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Indianapolis, IN, United States
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Classic Art & Antiques from Great Estates
Rembrandt, meet Penrod! (Or: Everything and even more)
Our August 31 auction will be an antiques fest, with a wide range of impressive art objects, uniquely elegant furniture and a book collection of historic importance. A feast for the mind of anyone interested in artistic expressions older ? for the most part ? than a 100 years!
Many of our auctions are suitably focused on one major region or school, on one form of art or event (Indy 500, anyone?). The one that will take place at the end of this month, however, will venture beyond any constraints other than age and will make for what we hope will be a captivating and variegated landscape bringing together oil paintings by 19th century British and American artists, art photography haunting in its linear simplicity, fine silverware, early maps ? some hand-colored and dazzling the viewer with striking decorative details, incunabula folios with added calligraphy in colorful inks, Asian art going back to the Han dynasty, and even tribal art.
One of the nuclei of this auction will consist of books (and a few other objects) that once belonged to a very prominent son of Indianapolis, Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) and has been kept together by some of his descendants. Tarkington was enormously successful during the first decades of the 20th century, authoring quite a few best sellers. His plays were staged on Broadway and he was indeed a rockstar before the invention of rock!
Collectors will be able to bid on such monuments of early 20th c. American literature as signed first editions of Penrod, The Magnificent Ambersons (Pulitzer Prize), Alice Adams (Pulitzer Prize again ? a rare feat!), among many other such bibliophilic marvels. Long dedications and several vivid sketches adorn a number of those books. Tarkington was also an avid art collector, who traveled throughout Europe, and some of the prized possessions he gathered in his house in Maine, such as bronze statuettes, are currently available for
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0351: Giorgio Sommer, Italy (1834 - 1914), Dancing Faun of Pompeii, bronze, 10 1/4"H x 4"W x 3 3/4"DEst. $500-$800
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0352: Conti, Italian , figural scenic bronze bas relief plaque, 5 1/2"H x 8 1/2"WEst. $200-$400Lot Passed
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0353: Emilio Fernando Piatti, New Jersey (1859 - 1909), William McKinley memorial medal, 1843-1901,Est. $140-$200
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0354: Abraham Lincoln alabaster portrait bust 11 1/2"H x 7"W x5 1/2"DEst. $200-$400
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0356: George Washington cast metal Presidential bust. 10 1/2"H x 7"W x 4 1/2"DEst. $200-$300
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0357: Pair of cast bronze Abraham Lincoln bust bookends 6 1/2"H x 4 1/2"W x 2 1/2"DEst. $100-$200Lot Passed
0358: Lot of 3 presidential sculptures: 2 seated Abraham Lincoln bookends after Gutzon BorglumEst. $200-$400Lot Passed
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0359: Pair of seated Abraham Lincoln bronze bookends by Dodge Inc. 6"H x 4"W x 5"DEst. $140-$200
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0361: Two 19th c. prints representing Washington's family and Lord Howe 20" W x 15 3/4 H (mat), 13 1/4 W xEst. $200-$400Lot Passed
0362: Two 19th c. prints with portraits of Washington and Madison 12" H x 9" WEst. $200-$300Lot Passed
0363: Two 19th c. prints representing Lincoln and a group of emigrants 11 1/2" W x 8 1/2" H (sight), 15Est. $200-$300Lot Passed
0364: Two 19th c. prints representing battles from the American history 11" W x 8 1/2" HEst. $100-$200Lot Passed
0366: Centennial print titled "The Declaration of Independence" 16 1/4" W x 9 1/4" HEst. $100-$200Lot Passed
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