EUROPEAN, AMERICAN, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART
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Estate of Francis L. Pagani, Jr.
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Estate of Mollie Schildkrout
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Estate of Susan Erpf Van De Bovenkamp
Estate of Waldo Hutchins III
Estates of Angus and Alice Thuermer
Estates of Richard and Norma Flender
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Knoedler & Company
Property of a California Collection
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The Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation Collection
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The Rumsey-Harriman Collection; Estate of Mrs. Charles C. Rumsey
The Spanierman Gallery, LLC
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Thomas Wilmer Dewing American, 1851-1938 In Pink No 11, 1910
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast American, 1858-1924 A Sketchbook, circa 1921-1923
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DRAWING BY THOMAS WILMER DEWING HIGHLIGHTS DOYLE NEW YORK'S NOVEMBER 13, 2012 SALE OF AMERICAN ART
Sketchbook of Studies by Maurice Prendergast Achieves $86,500
Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for the May 2013 Sale of American Art
We Invite You to Contact Us for a Complimentary Auction Evaluation of Your Paintings and Sculpture
The November 13, 2012 sale of American Art at Doyle New York offered important paintings and sculpture by American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. The sale showcased examples representing a variety of schools, including Hudson River and Western art, American Impressionism, the regionalist schools of California and New Hope, as well as works by expatriate American artists and early modernists. Special sections of the sale offered property from the Spanierman Gallery, LLC Collection of American Art and property from the Estate of Waldo Hutchins, III.
The surprise highlight of the sale was a 1910 drawing of a young woman titled In Pink No 11 by Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938). The work is typical of the Paris-educated Dewing’s Tonalist portrayals of the female figure. Executed in pastel, charcoal and pencil on brown paper, the sketch sold for $110,500, many times its estimate of $15,000-20,000.
Also noteworthy was the only fully bound sketchbook of studies by Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858-1924) not included in a museum collection. Comprising 130 pages, the extraordinary sketchbook included brilliantly colored watercolors and deft studies of daily life depicted with the verve and spontaneity that make Prendergast‘s work so enchanting. On the whole, the sketches appear to have been executed in the general vicinity of Cape Ann, Gloucester and Marblehead, MA. One work was inscribed "Public Garden," presumably referring to the Boston Public Garden. Consigned by the Spanierman Gallery, LLC Collection of American Art, the sketchbook surpassed its estmate of $50,000-70,000, fetching $86,500.
All prices include the Buyer's Premium.
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| Lot 301 Thomas Wilmer Dewing American, 1851-1938 In Pink No 11, 1910 Signed T. W. Dewing and numbered 11 (lc); bears title on Montross Gallery label on the reverse Pastel, chalk and graphite pencil on brown paper 10 1/4 x 7 inches Provenance: Anson Conger Goodyear, Buffalo, NY, by purchase from Montross Gallery, New York, probably 1911 Gift to his wife, Mary Forman Goodyear, before 1940, the date per her son Stephen Goodyear, who indicated that she likely gave the pastel away Exhibited: Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Collection of Drawings lent by Mr. and Mrs. Anson C. Goodyear, Sep.29-Oct. 21, 1923, no. 27, as In Pink Literature: May 17 1910 pastel no 11 finished framed & sent to Montross named 'in Pink' May 31 1911 sold by Montross, Dewing Daybooks (the artist's studio records, archived in the papers of a descendant) A. Conger Goodyear, Card File, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., no. 37, unknown date; "Collection of Drawings Lent to the Albright Art Gallery by Mr. and Mrs. Anson C. Goodyear," Academy Notes (BFAA), vol. 18 (Jul.-Dec. 1923), pp. 61, illus. 58 in an installation The present work is included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne of the work of Thomas Wilmer Dewing in preparation by Susan A. Hobbs, Ph.D. We extend our thanks to Dr. Hobbs for her very kind assistance in documenting this work. C Sold For $110,500 |
| Lot 405 Maurice Brazil Prendergast American, 1858-1924 A Sketchbook, circa 1921-1923 Some sheets bearing inscriptions Various media on paper, total pages 130, including unused sheets; sheet size 7 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches Images: pencil: 42 (some two-page spreads); crayon: 2 (1 two-page spread) and two test sheets; watercolor and pencil: 11 two-page spreads Provenance: The artist Estate of the artist Mr. Charles Prendergast, the artist's brother, 1924 Mrs. Charles Prendergast, 1948 Robert Brady, 1984 Estate of Robert Brady, 1986 Acquired from the Estate of Robert Brady, 1986 Literature: Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast; Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonne, (Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art and Prestel-Verlag, 1990) p. 572, no. 1554. This is the last fully bound sketchbook of studies by Maurice Prendergast not included in a museum collection. This extraordinary work includes brilliantly colored watercolors and deft studies of daily life in the early twentieth century. Harbor views, village rooftops, children with boats, and park scenes are here depicted by the artist with the verve and spontaneity that make his work so enchanting. On the whole, the sketches appear to have been executed in the general vicinity of Cape Ann, Gloucester, and Marblehead. One work is inscribed "Public Garden," presumably referring to the Boston Public Garden. Others bear notations as to color and locale. Of the eighty-nine Maurice Prendergast sketchbooks, seventy-five are held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; five are in the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA. The John Sloan Study Collection at the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT each have one example. The Cleveland Museum, OH owns four sketchbooks and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York has two. C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC Collection of American Art Sold For $86,500 |
