Choice Renoir and Diebenkorn from Sidney Rothberg’s collection showcased at Freeman’s Hindman Feb. 27-28

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 'Pierre Goujon en Costume Marin,' estimated at $250,000-$400,000 at Freeman's Hindman.

PHILADELPHIA — An art collection assembled by Philadelphia native Sidney Rothberg — some of it originally purchased at Freeman’s saleroom — returns to market in a two-day sale at Freeman’s Hindman on Tuesday, February 27 and Wednesday, February 28. The catalogs are now open for bidding at LiveAuctioneers.

“Mr. Rothberg was known for his expert eye and impeccable taste,” said Head of Sale Alasdair Nichol. “He regularly attended Freeman’s auction, so it is not only fitting, but also emotional, to see all these gems presented in the city he liked so much.”

The Portrait of Pierre Goujon dates from a pivotal moment in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s (1841-1919) career, a professional crossroads where the artist was attempting to break the Impressionist mold and find a new aesthetic. Renoir grew discontented with Impressionism as early as 1879, when it became clear that cooperative exhibitions did not bring much success. Eager to make grander and more careful pictorial statements, Renoir sought an alternative. As he expressed to his friend and dealer Ambroise Vollard: “I had wrung Impressionism dry, and I finally came to the conclusion that I knew neither how to paint nor draw.” The Portrait of Pierre Goujon thus symbolizes a new path to making a painting. The Renoir work, which is the last of a foursome of portraits of child siblings remaining in private hands, is estimated at $250,000-$400,000.

Known for his abstract and landscape paintings, Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) delved into portraiture in the 1950s during the time he was associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement. In response to the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, several California artists returned to a figurative, representational style. Regarding his motivation, Diebenkorn said, “I had never given representational painting a mature chance … I felt that I wanted to take a shot at it.” Girl in Tiled Room from 1957 is estimated at $200,000-$300,000.

Model for Giant Ice Bag on a Corner Site-Oberlin is a design study undertaken by conceptual artist Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022). Originally envisioned as a colossal monument at Oberlin College in Ohio, Giant Ice Bag eventually surfaced at the Osaka World’s Fair in 1970. It later was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1971. The design study is signed by Oldenburg and carries an estimate of $10,000-$15,000.

John Kane (1860-1934) was born in Scotland but came to the United States at the age of 20, where he took up industrial sign painting as a trade. He became an overnight sensation when one of his works was selected for the annual international exhibition of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1927. My Birthplace features what is likely his childhood home in Scotland, with an added self-portrait to lend a surreal and dreamlike quality to the piece. The painting is estimated at $15,000-$25,000.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 'Pierre Goujon en Costume Marin,' estimated at $250,000-$400,000 at Freeman's Hindman.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 'Pierre Goujon en Costume Marin,' estimated at $250,000-$400,000 at Freeman's Hindman.

Richard Diebenkorn, 'Girl in Tiled Room,' estimated at $200,000-$300,000 at Freeman's Hindman.

Richard Diebenkorn, 'Girl in Tiled Room,' estimated at $200,000-$300,000 at Freeman's Hindman.

Claes Oldenburg, 'Model for Giant Ice Bag on a Corner Site-Oberlin,' estimated at $10,000-$15,000 at Freeman's Hindman.

Claes Oldenburg, 'Model for Giant Ice Bag on a Corner Site-Oberlin,' estimated at $10,000-$15,000 at Freeman's Hindman.

John Kane, 'My Birthplace,' estimated at $15,000-$25,000 at Freeman's Hindman.

John Kane, 'My Birthplace,' estimated at $15,000-$25,000 at Freeman's Hindman.

Jim Bunte

Jim Bunte

Jim Bunte has worked in editorial, design and the toy and auction industries for more than 30 years. He co-founded Auction Central News in 2007.

Claes Oldenburg ‘Geometric Mouse’ pendants lead our five auction highlights

Claes Oldenburg Geometric Mouse gold pendants, which hammered for $45,000 and sold for $58,950 with buyer’s premium at Rago.

Claes Oldenburg, ‘Geometric Mouse’ Pendants, $58,950

LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. – Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022) is best remembered for his public art displays, often large exhibits representing everyday items. But it’s the smaller works from his extensive career that receive attention at auction, precisely because they can be held in one’s hand.

That’s certainly the case with this set of Geometric Mouse pendants dating to the mid-1970s that brought $58,950 including the buyer’s premium at Rago’s auction of the Acey and Bill Wolgin Collection on October 18. Made of gold, the lot also included an original hand-drawn sketch for the design and a postcard from the artist, along with two press notices from the period.

The lot was estimated at a modest $5,000-$7,000, but when the hammer fell, it had achieved an astounding $45,000.

