PITTSFIELD, MASS. — On June 6-7, Fontaine’s Auction Gallery conducted its Two-Day Fine & Decorative Arts Auction, a nearly 1,050-lot event that realized $7.75 million. Achieving the sale’s highest price was a Tiffany Studios landscape window depicting sheep along a riverbank in the valley of iridescent mountains. The window was deaccessioned from the Forest Hill & Calvary Cemetery in Kansas City, Mo., where it had hung in the Forest Hill Abbey. The circa 1920 leaded glass window, measuring 72 by 24 inches, was reportedly commissioned by Sidney Lovell, a Chicago-based architect who was recognized for his design of mausoleums and memorial buildings, according to catalog notes. This window, signed “Louis C. Tiffany, N.Y.,” far exceeded its $80/120,00 estimate to achieve $275,000, including buyer’s premium, and led what owner John Fontaine called a great weekend auction. A future report will contain additional highlights from this sale.
