A selection of jewelry from The October Auction including a Van Cleef & Arpels covered wristwatch, a Boucheron carved ruby cuff bracelet, and a Raymond Yard compact. Grogan & Company
BOSTON, MA – Grogan & Company’s October 23rd auction will feature the auction house’s distinctive selection of high quality items across all collection genres, including paintings, works on paper, sculpture, jewelry, silver, decorative arts, Asian export, and Oriental carpets. The jewelry portion of the sale is headlined by two important estates: Marian Taylor Young of New York, New York and Mrs. F.C. “Pit” Dumaine, Jr. of Weston, Massachusetts.
Marian Young Taylor (1908-1973) was best known as radio personality, Martha Dean, on New York’s WOR. Known as the “First Lady of Radio,” Taylor interviewed some of the most important political and cultural figures of the day including Muhammed Ali, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Dwight Eisenhower, Robert Kennedy, and Marilyn Monroe. Highlights from her collection include an old European-cut diamond solitaire ring weighing 2.75 cts. and estimated at $7,000-9,000, a Retro Raymond Yard yellow gold compact with a diamond and ruby clasp estimated at $2,500-3,500, and a pair of Tiffany & Company yellow gold, diamond, and sapphire earclips estimated at $1,000-1,500.
4.37 cts., D color, Internally Flawless emerald-cut diamond to be offered with an estimate of $40,000-60,000 Grogan & Company
Mrs. F.C. Dumaine, Jr., known to family and friends as “Pit”, was wife of American railroad executive “Buck” Dumaine, Jr. The selection of her fine jewelry is being sold to benefit The Jonathan Edward Brooking Memorial Fund for Mental Health Research at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA. The fund was founded in 1985 by Mrs. Dumaine in memory of her grandson, Jonathan Edward Brooking. Since 2010, the fund has supported an annual research fellowship toward advancements in the mental health field. Highlights from her collection include a custom Retro Raymond Yard gold, diamond, and sapphire brooch estimated at $3,000-5,000, an Art Deco Tiffany & Company platinum and diamond bar brooch estimated at $5,000-7,000, and a pair of Oscar Heyman gold, diamond, and sapphire earclips estimated at $4,000-6,000.
Established in 1987, Grogan & Company assists the Boston and greater New England community with the sale of their fine art and antiques. Specializing in quality jewelry, fine art, silver, decorative arts, and Oriental carpets, Grogan & Company holds four to six auctions annually featuring items across all collecting genres.
Frida Kahlo at The Dali showcases the extraordinary career and life of the acclaimed 20th century artist, whose dreamlike work suggests that love and suffering create a new sense of beauty. More than 60 Kahlo pieces are on display at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, including 15 paintings, seven drawings and numerous personal photographs from the celebrated female artist and influential icon. The exhibition, from Dec. 17, 2016, to April 17, 2017, extends outdoors, where a special collection of flowers and plants representative of those in Kahlo’s own garden at Casa Azul, her home in Mexico, graces the grounds of the Dali’s Avant-Garden.
The exhibit is an intriguing exploration of the life of Kahlo, her striking artwork and her fascinating psyche. Together with the exclusive photographs of family, friends and lovers, the exhibition gives a complete view of Kahlo’s world, along with the joys, passions and obsessions of this remarkable artist.
“With her dreamlike images, Kahlo has stirred huge public interest beyond the traditional art audience. In a way, Kahlo created a persona that serves as a contemporary feminine ideal – both tender and fierce,” says Dali Museum Executive Director, Dr. Hank Hine. “Much like Dali, she constructed an eccentric identity through the iconography in her paintings and then dressed and carried herself as the personality she created in her art. Painting by painting, she becomes a heroic figure of struggle and perseverance.”
Kahlo and Dali each created artistic autobiographies and their personalities loom behind their paintings, generating a presence that both shapes and overshadows their works of art. While Kahlo largely rejected the term ‘Surrealism’ and felt that her works were as real as her life, Andre Breton, known as the founder of Surrealism, took great interest in her work and described her painting as a bomb wrapped in a ribbon.
