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Title/Subject: Sunset Glow
Across A Desert Landscape Signed. Gouache on paper. 20 in. x
28 in. sold for $3,585 on 08/07/2006 at Bonhams &
Butterfields, San Francisco CA
Title/Subject: Afternoon Glow,
La Crescenta, CA Signed. Gouache on paper. 10 in. x 15 in.
sold for $1,793 on 05/03/2006-05/04/2006 at Heritage
Auctions, Dallas, TX
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Title/Subject: Rainstorm In
Foothill Landscape Signed. Gouache on board. 8 in. x 10 in.
sold for $2,300 on 06/21/2005 at John Moran Auctioneers,
Altadena, CA
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Title/Subject: Oaks.
California Landscape Signed. Gouache on board. 7 in. x 10
in. sold for $2,000 on 12/08/2004 at Bonhams &
Butterfields, San Francisco CA
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Title/Subject: Saguaro Hill
Signed. Watercolor on paper. 8.70 in. x 13.70 in. sold
for $3,163 on 06/25/1998 at Bonhams & Butterfields,
San Francisco CA
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Title/Subject: Arizona
Signed. Gouache on paper. 9.50 in. 14.20 x in. sold for
$1,870 on 10/24/1995 at John Moran Auctioneers,
Altadena, CA
19. J. W.(?)
(California 20th Century) “California Winter”
Signed illegibly. On stretcher on verso, titled. Oil on
canvas. 30 Ľ in. x 25 Ľ in. Estimate: $300-$600
Sloans &
Kenyon take good close-up and blow-up photographs of
the signature on front and title on verso and send to
me, so that I can make an attempt to read the writing
on the front and verso
Note 1) Mr.
Fastov thinks this “California Winter” landscape may
have been executed by an artist, who was familiar with
and greatly appreciated and influenced by the artistic
style and technique of John Marshall Gamble. He
recognizes the differences between the brushwork of
this artist and high key coloring, and that of Gamble,
but sees a very strong influence of Gamble in the
subject matter and composition of “California Winter.”
He further believes, that it is a very attractive
Impressionist landscape with very vivid coloring and
buttery, fluid Impressionist brush strokes, and that
the artist, who painted this painting, was highly
skilled American Impressionist of 1910-1920's, and,
perhaps later. Mr. Fastov also suggests that the artist
probably chose the title of “California Winter” as a
tribute to the relatively mild California winters.
These views are reflected in the presale estimate of
$300-$600, which is very reasonable and offers a
knowledgeable collector of or dealer in California
Impressionist art an opportunity to bid on and purchase
a very fine Impressionist painting in good condition
for a bargain basement price.
20. Virgilio
Tojetti (Italy/California/New York 1851-1901) A scene
from Greek mythology, perhaps, a male God in a red robe
sitting amidst the clouds, possibly a Greek God, Hermes
or Apollo, because of the lyre lying at his feet,
attended by 3 women and 3 putti, one of whom is
carrying a studded shield, in the clouds. Signed and
dated “1876” lower right. Oil on canvas. 10 ľ in. x 10
ľ in. The painting is framed in its exquisite, original,
beautifully-decorated, period gold frame, with a 10 ľ
in. x 10 ľ in. octagonal aperture in the inner flat
square liner of the frame, through which the
mythological scene is visible. This is a small
painting, which almost certainly served as a Tojetti study
for a mural or fresco in a major private or public San
Francisco edifice, as faint scoring lines for transfer
in connection with a mural painting or fresco are
visible. On the verso of the canvas, is the stencil of
Morris Schwab & Co. an Emporium purveying
paintings, etchings, gold frames in “All Styles” and
artist's materials, located at 21 Post Street, San
Francisco. Estimate: $1,000-$2,000
Note 1) The
following biographical materials are taken from the
Askart.com website:
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Painter,
muralist. Born in Rome, Italy on March 15, 1849, the
son of Domenico Tojetti. Virgilio was a pupil of his
father and later studied in Paris with Gérome and
Bouguereau. He was a resident of San Francisco from
1871 until about 1883 when he moved to NYC where he
painted murals in the Savoy Hotel, Hoffman House and
others. He became popular in the East as a painter of
genre scenes and frescoes. Tojetti died of Bright's
disease in NYC on March 26, 1901. Exh: NAD, 1883;
Mechanics' Inst. (SF), 1888. In: Society of Calif.
Pioneers. Ben; CAR; AAA 1903 and NY Times, 3-28-1901
(obits)”
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Note 2) The
foregoing considerations, including the above
biographical information, and the following auction
records regarding Tojetti sales warrant the conclusion
that the presale estimate of $1,000-$2,000 is
reasonable and justifiable.
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Title/Subject:
Cupid's Whisper Signed. Oil on
canvas. 40.25 in. x 25.25 in. sold for $630,043.32,875
on 11/10/2010 at Doyle, NYC
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Title/Subject:
Flying Putti Signed. Oil on
canvas. 13 in. x 15 in. sold for $1,125 on 02/11/2009
at Doyle,
NYC
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Title/Subject:
The Muse Of Music With Dancing
Putti Signed.
Oil on canvas. 21.25 in. x 14.25 in. sold for $3,000
on 10/21/2008 at Bonhams, NY
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Title/Subject:
Floating Female Nudes And Putti
Against Moonlit Sky Signed. Oil on canvas. Measurements not
available, sold for $2,100 on 09/11/2004 at
Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales,
Hillsborough, NC
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Title/Subject:
Untitled Signed. Oil on canvas. 10 in. x 20 in. sold
for $2,100 on 12/15/2003 at Rose Hill Auction Gallery, LTD,
Englewood, NJ
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Title/Subject:
Muses Signed. Oil on canvas. 12 in. x 55 in. sold
for $10,462 on 11/09/1989 at Bonhams
& Butterfields, San Francisco CA
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ABSOLUTELY FINAL PART 3 OF CALIFORNIA
ARTISTS AND
SUBJECTS (DECEMBER 2012)
21. William Posey
Silva (California/Tennessee/Washington, D.C. 1859-1948) Notre
Dame and the Seine, c. 1907-1909. A highly Impressionistic,
tonalistic, and very subtle view of Notre Dame and the Seine
in Paris on a very foggy day. Signed lower left. Oil on
canvas. 22 in. x 18 in. Estimate: $19,000-$31,000
Note 1) The
following Silva biographical materials are taken from the
Askart.com website:
“A landscape
painter, William Silva was an important art world figure in
Tennessee and also in California, where he moved in 1913 and
for thirty-five years devoted himself to painting cypresses,
eucalypti, dunes, and coasts.
