Wilton Armetale the American Collection Museum of American Folk Art
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Stevenson Americana/Folk Art Collection Featured With Eclectic Decorative Arts at Schwenke Holiday Fine Estates Auction
- WOODBURY, Connecticut
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- November 13, 2015
Many Fine Artworks Offered, To Include Rare Group of 7 Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita Gouaches
On Sunday November 22nd Schwenke Auctioneers will sell over 430 lots in its Holiday Fine Estates Auction. The sale begins at 11:00 am with an eclectic and various offering of 235 lots of Mid Century Modern, American, English, Continental and Asian decorative arts, consigned from estates and consignors from Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Beginning at 2:00pm the Stevenson Americana/Folk Fine art Collection will be sold. The Stevenson Collection includes over 200 lots of fine 17th and 18th century American article of furniture, primitive and folk art paintings and portraits, and a variety of other fine and decorative American arts.
This sale is existence held in the business firm's auction hall at 710 Main Street South, Middle Quarter Plaza, in Woodbury. Preview times are Th, Nov 19th through Saturday, November 21st from ten:00am to v:00pm, and Sunday, November 22nd from nine:00am to 11:00 am.
Part Ane - Various Owners & Consignors:
Fine art lots are headed by a group of 7 individual Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968), original costume designs created in 1928 for a play directed by Fernand Gemier at the Odeon Theatre de 50'Europe, Paris, written by Albert Keim and Albert Maybon after the historic Japanese drama Chuzenji Monogatari, by Okamoto Kido and translated by Kuni Matsuo. The works, graphite and watercolor on newspaper, were authenticated by Sylvie Buisson and included in the Foujita Catalogue Raisonne by Sylvie et Dominique Buisson, "La Vie et l'Oeuvre de Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita", ACR Éditions, Paris, 2001, #28. Provenance listed is Fernande Gemier to a collector in Switzerland; thence to an American individual collector.
Other fine art lots include a Josephine "Jerome" Sands (American, B. 1913), "Figures At River" oil on board, signed lower right "Jerome". Sight size: 24 three/4" high, 21 1/4" wide. Frame size: 28 1/2" high, 25" wide; a Robert Natkin (American, 1930-2010) "Benke Serial" acrylic on paper, signed in pencil lower center "Natkin", sheet size 26 one/2" high, 36" broad; an untitled oil on sheet past Ernest Briggs (New York, Connecticut, 1923-1984), signed, dated verso "Due east. Briggs, '55", sight size: 14 1/iv" high, 21 1/2" wide; and a large work by Lowell Nesbitt (American, 1933-1993), entitled "Alex Katz's Studio - 72", oil on sail, signed and titled verso, sight size 65" high, 95" wide.
Noteworthy mid-century modern lots include a Furlan Walter (b. 1931) "Omaggio a Picasso" Murano glass sculpture, abstruse caput of a woman. Signed and titled on the base of operations and numbered 8/xx, the piece measures sixteen one/2" high, base 9" broad, viii" deep; a Joseph David Broudo (B. 1920) ceramic sculpture, signed lower right "Broudo", standing 14 1/4" high, 7 1/ii" wide; an Italian ceramic mask in the manner of Eugenio Pattarino, numbered verso "45/one Italy" and measuring 13 1/2" high, 14" wide; an unusual signed Modernist wood and glass coffee table, measuring 17 i/two" high, 61" long, 26" deep; and a Modernist bronze sculpture, bandage as 5 pairs of wrestlers in a series of consecutive poses simulating a Judo throw, mounted on a plexiglass stand up, the work sized at 7" high, 39" wide, 4 1/4" deep
Among the several jewelry lots offered are 2 platinum and diamond rings, the larger stamped "Jeff Cooper Plat" containing one natural diamond of 1.32 carats flanked by two natural tapered baguette cut diamonds totaling .20 carats and iv square step cut natural diamonds totaling .16 carats. The lot includes a GIA report for the center diamond certifying carat weight ane.32 carat, colour grade J, clarity course VS1. The ring stamped "Plat" containing ten natural diamonds, iv round bright cut totaling .xi carats and 6 foursquare step cut totaling .40 carats. The lot also includes an appraisal report from the International Gemological Found.
