Showplace Live Estate Auction
January 22 at Noon
40 West 25th Street, NYC
www.nyshowplace.com
auctions@nyshowplace.com
212-633-6063 ext. 808
NEW YORK CITY — On January 22, Auctions at Showplace will present 280 lots of fine and decorative arts directly from New York City metropolitan area estates. Highlights include “Le Printemps” by Georges d’Espagnat, sculpture by Victor Salmones, and a still life by Jean Janseom. Other highlights include furniture by Paul T. Frankl, Herman Miller and Peter Lovig Nielson. Jewelry, glass and ceramics complete the sale.
Paintings open with “Le Printemps,” a 1910 landscape on canvas by Georges D’Espagnat with provenance from Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris; Galerie des Granges, Geneva; and Alexander Kahan Gallery, New York. The painting will be included in the upcoming catalogue raisonné of d’Espagnat. Next are an oil on canvas of an abstracted still life by the Armenian/French painter Jean Jansem, a colorful abstract landscape by Hyde Solomon and a portrait of an infant in watercolor by Maurycy Minkowski. They are followed by a collection of French impressionist paintings, including a seaside landscape with ships at harbor in Normandy by Raymond Thibesart, an impressionist street scene by Charles Lapostolet and a riverside landscape by Georges William Thornley. Also of note are four nautical seaside landscape miniature oil on panel paintings by Baron Jean Antoine Theodore Gudin.
Next are a grouping of abstract works, including an untitled hard edge tondo oval painting by American Gerald Johnson, a modern mixed media on canvas by Roy Dowell and an abstract expressionist serigraph in colors by Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer. Additional Modernist works by Lawrence Glickman and Kayo Lennar are also on offer.
Sculpture highlights include a collection of work by Mexican American sculptor Victor Salmones. Of note is “Fauna (Fountain),” a modern bronze sculpture of a faun, looking back over his left shoulder and crossing his legs with cloven hooves. Next by Salmones is “Skylark,” a bronze sculpture depicting a female trapeze performer with her back untenably arched and seemingly supported by an aerial trapeze. Sculpture highlights continue with an Art Deco patinated bronze statue of a seal atop rocks by Marcel Andre Bouraine.
The sale features a collection of traditional and modern furnishings, opening with an Eames for Herman Miller Midcentury Modern lounge chair and ottoman with black leather upholstery. Next is a rare Paul T. Frankl “Cloud” cork top dining table with mahogany tapered legs, designed in 1948. It is followed by a set of four Paul T. Frankl “Corset” dining chairs upholstered in a light slate gray. Also offered are a Peter Lovig Nielsen Midcentury Modern Scandinavian teak flip top desk, a Yngve Ekstrom for Swedese Scandinavian Modern “Lamino” blond oak lounge chair and ottoman with blue upholstery, a pair of 1970s Bernhard Rohne for Mastercraft Midcentury Modern nightstands in burl wood with acid-etched brass panel detailing, along with two lots of 1970s Bernhard Rohne for Mastercraft Midcentury Modern amboyna burl wood and acid-etched brass dresser cabinets.
Traditional offerings include a Scandinavian Biedermeier Revival kneehole desk in flame birch with marquetry geometric patterns followed by two sets of Scandinavian Biedermeier Revival dining chairs and a Scandinavian Biedermeier-style oval extending table. The sale continues with a rare Gustav Stickley Arts and Crafts/Mission writing desk with two drawers and label inside. Next is a pair of Edwardian British wood stands mounted with gilt bronze accents comprising a cat tail motif and floral rosettes encircling the table top and three legs joined by a flaming torch flambeaux.
Lighting on offer includes a Gino Vistosi Italian Murano glass hung chandelier comprising 42 individual amber and white glass discs hung on a nine-light chromed pendant armature. Also of note is a Tom Corbin “Alexandra” textured patinated bronze torchiere floor lamp. The sale continues with an Oscar Bach gilt bronze and metal table lamp in the form of four nude men, resting on their backs in a scrolling foliate gilt metal spherical frame holding a Steuben gold aurene art glass globe shade.
Decorative arts on offer open with a Finnish Kaj Franck “Bells of Kremlin” decanter set in green and gray smoke glass. There is also a lot of proto-Celtic Lusatian culture Urnfield ceramic clay pottery blackware vessels comprising three double-handled amphora urn pots and one single-handled vase upon three feet, with ribbed and incised geometric designs.
Asian antiques of note include a hexagonal Korean Jeoson Dynasty royal iron incense burner with four panels with a Taoist Chilbo motif, likely made for the king of the Jeoson dynasty (Eighteenth to Nineteenth Century).
The sale includes jewelry, highlighted by a Levian 18K yellow gold brooch/pin, featuring 54 pave set round brilliant yellow sapphires weighing a total of approximately 4 carats, further adorned with 31 bead-set round brilliant diamonds.
The auction can be previewed at Showplace 40 West 25th Street 10 days prior to each sale. For information, www.nyshowplace.com or 212-633-6063.
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