He was born in
Savannah, Georgia, and studied at Catham Academy and
engineering at the University of Virginia. He inherited the
family chinaware business, which he ran successfully for thirty
years until he began painting at age 50.
In 1887, he moved
to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and there became known as “the
finest artist at the turn of the century” (Gerdts “Art Across
America” v. III). He painted in an Impressionist style and
did many panoramic views of Chatatanooga as well as paintings
of the pine forests near Savannah. Initially he pursued his
chinaware business there but in 1894, began to take art
instruction.
Encouraged by his
wife, he retired from his business in 1907 and enrolled at
the Academy Julian in Paris as a student of Jean Paul
Laurens. He also painted with American artist Chauncey Ryder.
Recognition came quickly, and he had his first solo
exhibition in 1909 in Paris at the Georges Petit Gallery.
That same year he
returned to Chattanooga and a moment of great fame was the
winning of the silver medal in 1910 at the Appalachian
Exposition in Knoxville where he displayed seventy canvases. He
then moved to Washington D.C. where he was active in the
Society of Washington Artists until he moved to California in
1913.
He built a studio
off Carmelita Street in the sand dunes but continued to
exhibit with the Southern States Art League and also
maintained close ties with his birthplace, Savannah, where in
1917 a solo exhibition was held at the Telfair Academy. He
was a member of numerous organizations including the
California Art Club and the Salmagundi Club.
He died on
February 10, 1948.
Source:
Edan Hughes, “Artists in California, 1786-1940 (Emphasis
added).”
Note 2) This Silva
painting is very sophisticated and esthetically appealing
Impressionist work of art. It is an extremely delicate subtle
and diaphanous view of Notre Dame Cathedral and the Seine in
Paris on a very foggy day. This view was painted by Silva at
sometime between 1907 and 1909, when he was enrolled at the
Academy Julian in Paris as a student of Jean Paul Laurens in
1907. Silva achieved what Mr. Fastov believes is one of his
best and most beautiful Impressionist views, when Silva was
48 and beginning his formal art career, having just retired
from business, and had been engaged in painting, in effect,
as a hobby. Even though Silva depicted foggy landscapes
throughout his career (See “View of New Orleans from the West
Bank” and “A Quiet Corner In The Garden Of Dreams,” immediately
below), there is no Silva work in which he portrays as
successfully the totally enveloping effect of an extremely
thick fog with a very thin and delicate layering and glazing.
Silva's total focus and subject was the fog, not the
impressive Notre Dame Cathedral and the Seine River. It is a
tour de force of artistic style, technique and skill in which
Silva totally enshrouded these hallmarks of Paris in a deep,
dense fog. 11:13 AMhe following two
Silva paintings, one of which is much smaller than this
auction offering and one which is slightly larger, both
manifest a foggy misty impressionist quality that is very
similar, but not as pervasive and as well painted as this
auction offering, which suggests that a presale estimate of
$19,000-$31,000 would be very appropriate, given the very
fine, sophisticated, Impressionistic, Tonalistic seminal work
by Silva, the overriding characteristic of which is his
magnificent handling and depiction of fog, as it affects a
classic Parisian art subject, Notre Dame and the Seine River.
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Title/Subject: View Of New
Orleans From The West Bank Signed. Oil on artist's board. 9
in. x 12 in. sold for $19,200 on 05/20/2006-05/21/2006 at
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, LA
Title/Subject: A Quiet Corner
In The Garden Of Dreams Signed. Oil on canvas. 20 in. x 24 in. sold for
$32,000 on 03/29/2008-03/30/2008 at Charlton Hall
Galleries, Inc., West Columbia, SC
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Note 3) The foregoing considerations,
including the above biographical information and auction
records, and the following auction records buttress the
assertion that a presale estimate of $19,000-$31,000 is
reasonable and justifiable.
Title/Subject: Georgia Coastline Signed. Oil on canvas. 30
in. x 25 in. sold for $21,000 on 06/14/2008-06/15/2008
at Charlton
Hall Galleries, Inc., West Columbia, SC
Title/Subject: Reflections in a
Charleston Garden
Signed. Oil on canvas. 16 in. x 20 in. sold for $19,000 on 09/09/2006-09/10/2006
at Charlton
Hall Galleries, Inc., West Columbia, SC
22. Frank J.
Zimmerer (California 1882-1965) Impressionist view of a
stream flanked by trees and plants, with hills in the
distance under an overcast sky. Signed and dated “1939” lower
right. Oil on canvas. 25 in. x 28 in. Estimate: $300-$500
Note 1) The
following biographical materials are taken from the
Askart.com website:
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Nebraska City, NE on Jan. 23, 1882. Artistically inclined
at an early age, Zimmerer studied at the AIC followed by
further study in Scotland at the Glasgow School of Art and
in Paris. Early in his career he was active in Missouri,
Chicago, Indianapolis, and NYC. An administrator, he was
head of the art department of Northwest Missouri Normal. By
1924 he had moved to Los Angeles into a studio on Olvera
Street. He died there on Oct. 17, 1965. Exh: Hollywood
Library, 1924; Calif. Art Club, 1926-27; Santa Cruz Art
League, 1934.
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Edan
Hughes, ”Artists in California, 1786-1940”
City Directory;
California Arts and Architecture list, 1932; Artists
of the American West (Doris Dawdy);American Art
Annual 1923-27; Nebraska Arts and Artists.
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Note 2) Askart.com
records regarding Zimmerer show that he has had no sales at
auction. Thus, the foregoing biographical considerations and
the good quality of this Impressionist landscape, its large
size and good condition are the basis for the reasonable
presale estimate of $300-$500.