Frida Kahlo at The Dalihas been co-organized by The Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL and the Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City. The exhibit also features works from the Vicente Wolf photographic collection.Frida Kahlo at The Daliis curated for The Dali by Dr. Hank Hine and Dr. William Jeffett.
Through October 16, 2016, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presents Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks, an exhibition showcasing Jean-Michel Basquiat’s rarely seen notebooks, filled with poetry fragments, wordplay, sketches and personal observations. These unique documents offer an intimate look to the artist’s oeuvre, embodying themes of street life, popular culture, world history, race and class.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) via Wikipedia
This exhibition features 160 notebook pages, related objects, works on paper and large-scale paintings. Complimenting the exhibition, PAMM has added works from Miami including collaborative paintings made by Basquiat and Andy Warhol and other works that speak to the breadth of this important artist’s career.
“We are thrilled to be able to host this important exhibition on a foundational period in the life of one of our country’s, and the world’s, greatest artists,” said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “While the show opened appropriately in Brooklyn, where the artist was born, Miami is the perfect host for the conclusion of this show. Basquiat’s face is on murals in our city, a city which boasts Little Haiti and Little Havana, monikers for the country and city of those places not far away.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), a cultural icon, is one of the most original, influential and prolific artists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn to a Haitian father and a Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat was raised in a cross-cultural and multilingual family becoming fluent in Haitian Creole, Spanish and English—languages that resonate within Miami’s cultural landscape. In the early 1980s, he rose quickly from teenage street artist to a celebrity in both the art scene and popular culture. He was a self-taught artist with encyclopedic and multicultural interests, influenced by comics, advertising, children’s sketches, Pop art, hip-hop, politics and everyday life. He is best known for combining vibrant colors, abstract gestures and figuration with language, which often appears in his paintings and drawings in at least one of his three spoken languages.
Basquiat’s handwritten texts are an integral part of his work, as these push the between language and drawing, as well as reveal the artist’s provocative cultural imaginary.
Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks emphasizes the artist’s distinct interplay of text and images, providing unprecedented insight into the importance of writing in the Basquiat’s process. The works in the exhibition render an intimate view to the artist’s ability to generate rhythm and poetics using words. The notebook pages contain early renderings of iconic imagery—tepees, crowns, skeleton-like figures and grimacing faces—that also appear throughout his large-scale works, including an early drawing related to his famous series, Famous Negro Athletes. Additionally, the exhibition at PAMM includes two paintings made in collaboration with Andy Warhol, exemplifying his collaborative relationship to this other artistic icon.
Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks provides a significant opportunity to view these remarkable notebooks up close, inviting new insights and perspectives on Basquiat’s art and his extraordinary talent of using “words like brushstrokes,” as he once famously said.
Estate jewelry auction house Joseph DuMouchelle showed no sign of a summer slowdown at its August 11th “Le Petite” Diamonds and Fine Jewels auction. The sale, which contained only 19 lots, grossed $1,819,812.50 and achieved a 90 percent sale rate. Eleven of the items surpassed their pre-sale estimates, including Lot 8, an Art Deco platinum, yellow gold and emerald lady’s ring with a 13.88-carat fancy vivid yellow diamond. Estimated at $400,000-600,000, the ring brought $1,062,500.
“August is normally a time when everyone — especially European buyers — are on vacation, but it didn’t seem to be the case for this sale,” says president and auctioneer Joseph DuMouchelle, who, with co-founder Lindy Adducci, previewed the auction at New York’s Lotte Palace Hotel August 9th and 10th. “Buyers don’t want to miss out on exceptional gems and jewelry, and they were willing to come back from holiday travel to preview and bid on these diamonds, colored stones and signed jewelry items. The fancy vivid yellow diamond was an especially rare stone and not one that collectors and connoisseurs of colored diamonds wanted to miss out on having the chance to own.”
Over the many years of Olympic competitions, “going for the gold” has always been about athleticism, national pride and striving for excellence. But no matter where the games have been celebrated, each event has had its own special significance in both sports annals, as well as in world history.
Now pieces of that history are set to go to auction at DuMouchelles Art Galleries on Friday, August 19th in Detroit when they will auction off a vintage collection of Olympic memorabilia.
