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European Art and Old Masters
Sale #2020

The auction features an impressive and eclectic assortment of paintings, works on paper, prints, and sculpture, ranging from the 17th through the early 20th century, from both the Continent as well as the United Kingdom. Highlights include a select number of Dutch 'Romantic' period 19th century paintings, including by Cornelis Springer and Charles Henri Joseph Leickert, a significant Pierre-Auguste Renoir pastel and rare Claude Monet pastel counterproof, a good collection of Sporting Art from a Newport, Rhode Island Estate, early British, Italian and Dutch paintings, including by John Wilson Carmichael, two attributed to Giovannni Antonio Pellegrini, and Ernst Stuven. Early works on paper, including drawings by Berthe Morisot and William Blake, period prints by Rembrandt van Rijn, Albrecht Durer, and Canaletto are being offered in this sale, as well as a group of Continental sculptures, led by a white marble by Alfred Boucher.

EXHIBITION:
Thursday, April 11th 10am-5pm through Tuesday, April 16th 10am-5pm by appointment only.

Freeman’s / Hindman Auctions
2400 Market Street

Philadelphia, PA

Old Master Through Modern Prints
Sale #2666

A compelling selection of scarce and desirable prints includes woodcuts, engravings, etchings, lithographs, and screenprints and spans the late fifteenth century through the 1900s. Leading the sale are Old Master prints by the perennial quadrumvirate: Dürer, Rembrandt, Piranesi, and Goya, among which are Dürer’s much sought-after engravings Adam and Eve, 1504; and an early, lifetime impression of Rembrandt’s The Pancake Woman, etching and drypoint, 1635, and others. Select Rembrandt etchings come from a private London collection, as well as etchings by Piranesi from his renowned Carceri and Vedute di Roma series, and first editions from Goya’s Los Caprichos.

The auction continues with a stellar group of nineteenth-century prints by the likes of James A. M. Whistler, the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists—including Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, Théophile Steinlen, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and others—as well as an important Winslow Homer etching, Perils of the Sea, 1888. Modern American and European prints round out the auction, with notable representation by Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Gustave Baumann, Thomas Hart Benton, Stuart Davis, and Milton Avery, along with many others. Leading the European modernists is Picasso’s groundbreaking, career-establishing Le Repas Frugal, etching and drypoint, 1904. Additional European modern highlights include prints by Matisse, Miró, Paul Klee, Chagall, Käthe Kollwitz, Dalí and M. C. Escher.

10:30am

EXHIBITION HOURS:
Apr 13th 12pm - 5pm
Apr 15th 12pm - 5pm
Apr 16th 12pm - 5pm
Apr 17th 12pm - 5pm

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY
 

How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX

This ninth sale from Eric Caren's archives offers a bird's eye view of history from a printed, manuscript, and photographic perspective. The sale's highlight is George Washington’s appointment as General and Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, signed by Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress, seen at right ($150,000 - $250,000). Other featured lots include works owned and signed by America's founding fathers, rare broadsides, iconic photographs, and papers regarding pop culture, social movements, and political ideologies.

10am

Potter & Potter Auctions
5001 W. Belmont Avenue

Chicago, IL

Fine Art & Photography -- Fine Press, Fine Bindings
Sale #811

Over 350 lots including original art, prints, photographs, photobooks, fine bindings, and works of the fine press. Featured are collections of Japanese woodblock prints including works by Hiroshige and Hokusai, a large collection of Arion Press books including the Arion Leaves of Grass, and a collection of signed photobooks by contemporary photographers. Featured individual lots include Sandow Birk’s complete Divine Comedy, an original fresco “cartoon” for Ralph Stackpole’s Coit Tower mural, and Léger’s & Cendrars’ livre d’artiste La Fin du Monde, and Salvador Dali’s Alice in Wonderland.

11am

PBA Galleries
605 Addison Street

Berkeley, CA

A Secret Vault

The online auction features a selection of intriguing items recently discovered, or rediscovered, by the owners, a couple from Northern California. The 95 lots include autographed letters from famous people, postage stamps from Great Britain, and an assortment of gold coins from the 19th-20th centuries. Auction highlights include signed correspondence by the late Princess Diana from 1994; by abolitionist leader John Brown; and by biologist Charles Darwin, known as the father of evolution. Also of note is the Great Britain 30 pence Comedians Error Stamp from 1998 that featured English entertainer Joyce Grenfell.

The owners are unsure of the exact provenance of the items in the vault, but many come from overseas and/or were passed down from late family members. In fact, most of the stamps and autographed items were acquired some years ago from Stanley Gibbons in London, England, the world’s oldest rare stamp seller and one of the foremost purveyors of such collectibles. (However, despite its prominence and 167-year history, the company has had a recent change of fortune. After its ill-fated purchase in December 2023 of the world’s most expensive stamp, the British Guiana 1c Magenta, Stanley Gibbons has now become part of the Strand Collectibles Group.)

Eventually, the owners’ items were shipped from Europe and were sent to a storage vault in Wyoming. There other items accumulated over time, and they rested for some years -- only to be rediscovered recently when the owners moved to California. And what a marvelous surprise it must have been to revisit the vault! Now the couple has moved the rediscovered items to auction, in hopes that others will enjoy and appreciate in the light of day what has been hidden away for years.

10:30am - 1:30pm

Turner Auctions + Appraisals
461 Littlefield Avenue

So. San Francisco, CA