FINE ART

Sunday 6 November 2011 | Lots 1-77

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1 Frank Oldham (British, fl. 1880-1949) Racing Dinghies, ca. 1935 oil on canvas signed Frank Oldham (lower left) 18 x 26 inches.

Provenance: Vixseboxse Art Galleries, Cleveland Heights, Ohio Acquired from the above, 2000 $1,000-2,000 2 William Dunnage (British, fl. 1830-1870) The Schooner Parga of London, 1852 oil on canvas signed William Dunnage and dated (lower left) 27 x 36 inches.

Provenance: Vixseboxse Art Galleries, Cleveland Heights, Ohio $3,000-5,000

3 James Gale Tyler (American, 1855-1931) America’s Cup Race, 1899 oil on canvas signed James G. Tyler and dated (lower right) 20 1/4 x 30 inches.

Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. Alan Snyder, New York Bernard and S. Dean Levy, New York Acquired from the above, 1979 $25,000-35,000

5 4 John Brett (British, 1831-1902) Yachting Off the Coast of Scotland, 1893 oil on canvas signed John Brett and dated (lower left) 7 x 14 inches.

Provenance: N.R. Omell, London Acquired from the above, 1970

Exhibited: London, N.R. Omell, Exhibition of British Shipping and Coastal Views, 1770-1900, no. 38 $5,000-7,000

5 George G. Adomeit (American, 1879-1967) Schooner, Monhegan, ca. 1935-1945 oil on cardboard 16 x 20 inches.

Provenance: Vixseboxse Art Galleries, Cleveland Heights, Ohio $2,000-3,000

6 Joseph B. Smith (American, 1798-1876) Schooner J.W. Seaver oil on canvas 26 x 36 inches.

Provenance: Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts $40,000-60,000

7 William Bradford (American, 1823-1892) Rocky Shoreline oil on board signed W. Bradford (lower right) 13 1/2 x 19 inches. $80,000-120,000

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8 William Bradford (American, 1823-1892) The Steamer Panther Among Icebergs at Sunset, 1873 oil on canvas signed W. Bradford and dated (lower right) 20 x 30 inches.

Provenance: Victor D. Spark $120,000-180,000

9 Andrew George Winter (American, 1893-1958) Rocky Lighthouse oil on canvasboard signed Winter (lower right) 20 x 24 inches. $4,000-6,000

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10 Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819-1904) Calm Sea at Sunset, Near a Lighthouse, ca. 1860-61 oil on artist’s board signed M. J. Heade (lower right) 7 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches.

Provenance: Victor D. Spark, New York Kennedy Galleries, New York Acquired from the above, 1965

Literature: Theodore E. Stebbins, The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade, New Haven, Connecticut, 1975, no. 39, p. 219 Theodore E. Stebbins, The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade, New Haven, Connecticut, 2000, no. 73, p. 216 $150,000-250,000

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11 John Whorf (American, 1903-1959) At Sea oil on canvas signed John Whorf (lower left) 20 x 25 inches.

Provenance: Sold: Skinner Auctions, May 20, 2005, lot 335 (as “Fisherman”) Richardson-Clarke Gallery, Boston Acquired from the above, 2005 $12,000-18,000

12 Carl Peters (American, 1897-1980) Bearskin Neck, ca. 1940 oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches.

Provenance: Vixseboxse Art Galleries, Cleveland Heights, Ohio $7,000-10,000

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13 Emil Carlsen (American, 1853-1932) Calm Seascape oil on canvas signed Emil Carlsen (lower left) 15 x 17 3/4 inches. $12,000-18,000

14 William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905) Rocky Coast, 1887 oil on canvas signed Wm. T. Richards and dated (lower left) 27 x 47 inches. $60,000-80,000

15 John Bunyan Bristol (American, 1826-1909) Gate, St. Augustine, Florida oil canvas signed J.B. Bristol (lower right) 12 1/4 x 20 inches. $3,000-5,000

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16 Follower of Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, fl. 1628-1682) Sailing Ships on the Zuider Zee oil on panel 18 1/4 x 25 1/4 inches.

