Clymer.

Provincetown Printers make a good showing with pieces by James Balla, Michael Mazur, William Behnken, Leo Manso, Ferol Warthen and Lucy L’Engle.

The auction has a wide selection of contemporary artists, including well-established and highly collectible Provincetown artists Anne Packard, Chet Jones, Donald Beal, Hilda Neily and John Dowd, whose unusual piece, “At Dusk” ($4/6,000), depicts a winter scene during Boston’s historic “Big Dig” and won an award at the National Academy of Design.

Rounding out the sale is an early piece by master watercolorist and distinguished Boston painter Aiden Lassell Ripley, “Painting the Hull,” ($3/5,000) inscribed by the artist to his friend, Geoffry Epine Smith in 1929.

For additional information, www.bakkerproject.com or 508-413-9758.

Featuring the work of Avery, Balla, Beal, Bliss, Boogar, Clymer, Cohen, Diehl, Dowd, Evaul, Forsberg, Freed, Groll, Hare, Hering, Hodgin, Palmer, Knaths, Malicoat, Manso, Mazur, McKain, Milby, Muller, Neily, Oppenheim, Packard, Perry, Stein, Sternberg, Thurmond, Tworkov, Walker, Warthen, Weinrich, ma Lie. #154 Whorf, and Yamamato and others.
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