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Rago to hold largest unreserved auction in company history Aug. 25-27

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
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Poul Henningsen for Louis Poulsen, pair of PH 4/3 Pendant Lights. Estimate: $800-$1,000. Rago Arts and Auction Center image

 

LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. – Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold its first ever three-day unreserved auction of early 20th century art and design, modern art and design and Scandinavian furniture Aug. 25-27. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.

“Rago’s August Unreserved Auction will be the largest and most varied unreserved sale Rago has ever hosted,” says Michael Ingham, director of Rago’s Unreserved Department, “From 20th and 21st century design, tribal arts and Scandinavian furniture to fine and postwar art, English pottery, and rock ’n’ roll ephemera, the variety of property on offer is simply staggering – all at very attractive price points.”

Early 20th-century design, ceramics, fine art – nearly 800 lots – will be sold on Friday starting at 9 a.m. Eastern time.

 

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Handel table lamp with faceted metal overlay shade decorated with trees, Meriden, Conn., early 20th century. Estimate: $1,500-$2,000. Rago Arts and Auction Center image

 

A single-owner collection of Royal Doulton pottery includes fine examples from the manufacturer’s Flambé and Lambeth lines. A single-owner collection of 20th-century Ohio pottery includes middle-period Roseville and Weller. Other early 20th-century American and European art pottery and ceramics by Marblehead, North Dakota School of Mines, Shearwater (below), KPM, Meissen, Tiffany Studios, Delphin Massier, Newcomb College, Fulper and Zsolnay are found in the catalog.

 

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Shearwater pitcher decorated with birds, Ocean Springs, Miss., late 20th century. Estimate: $500-$750. Rago Arts and Auction Center image

 

Early 20th-century and Arts and Crafts furniture by Gustav and L. & J.G. Stickley, Limbert and Roycroft is available to the highest bidders. Arts and Crafts lighting by Handel, Tiffany, Chicago Mosaic Lamp Company, Bradley and Hubbard is also on tap.

European and Scandinavian design and postwar art are in Saturday’s lineup. The session composed of 529 lots will begin at 9 a.m.

 

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Joan Miró lithograph, ‘Le Lézard aux Plumes d’Or.’ Estimate: $300-$500. Rago Arts and Auction Center image

 

Day two kicks off with more than 100 lots of Scandinavian design including Scandinavian furniture by Hans Wegner, Verner Panton, Eero Aarnio, Arne Jacobsen, Jens Risom and Finn Juhl. Scandinavian and European lighting by Paavo Tynell, Paol Henningsen, Stilnovo, Artemideand Carlo Nason is also included.

 

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Eero Saarinen for Knoll, pair of Grasshopper Lounge Chairs. Estimate: $800-$1,200. Rago Arts and Auction Center image

 

Six hundred lots of American contemporary/modern design and postwar art will sell Sunday beginning at 9 a.m.

This great selection of modern furnishings includes Joel Sterns, George Nelson, Paul Evans, Charles and Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, Eero Saarinen, L. John Andrews, Hans Bellman, Harry Bertoia, Milo Baughman, Le Corbusier, George Nakashima, Vladimir Kagan and Mastercraft. Postwar and contemporary art includes prints by Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Christo, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson and Keith Haring, and Yayoi Kusama pumpkins.

 

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