Provenance: Comte de Grephule, London Senator Prosper Crabbe, Brussels, 1890 Olin Collection, Brussels Count Shoenbron Seligman, Rey & Co., New York, 1942 Julius Bohler, Munich, 1958

Exhibited: Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Five Centuries of Marine Painting, 1942, no. 40, p. 15 (as “Stormy Sea”) $2,000-4,000

17 Attributed to Charles-Francois LaCroix (French, b. 1720) Beached Shipwreck during a Storm, ca. 1760 oil on canvas 14 1/2 x 18 1/4 inches.

Provenance: Bonfoey Company, Cleveland, Ohio Carl J. Austin, Canton, Ohio Mortimer Brandt, New York $10,000-15,000

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18 W.V.V. Bonfield (American, 1834-1885) “The Ovens” Mt. Desert Island, Maine, 1857 oil on canvas 7 1/2 x 13 inches.

Provenance: The Lamb and the Crow Antiques, Blue Hill, Maine, 1978 $1,500-2,500 19 George Lafayette Clough (American, 1824-1901) Long Island Sound oil on canvas 8 1/4 x 23 inches.

Provenance: Bernard & S. Dean Levy, New York $1,000-2,000

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21 20 Joseph Henry Boston (American, 1901-1954) Moonlight oil on canvas signed Joseph H. Boston (lower left) 20 x 24 inches. $1,500-2,500

21 American School (19th century) Mountain Lake oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches. $700-900

22 William Louis Sonntag (American, 1822-1900) On the Androscoggin, after 1857 oil on canvas signed Sonntag (lower right) 12 x 20 inches.

Provenance: The Bonfoey Company, Cleveland, Ohio $7,000-9,000

23 Jasper Francis Cropsey (American, 1823-1900) Dawn of Morning, Lake George, 1868 oil on canvas signed J.F. Cropsey and dated (lower right) 20 x 32 inches.

Provenance: James L. Brumley, 1868 Edward Brumley, by 1944 Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1963 Acquired from the above, 1965

Exhibited: New York, New York, Macbeth Gallery, American Paintings of the Early 19th Century, 1944, no. 9 (as Dawn of Morning, Lake George) New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Selections from the Collection of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1963-64, no. 9, (as Evening at Lake George) San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The American Scene, 1963

Literature: Edward Alden Jewell, “Trends in American Art: Current Exhibitions Illustrate Main Lines of Development in Nineteenth-Century Painting-The Eakins Centennial,” New York Times, 9 April 1944, sec. 2, p. 7X Royal Cortissoz, “Paintings and Drawings,” New York Herald Tribune, 9 April 1944, sec. IV, p. 5 Margaret Breuning, “Faithful Accounts of Last Century America,” Art Digest 18 (15 April 1944): 9, (as Dawn of Morning) William S. Talbot, Jasper F. Cropsey, 1823-1900, Washington, D.C., 1970, p. 96, (as Lake George, Evening) William S. Talbot, Jasper F. Cropsey, 1823-1900, New York and London, 1977, p. 440, (as Lake George, Evening) Jasper F. Cropsey: Vistas from the Shores. . . Horizons of Hope, 1995, n.p., (as Lake George, Evening) Franklin Kelly, “Dawn of Morning, Lake George,” catalogue entry in Albany Institute of History & Art: 200 Years of Collecting, ed. Tammis K. Groft and Mary Alice Mackay, New York, 1998, p. 110, (as Lake George, Evening) Andrew Wilton, “Dawn of Morning, Lake George,” catalogue entry in Andrew Wilton and Tim Barringer, American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820-1880, London, 2002, p. 142, (as Lake George, Evening)

$300,000-500,000 Dr. Kenneth Maddox of the Newington-Cropsey foundation writes: “Although known for much of its recent history as Evening at Lake George, the catalogue of the Macbeth Gallery’s 1944 exhibition clearly indicates that this painting should be entitled Dawn of Morning, Lake George, while its pendant in the Albany Institute of History & Art, entitled Dawn of Morning, Lake George was intended by Cropsey to be called Lake George, Evening. The title of the Albany’s painting is verified by the Plaza Art Galleries, Inc., New York, 30 April 1943, auction record for lot 75, Jasper F. Cropsey’s Sunset after the Storm (Lake George) which described the painting as: “A typical Lake George landscape with the luminosity of the sky, clouds and trees after an October storm, painted as only this artist was capable of doing. The glass-like lake reflects the colorful rainbow. Height, 20 inches; width, 33 inches. Signed and dated J. F. Cropsey, 1868.” For a discussion of the confusion surrounding the titles for these paintings, see Lake George, Evening (Dawn of Morning, Lake George), 1868, oil on canvas, 20 ¼ x 32 ½ inches, Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, New York, no. 115.