23. George
Thompson Pritchard (New Zealand/California 1878-1962) “London
Fog” An Impressionist view of a light London fog on the
Thames River under billowing clouds, with the London Bridge
in the background and large sailing ships in the foreground
and the eddies in the Thames River water. Signed lower right.
Titled on an artist's label on verso. Oil on canvas. 25 in. x
30 in. Estimate $2,000-$4,000
Note 1) The
following biographical materials are taken from the
Askart.com website:
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11, 1878, George Pritchard studied in Aukland at the
Academy of Art, the Elam School of Art, and the Melbourne
Academy of Fine Arts (1901).
Upon arriving in
San Francisco in 1906 in the aftermath of the earthquake,
he produced many paintings during his three-year stay. A
few years were then spent in Milwaukee before journeying on
to Paris for further art study at Académie Julian, and at
the Vanderheldt Academy in Amsterdam (1911-14).
During WWI he
lived in Canada, New York City, and Richmond, Virginia.
Pritchard lectured and exhibited at colleges and
universities throughout the South. In 1935 he settled in
southern California and had studios in Glendale and Santa
Monica. He taught art at his studio, exhibited regularly
with the Glendale and Santa Monica Art Associations, and
painted many landscapes and seascapes.
He died in
Reseda, California on Feb. 26, 1962.
Exhibitions:
Tuesday
Afternoon Club (Glendale), 1934; Webb Gallery (LA), 1946.
Collections:
California
Historical Society, Gardena High School.
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Source:
Edan
Hughes, ”Artists in California, 1786-1940,”
National Cyclopedia of American Biography.”
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Askart.com also
indicates that Pritchard’s works are in the collections of
the New Zealand House of Representatives, Springville Museum
of Art, Springville, UT and the Wright Museum of Art, Beloit
College, WI.
Note 2) The
foregoing considerations, including the above biographical
information, the superb manner in which Pritchard depicted an
Impressionist view of a light London fog on the Thames River
under billowing clouds, with the London Bridge in the
background and large sailing ships in the foreground and the
eddies in the Thames River water with excellent brushwork;
the painting's large size, good condition and attractive
framing; and the following auction records regarding Pritchard
sales warrant the conclusion that the presale estimate of
$2,000-$4,000 is reasonable and justifiable.
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Title/Subject: A Canal Scene Signed. Oil on canvas.
25 in. x 30 in. sold for $3,250 on 12/10/2010-12/12/2010
at DuMouchelles Auction House, Detroit, MI
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Title/Subject: Sailing at
Sunset Signed.
Oil on canvas. 25 in. x 30 in. sold for $8,365 on 11/28/2006
at Bonhams, New York
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Title/Subject: Untitled Signed. Oil on canvas.
24 in. x 30 in. sold for $4,125 on 02/17/200 4 at John
Moran Auctioneers, Altadena, CA
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Title/Subject: Boats In
Fortress Harbor
Signed. Oil on canvas. 24.50 in. x 28.50 in. sold for
$2,200 on 06/17/2003 at John Moran Auctioneers, Altadena, CA
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Title/Subject:
Harbor
Scene Signed.
Oil on canvas. 24 in. x 28 in. sold for $2,400 on 12/06/1998
at Treadway/Toomey,
Oak Park, IL
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Title/Subject:
Signed.
Oil on canvas. 25 in. x 30 in. sold for $2,475 on 06/24/1992
at Bonhams
& Butterfields, San Francisco CA
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Title/Subject:
Fishermen On The Dock Signed. Oil on
canvas. 25 in. x 30 in. sold for $3,850 on 02/15/1989
at Bonhams
& Butterfields, San Francisco CA
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24. Hugo Anton
Fisher (California 1854-1916) Dramatic vista of cows watering
in a mountain lake with a subtly painted atmospheric fog
shrouding the mountain tops. Signed lower left Watercolor. 20
in. x 29 in. Estimate: $1,000-$2,500
Note 1) The
following biographical materials are taken from the
Askart.com website:
“Hugo Fisher was
known for his skill in watercolor painting of landscapes.
Born in Kladno, Czechoslovakia in 1854, he remained in his
native land to study art with his father and Anton Mauve in
Prague. Fisher came to the United States in 1874. He lived in
New York City for a period, and there he married Addie Pond.
The couple moved to Alameda, California in 1886, and Fisher
set up a studio in nearby San Francisco. While commuting to
his studio by ferryboat, he sketched scenes of the marshes
and the countryside. The couple had two children. His son,
Hugo Melville Fisher, followed in his father's footsteps, and
became a skilled painter, recognized in California for his
Impressionist style.
In 1896, the
Pacific Commercial Advertiser newspaper reported that Fisher
had opened a studio in J. J. Williams' Photo Studio in
Honolulu. The same year the magazine “Paradise of the
Pacific” reproduced a watercolor by Fisher depicting Manoa
Valley in Honolulu. Fisher specialized in watercolor, but one
of his rare oils is a glowing sunrise scene of Hilo Bay, on
the island of Hawaii.
ate in 1896,
Fisher returned to the U.S. mainland, selling all his
paintings with the exception of one.
Fisher gained
critical praise for his work and became popular on both the
East and West coasts. He exhibited in New York and California
and was a member of the San Francisco Art Association. Fisher
lost many of his early paintings when his studio was
destroyed in the San Francisco Earthquake in 1906.
Hugo Fisher died
in Alameda, California in 1916.
Sources:
Edan Hughes,
“Artists in California, 1786-1940; “Don Severson, “Finding
Paradise”
Note 2) Fisher's
dramatic vista of cows watering in a mountain lake with a
subtly painted atmospheric fog shrouding the mountain tops is
a beautifully painted, large watercolor, in good condition
and nicely framed. A reader's review of all of the 165 Fisher
works of art in Askart.com that are illustrated, will prove
to the reader that this Fisher auction watercolor is among
the most dramatic and beautiful vistas painted by Fisher and
is, at worst, one of the top 5 of those works of art. All of
the foregoing considerations and the following auction
records regarding sales warrant the conclusion that the
presale estimate of $1,000-$2,500 is reasonable and
justifiable.