Included are items from the games of the last century, extending as far back as 1908. “Of particular interest to bidders is a 1936 relay bearer’s torch,” advised Jerry Anderson, an appraiser for DuMouchelles. “The 1936 games were historic as the first in modern times to conduct a torch relay from Olympia in Greece to the site of the games.” Those games were also renowned for the tremendous success of four-time American track and field gold medalist Jesse Owens, as well as the first time that the games were televised.
“A lot of those pieces disappeared in the turmoil of World War II,” Anderson said. “There weren’t that many of them left.”
Other highlights include programs and brochures from the 1932 Los Angeles games, a vintage postcard collection, hand-made books and autographed photos of American diver Marjorie Gestring — who, in 1936, at age 13 years, 9 months became the youngest female gold medalist in the history of the summer games. Her record still stands today.
Also noteworthy are the collections of over 1,900 pins — including a unique set of pins designed by countries that unsuccessfully vied for the 2004 games. Limited amounts of these pins were made because there was no need to mass-produce them after their initial presentations. “You don’t see these often,” Anderson said. “They’re very hard to get.”
Pins were given to dignitaries and committee members in the early years and later were traded amongst athletes as a gesture of goodwill.
Rounding out the collection are event tickets, participation medals — even a 3-D stereoscope viewer with slides — certainly an interest for both sports fans and historians alike.
The collection remains on view at DuMouchelle Art Galleries 409 E. Jefferson Avenue location in Detroit until it goes to auction this Friday evening, August 19th. For more information, refer to www.dumoart.com or call (313) 963-6255.
The 47th edition of Art Basel in Basel closed on Sunday, June 19, 2016 amid reports of significant sales across all levels of the market, including many major sales by galleries exhibiting within the Unlimited sector. Attendance from international collectors and institutions was once again very strong, with new collectors from countries across Africa and the former Soviet Union, as well as Iran, Lebanon, Japan, Korea, the Philippines and Thailand, coming to the fair for the first time. In a more volatile market and political environment, this edition proved that there continues to be a strong demand for high-quality works when premier international galleries and leading collectors from across the world come together.
This year’s edition received widespread praise for its strong booth presentations and for the powerful artistic positions, many poignantly responding to the current socio-political situation within Europe and further afield. The show, whose Lead Partner is UBS, brought together 286 premier galleries from 33 countries, presenting the very best contemporary and historical material by around 4,000 artists. This year saw a strong list of galleries participating in the show for the first time, including: Johan Berggren Gallery (Malmö), Carroll / Fletcher (London), Grimm (Amsterdam), Maisterravalbuena (Madrid), Sprovieri (London), Galeria Stereo (Warsaw) and Waldburger Wouters (Brussels) from Europe; Bergamin & Gomide (São Paulo), Corbett vs. Dempsey (Chicago), Derek Eller Gallery (New York), Foxy Production (New York), Moran Bondaroff (Los Angeles), Pace/MacGill Gallery (New York), Simone Subal Gallery (New York), ULAE (Bay Shore) and Van Doren Waxter (New York) from the Americas; and Selma Feriani Gallery (Sidi Bou Said) from Africa.
Art Basel 2016 attracted an attendance of 95,000 across the six show days. Demonstrating its position as the central meeting point for the international art world, artists in attendance at this year’s Art Basel show included: Davide Balula, Hans Op de Beeck, AA Bronson, Tracey Emin, Zhang Enli, Zeng Fanzhi, Cao Fei, Alfredo Jaar, Christian Jankowski, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Michael Landy, Jonathan Monk, Oscar Murillo, Pope.L, Robin Rhode, James Turrell, Haegue Yang, Ding Yi and Samson Young.
Leading private collectors from Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa attended this year, as well as representatives from over 300 distinguished museums and institutions, including: The Art Institute of Chicago; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Serpentine Galleries, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate, London; and The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.
During the show, Art Basel announced that it will be partnering with UBS to commission a comprehensive new annual art market report. The new ‘Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report’ will be an objective and independent study authored by Dr. Clare McAndrew and her Dublin-based research and consulting firm Arts Economics. Covering the main macro-economic trends and delivering fundamental data on the art market as a whole, the first ‘Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report’ will be published in March 2017 to coincide with Art Basel’s Hong Kong show. The announcement of this new report came alongside Art Basel’s extension of its 22-year partnership with UBS, Art Basel’s global Lead Partner.