Group Of 12 Dining Chairs From Knowsley Hall, $36,025

Group of 12 George IV Gothic Revival oak dining chairs from Knowsley Hall, which hammered for $27,500 and sold for $36,025 with buyer’s premium at Doyle New York.
Group of 12 George IV Gothic Revival oak dining chairs from Knowsley Hall, which hammered for $27,500 and sold for $36,025 with buyer’s premium at Doyle New York.

NEW YORK – A group of 12 dining chairs from the original commission of 48 sold on October 18 at Doyle New York for $27,500 ($36,025 with buyer’s premium). The chairs were designed and built in anticipation of a visit by the newly coronated George IV in 1891 to Knowsley Hall in Lancashire, England.

Dating to the 12th century, Knowsley Hall in Merseyside, which is near Liverpool in northwest England, has a fascinating history. It has been continuously owned by the Stanley family, who include the Earls of Derby, from its founding to the present day, having been used as a hunting lodge in its earliest years. It has undergone significant renovations, but the occasion of a visit by George IV was the impetus for yet another redesign from which the set of 48 dining chairs would emerge.

The 12th Earl and his wife, actress Elizabeth Farren, commissioned architect John Foster, Jr., of nearby Liverpool to create a large new dining room from the old drawing rooms for the occasion. The dining room would remain intact until the 1960s, when various elements of Knowlsley Hall were sent to market.

Another set of 12 dining chairs from the same original complement was sold by Christie’s London in 1985.

Charles Murray Padday, ‘Nearing the Mark,’ $132,300

Charles Murray Padday, ‘Nearing the Mark,’ which hammered for £85,000 and sold for £108,800, or $132,300 with buyer’s premium at Bonhams.
Charles Murray Padday, ‘Nearing the Mark,’ which hammered for £85,000 and sold for £108,800, or $132,300 with buyer’s premium at Bonhams.

LONDON – The painting by Charles Murray Padday (1868-1954) titled Nearing the Mark was almost certain to sell well. The British painter’s works infrequently appear at auction, and the diagonal composition was dynamic and dramatic, placing the viewer on the helm of a yacht, looking back at the people sailing it as at least four rival vessels keep pace but remain just behind them.

But the oil on canvas stands out in one other unmissable way. The person sitting closest to the viewer, with one gloved hand on the tiller and the other on her hip, is a woman sailor.

Like her crewmate behind her, she is dressed entirely in white, but instead of a cap, she has covered her head with a broad-brimmed straw hat bound in place by a strategically wrapped length of gauzy cloth. It wasn’t there to protect her from the sun, or if it was, it did a lousy job, because her cheeks and chin look decidedly cooked. But the pose she strikes – upright and leaning as the water churns around her sailing yacht and the competitors bear down – is nothing less than regal.

In his book Yachts on Canvas, Dr. James Taylor, a former curator at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich in Greenwich, England, identifies both members of the crew Padday pictured. He speculates that the woman is Constance Edwina Grosvenor, also known as Shelagh, Duchess of Westminster (1877-1970).

It’s a decent guess, as she was one of only two women sailors among the 66 who participated in the sailing contests in the 1908 Olympics, which were hosted by the Royal Victoria Yacht Club on the Isle of Wight in the U.K. While there’s no date on the painting, the dawn of its exhibition history places it at the Royal Academy in 1910, making Taylor’s identification that much more plausible.

By inference, Taylor suggested the man behind the Duchess, serving as navigator, might be Major Sir Philip Hunloke (1868-1947). As a member of the crew of the Sorais, he won a bronze medal for sailing in the 1908 Olympics in the 8-metre class. Later, he would serve as Commodore of the Royal Yacht Club from 1943 until his death four years later.

Nearing the Mark was offered at the October 18 Marine Sale at Bonhams London with an estimate of £30,000-£50,000. It sailed to victory, hammering for £85,000 and sold for £108,800, or $132,300 with buyer’s premium.

John Wilde, ‘To Shoot A Beetle,’ $35,100

John Wilde, ‘To Shoot a Beetle,’ which hammered for $27,000 and sold for $35,100 with buyer’s premium at Hindman.
John Wilde, ‘To Shoot a Beetle,’ which hammered for $27,000 and sold for $35,100 with buyer’s premium at Hindman.

CHICAGO – Wilde by name and wild by nature, To Shoot a Beetle, a small but captivating oil on board by John Wilde (1919-2006), is typical of the surreal world created by an artist who spent much of his career teaching drawing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Darkly humorous and meticulously painted images of a fantasy world were his stock in trade, and are increasingly admired in the marketplace.