Title/Subject: Hunting Scene
Signed. Watercolor on paper. 14 in. x 21.75 in. sold for
$1,380 on 02/07/2008 at US Auction House
Title/Subject: Alameda CA
Signed. Watercolor on paper. 24 in. x 34 in. sold for $5,000
on 04/22/2007 at Monterey Museum of Art: Baird Benefit Auction, Monterey, CA
Title/Subject:
Pastoral Wooded Landscape Signed. Watercolor on paper. 14.50
in. x 29.50 in. sold for $1,495 on 04/17/2007 at John Moran
Auctioneers, Altadena, CA
Title/Subject: Marin Pastoral Signed.
Watercolor on paper. 27 in. x 21 in. sold for $2,400 on 04/02/2006
at Simpson Galleries, Houston, TX
Title/Subject: Cattle with Stream Signed.
Watercolor on paper. 26 in. x 38 in. sold for $2,185 on 01/15/2006
at Point Pleasant Galleries, Point Pleasant, NJ
Title/Subject: A Shepherd, His
Dog, and His Flock Signed. Mixed Media 18 in. x 30 in. sold
for $1,528 on 12/12/2005 at Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco
CA
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Title/Subject: Cows In
Landscape Signed.
Watercolor on paper. 10 in. x 15.50 in. sold for $1,210 on 06/17/2003
at John Moran
Auctioneers, Altadena, CA
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Title/Subject: A View of
Fort Point, San Francisco, 1894 Signed. Watercolor on
paper. 7.70 in. x 18 in. sold for $6,463 on 06/11/2003 at
Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco CA
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25. George Wharton
Edwards (California/Connecticut 1859-1950) “The Alcantara
Bridge, in the Alcazar, Toledo, Spain” Signed lower right. On
verso is Edwards’ business card, which, in the artist’s own
hand, titles the painting and indicates, in print and the
artist's own hand, his being given, the following honors by
different countries: Chevalier de la Legion d’Honeur; Palmes
d’Or de l’Institut de France; Officier de l’Instruction
Publique France; Medaille Reconnaisance Nationale de Roi
Belges; member Institute of Arts et Letters, 1926; Knight
Chevalier, Order of the Crown, Belgium, 1927. Oil on canvas.
20 in. x 24 in. Estimate: $4,000-$8,000
Note 1) The
following Edwards' biographic materials are provided by
Askart.com:
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from Pierce
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Edwards was born in Fair Haven, Connecticut, in 1859, and
died in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1950. He was a painter
and author of books regarding American history and European
customs. He lived in Paris prior to 1892, New York City
(1892-1902); Plainfield, New Jersey; and Greenwich,
Connecticut; and was known for his unique handling of
Impressionism and for his marine paintings of fishermen,
lobstermen and boats along the Monhegan shoreline.
Edwards was
educated at Antwerp and Paris (1881-1884). In Paris, he
studied under Eugene Fayen and in Cancale. By 1890, he was
painting on Monhegan.
He was an Associate of the National Academy and a member of
the American Water Color Society; National Institute of
Arts and Letters; Allied American Artists and Painters and
the Sculptors’ Gallery Association. From 1898-1903 Edwards
was Art Director for Collier’s and later was manager of the
Art Department for the American Bank Note Company
(1904-1912). He won medals in Boston (1884 and 1890) for
drawings and repeated his success with paintings at the
1901 Buffalo Exposition; the 1902 South Carolina
Exposition; the Barcelona Exposition; and he won the King
Albert gold medal in 1920; the Golden Palms of the French
Academy in 1921 and more.
Edwards’ mural Henrik Hudson is at the United States
Military Academy at West Point. He illustrated Oliver
Wendell Holmes’ Last Leaf; Austin Dobson’s Sun
Dial and Old English Ballads and travel books on London
(1921); Paris (1924); Rome (1928) and more. He was the
author of Vanished Halls and Cathedrals of France;
Vanished Towers & Chimes of Flanders; Marken and Its
People; Some Old Flemish Towns; Holland of Today and
many other books.
Edwards was made Knight Chevalier of the French Legion of
Honor (1925); knighted with the Order de la Couronne Belge,
1927; and the Royal Order of Knight Chevalier Spanish Order
of Isabella from Alfonso XIII, Spain, 1928; and Knight
Chevalier, Royal Order of the Crown of Italy, 1929, for achievements
in painting and historical writings. He was awarded a medal
of the Order of the King of Belgium, the honor being
conferred to him by the king.
Edwards’ work is represented in the permanent collections
at the Bruce Museum (Greenwich, CT); Houston Museum of Fine
Arts (TX); Hispanic Society (NY); Springfield Art Museum
(MO); High Museum of Art (GA); Luxembourg Museum, Paris
(mural); U.S. Military Academy (West Point, mural); Museum
of Arts and Sciences, Norfolk (VA); the Fogg Museum of Art,
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) and more.
References:
Who Was Who in American Art, vol. 1, p. 1018; Who’s
Who in American Art (through 1947); Fink, American
Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons, 340; Exhibition
of the National Academy, 1861-1900; The Annual Exhibition
Record of the Art Institute of Chicago, pp. 300-301.
.Submitted by
P.J. Pierce”
Note 2) The
foregoing Edwards biographical information, the very
impressive tour de force exercise of Edward's Impressionist
technique and style and the sheer subtle beauty of “The
Alcantara Bridge, in the Alcazar, Toledo, Spain;” the
painting's excellent condition, good size and very
attractive and compatible framing; and the following
auction records of Edwards warrant a conclusion that the
above presale estimate of $4,000-$8,000 is reasonable and
justifiable.