Galleries exhibiting within all sectors of Art Basel were delighted to express their enthusiasm about this year’s show:
‘This has been a very successful fair for us, and we were impressed with the number of high quality international collectors who attended this year. We sold work by George Condo, Andreas Gursky, Jenny Holzer, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Frank Stella and Rosemarie Trockel, placing works with prominent collections across Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States and Asia.’ Philomene Magers, Co-owner, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, London, Los Angeles
‘An extraordinary fair; where desperation was replaced by inspiration. Yes, we had many sales, more than 80% of the work we brought, but more importantly, these were sales we felt proud of…to passionate collectors, both old and new.’ Marc Glimcher, President, Pace, New York, London, Beijing, Hong Kong
‘The level of excellence at Art Basel never fails to be breathtaking. I feel the fair is constantly upgrading and improving, which seems impossible when it is already the world’s premier fair!’ Maureen Paley, Founder Director, Maureen Paley, London
‘Although we felt interest before the fair was as high as in previous years, we came to the fair this year with some mixed feelings. After the first few months of 2016, when the art market hadn’t lived its best moment, we were delighted to see such a strong interest in the works we brought to the fair. This year collectors made very quick decisions when it concerned important art works. Art Basel was, once again, a very successful fair for us.’ Thaddaeus Ropac, Founder & Director, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Paris
‘Art Basel is the most important moment in the art world calendar, and the quality of collectors in attendance this year once again proves this point. We always put a lot of effort into gathering our best work to bring to the fair, but this year in particular the quality of the work on show and the collectors present has been outstanding.’ Fernando Mignoni, Director, Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid
‘Art Basel 2016 has been the highest grossing fair in the history of the gallery with strong sales to museums and private individuals.’ Glenn Scott Wright, Co-Director, Victoria Miro, London ‘The audience here has not shied away from difficult work. This year we have seen a very diverse, international crowd, with many using Art Basel as their hub to then also see events taking place at the Tate and Manifesta.’ Ana Castella, Director, joségarcía ,mx, Mexico City
‘Art Basel has defied the markets and brought us huge success once again – nothing beats the indefatigable spirit of Art Basel!’ Iwan Wirth, President and co-Founder, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, New York, Los Angeles, London, Somerset
The Board of Trustees of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has announced Taco Dibbits as their new director. Dibbits (1968) is an art historian (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Cambridge, 1993) and has been the Director of Collections at the Rijksmuseum since 2008. Dibbits takes over from Wim Pijbes, who will step down on 15 July 2016.
Taco Dibbits. Photo: RVDA
The Dutch Minister for Culture, Jet Bussemaker (OCW), endorsed with enthusiasm to the choice of the Trustees. The Workers Council of the Rijksmuseum has also advised positively on the decision.
Dibbits has worked for the Rijksmuseum since 2002. He played a central role in the display and presentation of the new Rijksmuseum, which reopened its doors in 2013 after a ten year renovation. He was deeply involved in the development of the Rijksstudio, the Rijksmuseum’s successful new website. Dibbits also worked on the museum’s major acquisitions, such as a theBacchant from Adriaen de Vries (2015) and Rembrandt’s Marten en Oopjen (2016). He was responsible for the inception of the extremely successful Rembrandt & Caravaggio (2006) and Late Rembrandt (2015) exhibitions.
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, chairman of the Board of Trustees from the Rijksmuseum: Taco Dibbits combines great international experience with his passion for art and history. He is already a figurehead for the Rijksmuseum. In terms of content, Taco is eminently capable of shaping the process of innovation and development necessary to inspire and surprise the museum visitor again and again.
Taco Dibbits on the announcement: The Rijksmuseum is one of the most beautiful museums in the world, and therefore it is fantastic to be entrusted with its leadership. The treasures of the museum have the strength to bring people together. The museum belongs to everyone and is for everyone.
Wim Pijbes welcomes the announcement of Dibbits: The Rijksmuseum shines and that is to the merit of Taco. I am delighted that he is to become the next director.
