Antiques & Auction News 110119

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Winfield Auction Gallery To Sell Important Pennsylvania Impressionist Work On Nov. 2 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1, 2019 • VOL. 50, NO. 44

Modern Design Stays Strong At Briggs Auction Highlights Included George Nakashima Studio Furniture

This is one of two George Nakashima custom room-divider cabinets. Each sold for $34,440. Briggs Auction Inc. was pleased to present its Modern Design Auction featuring the Adelman estate collection on Sept. 13. The auction included 316 lots of fresh-to-the-market mid-century modern and modern design furnishings and decorative arts, fine art, fine jewelry, and much more. The majority of the auction items came from the Adelman estate. The Hockessin, Del., home of Shirley and Herbert The George Nakashima Claro end table sold for $28,320. Adelman was artfully furnished entirely with studio and creativity of mid-century modern Danish furniture, decorative and design. Highlights of the collection fine arts, and more. Shirley’s keen included pieces by George eye for design, which she formed Nakashima, Finn Juhl, Arne Vodder, early and nurtured through her Charles and Ray Eames, Zahara work with one of the first design Schatz, and Larry and Nancy studios in Philadelphia in the mid- Buechley, among others. Most 20th century, helped hone her love pieces were accompanied by their original sales receipts and in excelof contemporary design. While she may not have put her lent condition. Highlights of this exciting interior decorator license to work outside her home, the inside was a collection included four George graceful reflection of the passion Nakashima studio pieces customand joy she found in exploring the designed for the Adelmans. Two George Nakashima special version room divider cabinets, an overhanging free-edge slab top, and two sliding pandanus cloth doors, and a fitted interior with two adjustable oak shelves, each signed and dated Jan. 17, 1989, and each with a copy of the original drawing and copy of receipt, sold for $34,440 each. All prices include applicable 18- or 23percent buyer’s premium. A fine George Nakashima walnut Odakyu end table with a Minguren I base and a Claro walnut free-form, extra thick, slab top on black walnut base was signed and dated “George An interesting, signed 1964 Roy Lichtenstein offset litho- Nakashima, Jan. 17 1989” graph on wove paper simply titled “Temple” sold for $4,674. Continued on page 2

Fine Esther Groome Painting And Philadelphia Tea Table Among Expected Stars Of Quality Sale By Hope C. Thomas While most associate the Impressionist Movement with 19th century French painters such as Claude Monet and JeanBaptiste-Camille Corot, a significant American Impressionist movement was in play in tiny New Hope, Pa., during the early 20th century. Among the first modern movements in American art, it set the tone for those that followed, including Cubism and Abstraction. Highly influenced by earlier French Impressionists, works of this movement represented the antithesis of acade- This is a fine example of Esther M. Groome’s (1857my art of the day. Largely 1929) painting. She was a noted Impressionist and defined by a limited and vibrant resident of Carlisle, Pa. color palette, the technique used short strokes in immediate was a noted Impressionist of the juxtaposition to interpret the effect period and resident of Carlisle, Pa. of light on the subject. Scenes most An excellent example of her work often depicted spontaneous real- will be auctioned Saturday, Nov. 2, life impressions of the moment and by Winfield Auction Gallery. were painted outdoors, or plein air. Schooled at the Pennsylvania Continued on page 2 Esther M. Groome (1857-1929)

Locati’s September Sale Bodes Well For The Market Lalique “Masque de Femme” Plaque Sells For $1,800 Locati LLC of Maple Glen, Pa., presented its latest online sale from Sept. 3 to 16. With over 700 lots, this sale featured estate jewelry, fine art from the 18th to the 20th centuries, glass including Lalique and Baccarat, sterling silver flatware and hollowware, period furniture, and more. “We had a great deal of estate sterling and fine jewelry in this sale,” commented co-owner Michael Locati. “Several pieces of impressive glass were also offered, notably by Lalique.” Among the highlights were an amber and 18-carat gold choker necklace that realized This Lalique “Masque de Femme” plaque realized $2,100; a Pablo Picasso $1,800.

The Vienna amphora turn teplitz vase sold for $2,300.

(Spanish, 1881-1973) signed lithograph, which sold for $2,500; and a Sevres-type bronze clock with candelabra selling for $3,500. “We had well over 2,000 registered bidders for this timed online auction,” furthered Locati. “There were signs of life in the category of furniture, which gives me some hope.” Locati further commented that he is hopeful the antiques industry can work together to promote the virtues of collecting to a new generation. “That’s really the main challenge today.” Locati LLC, located in suburban Continued on page 6

AAN Current News

Holiday Shopping Starts At Chantilly’s D.C. Big Flea on page 4

Zorro Collectibles Through The Years on page 10

Milestone’s Nov. 2 Premier Firearms Auction To Feature Stellar Selection Of Winchester Rifles And Many Desirable Colts on page 14

Pook & Pook To Have Online-Only Decorative Arts Auction On Nov. 1 on page 19

In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 5 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 7 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 7

FEATURED AUCTION: Milestone’s Fall Premier Firearms Auction - November 2 in Willoughby, Ohio - Page 14

AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . . on page 8 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 19


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