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Title/Subject:
Gate
of the Conqueror, Constantinople Signed. Oil on canvas. 40 in. x 40 in. sold for
$6,250 on 10/10/2007 at Sotheby’s, NY
Title/Subject:
Pont
Neuf, Paris
Signed. Oil on canvas. 20 in. x 24 in. sold for $5,288
on 12/08/2002 at Samuel T. Freeman & Co,
Philadelphia, PA
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Title/Subject:
Villa D'Este, Tivoli Signed. Oil on
canvas. 24 in. x 20 in. sold for $7,188 on 12/06/1998
at Grogan & Company, Dedham, MA
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Title/Subject:
Villa
D'Este, Tivoli Signed. Oil on canvas. 24 in. x 20 in.
sold for $5,462 on 11/22/1997 at Grogan
& Company, Dedham, MA
Title/Subject:
The
Alcazar Palace Gardens Signed. Oil on canvas. 24 in. x 19.70
in. sold for $5,750 on 05/26/1993 at Christie’s,
NY
Title/Subject:
Ile de la Cite, Paris Signed. Mixed Media on
canvas. 25.10 in. x 19 in. sold for $12,100 on 05/28/1992
at
Christie’s, NY
Title/Subject:
Market Day In An Old Breton Town Signed. Oil on
artist's board. 27.50 in. x 21 in. sold for
$13,750 on 12/05/1990 at Doyle, NYC
26.
Ernest Clifford Peixotto (California/New York
1869-1940) Realistic, perceptive portrait study
of a dignified Indian brave, “Joe Arrow, 1901”
Titled and dated “1901” lower right. On verso
signed “E. C. Peixotto” and dated “1901.” Oil
on canvas. 27 in. x 17 in. Estimate: $2,000-$5,000
Note
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taken from the Askart.com website:
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Peixotto was born on October 15, 1869, in San
Francisco. He received his public school
education in San Francisco at the San
Francisco School of Design under the aegis of
Emil Carlsen. Beginning in 1888, he entered
the Atelier Julien in Paris, and studied for
seven years with Constant, Lefebvre, and
Doucet. Several years were spent touring and
sketching the French countryside. He
exhibited in many Paris salons and in leading
American exhibitions, illustrated books and
periodicals, and painted murals for many
important buildings.
In
1894, he returned to San Francisco and soon
thereafter founded “The Lark”, an art
magazine. In 1897, he moved to New York City
and worked for Scribner's and Harper's.
Living in New York until 1899, he returned to
France and established a studio and villa
near Fontainebleau. While living in France,
he traveled extensively in Europe and to
North and South America writing and
illustrating books and articles on his
adventures. He also made many trips to
California to exhibit and execute mural
commissions. He painted murals, portraits,
and landscapes in oil and watercolor as well
as superb pen-&-ink sketches.
So
excellent were his delineations of buildings
that he was elected an honorary member of the
American Institute of Architects. When the
war began in 1914, Peixotto initially joined
the local defense group, but in October of
that year he returned to the United States.
Age prevented Peixotto from entering active
military service, however in March of 1918,
General John Pershing appointed him as
official artist attached to the A.E.F.
(American Expeditionary Force). With the rank
of captain, his experience of living and
working in France, and his fluency in French,
he followed the entire American campaign as
an Army artist.
At
the close of the war, he was assigned as
director of the A.E.F. Art Training Center at
Bellevue, France, before returning to the
United States in 1919. He produced a body of
work that captured the widespread destruction
caused by the weapons of modern warfare. He
also used the small towns of the French
countryside as background in many of his
paintings. Considered as one of the highest
paid artists in his business, he was
versatile as well as prolific. He produced 50
illustrations for President Theodore Roosevelt's
“Life of Cromwell”, and a large number for
Henry Cabot Lodge's Story of the Revolution
as well as sketches for Robert Louis
Stevenson's Letters.
Peixotto
wrote and illustrated many other books
including “Romantic California”, 1911; “Our
Hispanic Southwest”, 1916; “The American
Front”, 1919; and “A Bacchic Pilgrimage” in
1932.
Ernest
Peixotto was a member of the Salmagundi Club,
The National Society of Mural Painters, the
Society of Illustrators, the New York
Architectural League, the Associate of the National
Academy of Design, the Century Club, the
Societe des Artistes Francais, the Bohemian
Club, and the French Legion of Honor. His
works can be seen at the National Museum of
American Art in Washington, D.C., the
Hispanic Museum in New York.
He
died on December 6, 1940 in New York City.
Information
on the biography above is based on writings
from the book, “Artists in California,
1786-1940, II”, by Edan Milton Hughes; and,
Online Archive of California, Bancroft
Library, UC Berkeley.
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In
addition, per Askart.com, additional Peixottto
works are in the collections of the Bohemian
Club (San Francisco, CA; Bancroft Library (UC
Berkeley, CA); Oyster Bay (NY) Post Office
(mural); Embassy Club (NYC, NY). Askart.com
lists Peixotto's exhibitions, as follows: Paris
Salon, 1890, 1891, 1895; SFAA, 1890-1906;
Vickery's Gallery (SF), 1892; Calif. State
Fair, 1892, 1898; Mechanics' Inst. (SF),
1893-96; Calif. Midwinter Int'l Expo, 1894;
Guild of Arts & Crafts (SF), 1896; Bohemian
Club, 1897-1904; PPIE, 1915.
Source: Edan
Hughes, ”Artists in California,
1786-1940, WWA 1918; AAA 1919-33; WWAA
1936-41; CAR; Fld; Ben; Sam; Ber; NY Times,
12-7-1940 and SF Chronicle, 12-10-1940
(obits).”
Note
2) The foregoing considerations, including the
above impressive biographical information; the
excellence of Peixotto's realistic, perceptive
portrait study of a dignified Indian brave,
“Joe Arrow, 1901;” and the following auction
records regarding the very few Peixotto sales
warrant the conclusion that the presale
estimate of $2,000-$6,000 is reasonable and
justifiable.
Title/Subject:
Landscape
With Swans And A Fountain Signed. Oil on
canvas. 18 in. x 22 in. sold for $2,133 on 10/05/2012
- 10/06/2012 at Pook &
Pook, Downington, PA
Title/Subject:
View
of the Garden Signed. Oil on canvas. 32 in. x 25 in.
sold for $2,629 on 06/10/2009-06/13/2009
at Heritage
Auctions, Dallas, TX
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Title/Subject:
A
Landscape in Giverny, France Signed.
Oil on canvas. 15 in. x 18 in. sold for
$29,125 on 06/09/2002 at Bonhams
& Butterfields, San Francisco CA
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Title/Subject:
At
the Louvre Signed. Oil on panel. 3.70 in. x 6
in. sold for $1,528 on 03/22/2002 at Skinner,
Inc., Marlborough, MA
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Title/Subject:
Summer
River Landscape Signed. Oil on canvas. 14 in. x 18
in. sold for $8,000 on 06/13/1998 at Young Fine Arts Gallery Inc., North
Berwick, ME
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27.