The management of the Rijksmuseum further comprises Erik van Ginkel, managing director.
The Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University, in Orange, Calif., has been established with the generosity of Mark and Janet Hilbert, whose superlative collection focuses on the “California Scene” painting movement of roughly the 1920s through the 1970s and beyond. The Hilbert Collection – which includes oils, watercolors, sketches and lithographs of rural and urban scenes, coastal views, farms, ranches, freeways and landscapes of everyday life in the Golden State – is a significant repository of 20th-century representational art by California artists.
Millard Sheets, “San Dimas Train Station,” 1933, is on view at the new Hilbert Museum of California Art. (Courtesy, Hilbert Museum of California Art)
Since collecting their first California Scene paintings in 1992, Mark and Janet Hilbert have built one of the most comprehensive collections of Californian artists in the world, which they are now delighted to share with students and the public.
The Hilbert Collection includes art from nearly all periods of the twentieth century, but primarily features works created by the most innovative California Scene painters from the 1930s to 1970s.
The California Scene movement is a visual journey through California history: the transformation of California from a wild, untamed Western landscape of rolling hills and vast empty coastlines into an urban industrial panorama, dotted with skyscrapers and New Deal mural projects, and finally into its modern economy based on entertainment, agriculture, international trade, Silicon Valley industries and tourism. California Scene painting, spanning the 20th century, has always been about depicting and embracing new developments in culture and lifestyle. Today, it affirms an emotional connection between the California landscape and its inhabitants, as it tells the stories of everyday people in a changing world.
Mark Hilbert graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1966 with a degree in engineering and went on to invent a new energy-saving air conditioning product. In 1988, he founded Hilbert Property Management, based in Newport Beach. Janet holds a master’s degree and teaching credential from USC, and served as professor of business at Santa Ana College for 35 years. Mark and Janet wed in 1994, and have three children and six grandchildren.
Sundial, from Science Fiction Imagery and Futuristic Landscapes, France, ca. 1925, Gouache and watercolor, 3 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. Courtesy Ursus Prints.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-The 2015 San Francisco Fall Antiques Show will arrive like clockwork on Thursday, October 22 through Sunday, October 25 at Fort Mason’s Festival Pavilion with the theme Time After Time: Bringing the Past Present. This year’s focus speaks to the lasting quality of beautiful pieces, the time that goes into creating a work of art and the vast timespan the objects in the show encompass. This year, the curated Loan Exhibition will showcase the evolution, design and beauty of timepieces from across time.
The Show will feature sixty dealers from around the world, offering for sale an extraordinary range of fine and decorative arts representing all styles and periods including American, English, Continental and Asian furniture and decorative objects, paintings, prints, photographs, books, gold, silver and precious metals, jewelry, rugs, textiles and ceramics.
“For anyone interested in the Decorative Arts, buying, collecting, or simply learning about art and antiques, the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show is not to be missed,” says this year’s Show Chair, Suzanne Tucker. “After 34 years, it’s a Bay Area ‘must do’ of the most wonderful, vibrant four days filled with terrific dealers, fascinating lectures and gobs of eye candy! I am thrilled to be chairing the Show this year and encourage everyone to go see for yourselves, explore the booths, meet the dealers, learn a lot and take home a fabulous find. Don’t miss the opening night party and take a tip from what every top designer knows – The Fall Antiques Show makes for outstanding shopping and a never-ending treasure hunt!”
As always, 100% of net proceeds benefit Enterprise for High School Students, the San Francisco nonprofit that prepares and empowers a diverse group of Bay Area youth to pursue life after school with passion and purpose. Enterprise offers students everything they need to get and keep their first job, including intensive workshops, pragmatic skills and career exploration training, a network of advisors and peers, a broad database of paid internships, and college and career counseling.
The 34th annual show launches with the Opening Night Preview Gala on Wednesday, October 21. On Thursday, October 22, the show opens for its four day run.
