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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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0104: Lucien Gautier (1850-1925, French) The Bridge Saint Peres, Paris, Etching on laid paper. 17 1/2"H xEst. $100-$200
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0105: Leo Newman, (19th century), View of Waterloo Bridge and St. Paul’s, London (c. 1883), etching, 6"HEst. $80-$140
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0106: Lot of 2 cathedral photographs: the St. Mark Basilica in Venice, and the Milan Cathedral in Duomo,Est. $100-$200
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0107: Lot of 3 19th Century etchings: including Peter Moran, Henri-Charles Toussaint 10"H x 8 ¼"WEst. $100-$200
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0109: Lot of three 19th Century prints by Thomas Robert Way and J. André SmithEst. $100-$200
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0109A: 19th c. views of Hakodai and of Lew Chew (Loochoo) or Ryukyu 9 1/2" W x 6" HEst. $80-$140
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0109B: Two 19th c. engravings depicting African expeditions 8 1/2" W x 5 1/2" H (sight), 12" W x 9" H (mat)Est. $80-$140Lot Passed
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0110: John Horace Hooper, British (1851-1906), Harvest Time, pastoral landscape, oil on canvas, 23 1/2"H xEst. $1,000-$2,000
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0111: Albert Ludovici, Jr, Italian (1852-1932), city street scene, oil on canvas, 44" H x 32" W x 3" DEst. $400-$600
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0112: James Gale Tyler, Connecticut, New York (1855 - 1931), lighthouse, Nocturnal Maritime Seascape, oilEst. $800-$1,200Lot Passed
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0113: Henri Edmond Cross, France, Netherlands (1856 - 1910), portrait of a girl, study for Jardin de RosesEst. $400-$600
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0114: John Albert Seaford, Indiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina (1858 - 1936), Earlham Hall, lithograph,Est. $200-$300Lot Passed
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0115: Paul Signac, French 1863-1935, Tugs on the Seine (1927), etching, 5 1/2"H x 8"W (plate)Est. $200-$400
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0116: Frank Kelsey, British (1864-1932), Sailboats in the Harbor, watercolor, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2Est. $140-$250
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0117: Felix Edouard Vallotton, Swiss 1865-1925, The Green Hat (Le chapeau vert), lithograph in threeEst. $200-$300
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0118: David Young Cameron, British (1865 - 1945), untitled, street corner, etching, 10 1/4"H x 8 3/8"WEst. $80-$120
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0119: Unknown Continental School 19th Century impressionist landscape oil on wood panel 9 1/4"H x 14Est. $300-$500
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0120: Pierre Bonnard, French (1867-1947), at the theatre, 1935, intaglio etching, 11 1/4"H x 8 3/4"WEst. $200-$300
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0121: Henri Le Riche, French (1867-1944), Rue De La Porte Guillame and Chartres Cathedral, lithograph, 10Est. $100-$200
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0122: Arthur Rackham, English (1867 - 1939), The King and the Swineherd, book illustration, 6"H x 5 1/4"WEst. $60-$80
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0123: Kathe Kollwitz, German (1867-1945), Die Eltern der Kunstlerin, The Parents of the Artist, 1919,Est. $500-$700
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0124: Clifford Carleton, Michigan, New York (1867-1946), woman with spinning wheel, grisaille watercolorEst. $300-$500Lot Passed
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0125: George Percival Gaskell, UK (1868-1934), mountain landscape, mezzotint engraving, 15"H x 21"WEst. $200-$300
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