Local media name Baterbys best art gallery in Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. – Baterbys Art Auction Gallery has been named Best Art Galley for 2009 by Orlando Style Magazine and SneakySunday.com, a Web site dedicated to the arts and entertainment.

For Orlando Style Magazine, Baterbys placed first in a Readers’ Choice Award poll. SneakySunday.com’s choice was based on visitor comments and editorial opinion.

Baterbys conducts quarterly auctions that feature world-class artwork executed by 20th-century masters and post-Impressionists. LiveAuctioneers.com provides Internet live bidding for Baterbys’ auctions. The gallery, at 9101 International Drive (Unit 1008) in Orlando, is open daily.

Baterbys has more than 30 years of experience in the art world and auctioneering. Its main concentration is in rare graphic works. Auctions regularly feature works by 20th-century masters such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Pierre Bonnard and others, as well as contemporary artists like Peter Max, LeRoy Neiman, Gary Benfield and Nicola Simbari.

Baterbys offers a lifetime money-back guarantee of authenticity for each work of art it sells, plus a lifetime exchange policy.

The firm holds memberships in several professional associations, including the National Auctioneers Association, Florida Auctioneers Association, International Fine Art Appraisers, Palm Beach Appraisers Association, Certified Appraisers Guild of America, Better Business Bureau and local chambers of commerce.

As well as being members, the firm also holds significant designations and credentials within these professional organizations, such as Benefit Auctioneer Specialist (BAS) and Graduate Personal Property Appraiser (GPPA).

Baterbys’ charity partners are the vital link between its business and the community. The quarterly live auctions benefit nonprofit organizations that provide developmental and holistic programs for children with life-threatening illnesses. Baterbys has raised funds for groups like Threshhold Center for Autism, Give Kids the World, Hope and Help Center of Central Florida, and UCP of Central Florida.

Baterbys Art Auction Gallery produces Quarterly Art Review books that also serve as catalogs. They are a complete reference to all the artists Baterbys sells. The catalogs, suitable for coffee table display, feature artist biographies, discussions of the artwork and full museum descriptions of all the items. The cost per book is $49.99, less with a subscription.

Baterbys accepts high-quality consignments, whether it’s a single work or an entire collection. Contact Baterbys at 866-537-0265 or e-mail press@baterbys.com. To learn more about Baterbys Art Auction Gallery and its calendar of upcoming auction events, log on to www.Baterbys.com.

 

 

 

 

 

Unusual designer brooch one of many gems at Michaan’s, Jan. 3

This Ed Wiener gold pendant brooch is studded with 16 gemstones. It carries a $4,500-$6,000 estimate. Image courtesy of Michaan’s Auctions.
This Ed Wiener gold pendant brooch is studded with 16 gemstones. It carries a $4,500-$6,000 estimate. Image courtesy of Michaan’s Auctions.
This Ed Wiener gold pendant brooch is studded with 16 gemstones. It carries a $4,500-$6,000 estimate. Image courtesy of Michaan’s Auctions.

ALAMEDA, Calif. – An Ed Wiener gold pendant brooch adorned with gemstones is one of the most unusual and colorful pieces in Michaan’s Auctions monthly estates auction on Jan. 3 beginning at noon Pacific. LiveAuctioneers will provide Internet live bidding.

A native New Yorker, Wiener began his career in artists’ circles in post-Bauhaus Provincetown, Mass., and Greenwich Village, in the early days of the Abstract Expressionist movement of the late 1940s. The two movements were joined in his jewelry designs.

Wiener was largely self-taught and learned to make jewelry with common tools most often used by plumbers and carpenters.

The New York Times reported that Wiener worked largely in silver until the late 1950s when he branched out into new settings in gold and precious jewels, moving, as one critic put it, from craft into art. Over the years he had studios on 53rd Street and on Fifth Avenue and continued to work at his Fifth Avenue gallery, by appointment, until his death in July 1991 at the age of 73.