Exhibitors Include: Aedicule, Almond + Company, American Garage, Arader Galleries, Arthur Guy Kaplan, Carlson & Stevenson Antiques, Carlton Hobbs LLC, Clinton Howell Antiques, Colonial Arts, Daniel Stein Antiques, David Brooker Fine Art, Doris Leslie Blau, epoca, Eve Stone Antiques, Ltd., Finnegan Gallery, Foster Gwin Inc., Galen Lowe Art & Antiques, Gallery 925, Hayden & Fandetta Book Sellers, Il Segno del Tempo, Isaac and Ede Antiquarian Prints, J.R. Richards Gallery, James Sansum Fine & Decorative Art, Janice Paull, Jayne Thompson Antiques, Jeff R. Bridgman American Antiques, Jesse Davis Antiques, Joel Cooner Gallery, John Berggruen Gallery, Kathleen Taylor, The Lotus Collection, Kentshire, Lawrence Jeffrey Estate Jewelers, Lebreton, Mallett Antiques, Michael Pashby Antiques, Peter Fetterman Gallery, Peter Pap Oriental Rugs, Patrick & Ondine Mestdagh, Philadelphia Print Shop, Piraneseum, Richard Gould Antiques, Roberto Freitas American Antiques, Steinitz, The Ames Gallery, Thomas Murray Arts, T. Reggiardo Antiques, Ursus Prints, Vandeuren Galleries, William A. Karges Fine Art, Yew Tree House Antiques
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Oct. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — On Monday, October 19, Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches (AGOPB) will present rare and fascinating items from a Palm Beach private collection in their Fall Art and Antiques Auction. All forms of bidding will be available, including live via the Internet through LiveAuctioneers.
Set of eight Russian Gardner porcelain plates, estimate $40K-$60K (PRNewsFoto/LiveAuctioneers)
The featured collection includes 18th-century Russian Imperial porcelain, Chinese antiques, early Russian and Greek icons, and some of the most interesting objects the gallery’s specialists have ever seen.
The Russian Imperial porcelain was made by the Gardner Factory between 1778 and 1780 for the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky. The service will be offered in three consecutive lots: Lot 106 with eight plates, Lot 107 with eight bowls, and Lot 108 with a pair of reticulated fruit bowls. Additionally, Lot 105 includes a group of three Gardner cups and covers, one set being from the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky service. Gardner porcelain is highly desirable, especially to Russian collectors.
“The porcelain is of exquisite quality,” said AGOPB partner Leslie Baker. “The factory’s owner, an Englishman named Francis Gardner, had expert knowledge of the different techniques for decorating porcelain. Catherine the Great was so impressed by the Gardner factory, she commissioned three large services in 1777.”
Several early Greek icons are found in the featured collection, as well. Lot 156 is a 17th/18th-century triptych painted with the Virgin and Child and flanked by St. George and St. Demetrius, while Lot 157, is a 17th-century icon depicting a trinity of angels seated around a table with holy figures making offerings. The latter work measures 42¼ by 32½ inches.
Lot 204 is an inscribed 11th- to 12th-century Byzantine religious chalice of enamel, silver, sardonyx and semiprecious stones. Four round enameled panels with depictions of saints adorn the cup itself. A wonderful example of Byzantine religious art, it is estimated at $3,000-$4,000.
Another beautiful item is Lot 206, a contemporary 18K yellow gold and lapis lazuli automated musical mantel clock with precious stones. It is a scaled-down version of the famous Delacorte clock on the triple archway near the children’s zoo in New York’s Central Park. The Delacorte clock is one of the park’s most amusing attractions, with its revolving animals, musical nursery rhymes and monkeys striking the bell. All of the gold on the clock offered by AGOPB is stamped “750 Italy.” Estimate: $10,000-$20,000.
The auction also features a broad selection of fine art, including a 1962 Pablo Picasso linocut numbered 36 of 50, estimate $25,000-$30,000; and a complete edition of The Birds of America from the Amsterdam edition published in 1985, estimate: $10,000-$15,000.
The Monday, Oct. 19, 2015 auction will be held at the AGOPB gallery, 1609 S. Dixie Hwy., West Palm Beach, Florida, starting at 6 p.m. ET. Preview goods at the gallery starting at 10 a.m. on auction day. For further information, call 561-805-7115. View the online catalog and sign up to bid absentee or live online at LiveAuctioneers.