Ralph Arthur Lytle (California 1882-1959) A
pair of Impressionistic Southern California
desert views. Both signed lower right. Oil on
artist's board. Each: 8 Ľ in. 11 ľ in. Estimate:$300-$500
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Note
1): Per http://en.allexperts.com/q/Fine-Art-3122/2011/11/ralph-arthur-lytle-paintings.htm,
Bonhams, Los Angeles responded to a woman, who
had sent them photos of 2 Lytle oil paintings,
in which she was, in effect seeking advice
regarding Lytle and the value of his paintings.
Bonham's replied in part:
“They are lovely
paintings. According to Artists in California
1786-1940, by Edan Milton Hughes:
Ralph Arthur Lytle
(1882-1959. Painter. Born in Boulder, CO on
Feb. 11, 1882. Lytle settled in Los Angeles in
1914. He worked there as a freelance commercial
artist while painting fine art in his leisure.
He died in Los Angeles on March 12, 1959. His
painting subjects included desert landscapes
and scenes of southern California.
He painted in the Mojave
Desert. I found a painting of his near 29
Palms. A few of his desert paintings that
sold at auctions in the past couple of years
were in the range between $150-950. These
are considered wholesale pricing and if you
were to find one in a retail gallery it should
be much higher. (Emphasis added).”
Note
2) The foregoing considerations; the esthetic
appeal of this lovely pair of Lytle's two small
Southern California desert views executed
flawlessly in his Impressionist pastel palette
and brushwork, which are in good condition and
attractively framed; and the following auction
records regarding Lytle's sales warrant the
conclusion that the presale estimate of
$300-$400 for this lot and $200-$300 for the
immediately succeeding Lytle painting lot are
reasonable and justifiable.
Title/Subject:
Untitled California Landscape Signed. Gouache
on paper. 10 in. x 14 in. sold for $285 on 08/24/2011-08/25/2011
at Mroczek
Brothers Auctioneers & Associates, Seattle, WA
28.
Ralph Arthur Lytle (California 1882-1959) An
Impressionistic Southern California view of a
river in the foreground, flanked by trees with
a large meadowland and mountains in the
distance, painted in Lytle's excellent
Impressionist brushwork and pastel palette.
Signed lower right. Oil on artist's board. 9
5/8 in. x 13 ľ in. Estimate: $200-300
Note
1) See Note 1) and Note 2) of the immediately preceding
Lytle paintings lot.
29.
David Anthony Tauszky (California/New York
1878-1972) “Moonglow, 1915” An Impressionist
moonlit forest scene. Signed and dated “1915”
lower right. Oil on canvas. 24 in. x 16 in.
Estimate: $1,000-$2,000
Note
1) The following Tauszky biographical materials
are taken from the Askart.com website:
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“Biography
from Crocker Art Museum Store:
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Portrait
painter. Born in Cincinnati, OH on Sept. 4,
1878. Tauszky studied in NYC at the ASL and
continued at Académie Julian in Paris under
Laurens and Constant. He was well known in
the East in 1922 when he moved to Los
Angeles. He made many trips back to NYC to
paint and exhibit. Tauszky died in Pasadena,
CA on Feb. 26, 1972. Exh: Painters &
Sculptors of LA, 1922-27; Stendahi Galleries
(LA), 1927; Laguna Beach AA, 1920's; Pasadena
Society of Artists, 1920's; Grand Central
Galleries (NYC), 1928; Pasadena Art Inst.,
1928 (prize); Santa Ana, 1928 (1st prize);
Salmagundi Club, 1929 (prize); Allied AA,
1929; Civic Art Show (Pasadena), 1937. In;
Wingate School (NYC); Denver Museum. AAA
1905-33; Ben; WWAA 1936-41; SCA; AAW.”
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Note
2) This is a beautiful night time view of a
full moon in an inventively and attractive blue
sky, with the moon's light suffusing the sky
with a bright light and penetrating and
filtering strongly between the trees in a
forest, in 1915. It is attractively framed and
in good condition. The foregoing considerations,
including the above biographical information,
and the following auction records regarding
Tauszky sales warrant the conclusion that the
presale estimate of $1,000-$2,000 is reasonable
and justifiable.
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Title/Subject: Procession
Signed. Oil on artist's board. 10 in. x 8 in.
sold for $406 on 06/08/2011 at Doyle, NYC
Title/Subject:
An
Old Adobe Signed. Oil on canvas. 25 in. x 30 in.
sold for $2,700 on 09/13/2006 at Doyle,
NYC
Title/Subject:
Seated
Woman
Signed. Oil on canvas. 24.10 in. x 20 in.
sold for $2,700 on 03/01/2006 at Doyle,
NYC
Title/Subject:
The
Little Artist Signed. Oil on canvas. 24 in. x 16 in.
sold for $1,980 on 02/17/2004 at John
Moran Auctioneers, Altadena, CA
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Title/Subject:
Cantonese Signed.
Oil on canvas. 40 in. x 30 in. sold for $3,300
on 10/22/1996 at John
Moran Auctioneers, Altadena, CA
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Harry Craig Smith (California 1882-1957)
Impressionist panoramic view of small ranch
house and corral in foreground with rolling
meadow lands leading to the base of snow-capped
mountains, perhaps, the Sierra Nevada, executed
c. 1925. Signed lower right. Oil on canvas. 16
in. x 20 in. Estimate: $600-$1,000
Note
1) The following biographical materials are
taken from the Askart.com website:
“
The following is from Brian Austin:
I
called Harry C. Smith-Grandpa Harry. He was my
mother's father. Many of his oil landscapes
hang on the walls of my home framed in his
hand-carved gilded frames. I remember many good
times spent with my grandpa in Glenville. He
could take a canvas and with little paint, a
few brush strokes he would turn that canvas
into a beautiful desert landscape---Eucalyptus
lined road, wildflowers in the Ansa Borego or a
grove of oak trees in Glenville, CA or Verdugo
Park in Glendale, CA.
