18th-century Queen Anne tiger maple highboy. 71 inches tall. Est. $15,000-$25,000. Image courtesy Kaminski Auctions.
BEVERLY, Mass. – Kaminski Auctions has announced details of its June 27-28 Summer Estates Auction. The weekend sale features antiques, fine art and collectibles from estates spanning Massachusetts to Kaminski’s second location in California. Bidding commences at 10 a.m. Eastern Time each day, and live Internet bidding will be available through www.LiveAuctioneers.com.
Highlighting the auction is a stunning 18th-century Queen Anne tiger maple highboy (est. $15,000-$25,000). The 6-drawer highboy stands 71 inches tall and boasts fine brass hardware and a carved-fan on the lower chest. Continue reading
Film actress Renee Russo appears larger than life in Francesco Scavullo’s silver gelatin print mounted on Masonite. Image courtesy Clark Cierlak Fine Arts.
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. – Several luminaries including Pablo Picasso, March Chagall and Ed Ruscha will be featured at Clark Cierlak Fine Arts’ auction Sunday, June 28. Ruscha’s 1988 acrylic painting on paper titled Electric Palet has an estimate of $150,000-$200,000. The 29-by-24-inch painting exhibiting Ruscha’s blurred effect was purchased directly from the artist by the consignor.
LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.
Picasso became involved in art pottery relatively late in his career, but he pursued it with a passion. The 12-inch-tall jug in Cierlak’s auction is decorated in one of the artist’s favorite subjects, the bull. Inscribed “Editions Picasso 11/100 Madoura,” the jug has a $25,000-$30-000 estimate.
The Marc Chagall work is a color lithograph titled Mounting the Ebony Horse from the Arabian Nights series, Plate 12 (M.47). Trimmed slightly to 16 1/4 by 12 inches, the 1948 signed print is in otherwise good condition and estimated at $20,000-$30,000.
A 1994 painting titled Seated Nude With Crossed Arms and Timer by Stephen Douglas (American, b. 1949) is expected to make $5,000-$7,000. The oil on canvas measures 52 by 39 inches.
An oil painting and pastel on paper by Teimur Amiry (b. 1985) depicts cut roses in a rose bowl. His profile can be seen reflected in the glass rose bowl, a trademark of the artist. The 25-by-19-inch painting has an $8,000-$9,000 estimate.
Hypnotic images of waves in open water are favorite subject matter in Vija Celmins’ work. The Latvian-American artist’s Ocean With Cross #1 is a 2005 screenprint that measures 28 3/4 by 24 1/4 inches and has an $8,000-$10,000 estimate.
Francesco Scavullo’s photographic silver gelatin print of a famous fashion model is one of only two printed in an extra-large format (80 by 42 inches) by the artist for an exhibition. “It’s Renee Russo when she was modeling in the 1970s. It’s a fabulous image,” said Ellen Vinitsky of Clark Cierlak Fine Arts. The larger-than-life print has a $3,000-$4,000 estimate.
Eight color and black and white Iris prints, each 16 1/2 by 13 inches, of Greg Gorman’s Nude Male series includes images of Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Iggy Pop. The set has a $1,000-$2,000 estimate.
Also included will be sculptures and prints by Richard MacDonald. His 29-inth-tall U.S. Open Monument bronze of a golfer in full swing is expected to make $8,000-$12,000.
“We’ll also have a 19th-century painting by Italian Giacento Gigante. It’s beautifully done,” said Vinitsky. The watercolor on paper titled Strolling in the Temple Ruins is 10 1/2 by 15 1/2 inches and has a $6,000-$9,000 estimate.
Clark Cierlak Fine Arts is located at 14452 Ventura Blvd. The auction will begin at 11 a.m. Pacific. Doors open at 10 a.m. A preview will be Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For details call the gallery at 818-783-3052.
View the fully illustrated catalog and sign up to bid absentee or live via the Internet during the sale at www.LiveAuctioneers.com.
