BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Carlyle Galleries International Inc., the online fine art dealers and auctioneers, is hosting their next auction: “Art: European – American – Latin – Asian” on Thursday, March 16, at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
Carlyle’s latest online auction offers a curated selection of nearly 200 lots of fresh-to-the-market paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Many of the artworks being offered are from local Los Angeles estates and collections of entertainment industry luminaries.
Estimates range between $100 and $40,000, offering an opportunity for collectors at all price points.
Auction highlights include:
Macario Vitalis – Up for bidding will be two mid-1950s masterpieces by Moderninst painter Macario Cruz Vitalis (1898-1990), regarded as one the most important Filipino artists of the 20th century. Born in the Philippines, Vitalis moved to the United States, arriving in San Francisco in 1917. Vitalis studied at the California School of Fine Arts, and later the Pennsylvania Academy of Art. Macro He moved to Paris in the 1920s where he met Picasso, and other important modern painters. Vitalis is noted for his post-impressionist and cubist style of painting, shared by his peers Cesar Legaspi, Vicente S Manansala, who sell for as much as $500,000 at auctions. The two paintings by Vitalis are in his signature cubist style, feature rich, bright colors, depicting French landscapes. Artwork by Macro Vitalis rarely comes to the market, and what makes this offering especially compelling is it’s provenance from the collection of renowned violinist Louis Kaufman and his wife Annette.
Both paintings by Vitalis, are offered with a reasonable $8,000-12,000 auction estimate.
Edgar Kiechle – Of interest to collectors of Hollywood history is a painting by Edgar Kiechle (1911-1960) titled Producers are Unfair, which depicts the violent set decorators strike at Warner Brothers in 1945. Kiechle was active as an illustrator and background artist for Hollywood studios in the 1930s and ’40s, and his paintings were exhibited at LACMA and the San Francisco Legion of Honor, and collected by many actors in Hollywood in the 1940s and ’50s. The painting (below) is fresh to the market from an old Hollywood estate.
Georges D’Espagnat – Numerous paintings by French Impressionist artists are up for bidding in the auction, including two paintings by Georges D’Espagnat (1870-1950), His large painting of a female nude, which is another of the works from the famed Kaufman estate featured in Carlyle’s March 16 auction.
American art – Paintings by Johan Berthelsen, David Burliuk, Charles Robert Knight, and other rare and highly collected painters from the 19th century to the 1950s are offered. Of special interest is an early painting by Andrew Thomas Schwartz (1867-1942), titled Election News. It was likely painted in the 1890s during his studies at Cincinnati Art Academy with Franck Duveneck.
Contemporary Art – Up for bidding are originals, and multiples by Warhol, Murakami, Arman, Larry Rivers and other big names, with starting prices of just $500.
Old Master Paintings – As always, Carlyle is offering a wide selection of Old Master paintings and drawings including early Renaissance Italian, Flemish, Dutch, Northern European and British paintings from 1500s. Most lots in the Old Masters category are in the $3,000-$5,000 range.
The auction is online-only.
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