He
painted with John Cotton, F. Grayson Sayre,
Paul Lauritz, Elmer and Marion Kavanagh Wachtel
and many more. He was most noted for his
frames. The above named artists would have
Grandpa Harry handcraft and gild frames for
their artwork. He is not as famous as the
aforementioned artists simply because he didn't
pay the fee, $2.00 at the time, to have his
name entered into the “Who's Who in America
Artists. “ But he is just as important an
artist in my book.”
“Born in
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Harry C Smith became
a self-taught artist, known for his desert and
mountain landscapes. He was a successful
businessman, who was living in southern
California by 1920, and by the 1940's, he had
moved to Bakersfield where he founded the
Bakersfield Art Association.”
Source:
Edan Hughes, “Artists in California,
1786-1940”'
Note
2) The foregoing considerations; the esthetic
appeal of Smith's Impressionist panoramic view
of small ranch house and corral in foreground
with rolling meadow lands leading to the base
of snow-capped mountains, perhaps, the Sierra
Nevada, and the following auction records
regarding Smith sales warrant the conclusion
that the presale estimate of $600-$1,000 is
reasonable and justifiable.
Title/Subject:
Palm
Springs Desert Landscape Signed. Oil on canvas. 20 in. x 26 in.
sold for $750 on 03/20/2012 at Heritage
Auctions, Dallas, TX
Title/Subject:
A
California Desert And Mountain Landscape Signed. Oil
on canvas. 24.25 in. x 30.25 in. sold for $1,375
on 02/08/2011-02/09/2011 at Christie’s,
NY
Title/Subject:
Fall
Landscape Signed. Oil on canvas. 14 in. x 18 in.
sold for $750 on 10/07/2007 at Simpson
Galleries, Houston, TX
Title/Subject:
The
Oaks
Signed. Oil on canvas. 20 in. x 24 in. sold for
$896 on 12/10/2006 at Bonhams
& Butterfields, San Francisco CA
Title/Subject:
Mountain
Landscape Signed. Oil on canvas. 15.50 in. x 19.50
in. sold for $1,000 on 12/02/2006-12/03/2006 at Clars
Auction Gallery, Oakland, CA
Title/Subject:
Mountain
View With Desert Scrub Brush Signed. Oil
on canvas. 20 in. x 24 in. sold for $1,250 on 10/31/2003
at Northeast
Auctions, Portsmouth, NH
31.
No lot
32. Millard
Owen Sheets, N.A. (California 1907-1989)
“Oaxaca Ruins” or “Ruins of Oaxaca” in Mexico,
executed c. 1930. Signed lower right. Titled on
verso. Labels on verso state that this
watercolor won first prize for watercolor at a
Los Angeles County Museum (California)
exhibition, which occurred in 1930, and was
exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute,
Illinois, the Society of 4 Arts, Palm Beach,
Florida and the Lowe Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Watercolor. 22 in. x 30 in. In its original
frame. Estimate: $20,000-$40,000 Provenance:
Dalzell-Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles,
California, see label, verso.
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Note
1) The following biographical materials are
taken from the Askart.com website. Sheets
exhibited at many commercial and public venues,
including the following public venues:
“Los
Angeles County Fair, 1918, 1928 (1st prizes);
California Watercolor Society, 1926-55; Arizona
State Fair, 1928 (1st prize); Paris Salon,
1929; Hatfield Gallery (LA), 1929 (1st solo);
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1930 (1st
prize, watercolor); Oakland Art Gallery, 1932;
Century of Progress Exposition (Chicago), 1933;
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1937 (Washington,
D.C.); Whitney Museum (New York City), 1939;
New York World's Fair, 1939; Golden Gate
International Exhibition (San Francisco), 1939;
Pasadena Art Institute, 1950 (solo);
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966.”
Sheets
is in the collection of many very significant
museums and public collections, including the
Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of
Art, Whitney Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum,
all of New York City, New York; the White
House, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum
of American Art; and National Gallery of Art,
all of Washington, DC; San Diego Museum; San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art; De Young Museum
(San Francisco), Millard
Sheets Center for the Arts at Fairplex
(Pomona), Orange County Museum; and Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, all of California; Art
Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Carnegie
Institute Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Seattle
Museum, Washington; Cleveland Museum, Ohio;
High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; Fort Worth
Museum, Texas.
See
Askart.com for 7 Sheets’ biographies. and a
significant number of additional museums which
hold Sheets’ work.
Note
2) The
foregoing biographical information and the
information contained in the 7 Askart.com
biographical sketches of Sheets makes clear
that, during his lifetime, Sheets was one of
the best, most revered and leading California
artists and the leading California
watercolorist of his generation. The extensive
holdings of Sheets' work by many very important
Museums support this view. This watercolor,
“Oaxaca Ruins,” is very beautiful; historically
significant and a rare early Sheets watercolor,
as it was executed when he was only 23 years
old and won first prize for watercolor at
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This
watercolor is a good example justifying the
observation in one of the Askart.com Sheets’
biographic sketches that “It is said that of
all the Depression-era artists, he was the most
representative of the California School, part
of the American Scene movement.” All of the
foregoing considerations and the following
auction records regarding Sheets sales warrant
the conclusion that the presale estimate of
$20,000-$40,000 is reasonable and justifiable.
Title/Subject:
Church in Maurea Signed. Watercolor on paper.
22 in. x 30 in. sold for $31,625 on 06/15/2010
at John Moran Auctioneers, Altadena, CA
Title/Subject:
Kona, Gateway To The Sea, 1983 Signed.