Dating from 1964, the 7-by-8in To Shoot a Beetle formed part of the Wilde exhibition held at Bresler Galleries in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in December 1965. It appeared in Hindman’s American Art sale on October 17 with an estimate of $7,000-$9,000 but, with 96 people watching the item on LiveAuctioneers, it took $27,000 ($35,100 including buyer’s premium).

Circa-1810 Maltese Silver Lampier, $24,800

Circa-1810 Maltese silver lampier bearing the mark of Paolo Schembri, which hammered for £16,000 and sold for £20,480 ($24,800) with buyer’s premium at Bonhams.
Circa-1810 Maltese silver lampier bearing the mark of Paolo Schembri, which hammered for £16,000 and sold for £20,480 ($24,800) with buyer’s premium at Bonhams.

LONDON – Although the island of Malta supported a surprisingly large number of silversmiths in the 17th and 18th centuries – an estimated 600 makers from 1680 to 1820 – relatively little silver from the period survived in situ. The Silver of Malta, a 1995 book by Alaine Apap Bologna, records the treasure trove of secular and ecclesiastical gold and silver ransomed or melted down under Napoleon’s brief rule and countless other pieces that left the island before and after as maritime souvenirs. Today, when they occasionally appear for sale on foreign soil, most are destined to return to the Maltese archipelago.

Italianate lampiers are the most recognizable silver domestic forms in Maltese silver. The Silver and Objects of Vertu sale at Bonhams on October 18 included this example bearing the maker’s mark of Paolo Schembri and dated to circa 1810. Maltese silver is typically categorized according to the ruler at the time – in this case, the British army officer Sir Hildebrand Oakes (1754-1822).

The 2ft 3in (68cm) high Oakes period lampier came by descent with an aristocratic provenance from the Barony of Benwarrad. One of the many old Maltese titles recognized and accepted by the British when invited to occupy Malta in the Napoleonic era, the Benwarrad lineage held many important posts in Malta, and still retains key positions today. This doubtless added to its appeal as it sailed above its estimate of £2,000-£4,000 to hammer for £16,000 and sell for £20,480, or $24,800 with buyer’s premium.

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Hindman serves tasty Thiebaud and Oldenberg Pop Art originals Sept. 28

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CHICAGO – Avocado Salad and Blueberry Pie are on the menu at Hindman’s Thursday, September 28 auction of Post War & Contemporary Art. The 116-lot sale includes these two classic Pop Art works by Wayne Thiebaud and Claes Oldenberg that have been consigned from the estate of Kansas City collectors Morton and Estelle Sosland. Bidding is available via LiveAuctioneers.

Morton Sosland (1925-2019) had a long and successful career in foodstuffs, so it’s fitting the sale includes two depictions of American culinary favorites.

Wayne Thiebaud’s still life of an avocado salad from 1962 was acquired by the Soslands from the Allan Stone Galleries in New York in or around 1968. Typical of the artist’s colorful output that focused on the commonplace objects found in America’s diners and cafeterias, it is estimated at $1.2 million-$1.8 million.

Estelle Sosland was the Nelson-Atkins Museum’s first woman trustee. The couple donated one of the nation’s finest private collections of American Indian art to the museum and in 1994 commissioned  Shuttlecocks, the sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen that graces the Nelson-Atkins’s lawn and became its logo.

The husband-and-wife artists were the creators of a much smaller cast aluminum and painted acrylic sculpture titled Blueberry Pie a la Mode, Flying, Scale B. Number 3 from a 1998 edition of 3, it was bought from the Grant Selwyn Fine Art gallery in New York the following year, and it is estimated at $150,000-$250,000.

Hindman is gaining fame for selling the works of local artist Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977), and there are two in the sale.

Estimated at $100,000-$150,000 is the 1941 oil on canvas titled John Carradine remembered from Man Hunt.

An unusual subject in Abercrombie’s oeuvre – but typical of her mature style – the picture displays the artist’s admiration for the actor John Carradine and a 1941 film which took an overt anti-Nazi position prior to the United States’ involvement in the Second World War. The painting was a gift from the artist and came to the present owner in 1974.

Dubbed “the Queen of the Bohemians” in a Chicago social circle that included the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and Charlie Parker, Abercrombie was at her most prolific and productive in the 1940s and the early ’50s before alcoholism and arthritis took hold.

