Bakker Auctions – Winter Live Online Auction
March 16, 2024 at 1pm
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PROVINCETOWN, MASS. — Bakker Auctions will hold its End of Winter Live Online Fine Arts Auction on Saturday, March 16, starting at 1 pm.

Known for its emphasis on Provincetown and Cape Cod artists and art, Bakker has once again brought together a fine collection of both contemporary and historical art of significance.

Provincetown, one of the oldest and continuous art colonies in the country, has been a haven for master artists since the late Nineteenth Century. For more than 120 years, both professional and amateur artists have flocked to the tip of Cape Cod to take advantage of its Portuguese small-town charm as well as the light that surrounds the split called Land’s End.

“Cape Cod Birds” ($600/800) is an early and rare etching by Edwin Dickinson, a student of Charles W. Hawthorne, who went on to open his own school of art. This 1916 print is a beautiful impression and accompanies a swath of other early prints and sketches by well-known Provincetown painters, including Albert Edel, Morgan Dennis and William Bicknell.

Maurice Sterne, the first American to have a solo retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, was briefly married to Mabel Dodge in the early 1910s when Provincetown was at the height of its artistic influence. “Portrait of Mabel Dodge” is an early rendering of his wife, while “Portrait, Taos, 1917” is an example of his Southwestern work, completed after Mabel left Provincetown for New Mexico where she would attempt to start her own art colony.

Mid-Twentieth Century artists are well represented in the auction by Nanno De Groot and his classic “Still Life” ($1,2/1,600) along with other artists, including Gerrit Hondius, Sol Wilson, Karl Knaths, William Littlefield and Kenneth Stubbs.

Contemporary work by iconic Provincetown artists includes a 3-by-6-inch oil by Anne Packard, “Provincetown,” ($1,5/2,000) as well as a lovely still life by her daughter, Leslie Packard, “Sunflower Still Life,” ($700/900). Two oils by John Dowd and a graphite sketch for his yearly posters are included in the sale and will be sure to command respectable prices.

Never short on variety, the auction includes such artists as Arthur Cohen, Nancy Ellen Craig, Vico Frabbris, Emily Hoffmeier, William L’Engle, Ross Moffett, Paul Resika, Alvin Ross, Agnes Weinrich, Nancy Whorf and more.

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

Emily Hoffmeier (1888-1952) “Sails”