Many lots of sterling will cross the block, including a fine Gorham sterling silver partial flatware service in the Lansdowne design, monogrammed, containing one hundred twelve total pieces, comprising twelve forks, twelve knives, twelve soup spoons, twelve fish forks, eleven teaspoons, ten ice cream forks, ten fruit spoons, ten butter knives, eleven seafood forks, eleven demitasse spoons, serving fork and spoon. Total weighable silverish of the lot is 98.50 OZT.
Miscellaneous decorative arts in the sale include a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk, having the original label in the interior, stamped #153691, with tray, hasp plate stamped with New York and London addresses and patent, measuring 12 3/4" high, 31 3/4" wide, 19 one/2" deep; a grouping of six Russian porcelain plates with depictions of Russian Army soldiers, transfer decorated, 12" diameter; and a Carl Kauba (Austrian/American, 1865-1922) "Indian and Canoe" painted statuary, incised "Kauba" with illegible foundry stamp on canoe side, measuring 5" high, x" wide.
Several lots of Asian decorative arts are on offer, and the auction too includes several fine estate Persian and Caucasian rugs in scatter and room sizes.
Function Two - The Stevenson Americana/Folk Fine art Collection
The Stevenson Americana/Folk Art Drove being sold starting at two:00 pm on sale twenty-four hour period offers something for everyone interested in 17th and 18th century American decorative arts. Ranging from a rare small early American carved horn snuff box, with the top engraved "Robt. Morris" to a rare Connecticut cherrywood Queen Anne secretary with high cabriole legs, drop downwardly writing board and blocked interior, the Stevenson Collection comprises ii hundred pick lots of early on Colonial furniture and decorations sourced from prime number New England sources over the form of many years of collecting.
Notable furniture lots include several early on bannister back, pilgrim century and windsor side and arm chairs; many early Queen Anne ruby-red, maple and paint decorated tea, tap and drop leaf tables; example items including a cherry Queen Anne lowboy, a William and Mary walnut highboy, a cherrywood ogee footed four drawer chest, and an early paint busy blanket chest; and several other early candlestands, side tables, and mirrors.
Choices lots to exist offered include several early folk fine art paintings and portraits. Of meaning interest is a pair of pair of oil on poplar panel portraits of a hubby and wife, unsigned and unframed, with patently original brass ring hangers. Attributed to Zedekiah Belknap (American 1781-1858), the works measure approximately 27" high, 22" wide. Belknap worked mainly in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont between 1807 and the late 1840s as an itinerant portrait painter, and is known to have painted over 150 portraits, most unsigned just highly owing.
Folk portraits include an anonymous oil on console portrait of William Lovejoy, Esquire, noted in an inscription verso as the son of Major Samuel and Lydia Abbot Lovejoy, built-in Wilton, New Hampshire, died Milford, New Hampshire 1823. The painting is 27 1/2" high by 19 1/ii" broad sight; a framed oil on lath portrait of a admirer in a blackness glaze, in the plainly original frame, sight size 29 1/2" loftier, 22 iii/4" broad; and a charming American School folk fine art painting of a young girl with sewing basket, oil on canvas, unsigned, sight size 32 1/2" high, 27 1/2" wide. Another fine artwork to be sold is an oil on canvas painting in the way of George Stubbs (English 1724-1806). The work depicts a horse with groom, titled "President - Favorite Mount of Lady Beauclerk". Unsigned, the work is 27 1/2" loftier, 35 1/2" wide.
Decorations and accessories include many lots of early lighting, textiles, theorems, tinsel art, andirons, delft tiles and chargers, and many folk art paintings and small-scale artworks.
The itemize for the auction is viewable at www.woodburyauction.com. Net, absentee and telephone bidding are available by registering directly with Schwenke Auctioneers. The auction will exist circulate live through Live Auctioneers, Invaluable and Bidsquare. For information please call Schwenke Auctioneers at 203-266-0323.
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