Nakashima, Tiffany and Picasso share the stage at Freeman’s, Oct. 25-26

Left, George Nakashima Minguren I coffee table, estimated at $150,000-$250,000; right, Pablo Picasso, ‘Tete d’Homme Barbu,’ estimated at $80,000-$120,000

PHILADELPHIA — In back-to-back auctions this month, Freeman’s presents a distinguished collection of 20th-century furniture and design and modern and contemporary painting, sculpture and works on paper by the likes of George Nakashima, Pablo Picasso, Tiffany Studios, Roy Lichtenstein and Lynn Chadwick.
Modern and Contemporary Art, taking place at 11 am Eastern time on Tuesday, October 25, is led by Pablo Picasso’s Tete d’Homme Barbu, a playful, imaginative drawing from the artist’s recovery from surgery in the South of France in 1966; it is estimated at $80,000-$120,000. Design, which will be held at 11 am Eastern time on Wednesday, October 26, features the sale of three extraordinary Tiffany Studios windows from St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Meriden, Connecticut, including a Passionflower, Iris, and Mock Orange landscape window offered at an estimate of $200,000-$300,000. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

Freeman’s October 25 Modern and Contemporary Art auction features two significant 20th-century bronzes: Henri Matisse’s Petit Nu au Polochon, estimated at $60,000-$100,000, and Lynn Chadwick’s Winged Figures II, estimated at $60,000-$80,000, the latter from the collection of Jeffrey M. Kaplan.

Pablo Picasso, ‘Tete d’Homme Barbu,’ estimated at $80,000-$120,000

The sale offers collecting opportunities for a number of choice paintings, from Kenneth Noland’s Silver Affair, estimated at $80,000-$120,000, and Sigmar Polke’s Untitled, estimated at $60,000-$100,000, to Bernard Buffet’s Plage de Bretagne, which carries an estimate of $50,000-$80,000, and Georges Rouault’s Trio (Arlequin et Clowns), estimated at $30,000-$50,000.

George Nakashima Minguren I coffee table, estimated at $150,000-$250,000

Freeman’s has long been a premier destination for work by George Nakashima, and the October 26 Design auction features more than a dozen pieces by the esteemed New Hope, Pennsylvania woodworker. A Minguren I coffee table constructed from a single slab of buckeye maple burl leads the selection, offered at an estimate of $150,000-$250,000. From a set of Conoid dining chairs estimated at $15,000-$25,000 to a Pedestal end table estimated at $6,000-$8,000, the Nakashima works presented in the Design auction offers opportunities at all stages of collecting.

Tiffany Studios Passionflower, Iris and Mock Orange landscape window, estimated at $200,000-$300,000

The exquisite monumental window designs created at the turn of the 20th century are the highlights of the sale’s Tiffany Studios selection, which also includes a Vine Border bell floor lamp, estimated at $12,000-$18,000, and a Dragonfly lamp screen that has an estimate of $6,000-$8,000. With fine design and furniture selections from Samuel Yellin, Harry Bertoia and Albert Paley — and works by important British ceramicists such as Lucie Rie, whose footed bowl is estimated at $15,000-$25,000 — the Design auction offers excellent 20th-century material across categories and mediums.

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