Auction Highlights
In Brunk’s July 15-16 auction of the Bob Timberlake collection of rustic antiques and art, two Andrew Wyeth artworks were among the 123 items that sold through LiveAuctioneers for a total of $184,716. Estimated at $6,000-12,000, a Wyeth-signed 14 by 17 inch pencil and charcoal on sketchbook paper drawing titled Cider Barrel Study garnered $27,600.
Fanciers of American art pottery had a field day bidding in Belhorn’s July 9 sale. An 1892 Rookwood standard-glaze vase, 14 inches tall, with life-like floral decorations by the noted designer Albert R. Valentien sold online for $2,587.50 against a $1,500-2,000 estimate.
Exactly one-third of the lots in Livingston’s July 2 sale of Antiques, Native Americana, Fine Jewelry and Art went to LiveAuctioneers bidders. The top lot to change hands online was a dazzling diamond ring with a 9-carat center stone and 2 carats of additional round diamonds in a 14K yellow-gold pavé mounting. It rang the register at $33,712, well into its estimate range.
Be-hold enjoyed excellent results with its 47-lot auction of 19th and 20th Century Photographs, held on June 29. A 14 by 9 1/2-inch gelatin silver print of Marilyn Monroe in a swimming pool, taken by Lawrence Schiller in 1962, was viewed 902 times through LiveAuctioneers. The print was made during the filming of the screen legend’s last film, Something’s Got to Give. It finished within estimate, selling online for $2,300.
They may have lost the Cold War, but the Russians are definitely winning the art wars, if Hood Auction’s June 27 results are any indication. Of the 65 items purchased online through LiveAuctioneers in Hood’s June Florida Summer Sizzler Antique Auction, the top two were artworks by Russian painters. This oil-on-canvas scene attributed to Constantin Korovin and titled Mountains and Water attracted 257 hits before selling for $7,800.
The Tiffany name worked its auction-room magic on June 24 at Skinner’s 20th Century Furniture & Decorative Arts sale. The top entry of the 132 lots that sold online through LiveAuctioneers was a 21½ inch Tiffany-signed Colonial bronze and glass table lamp, made sometime between 1902 and 1938, with a 12-paneled shade of heavily mottled green glass. It lit up the auction at $11,025.
California and American fine art were on the menu at John Moran’s June 20 auction. This 24 inch by 30 inch oil-on-canvas painting by Roi Clarkson Colman (1884-1945) titled Moonlight Serenade depicts a La Jolla, Calif., coastal scene with eucalyptus trees. It finished near the top of its estimate range, selling through LiveAuctioneers for $6,600.