ADDITIONAL LOTS OF NOTE
Hypnotic images of open water are captured by Vija Celmins in her ‘Ocean With Cross #1,’ a screenprint done in 2005. Image courtesy Clark Cierlak Fine Arts.Iranian artist Teimur Amiry painted his profile into the reflection off the rose bowl in this still life. Image courtesy Clark Cierlak Fine Arts.From Marc Chagall’s Arabian Nights series, this 1948 color lithograph has an estimate of $20,000-$25,000. Image courtesy Clark Cierlak Fine Arts.Picasso was bullish on art pottery. This jug is number 11 of an edition of 100 issued in 1955. Image courtesy Clark Cierlak Fine Arts.There’s nothing fuzzy about the provenance of Ed Ruscha’s 1988 acrylic painting ‘Electric Palet.’ The consignor bought it directly from the artist. Image courtesy Clark Cierlak Fine Arts.
Chinese gilt-bronze Buddha seated in lotus position, 22 inches high. Estimate $15,000-$18,000.
CHESTER, N.Y. – William J. Jenack Auctioneers, whose headquarters are located in the scenic Hudson River Valley, is one of the fastest growing auction galleries in the regions outside of New York City. Specialists in art, furniture, jewelry, decorations and several other categories since 1988, the company conducts monthly auctions at its recently expanded gallery 55 minutes north of the Big Apple. Jenack’s next big event, a comprehensive June 28, 2009 fine art and antiques auction, will reach a global audience with live Internet bidding through LiveAuctioneers.com.
The 390-lot auction inventory incorporates American and European works of art, including a Pierre Outin (French, 1840-1899) oil-on-panel portrait of a Spanish beauty. Signed and dated 1888, the framed 44-inch by 29-inch artwork is estimated at $4,000-$6,000.
A rare and important circa-1850 molded-copper fireman weathervane made for the Union Fire Hall, now Charley Rouss Fire Company, in Winchester, Va. Height: 73 inches. Photo courtesy Dustin Bowers.
WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) – A mid-1800s weather vane valued by Sotheby’s New York at $3 million to $5 million has found a temporary home after failing to sell at auction.
The 6-foot-tall copper weather vane known as “Old Jake” will be on display at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley for three years beginning July 3.
“Old Jake” has topped the Rouss Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company’s fire houses in Winchester since around 1860.
The fire company decided to sell “Old Jake” at Sotheby’s New York’s Americana auction in January. But the highest bid, $2.1 million, did not meet the undisclosed reserve price.
President Tim Clark says the fire company decided several weeks ago to loan “Old Jake” to the museum. ___
On the Net:
Museum of the Shenandoah Valley: www.shenandoahmuseum.org
Rouss Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company: www.roussfirecompany.com
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Information from: The Winchester Star, http://www.winchesterstar.com
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BARODA, Mich. (AP) – A vintage clothing store in southwest Michigan provided some of the costumes for Public Enemies, Universal’s new picture starring Johnny Depp as Depression-era gangster John Dillinger.
The studio bought some 400 items of 1930s clothes and accessories from Apparel From the Past, Marsha Ruby’s store at Shawnee Road Antiques in Berrien County’s Oronoko Township. Among the items were shoes, gloves, dresses, hats, earrings and jewelry.
The movie, to be released July 1, also stars Christian Bale as famed FBI agent Melvin Purvis.
Costumer Stella Cottini selected several items from the store and the studio returned what the film couldn’t use. And while Ruby acknowledged that it was a big sale for her, Ruby said her clothes are aimed more at regular wear than for costumes. Continue reading
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) – Workers renovating a house in the traditional town of Jesus’ birth accidentally discovered an untouched ancient tomb containing clay pots, plates, beads and the bones of two humans, a Palestinian antiquities official said Tuesday.
The 4,000-year-old tomb provides a glimpse of the burial customs of the area’s inhabitants during the Canaanite period, said Mohammed Ghayyada, director of the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
Workers in a house near the Church of the Nativity uncovered a hole leading to the grave, which was about one meter below ground, he said. They contacted antiquities officials, who photographed the grave intact before removing its contents.
They dated the grave to the Early Bronze Age, between 1,900 B.C. and 2,200 B.C.
Jerusalem-based archaeologist and historian Stephen Pfann called the find “an important reference to the life of the Canaanites,” adding that it could give a glimpse into life in the area before the time when the Biblical patriarchs are said to have lived.
While many artifacts exist from this period, intact graves are rare, mainly because of looting, he said.
Intact graves are more useful to scholars because they show how items were arranged.
“Every time a new tomb is found, it adds to the picture,” Pfann said.
The findings will be housed in the Bethlehem Peace Center, a cultural center not far from where the tomb was discovered.
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