The summer auction season at Jackson’s International got off to a sizzling start at its recent auction of American and European fine art and antiques. The sale, which featured four separate collections together with the estate of the late Dr Joseph Stork of Des Moines, Iowa, saw 773 registered bidders representing 34 countries and sales totaling $2,265,450. Scottish works kicked off the European paintings session and all found their way back home via two competing Scottish phone bidders. A large seascape by Peter Graham sold to a buyer from Edinburgh for $11,162 and a painting of children playing in sand dunes by Scottish artist Joseph Morris Henderson tripled its high estimate to fetch $9,400. A watercolor of two women in a boat by British artist Alfred Glendening Jr made $8,225. A small oil of a peasant girl by German artist Heinrich Hirt sold to a collector from Virginia for $9,987 and a pair of Paris street scene paintings by French artist Antoine Blanchard sold to a Texas buyer for $19,975. American paintings highlights included a very small oil on panel sketch by Daniel Garber that sold to the phone for $70,500, a 9-by-22-inch barn painting by Marvin Cone at $56,400 and a 10-by-12-inch cabin scene by William Aiken Walker that a Florida collector snapped up for $37,600 against a presale estimate of $15/20,000. Russian works featuring many items from the John Yopp collection included a watercolor and gouache village scene by Russian artist Silych Sorokovpudov Goriushkin that fetched $27,000 from a Moscow phone bidder and a bronze grouping titled “Farewell Kiss” by Evgeni Lanceray that brought $13,500 from a Dutch buyer. Russian icons included a large icon of Saint Seraphim of Sarov, circa 1903, that hammered down at $19,975, a small icon triptych attributed to the Palekh School that sold to a German buyer for $8,225 and an icon of the Four Births, circa 1800, that sold to a phone bidder from Amsterdam for $7,050. A set of carved marble Stations of the Cross, circa 1920, achieved $30,550. An oil on canvas portrait of a wealthy merchant attributed to the studio of Francesco Solimena realized $17,625 and a Madonna and Child painting by Nineteenth Century Austrian artist F. Rufs sold to a buyer from Houston for $8,812. The second session featured glassware, porcelain, furnishings and decorative arts, including items from the Lucile Lussenden collection from Choteau, Mont., and the Robert Beauchamp collection of Swiss “Black Forest” carvings. Porcelain highlights included a Sevres gilt-bronze mounted centerpiece that sold to a California buyer for $7,600, a pair of 25- inch Sevres-style urns that brought $5,500 from a Moscow buyer and a 13-inch Wedgwood Fairyland Luster console bowl at $5,400. Perhaps the most eagerly awaited items on day two were the French ormolu mounted furniture from the Lussenden collection. Highlights include a Louis XV-style gilt-bronze mounted kingwood and mahogany vitrine stand by Francois Linke. Bidding opened at the high estimate of $15,000 and quickly rose to the final bid of $56,400. Next was a Louis XV-style gilt-mounted kingwood Bonheur Du Jour by Joseph Emmanual Zwiener that achieved $44,650 against a presale estimate of $8/12,000. The Zwiener piece was followed by French gilt-bronze mounted ebony Bifouterie table after the model by Adam Weisweiler. It sold to a New York phone bidder for $21,150. Lighting highlights included a Duffner & Kimberly 28-inch hanging leaded glass lamp shade that sold to a Chicago buyer for $22,912, a small standard Tiffany table lamp with iridescent green shade for $5,600 and a small Pairpoint Puffy boudoir lamp, 15 inches in height, at $4,900. The Swiss carvings offered included a bearish hallstand depicting a mother bear at the base of a tree on which her young cub has climbed – the 89-inch tall carving ($6/9,000) sold to a buyer from New York for $19,975 – a monumental 30-inch carved cuckoo clock, $11,750, and a carved wood bench supported by a pair of bears, $11,150. All prices reported include the buyer’s premium. For information, www.jacksonsauction.com or 800-665-6743. 
08 Aug 2006 / 0 Comment
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