Kensington Estate Auctions – Estate Fine Art & Antique On-Line Auction
Monday, 13 January 2025 7:00pm EST
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CLINTONDALE, N.Y. — Spanning history and geography, Kensington Estate Auction’s January 13 online sale will feature antiquities, Eighteenth through Twenty-First Century art, photography, sculptures, rugs, tapestries, stamps, jewelry, objets d’art, antiquarian books, ethnographic items, collectables, Judaica, Americana, carvings and more.

Ancient coins are the foundation of elegant jewelry as can been seen in pairs of earrings and pendants featured in the jewelry category. Elevating anyone’s jewelry collection are opal, pearl, gold and topaz rings, a double strand pearl necklace, white and yellow gold and diamond necklaces, sterling silver Tiffany and Gucci, Ivor Hoth designed pendants and a vintage Elgin pocket watch.

Traveling to the Near and Middle East, the connoisseur will be interested in the Carl Oscar Borg painting, antique Islamic Persian Qajar period painted tiles, Qajar Indo-Persian pierced covered urn, Indo-Persian silver inlay lamp/vase, vintage Indian painted folk art shuttered window, Arabian desert paintings by Buller and breathtaking photographs of the desert by Daniel Zirinsky.

Notable in antiquarian books is a book by Bella Chagall inscribed and illustrated by Marc Chagall. Adding to this unique section is A Glimpse At The United States and the Canadas by Edmund Patten (with maps), the 1790 Le Triomphe de la Mort (Dance of Death) by Wenceslas Hollar (with engravings), John Murray’s 1830 Judaica: The History of the Jews (including all maps), William Hollowy’s Scenes of Youth or Rural Recollections (1803), Dentistry: The Teeth by Edward Miles (1846) and a house favorite is the antique French leather-bound book with a secret safe compartment.

The sale will offer paintings by New York City artist John LeGrand. Known for his landscapes, New York City scenes, nudes and set designs, LeGrand has the ability to capture the artistry of life. Each of the paintings to be auctioned is from his estate.

The continued art collection circles the globe from America to the European and Asian continents, including the art of Levon West, Robert Dickey, Abraham Walkowitz, Saul Raskin, Mary Louise Spoor, Paul Rowe, Xavier Barile, Christopher Valente (Chicago), Shalom of Safed, Tang Maohong, Alexander Gore, Russ Westover, Valente (Spain), Xakasa Nomandla (South Africa), Prayat Pongdam (Thailand), etchings from Sir William Hamilton (ancient vases), Eighteenth Century fish etchings and more.

An important subset of the art category is a collection of urban art. With an exclusive opportunity, Kensington Estate Auction will sell the urban psycho-visceral surrealism of the New York artist Irrix Screen 918189X. The urban art category is complemented by LA II (Angel Ortiz), Andy Warhol (“Cow” from the Whitney Museum), the 1967 “Visionaries” of Peter Max, a 1967 Neon Rose/Janis Joplin concert program, a Vanitas still life painting and Mary Palidofska’s painting of “Hamlet’s Skull Scene.”

Ethnographic works include a lithograph from R.C. Gorman, kachinas, a carving by the Alaskan artist Israel Shotridge, a Native American quilted and beaded medicine/tobacco pouch, a Shona carving by Richard Mteki, a Madhubani Hindu folklore painting and the around-the-world photography of Daniel Zirinsky.

Sculpture varieties include Marvin Hockman, a signed Art Nouveau bronze, Art Deco Frankart lamps, Zachariah Njobo, Yaacov Heller, C. Jere (“Raindrops”), Frank Meisler, several Nineteenth-Twentieth Century bronze sculptures and more.

Available rugs include an antique French Aubusson wool rug, a Kazak Caucasian wool rug with an eagle motif and hand-woven Americana pictorial rugs.

To attend the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria conducted at London’s Guildhall in 1897 one needed an invitation, which this auction provides. The documentation of the royal military appointment of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston in 1853 is also available. And polar explorer Admiral Robert Peary is represented by an inscribed portrait of him from 1896.

The auction catalog includes American and European stamps and postcards, vintage miniatures, an iron door stop, antique miniature furniture and boxes, vintage yellowware pottery, Nineteenth Century desk inkwells, Nineteenth Century Italian carved marionette theater puppets, an Emeralite banker’s desk lamp, Staffordshire dish sets, vintage signed Daum Nancy crystal, a carnival folk art merry-go-round and an antique majolica stork umbrella stand, just to name a few.

Online bidding has begun with live bidding on January 15 at 7 pm. In addition, phone and left bids are accepted. For additional information, email kensinstonauc@aol.com.

Registration & bidding through: www.liveauctioneers.com or www.invaluable.com Left & phone bids accepted.
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Lot 75: Warhol Exhibition Poster COW Whitney Museum 1971
Lot 15: Explorer Admiral Robert Peary Portrait, 1896
Lot 30: Marc Chagall Signed Book, Bella Chagall, N.Y. 1945
Lot 3: Alexander The Great Ancient Coin/Earrings Set
Lot 10: 1815 Needlework Sampler, Eliza Reynolds, Age 14
Lot 80: C. Jere, Raindrops, Mid-Century Modern Wall Sculpture
Lot i: Carl Oscar 8org, Orientalist Oil Painting
Lot 8: Mary Louise Spoor, lack & Jill, 1918
Lot 2: Islamic Persian Qajar Period Tile Panel, c.1850
Lot 79: Irrix Screen 918189X, Urban Codex
Lot 76: LA II Graffiti Painted Side Tables Tagged
Lot 170: American Stamp Collection & Mining Certificates
Lot 20: Robert Livingston Dickey Chips For Ransom, 1930
Lot 14: Q. Victoria Signed Military Document, 1853
Lot 6: Antique Qajar Indo-Persian Pierced Urn