Josine Vignon, ‘The Chateau Lake,’ estimated at $1,500-$2,000
NEW YORK – On Wednesday, April 5, starting at 3 pm Eastern time, Jasper52 will hold a 155-lot sale of Exquisite Fine Art Paintings and Prints. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Denis Thornton, ‘The Annalong River, Binnian Mountain, County Down, Ireland,’ estimated at $3,500-$4,000
NEW YORK – On Tuesday, February 7, beginning at 5 pm Eastern time, Jasper52 will present a sale of Exquisite Fine Art Paintings and Prints. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Large French School post-Impressionist Provence landscape, estimated at $10,000-$12,000
NEW YORK – On Wednesday, January 4, starting at 5 pm Eastern time, Jasper52 will hold a sale titled Exquisite Fine Art Paintings and Prints. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Francisco Ruiz Ferrandis, ‘The Pottery Seller,’ estimated at $1,500-$2,000
NEW YORK – On Tuesday, November 15, starting at 8 pm Eastern time, Jasper52 will offer a sale of Exquisite Fine Art Paintings and Prints. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Contemporary French School canvas titled ‘The Giverny Landscape,’ est. $2,000-$2,500
NEW YORK – On Tuesday, August 9, starting at noon Eastern time, Jasper52 will offer a sale titled Exquisite Fine Paintings and Prints, containing 149 lots in all. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Clementine Hunter, ‘Wedding,’ est. $15,000-$18,000
NEW YORK – Paintings by Georges Clairin, Clementine Hunter and G. Campbell Lyman should all earn top lot status at Jasper52’s Fine Prints, Paintings, and Decorative Arts auction, which will take place at noon on Wednesday, July 6. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Britney Penouilh, ‘Providence Mountains,’ est. $4,500-$5,500
NEW YORK – Works by Murrell Butler, Britney Penouilh and Franco Alessandrini will draw strong attention at Jasper52’s Fine Prints, Paintings, and Decorative Arts auction, which will be held on Wednesday, May 4 at 8 pm Eastern time. Other lots in the sale include a LeRoy Neiman serigraph of a Parisian outdoor cafe scene; a circa-1885 painting by Martin Coulaud of a girl tending geese; a photorealistic painting of a large, rusted steakhouse restaurant sign by Jim Thomson; a model of a clipper ship rendered in exceptionally high-quality silver by Japanese master silversmith Seki Takehiko; several depictions of nudes, both painted and sculpted, distinguished by Louis Braquet’s Nymph 2020; an original drawing by famed American modernist Joseph Stella; a well-observed pastel by Barbara Geldermann Hails, portraying horse harness racers; and a wealth of landscapes, ranging from a serene Lake Como scene by Deborah Newman, to a highly vertical oil on canvas on hardboard panel upon which John Hawkins liberally wielded his palette knife, to a panoramic sunset by Boris Garibyan, thick with impasto. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Contemporary American artist Philip Taaffe is known for process-based abstractions. This work is a signed oil-on-paper mounted to canvas, dated 1991-1992. Framed size is 30 1/8 inches by 42 inches. Estimate $10,000-$15,000
SAVANNAH, Ga. – A growing interest in items that are unique or finely crafted has the auction market off to a robust start in 2022. Everard Auctions & Appraisals’ February 23-24 Winter Southern Estates Auction is ready to meet the demand with more than 650 lots of fine and decorative art from select sources in Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and beyond. Absentee bidding is now in progress, with Internet live bidding slated to begin at 10 a.m. ET on both days of the auction series through LiveAuctioneers.
Ed Mell, ‘Red Rock,’ estimated at $15,000-$25,000
DENVER, Colo. – Hindman celebrates the legend of the American frontier with its two-day Western Paintings and Sculpture sale, scheduled for May 6-7. More than 400 lots will feature in the auction, which includes oils on canvas, bronzes, and a variety of Native American works of art. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
‘This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist’ premieres on Netflix on April 7. Image courtesy of Netflix
NEW YORK – When thieves ravaged the walls of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on March 18, 1990, they didn’t just steal precious paintings; they stole the attention of the country, and the world. Two individuals dressed in police uniforms spent 81 minutes to gather and abscond with 13 works by Degas, Manet, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and other artists, collectively worth around half a billion dollars.