CRN – Annual Fall Auction
Sunday, October 20th at 11
57 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138
www.crnauctions.com

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — CRN Auctions will conduct its annual fall auction on Sunday, October 20, selling the firm’s usual eclectic mix of American antiques, including Boston/Seymour pieces of formal furniture, painted furniture and a rare folk-art portrait. Also being sold are English, Continental and Asian works of art, furniture and accessories spanning the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century.

Commissioned by the family and kicking off the sale are sculptures and works on paper from the estate/studio of Boston artist Ernest Elie Morenon, NA (1904-2002). Born in Marseille, France, he studied at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. Throughout his life, Morenon received numerous first prizes, awards and medals, both in France and in America. In France, he is best known for the massive carved oak panels, the “Porte de l’Alma,” which graced the entrance to the Paris 1937 International Exposition depicting the working people of France. This was a tense time in history on the brink of World War II.

Morenon emigrated to Boston in 1943 and become an instructor at the Cambridge School of Design from 1947 to 1950. He taught at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School from 1950 until 1966. He was head of the sculpture department at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from 1955 to 1965. He later taught at Boston University’s School of Applied Arts from 1966 to 1969. Morenon was a member of the National Sculpture Society; the National Academy of Design; the Architectural League of NY; Audubon Artists; and the New England Sculptors Association.

Morenon was one of the eminent carvers of ecclesiastical commissions in Twentieth Century America. His bronze and marble sculptures include “The Pieta” in the Cathedral of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.; and several stone panels, “Stations of the Cross” in the Cathedral of Mary our Queen, Baltimore

(1958). Massachusetts commissions include works in Holyoke, five limestone plaques for the Boston Nazareth Shelter for Homeless Children (1953), and Carney Hospital (1952). Studies for these works are included in the sale. Interestingly, Morenon was said not to be a religious man.

Because the majority of Morenon’s career was spent on public and private commissions, his work has not yet surfaced on the public market. The only example found on the Internet was a 46-inch bas-relief, carved oak study of the “Porte de l’Alma,” which sold at Christie’s/Paris in 2011 for $17,000.

The works being sold at CRN are among Morenon’s favorite pieces, which have remained in the family until his death in Providence, R.I., on the eve of his 99th birthday.

CRN Auctions is at 57 Bay State Road. For information, 617-661-9582 or www.crnauctions.com.

FEATURING WORKS FROM THE ESTATE/STUDIO OF Ernest E. Morenon (France/Boston, 1904-2003)
PREVIEWS AT THE CRN GALLERY:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 FROM 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 FROM 10 A.M. TO 3P.M.
ALSO BY APPOINTMENT – LIMITED PREVIEW MORNING OF SALE
Boston/Seymour ALSO shown: part of a large collection of 19th c. scrimshaw
American Folk Art, c. 1843 OF CHARLES FRANKLIN CARTER WORCESTER, MA UNTOUCHED CONDITION o/c; 27 by 22 in.
American Folk Art Oils on Panel Captain and Grace Doty, c. 1840 Hatchvillle, MA (Cape Cod) 14 by 10 IN.
NEW YORK CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY SECRETARY/DESK c.1750-760 8’6” TALL; CASE 44”W DESCENDED THROUGH THE COOLIDGE FAMILY OF BOSTON
Rare Boston/Seymour Pembroke Table C. 1785-1793 29”h; 31”w
A Private Collection of Mochaware (partially shown)
Newport Chippendale San Domingo Mahogany Tea Table, c. 1730-70 Israell Sack Provenance
New England Painted Trunk original paint 14”h; 32”w
18th c. Boston Silver Jacob Hurd tankard and porringer Paul Revere table spoons
Morenon’s Eterno Conflictto WELDED STEEL AND GILT 45” h
Andre Kertesz (Hungary/America, 1894-1985) Satiric Dancer 1926
below: Berenice Abbott (American, 1898-1991) Queensboro Bridge, New York GELATIN SILVER PRINT PHOTOGRAPHS
Morenon’s The Future GEORGIAN MARBLE, 48” EXHIBITED AT THE BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS IN 1977
left: Morenon The Conductor ’welded steel and enamel, 84’
MORENON WAS AWARDED A GOLD MEDAL FOR HIS MASSIVE CARVED OAK PANELS PORTE DE ALMA AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE 1937 PARIS
INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION IN 1943 MORENON EMIGRATED FROM MARSEILLE TO BOSTON TO BECOME HEAD OF THE BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS SCULPTURE DEPARTMENT FROM 1955 to 1965.
MORENON’S MANY ECCLESIATICAL SCULPTURES INCL. THE PIETA IN THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL, WASHINGTON D.C. AND STONE RELIEFS IN THE CATHEDRAL OF MARY OUR QUEEN, BALTIMORE, MD
Palmer Hayden (American, 1890-1973) o/b; 12 by 10 in.
Maurice Greifenhagen, RA (1862-1931) dated 1884; oil on canvas; 32 BY 26 IN.
Michel Delacroix (French, b. 1933) o/c; 13 by 16 in.
Antonio Jacobsen (American, 1850-1921) Oceanliner Horatio Hall, dated 1899 Brooklyn Bridge from Hoboken, NJ; 22 by 36 in.
Large Georgian Mirror ORIGINAL GLASS
Ralph Cahoon (American, 1910-1982) o/c; 18 by 23.5 in.
Anne Packard, b. 1933 Massachusetts/New Jersey o/b; 8 by 10 in.
Jerome Howes (American, b. 1955) o/c; 28 by 40 in.
19th c. Italian Pietra Dura, Specimen and Marble Table top, 28”diam.
14K Gold Lariat Necklace, 208 grams (other jewelry to be sold)
ENGLISH ANTIQUES Georgian Architect’s Table/Desk (shown fully open)
Pair of George III Satinwood and Mahogany Gaming Tables
MID-CENTURY MODERN AND 20TH C
Gene Moore Tiffany Sterling, 8” (Vof(6) CIRCUS LOTS
Margaret Tafoya Native American Puleblo Santa Clara Blackware Pottery, 18.5”h
Brother Thomas Bezanson Ceramic Vase, 8” Vermont Benedictine Monks
Davis Allen STEEL MESH, 1958
Louis Feron (French/American, 1901-1998) GOLD, AGATE AND BRONZE, 7”h; 11”w
Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008) SCREEN PRINT DATED 1973 35 by 24 in.
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