Watercolor on paper. 22 in. x 30 in. sold for
$19,520 on 04/20/2010 at Bonhams &
Butterfields, San Francisco CA
Title/Subject:
Tahitian Beach At Evening Signed. Watercolor on
paper. 21.38 in. x 29.20 in. sold for $23,940
on 03/18/2008 at Matthew's Galleries, Lake
Oswego, OR
Title/Subject:
Beached Outriggers, Hawaii Signed. Watercolor
on paper. 22 in. x 29.50 in. sold for $25,875
on 02/19/2008 at John Moran Auctioneers,
Altadena, CA
Title/Subject:
Upper Island Signed. Watercolor on paper. 22
in. x 30 in. sold for $14,950 on 10/23/2007 at
John Moran Auctioneers, Altadena, CA
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Title/Subject:
Street with Nets, Janitzio Signed. Watercolor
on paper.22 in. x 30 in. sold for $17,250 on 06/19/2007
at John Moran Auctioneers, Altadena, CA
Title/Subject:
Balboa Island Signed and inscribed. Watercolor
on paper. 16 in. x 20 in. sold for $25,875 on
02/20/2007 at John Moran Auctioneers,
Altadena, CA
Title/Subject:
Rooftop Romance Signature information
unavailable. Watercolor on paper. 22.20 in. x
15 in. sold for $25,300 on 08/03/2006-08/04/2006
at Eldred's Auction, East
Dennis, MA
Title/Subject:
Old Maori Church, New Zealand, 1974 Signed.
Watercolor on paper. 22 in. x 30 in. sold for
$17,625 on 12/12/2005 at Bonhams &
Butterfields, San Francisco CA
Title/Subject:
Enchanted Island Signed. Watercolor on paper.
28 in. x 36 in. sold for $23,500 on 12/12/2005
at Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco
CA
Title/Subject: Life
in California Signed. Watercolor on paper.
13.50 in. x 26 in. sold for $21,600 on at
Christie’s, Los Angeles, CA
Title/Subject: Lava
Beach-Hawaii Signed. Watercolor on paper. 22 in.
x 30 in. sold for $33,000 on 06/15/2004 at
John Moran Auctioneers, Altadena, CA
Title/Subject: Windswept
Signed. Watercolor on paper. 22.30 in. x
30.10 in. sold for $24,000 on 12/19/2003 at
Sotheby’s, NY
Title/Subject: Church
in Maurea Signed. Watercolor on paper. 21.25 in.
x 29.25 in. sold for $41,250 on 06/11/2002 at
John Moran Auctioneers, Altadena, CA
Title/Subject: Birth
of Spring Signed. Watercolor on paper. 30 in.
x 36 in. sold for $33,000 on 09/27/1990 at Christie’s,
NY
Title/Subject: Horses
by the River Signed. Watercolor on paper. 21.50
in. x 29.50 in. sold for $27,500 on 03/22/1989
at Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco
CA
33.
Charles Ezekiel Polowetski (New
York/California 1884-1955) “Sausalito, Marin
Co. Calif.” Very sunny Impressionist view of
docks and boats on the Sausalito waterfront
on San Francisco Bay, with hills in the
distance across the Bay, painted primarily in
soft, muted pastel blues and yellows,
executed on a very sunny day, c. 1935. Signed
lower left. On label on verso, titled and stating
“Charles Polowetski, 771 9th Ave.,
S. S. F.” Oil on masonite. 16 in. x 20 in. Estimate:
$1,000-$1,500
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Note
1): Charles Ezekiel Polowetski was born in
Russia in 1884, but left Russia, while he was
young. During the early 20th century
Polowetski exhibited primarily in New York,
but his work was in a show at London's Albert
Hall in July of 1910, for which he received
critical acclaim. The National Portrait
Gallery, London owns Polowetski’s portrait of
Israel Zangwill (1864-1926), the famous
English humorist and writer, executed in
1909. As a very young man, Polowetski had
gone to Paris to study art with Leon Bonnat
and became a member of the American
Art Association of Paris. While there,
c. 1902, he shared a studio in the Latin
Quarter of Paris with Jacob Epstein, who
became the famous English sculptor; James
Bolivar Manson, who became a famous English
painter and was long-time Director of the
Tate Gallery; and Bernard Gussow, who, upon
his arrival in New York became active in the
New York modernist artist scene, exhibiting
at the landmark Armory Show of 1913 and with
the Society of Independent Artists. Polowetski
studied with Robert Blum in the United States
and was active primarily in the State of New
York, executing landscapes, although the
painting being offered definitely has a
flavor of California Impressionism.
Polowetski definitely had ties to the West. In
1947, Polowetski painted the portrait of
James Fulton Zimmerman, President of the
University of New Mexico. The Heritage Society,
Houston, Texas owns a Polowetski work of art.
In 1936, he painted “Spring in Central Park”
and in 1937, “December in Venice,” both large
and very beautiful Impressionist works, for
FDR’s New Deal’s Works Progress
Administration (WPA), which are now in the
WPA Collection of the Livingston Arts Center,
Mount, Morris, New York. During his career,
Polowetski was associated with, among other
art organizations, the Allied Artists of
America, the Salmagundi Club, the American
Art Association of Paris and the
Salons of America. Among other venues,
Polowetski exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington D.C., the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, the Salons of
America and the Society of Independent
Artists. Polowetski worked primarily in the
Hudson River Valley of New York, but did live
and paint in California. While in New York,
he was commissioned to paint the portrait of
Floyd Bennett, the famous American aviation
pioneer, after whom Floyd Bennett Field, the
early New York City airport, was named, and
the portrait hung in the hallways of the
airport. See Askart.com and other websites
Note
2) Polowetski's biographical information is
relatively impressive. Askart.com records
regarding Polowetski sales, only indicate the
sale of one landscape for $575 on 9/8/2001,
which is a very dark New York landscape; and,
thus, is largely irrelevant to establishing
the current value of “Sausalito,
Marin Co. Calif.” This Polowetski painting is
a very bright and lovely Impressionist view
of the Sausalito waterfront on a very sunny
day, as it existed c. 1920-1930. For
collectors of Impressionist art, California
and Sausalito art, this should be a very
esthetically appealing historic view of
Sausalito, one of the great tourist
attractions in California, that the tourist
and natives of California still frequent to
sail, take strolls to enjoy the beauty of the
town of Sausalito or the San Francisco Bay
views from one of the many excellent
Sausalito restaurants. The painting is in
excellent condition; nicely framed; and of a
good display size, 16” x 20”. All of the
foregoing information concerning Polowetski,
the artist, and immediately foregoing
considerations warrant
a presale estimate of $1,000-$1,500, which is
reasonable.
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