“When this painting was on display at Macbeth Gallery in 1944, Margaret Breuning wrote that Cropsey’s “Dawn of Morning, one of his many Lake George scenes, does not, like many of Durand’s landscapes, merely transcribe faithfully the thing before him, but presents it with amplitude of expression and a solidity of construction that many be due to his early architectural training. Good design as well as fidelity to observed fact have been happily combined.”

This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work to be published by the Newington-Cropsey Foundation.

24 John Semon (American, 1852-1917) Hanging Out the Wash, 1885 oil on canvas signed J. Semon and dated (lower left) 14 x 20 inches.

Provenance: Vixseboxse Art Galleries, Cleveland Heights, Ohio Acquired from the above, 1980 $1,000-2,000

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25 John Frost (American, 1890-1937) Desert Landscape, 1922 oil on canvas signed John Frost and dated (lower right) 23 x 27 inches. $30,000-50,000

26 Frank Myers Boggs (American, 1855-1926) Pont Royale, ca. 1898 oil on board signed Frank Boggs (lower left) 15 x 22 inches.

Provenance: Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, California Acquired from the above, 1964 $4,000-6,000

30 27 Nino Caffè (Italian, 1909-1975) Merenda (Afternoon Snack) oil on panel signed N. Caffe (lower center) 9 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches. $2,000-3,000

28 Roland Oudot (French, 1897-1981) Les Mesnuls, L’Hiver oil on canvas signed Roland Oudot (lower right) 29 x 40 inches.

Provenance: M. Knoedler, New York Acquired from the above, 1965 $3,000-5,000

29 Henry Pember Smith (American, 1854-1907) Italian Villa oil on canvas signed H. P. Smith (lower left) 20 x 28 inches. $5,000-7,000

30 Follower of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875) Trees Over Village Path oil on canvas 32 x 25 inches. $3,000-5,000

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31 Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900) Sill Life with Basket of Cherries and Plums oil on canvas signed A. Vollon (lower left) 21 x 27 1/4 inches.

Provenance: The Arcade Gallery, London Acquired from the above, 1972 $8,000-12,000 32 George Smith of Chichester (British, 1714-1776) Still Life of Bread and Cheese with a Glass, 1754 oil on canvas signed Geo. Smith Chichester and dated (lower left) 25 x 29 3/4 inches.

Provenance: Spink and Son, London Acquired from the above, 1980 $20,000-30,000 33 Attributed to Henri de la Porte (French, ca. 1724-1793) Still Life with Loaf of Bread, a Plum and Peaches oil on canvas 14 3/4 x 18 inches.

Provenance: Herner Wengraf Gallery, London Acquired from the above, 1973 $10,000-15,000

34 34 Philippe Rousseau (French, 1816-1887) Still Life with Bunches of White Asparagus oil on panel signed Ph. Rousseau (lower right) 13 x 16 inches.

Provenance: C.H. Muntz, Wassenaar

Exhibited: Laren, Netherlands, Singer Memorial Foundation, Vier Franse Meesters $7,000-9,000

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35 Gab Durant Floral Still Life, 1853 oil on canvas signed Gab Durant and dated (lower left) 36 1/2 x 29 inches.

Provenance: Vixseboxse Art Galleries, Cleveland Heights, Ohio $300-500 36 Oliver Clare (British, 1853-1927) Still Life with Fruit, ca. 1880s-1890s oil on canvas signed Oliver Clare (lower right) 18 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches. $2,000-3,000 37 Adam Lehr (American, 1853-1924) Still Life with Apples and Pitcher oil on canvas signed Adam Lehr (lower right) 16 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches. $2,500-3,500

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39 Joseph J. Schippers (Belgian, 1868-1950) The Painter’s Assistant, ca. 1900 oil on panel signed Jos. Schippers (lower right) 14 1/4 x 11 inches.

