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Indianapolis, IN, United States
Auction Details
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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0058: Pair of John James Audubon Lockwood edition lithographs: Plate no. 477 Black-throated Diver, 1870. 6Est. $160-$300
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0059: Pair of John James Audubon mid-19th century hand colored lithographs: Plate no. 398 Ring-neckedEst. $160-$300
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0060: Pair of John James Audubon mid-19th century hand colored lithographs: Plate no. 396 Red-headed Duck.Est. $160-$300
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0061: Botanical copper engraving with early hand coloring entitled "August" (ca. mid-18th c.) 10"H x 7Est. $80-$120
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0062: Lot of 5 double copper engravings from Domenico Pronti's Vedutine Antiche della Città di Roma e sueEst. $200-$250
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0063: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French (1796-1875), Le dome florentin, 1869-1870, etching on Japon, 9Est. $800-$1,200Lot Passed
0064: Thomas Sydney Cooper R.A., British (1803 - 1902), Cattle and Landscape North Wales, 1853, oil onEst. $3,000-$4,000Lot Passed
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0065: Unknown 18th / 19th Century Dutch scenic seascape with boats and Merchant ship, 18 1/4"H x 25"H, 24Est. $600-$800
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0066: Domenico Amici (1808-1880; Italian), etching, view of Castel Sant Angelo in Rome (1835) 17 1/2"H xEst. $100-$200
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0067: Domenico Amici (1808-1880; Italian), etching, view of Obelisco Campense in Rome, (1840) 18"H x 12Est. $100-$200
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0068: William Shayer, UK (1811 - 1892), Coastal landscape scene with rustics and fishermen beside aEst. $500-$700
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0069: Charles Emile Jacque, French (1813-1894), pastoral scenes, Three mid-19th c. prints, Sizes rangingEst. $100-$200
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0070: Jean-Francois Millet, French (1814-1875), La Bouillie, Cooling the Porridge, 1861, etching on chineEst. $200-$300
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0071: Lot of 3 etchings: John Leech (British 1817 - 1864) Discovery of Guido Fawkes by Suffolk andEst. $100-$200
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0072: Francis Seymour (Sir) Haden, United Kingdom, England, Ireland (1818 - 1910), The Towing Path,Est. $200-$300
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0073: Francis Seymour (Sir) Haden, United Kingdom, England, Ireland (1818 - 1910), Battersea Reach (OldEst. $200-$300
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0074: Francis Seymour (Sir) Haden, British (1818 - 1910), On The Test; landscape ca.1858, drypointEst. $200-$300
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0075: Francis Seymour (Sir) Haden, United Kingdom, England, Ireland (1818 - 1910), A Lancashire River,Est. $100-$200
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0076: Francis Seymour (Sir) Haden, United Kingdom, England, Ireland (1818 - 1910), Shere Mill Pond, 1860 /Est. $250-$350
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0077: Francis Seymour (Sir) Haden, United Kingdom, England, Ireland (1818 - 1910), Sunset on the Thames,Est. $250-$350
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0078: Francis Seymour (Sir) Haden, United Kingdom, England, Ireland (1818 - 1910), Wareham Bridge, 1877 /Est. $200-$400
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0079: Joseph Jean Jacques Trouilleux, French (1819-1899), Cock Fight (Le Combat de coqs), etching, 10Est. $100-$200
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0080: James Webb, United Kingdom (1825 - 1895), Sunset After Rain, Dutch landscape with windmill, 1876,Est. $800-$1,200
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