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Capsule Auctions features Kohlmeyer, Natkin artworks Nov. 19

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
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Ida Kohlmeyer, ‘Symbols 82-B,’ mixed media on canvas, 37½in x 24in. Estimate: $6,000-$9,000. Capsule Auctions image

NEW YORK – Capsule Auctions, New York’s downtown art auction house, presents a selection of Post-War & Contemporary Art in our Abstracted sale Tuesday, Nov. 19. Featuring 72 lots of paintings, drawings and sculptures, the artworks offered in this sale come from prominent New York Estates, and private collections. Bid Absentee or live through LiveAuctioneers.

A mixed media on canvas work by Ida Kohlmeyer titled Symbols 82-B (above) is one of the leading lots. The 37½-by-24-inch work shows several forms of various shapes and textures arranged in a grid-like format on a flat red background. The use of bright colors and painterly style show influence from Abstract Expressionism. Symbols 82-B is expected to sell for $6,000-$9,000.

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Michael Loew, Untitled, red horizon, oil on canvas 56in x 50in. Estimate: $5,000-$8,000. Capsule Auctions image

American Abstract Expressionists are represented by several bright and gestural paintings by Michael Loew, a number of paintings and works on paper by Jack Roth, and three paintings by Robert Natkin. An untitled acrylic on canvas work from Natkin’s Apollo series (below), 39¾ by 49¾ inches, is expected to sell for $5,000-$8,000.

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Robert Natkin acrylic on canvas; Untitled, Apollo Series, 39¾in x 49¾in. Estimate: $5,000-$8,000. Capsule Auctions image

Two works by Soviet Non-conformists Ernst Neizvestny and Vladimir Yankilevsky will be offered in the Abstracted sale. Neizvestny’s dynamic oil on canvas titled, Egg Born by Night (1984) is expected to sell for $8,000-$12,000. Yankilevsky’s Woman by the Sea #4 (1988) is expected to sell for $10,000-$15,000.

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Vladimir Yankilevsky, oil on canvas, ‘Woman by the Sea #4,’ 45in x 36in. Estimate: $10,000-$15,000. Capsule Auctions image

Capsule Auction is focused on museum-quality presentation and state-of-the-art marketing, we offer frequent curated sales presenting outstanding paintings, sculpture, photography and editions. Capsule Auctions specializes in modern, postwar and contemporary art as well as traditional American, European and international fine art.

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Ernst Neizvestny, oil on canvas; ‘Egg Born by Night,’ 48in x 36in. Estimate: $8,000-$12,000. Capsule Auctions image

Capsule Auction’s Abstracted sale will begin Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time.

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