Shannon’s – Fine Art Auction
Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 6PM ET
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49 Research Drive Milford, Connecticut 06460

MILFORD, CONN. — Shannon’s will host its annual spring fine art auction on Thursday, May 8, at 6 pm. The auction, featuring 169 lots, will showcase several examples of American art, Modern art and contemporary art. The diverse offerings will surely attract an international audience of collectors and museums.

Leading the auction is a rare early 1939 painting by Wifredo Lam, a Cuban artist who worked in Paris and collaborated with Picasso beginning in 1938. Picasso proclaimed Lam and his lost cousin and the two were lifelong friends inspiring one another’s artistic production.

The painting is a portrait of a woman on a red ground painted in a Modernist style. Inspired by his Afro-Cuban heritage and a mental act of decolonization, Lam used motifs from so-called “Primitive” art and his own cultural heritage. This fresh-to-the-market portrait is estimated at $100/150,000.

From another early Twentieth Century genre, a portrait of a “Laughing Youngster named Patience” is one of the leading lots of American art offered at $80/120,000. Painted in 1915, the animated young girl is painted with a sweet mess of brown curly hair and a vibrant red dress. This painting has been in a private collection for decades.

Another Ashcan-era painting leads the American art offerings. George Wesley Bellows’s “Old Orchard, Newport” depicts a horse next to an orchard with the waterways of Newport visible in the distance. Bellows studied under Henri at the New York School of Art and became a leading American Modernist alongside contemporaries Edward Hopper and Rockwell Kent. “Old Orchard, Newport” is estimated at $60/80,000.

One of the most unique offerings in the auction is a painting of a “Worshipper” by Indian Surrealist master artist Bikash Bhattacharjee. The large, 40-by-42-inch canvas depicts a person kneeling in prayer on train tracks. This highly expressive painting is being offered for sale with an estimate of $80/120,000.

Shannon’s excels at attracting quality Nineteenth Century American paintings and this sale is no exception. A rare oil painting by Henry Roderick Newman depicting a “View of Florence” will be offered at auction for the first time. Newman, a celebrated watercolorist, is known for his depictions of architectural subjects such as the famed Duomo depicted in the current scene. He is an American Pre-Raphaelite, and his attention to detail is evident in this impressive composition. The painting is estimated to bring $40/60,000.

Other Nineteenth Century American highlights include Thomas Moran’s 1890 “East Hampton” ($25/35,000), a rare Louis Remy Mignot titled “Autumn Landscape” ($40/60,000) and paintings by William Stanley Haseltine, J. Alden Weir, Antonio Jacobsen and more.

Painted in the spirit of American Impressionists like Guy C. Wiggins, Shannon’s will offer a large, 30-by-24-inch view of “The City in Winter” by Pennsylvania artist Laurence A. Campbell ($40/60,000).

The auction will also feature Impressionist paintings, including “May in the Garden” by Childe Hassam ($20/30,000), a portrait by William Chadwick of his wife in a “Blue Kimono” ($12/18,000), a collection of paintings by Jane Peterson and landscapes by Ernest Lawson, Charles Warren Eaton, George G. Symons, Richard Hayley Lever and more.

The gallery will be open for a public preview beginning on April 28 through May 7 (weekdays from 10 am to 6 pm) and Saturday, May 3, from 10 am to 3 pm.

Bidding is available live on www.shannons.com or by telephone.

Shannon’s is at 49 Research Drive, Unit C. To view auction updates or to join the mailing list visit www.shannons.com, info@shannons.com or 203-877-1711.

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UPCOMING:
Laurence A. Campbell, est. $40,000-60,000
Henry R. Newman, est. $40,000-60,000
George Bellows, est. $60,000-80,000
Anthony Thieme, est. $20,000-30,000
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