Continental school oil on canvas painting depicting well-dressed money changers at a table with scale and coins. An elderly bearded man holds a coin and empty purse in the right foreground, while a figure behind him with a blue robe points an accusing figure towards one of the money changers. Unsigned. Housed in a later […]
Lot 1158: Two Prints, Whistler & Tempesta
Two (2) prints: Whistler and Tempesta. 1st item: James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903), "Sketch After Cecil Lawson's Swan and Iris," etching and drypoint in black ink on watermarked laid paper, 7 1/8"H x 4 5/8"W (182 x 120 mm), plate 3 1/2" x 5 1/4" (134 x 82 mm.) Ref. Kennedy 241; Glasgow 247; Mansfield […]
Lot 1159: 2 Prints: Gericault Horse Litho & Flameng After Goya
1st item: Theodore Gericault (France, 1791-1824) Lithograph on wove paper titled "Cheval de Mecklembourg", from the series Etudes de Chevaux Lithographies, published by Godefroy Engelmann, Paris, 1822. Depicts a bridled horse being restrained by a young stable boy before a wall and a stable. Artist names and title printed lower left, center, and right below […]
Lot 1157: 19th Watercolor of English Palace Interior
British School, late 19th century, watercolor painting depicting the interior of highly ornate building, possibly the Palace of Westminster, with portrait bust of Queen Victoria overlooking a center doorway and flight of stairs leading to an oval desk with inkstand in the foreground. A sculpture of the Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, stands at the […]
Lot 1155: 2 Continental School Oil Paintings, St. Mark’s, Venice
Pair of oil on canvasboard pendant paintings depicting St. Mark’s Square, Venice, as viewed from San Giorgio Maggiore, with boats in the foreground. The paintings portray the scene from slightly different perspectives and under different lighting conditions: one with dark, threatening clouds overhead and the other with a lighter, hazy atmosphere. One signed illegibly lower […]
Lot 1156: Achille De Dominicus W/C Painting, Staircase
Achille De Dominicus (Italy, 1851-1917) watercolor on paper painting depicting a kneeling man in a blue jacket, a young girl in a yellow kerchief, and a man in a brown hat and jacket leaning over a boulder at the base of a long, stone staircase flanked by a rocky overhang to the right and lush […]
Lot 1153: 2 Luigi Kasimir Etchings, incl. Schonbuhel on the Danube
Two (2) Luigi Kasimir (Austrian, 1881-1962) color etchings. 1st item: Etching titled "Schonbuhel on the Danube" depicting three small rowboats moored at the edge of the river with a castle atop a hill in the background. Signed in pencil "Luigi Kasimir" lower center below the plate. Lyzon Gallery, Nashville, TN label along with a handwritten […]
Lot 1154: Luigi Kasimir Etching, Grand Canal in Venice
Luigi Kasimir (New York/Austria, 1881-1962) color etching on paper depicting a view of the Grand Canal in Venice with gondolas floating in the water. Signed "Luigi Kasimir" in lower center below the plate. Housed and matted under glass in a giltwood frame. Plate: 17 3/4" H x 23" W. Framed: 27" H x 33" W. […]
Lot 1151: Erte Art Deco Serigraph, Purity
Erte (Romain De Tirtoff, Russian/French, 1892-1990) color serigraph with silver foil embossing titled "Purity", numbered 233/300", published by Circle Fine Art Corporation, Chicago, 1981. Depicts a woman with dark blonde hair dressed in a white gown with elaborate silver embellishments against a black background. Numbered, in pencil, lower left below the image, signed "Erte" in […]
Lot 1152: 2 Al Hirschfeld Pencil Signed Lithographs
Two (2) Albert Hirschfeld (New York/Missouri, 1903-2003) color lithographs, including one (1) titled "Reefer Man", and one (1) titled "Lenox Avenue Stroll", both from the suite "Harlem As Seen by Hirschfeld", printed by the Triggs Color Printing Corporation, New York; published by The Hyperion Press, New York, 1941. Both signed "HIRSCHFELD", in the plate, lower […]