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California painters featured in John Moran art auction Oct. 25

Tom Hoepf
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This richly hued view of Santa Ana Canyon by William Wendt (1865-1946) will be offered with an estimate of $80,000-$120,000. John Moran Auctioneers image
This richly hued view of Santa Ana Canyon by William Wendt (1865-1946) will be offered with an estimate of $80,000-$120,000. John Moran Auctioneers image

 

MONROVIA, Calif. – On Tuesday, Oct. 25, John Moran Auctioneers will host their biannual California and American Fine Art Auction, featuring approximately 250 lots of fine art consigned from private collections and estates across the United States.

Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.com. The auction will begin at 7 p.m. Pacific Time.

This curated auction event will feature property from a number of important estates and collections. Excellent examples by top-tier American artists abound, while price-points for the offerings are varied; estimates range from $800 to $150,000.

The auction catalog boasts a number of gorgeously rendered American landscape vistas, with a strong showing of fine examples by top-tier American impressionist painters. William Wendt (1865-1946 Laguna Beach, Calif.) is represented in Moran’s October catalog by a sweeping, saturated view of Santa Ana Canyon (above), consigned from a private Riverside, Calif. collection (estimate: $80,000 to $120,000).

Equally striking, John Frost’s (1890-1937 Pasadena, Calif.) view of a riotously colorful poppy field in full bloom is balanced by distant, icy blue snow-capped mountains and a cloud-dappled sky (below). Consigned from the Estate of Andrew F. Chandler and the Lenore Gantt Chandler Trust, California Poppies, Desert is expected to earn $60,000 to $90,000.

 

Aptly titled ‘California Poppies, Desert,’ John Frost’s impressionist landscape is expected to sell for $60,000-$90,000. John Moran Auctioneers image
Aptly titled ‘California Poppies, Desert,’ John Frost’s impressionist landscape is expected to sell for $60,000-$90,000. John Moran Auctioneers image

 

Consistent with the high concentration of Western-genre offerings Moran’s has sold throughout the year, the current auction features a large number of works by important Western artists dating from the 19th century through the contemporary. More contemporary Western works hail from the estate of dedicated art patron Phoebe Hearst Cooke. Wyoming Range,  by Tucker Smith (b. 1940 Wyoming), is an excellent example of the artist’s compositional and tonal prowess . The large-scale painting (below) is expected to bring $40,000 to $60,000.

 

Tucker Smith’s ‘Wyoming Range’ is just one of a number of top examples by contemporary western artists on offer from the Estate of Phoebe Hearst Cooke (est: $40,000-$60,000). John Moran Auctioneers image
Tucker Smith’s ‘Wyoming Range’ is just one of a number of top examples by contemporary western artists on offer from the Estate of Phoebe Hearst Cooke (est: $40,000-$60,000). John Moran Auctioneers image

 

The Pasadena, Calif., estate of Margaret Eaton Brown Fleming has provided a charming, if atypical, painting by great American Western artist Frederic Remington (1861-1909 Ridgefield, Conn.). The work, a portrait of Louis Brown’s English setter, was painted as a wedding gift for Brown and his wife. The delightful dog portrait (below) is presented with a $50,000 to $70,000 estimate.

 

This portrait of an English setter by Frederic S. Remington will be brought to the auction block with a $50,000-$70,000 estimate. John Moran Auctioneers image
This portrait of an English setter by Frederic S. Remington will be brought to the auction block with a $50,000-$70,000 estimate. John Moran Auctioneers image

 

For details contact John Moran Auctioneers at 626-793-1833 or email info@johnmoran.com

 

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