A later work from 1960 is the oil-on-Masonite Lady with Black Braid. It, too, comes to auction for the first time, having been bought by the owner’s family from the Devorah Sherman Gallery in Chicago in 1961. It is estimated at $60,000-$80,000.
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Wayne Thiebaud’s 1962 still life ‘Avocado Salad,’ from the collection of Morton and Estelle Sosland, estimated at $1.2 million-$1.8 million at Hindman.
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‘Blueberry Pie a la Mode, Flying, Scale B’ by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, estimated at $150,000-$250,000 at Hindman.
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‘John Carradine remembered from Man Hunt’ by Gertrude Abercrombie, estimated at $100,000-$150,000 at Hindman.
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‘Lady with Black Braid’ by Gertrude Abercrombie, estimated at $60,000-$80,000 at Hindman.
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Rauschenberg, Oldenburg works from the remaining stock of Ace Gallery offered at 360Bid, Sept. 13

‘Happy Birthday Doug,’ a 2003 oil and acrylic on canvas by John Millei, estimated at $900-$3,600 at 360Bid.

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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. – On Wednesday, September 13, bidding closes on 284 lots described as the last remaining stock of Ace Gallery. The once-influential Los Angeles contemporary art dealership was founded by dealer Douglas Chrismas in the 1960s but closed in 2013 when he filed for bankruptcy. Proceeds from the auction, conducted by liquidators ThreeSixty Asset Advisors (360Bid), will be distributed among the Ace Gallery creditors. The sale, described as “the final works in the Ace collection and the end of an era,” is being held via LiveAuctioneers.

Ace Gallery, an important commercial space in the careers of Postmodernists such as Carl Andre and Donald Judd, has since became mired in scandal. By 2016, Chrismas was the subject of more than 50 lawsuits, and in May 2022, a judgment by the California Central District Court ordered him to repay $14.2 million to creditors. ThreeSixty Asset Advisors is keen to point out it is not an auction gallery but a liquidator retained pursuant to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan. A disclaimer further notes also that some lots are subject to third-party-ownership claims, meaning that they could be removed from the sale should someone provide proof they hold title. However, as the claim date of August 31 has now passed, the sale of these lots will progress.

As a bankruptcy sale, the liquidator says starting bids have been set low to ensure all works are sold. The inventory includes minor works by blue-chip artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg plus some 72 lots from the career of Los Angeles artist Tim Hawkinson.

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‘Happy Birthday Doug,’ a 2003 oil and acrylic on canvas by John Millei, estimated at $900-$3,600 at 360Bid.
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‘Sik Duck,’ a 2011 mixed media on panel by the Date Farmers, estimated at $1,300-$5,000 at 360Bid.
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‘Snowflake Crime XIX,’ a 1981 acrylic on lithograph by Robert Rauschenberg, estimated at $600-$2,300 at 360Bid.
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‘Wedding Cake,’ a 1966 plaster model by Claes Oldenburg, estimated at $300-$1,000 at 360Bid.
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Eyeball Globe Dress designed by Tim Hawkinson for the Issey Miyake Guest Artist Series No. 3, estimated at $2,300-$9,000 at 360Bid.
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Important Hiram Powers sculpture, 11 Renoir prints headline Neue’s June 24 sale

Marble Bust of the Greek Slave by the renowned American sculptor Hiram Powers (1805-1873), a full-length nude bust, 24 inches tall including socle, artist signed (est. $50,000-$80,000).

BEACHWOOD, Ohio – A marble Bust of the Greek Slave by the renowned American sculptor Hiram Powers (1805-1873), plus three classic Chevrolet Corvette cars from the collection of Charlie Oakes – a 1957, a 1960 and a best-in-show 1962 winner – will headline an online-only Fine Art & Antiques auction on Saturday, June 24 by Neue Auctions, starting at 10 am Eastern time. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.

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Jewish Museum focuses on crucial period in New York: 1962-1964

Marjorie Strider, ‘Girl with Radish,’ 1963. Acrylic on laminated pine on Masonite panels, 72 by 60in. Collection of Ruth and Theodore Baum, New York / Palm Beach, Fla.
Marjorie Strider, ‘Girl with Radish,’ 1963. Acrylic on laminated pine on Masonite panels, 72 by 60in. Collection of Ruth and Theodore Baum, New York / Palm Beach, Fla.
Marjorie Strider, ‘Girl with Radish,’ 1963. Acrylic on laminated pine on Masonite panels, 72 by 60in. Collection of Ruth and Theodore Baum, New York / Palm Beach, Fla.

NEW YORK — The Jewish Museum presents New York: 1962-1964, an exhibition that explores a pivotal three-year period in the history of art and culture in New York City, examining how artists living and working in New York responded to their rapidly changing world. Installed across two floors, this immersive exhibition presents more than 150 works of art — all made or seen in New York between 1962-1964 — including painting, sculpture, photography and film, alongside fashion, design, dance, poetry and ephemera. The exhibition is on view at the Jewish Museum through January 8, 2023.

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