LAS VEGAS – Richard Stedman Estate Services LLC, which was founded in upstate New York, also operates a Lake Worth gallery and a Tampa Bay auction and estate sale company in Florida. Since company started conducting online-only events at their Las Vegas office in 2014, it is only natural that in addition to Clark County, Nevada-sourced items there would be Florida and New York discoveries included in their upcoming Las Vegas online-only auction on Saturday, April 30.
Exclusively hosted by LiveAuctioneers.com, it will be a timed event featuring both advance and real-time bidding.
Comprising 75 lots, the auction showcases the breadth of material the second-generation firm encounters at their various family-run locations: three old masters, over a dozen 19th and 20th century paintings, half a dozen modern and contemporary oils and original works on paper, a dozen original illustrations, five lots of postwar graphics, Art Deco, Moderne and pop sculptures, pre- and postwar lighting as well as jewelry, silver, watches, books, Judaica, art glass and studio pottery. Seventeen Asian category offerings and seven furniture lots round out the catalog.
The cover item, lot 57, is an atmospheric Howard Russell Butler oil painting of a woman in an illuminated Japanese garden (above). Purchased in Ohio over 20 years ago, it resurfaced in a Florida retirement community (est. $3,000-$5,000).
Related period works include a Benjamin Champney winter scene (lot 59, est. $1,500-$2,500) and a Paul King view of a Brittany Harbor (below) with the artist’s Stony Brook, Long Island address on the reverse (lot 58, est. $1,500-$2,500).
This season 2016 marks the Stedman family’s 20th anniversary of holding cataloged auctions managed by their son, R.V. Stedman, first in upstate New York, then as Florida Auction Business AB3569, as well as in Nevada where online sales are based. Dick and Joyce Stedman founded the company 59 years ago in upstate New York, and family friends, colleagues and relatives still turn up fresh estate material there on a regular basis.
Since all bids are confidentially handled by LiveAuctioneers auction software, bidders are encouraged to sign up early and advance bid at any time prior to the auction going live on Saturday morning of April 30, or to join in the real-time bidding action starting at 9 a.m. Pacific/noon Eastern.
For more information contact sale manager R.V. Stedman at Richard Stedman Estate Services LLC’s main number, 212-327-2616 or email info@museumappraisers.com.