Among his clients were Louise Nevelson, the sculptor, and Martha Graham, the dancer.

“His jewelry of the period has unusual clarity in contrast to the baroque exuberance and surrealistic fantasy of some of his contemporaries,” wrote Dr. Milton W. Brown, an art historian.

The Wiener brooch in Michaan’s auction is 18K yellow gold and features seven rectangular-cut tourmalines, four rectangular-cut garnets, one rectangular citrine, one cushion-cut peridot, two emerald-cut amethysts and one emerald-cut blue topaz. It measures 1.88 inches by 1.76 inches. The estimate is $4,500-$6,000.

A sampling of the fine art in sale is a lithograph titled Head of a Man by Nathan Oliveira (American, b. 1928. It is signed and dated: “N Oliveira 57” and numbered “1/10.” The estimate is $450-$650. An oil on canvas still life by Emile Siervert Weinberg (California, 1882-1958) of a large metal bowl and two pieces of fruit has a $500-$700 estimate.

Coins will include a lot of three U.S. Morgan silver dollars: 1895S-O, 1892-S XF, and 1893-P (estimate: $600-$900).

Heading the toys is a scarce Hubley American airplane. The cast-iron aircraft is 24 inches long and carries a $1,000-$1,500 estimate.

A Pablo Picasso Madoura Edition art pottery pitcher, 11 5/8 inches high, has a $4,000-$5,000 estimate. It is numbered “40/500” and dated “9.1.69.”

Ceramics include a 10-piece set of light blue Wedgwood jasperware miniatures. The coffeepot, rhw largest piece, stands less than 3 inches high. The grouping has a $200-$300 estimate.

Chinese antiques include a 19th-century finely carved soapstone mountain scene with three scholars standing on a bridge. The mushroom-shaped mountain (estimate: $400-$600) is only 4 1/2 inches high.

Furniture includes a Classical Revival flame mahogany drop-leaf pedestal table with lion paw feet (estimate: $1,000-$1,500). It measures 30 inches high by 40 inches wide by 53 1/2 inches long, fully extended.

For details phone 510-740-0220.

To view the fully illustrated catalog and sign up to bid absentee or live via the Internet during the sale at www.LiveAuctioneers.com.

View the fully illustrated catalog and register to bid absentee or live via the Internet as the sale is taking place by logging on to www.LiveAuctioneers.com.

 

 

Click here to view Michaan Auction’s complete catalog.

ADDITIONAL LOTS OF NOTE

Hubley’s America toy airplane featured an open cockpit with pilot and copilot figures. The cast-iron toy has a $1,000-$1,500 estimate. Image courtesy of Michaan’s Auctions.
Hubley’s America toy airplane featured an open cockpit with pilot and copilot figures. The cast-iron toy has a $1,000-$1,500 estimate. Image courtesy of Michaan’s Auctions.
Numbered ‘40/500,’ the Picasso Madoura Edition art pottery pitcher is expected to sell for $4,000-$5,000. It is 11 5/8 inches high. Image courtesy of Michaan’s Auctions.
Numbered ‘40/500,’ the Picasso Madoura Edition art pottery pitcher is expected to sell for $4,000-$5,000. It is 11 5/8 inches high. Image courtesy of Michaan’s Auctions.
From a New York collector comes a pair of Chinese cloisonné dishes, Qing Dynasty, circa 1700. The dishes are 5 3/4 inches in diameter and have a $2,000-$4,000 estimate. Image courtesy of Michaan’s Auctions.
From a New York collector comes a pair of Chinese cloisonné dishes, Qing Dynasty, circa 1700. The dishes are 5 3/4 inches in diameter and have a $2,000-$4,000 estimate. Image courtesy of Michaan’s Auctions.
Classical Revival flame mahogany drop-leaf pedestal table (estimate: $1,000-$1,500). Image courtesy of Michaan’s Auctions.
Classical Revival flame mahogany drop-leaf pedestal table (estimate: $1,000-$1,500). Image courtesy of Michaan’s Auctions.