NEW YORK – Auctions at Showplace will present Fall Important Fine Art and Design on Sunday, October 9. The sale will feature 145 lots of fine art mixed with modern design from New York Metropolitan area estates and private collections. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

Fine painting highlights open with a 1966 oil on canvas by Reuven Rubin, titled In Galilee and estimated at $40,000-$60,000. The painting depicts figures at work within an impressionistic landscape, with the ancient city of Galilee and the Lake of Tiberias (aka the Sea of Galilee) in the distance. The offered lot was one of several studies prepared for what some consider his masterwork, The Great Galilee, executed for the Israeli Knesset in 1966. The offered lot is sold with a certificate of authenticity from the painter’s daughter-in-law, Carmela Rubin of the Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. The work is in the museum’s registry and is to be included in the artist’s upcoming catalogue raisonne.

Certain to stoke bidding is Varmland, a large impressionist landscape executed in 1896 by Gustaf Fjaestad, depicting yellow birches contrasting with a blue lake and sky. Its estimate is $20,000-$30,000. Fjaestad was an important Swedish painter known for his evocative landscapes of the areas around Varmland near Karlstadt. Today, his work is in the collections of the National Museum of Sweden in Stockholm and the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.

Prints and multiples in the October 9 auction are led by an exciting collection of works by Andy Warhol. Of particular note is Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup I, Tomato F&S II.46, a 1968 screenprint in colors on wove paper printed by Salvatore Silkscreen Co. and published by Factory Additions, New York. The print depicts the iconic pop art image of the 1960s – the Campbell’s tomato soup can – and it is signed and numbered, with the edition mark on verso. The print has an estimate of $60,000-$80,000.

Equally compelling is an artist’s proof of Pablo Picasso’s aquatint and gouache, Le Petit Pierrot aux Fleurs, which depicts Picasso’s son Paulo dressed as a pierrot, or a male character of French pantomime. Its estimate is $12,000-$18,000.

The October 9 auction includes a magnificent group of Art Deco, Mid-century Modern and contemporary furnishings. A standout is a 1950s Gio Ponti for Singer & Sons Mid-century Modern double dresser cabinet chest in walnut wood, model 2161, with distinctive handles and six tapered legs. It carries an estimate of $20,000-$40,000.

Also certain to turn heads are two 1930s Donald Deskey Art Deco lacquered burlwood consoles with large drawers in the streamline moderne taste, offered individually as consecutive lots (99 and 100), each estimated at $8,000-$12,000. The pieces were designed by Deskey and manufactured by Schmieg, Hungate & Kotzian, Inc. in New York City, with registration numbers and manufacturers’ marks underneath the body of drawers.

Another notable section of the sale is a collection of pieces by Mexican designer Pedro Friedeberg that includes a 1970s Hand Foot center table in carved gilt wood with a round glass top, estimated at $8,000-$12,000; and a Hand Foot stool carved with silvered wood from 1995. 

Lighting choices include a circa-1925 Albert Cheuret French Art Deco silvered bronze diamond shaped chandelier pendant with alabaster shades, estimated at $8,000-$12,000.

The lineup of fine jewelry, designer costume jewelry and luxury goods will feature a Vacheron Constantin Overseas chronograph watch that has an estimate of $40,000-$60,000.

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