Provenance: Vixseboxse Art Galleries, Cleveland Heights, Ohio $7,000-10,000

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40 French School (16th century) Portrait of a Doctor oil on panel 8 3/4 x 7 inches.

Provenance: M. Knoedler, New York M. Budworth, New York

Exhibited: The Art Gallery of Toronto $3,000-5,000

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41 Adriaen Thomasz Key (Flemish, ca. 1544-1589) Portrait of a Man oil on oak panel 34 x 29 inches.

Provenance: Sam Borton Antiques, Cleveland Heights, Ohio Acquired from the above, 1954 $40,000-60,000

42 Leon Herbo (Belgian, 1850-1907) Portrait of Jeanette, 1881 oil on board signed Leon Herbo and dated (lower left) 26 x 20 inches.

Provenance: Zane Moss Antiques, New York Acquired from the above, 2006 $1,500-2,500

43 Continental School (19th century) Portrait of a Military Officer, ca. 1840-50 oil on canvas 14 1/4 x 12 inches. $1,000-2,000

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45 44 George Richmond (British, 1809-1896) Portrait of a Young Man with a Boutonniere, 1843 watercolor signed Geo. Richmond and dated (lower right) 13 x 11 inches.

Provenance: Thomas Agnew and Sons, London Acquired from the above, 1978 $800-1,200

45 George Richmond (British, 1809-1896) Captain Fletcher watercolor 11 1/4 x 9 inches.

Provenance: Sold: Sotheby’s, April 14, 1965, Lot 28 Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd, London $800-1,200

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46 George Richmond (British, 1809-1896) Portrait of a Gentleman with Sideburns watercolor 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches.

Provenance: Thomas Dean and Company, Tallahassee, Florida Acquired from the above, 2006 $700-900

47 Attributed to William Hodges (British, 1744-1797) Lord Hood of Avalon watercolor 14 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. $3,000-5,000

48 Attributed to William Wood (British, 1768-1809) Portrait of a Gentleman pencil and watercolor on paper 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches. $2,000-3,000

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49 After Simone Cantarini (Italian, 1612-1648) The Rest on the Flight Into Egypt pastel 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches. $7,000-9,000

50 Jean Baptiste Mallet (French, 1759-1835) Le client depouille pen and brown ink, with watercolor and gouache 7 1/2 x 11 inches.

Provenance: Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, London Acquired from the above, 1978

Exhibited: London, Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, Nineteenth Century French Drawings, 15 June - 14 July 1978, no. 3 $15,000-25,000

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51 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696-1770) Man with Dog watercolor and pencil on paper 10 x 7 inches. $30,000-50,000

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52 Artist Unknown (British, 19th century) A King Charles Spaniel with Two Pups oil on canvas 14 x 17 1/2 inches.

Provenance: Vixseboxse Art Galleries, Cleveland Heights, Ohio $1,000-2,000 53 William Henry Hamilton Trood (British, 1848-1899) Short Haired Dachsund oil on canvas 12 x 18 1/4 inches.

Provenance: Colin Tavener, England $8,000-12,000

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54 Edmund Henry Osthaus (American, 1858-1928) Hunting Dogs on Point watercolor signed Edmund Osthaus (lower left) 14 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches. $8,000-12,000

55 Edmund Henry Osthaus (American, 1858-1928) On Point oil on canvas signed Edm. H. Osthaus (lower left) 18 x 22 inches. $12,000-18,000

56 John Charlton (British, 1849-1917) Kitty, 1890 oil on canvas signed J. Charlton and dated (lower left) 24 x 30 inches.

Provenance: William Second Gallery, New York $4,000-6,000

57 Circle of George Armfield (British, 1808-1893) Terriers Ratting in a Barn (a pair) oil on canvas Largest: 16 3/4 x 22 inches. $1,000-2,000

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58 58 August Laux (American, 1847-1921) Wood Duck and Quails, 1901 oil on canvas signed A. Laux and dated (lower left) 24 x 14 inches. $3,000-5,000

59 Adam Lehr (American, 1853-1924) Still Life with Ducks, 1880 oil on canvas signed Adam Lehr and dated (lower right) 36 x 24 inches. $2,000-4,000

60 Adam Lehr (American, 1853-1924) Still Life with Game, 1889 oil on canvas signed Adam Lehr and dated (lower right) 36 x 24 1/2 inches. $2,000-4,000

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61 John Christopher Bell (British, fl. 1847-1892) Quail Family oil on canvas signed J.C. Bell and dated indistinctly (lower left) 22 x 30 inches. $6,000-8,000

62 John Christopher Bell (British, fl. 1847-1892) Still Life with Partridges, 1847 oil on panel signed J. C. Bell and dated (lower left) 17 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches.

Provenance: Spink and Son, London Collection of Sir Harold Parkinson K.B.E., J.P., Hornby Castle, North Lancaster $1,500-2,500

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63 John Christopher Bell (British, fl. 1847-1892) Three Grouse, 1860 oil on canvas signed J.C. Bell and dated (lower center) 20 x 30 inches. $6,000-8,000

63A Emily Coppin Stannard (British, 1875-1907) Still Life with Game, 1835 oil on board signed E. Stannard and dated (lower left) 12 x 10 inches.

Provenance: Spink and Son, London $1,000-2,000

64 Ken Carlson (American, b. 1937) Still Life With Quail oil on panel signed Ken Carlson (lower right) 12 x 8 inches. $2,000-4,000

65 Philipp Reinagle (British, 1749-1833) Woodcock Shooting, ca. 1790 oil on panel 9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches.

Provenance: Duke of Hamilton, London, ca. 1800 Arthur Ackermann’s Gallery of Fine Arts, London Frost and Reed, London Jack Partridge Gallery, North Edgecombe, Maine Acquired from the above, 1961 $7,000-10,000

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66 John George Brown (American, 1831-1913) The Hunter, 1863 oil on canvas signed John George Brown and dated (lower right) 16 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches.

Provenance: David David, Philadelphia Acquired from the above, 1967 $60,000-80,000

67 William Aiken Walker (American, 1838-1921) Cotton Pickers in a Field oil on canvas signed W. A. Walker (lower left) 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches.

Provenance: C. Duncan Connelly Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia $12,000-18,000

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68 Thomas Hill (American, 1829-1908) Two Chicks, Butterfly and a Bowl of Strawberries oil on canvas signed Tho. Hill (lower right) 8 x 14 inches. $2,000-3,000 69 British School (19/20th century) The Hunt, 1915 oil on canvas signed illegibly and dated (lower left) 12 x 15 inches.

Provenance: Vixseboxse Art Galleries, Cleveland Heights, Ohio $1,500-2,500

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70 Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933) The Stables, 1871 oil on canvas signed Louis Comfort Tiffany (lower left) 12 x 21 inches.

Provenance: Robert S. Sloan Gallery, New York $12,000-18,000 71 Francis Stringer (British, fl. 1760-1800) Chestnut Bay with Groom Standing Astride, ca. 1775 oil on canvas 16 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches.

Provenance: Arthur Ackermann and Son Ltd., London $6,000-8,000

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73 72 Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Mountain Front Montana watercolor 22 x 30 inches.

Provenance: Vixseboxse Art Galleries, Cleveland Heights, Ohio Acquired from the above, 1980 $1,000-2,000

73 Clara L. Deike (American, 1887-1964) Woman in a Red Suit and Flowered Hat, 1951 oil on canvas signed Clara L. Deike and dated (lower right) 24 x 20 inches.

Provenance: Vixseboxse Art Galleries, Cleveland Heights, Ohio Acquired from the above, 1997 $3,000-5,000

74 Xavier Gonzalez (American, 1898-1993) Untitled (Cityscape), ca. 1950’s gouache and watercolor on paper signed Xavier Gonzalez (lower right) 22 3/4 x 32 3/4 inches. $2,000-3,000

75 William Sommer (American, 1867-1949) Portrait of Andy, 1927 watercolor, pen and ink on cardboard signed William Sommer and dated (lower left) 25 3/4 x 21 inches.

Provenance: Ross Widen Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio $1,000-2,000

76 William Sommer (American, 1867-1949) Andy, 1940 watercolor with pen and ink on wove paper signed Wm. Sommer and dated (lower left) 14 3/4 X 11 1/2 inches.

Provenance: Ross Widen Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio $1,000-2,000

77 Ahmad Umarov (Uzbek, b. 1957) Harem Musician watercolor on wove paper signed A. Umarov (lower right) 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches. $800-1,200

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