Jose Arpa (1858-1952), San Antonio Near Calaveras. Oil on canvas 18 x 24 in., signed lower right: ‘Jose Arpa, San Antonio’. Courtesy David Dike Fine Art. Estimate: $75/125,000Dallas, TX
David Dike Fine Art
November 9
Fall Texas Art Auction
David Dike Fine Art’s Fall Texas Art Auction will bring to the auction block more than 300 lots of early Texas art with great collections of Dallas painters, Olin Travis, Otis Dozier, Frank Reaugh, Merritt Mauzey, Zanne Hochberg and Edward Eisenlohr, as well as Fort Worth Circle artists Bror Utter, David Brownlow and some early, rare Samuel Ziegler works. A major landscape painting by Spanish-American painter Jose Arpa, San Antonio Near Calaveras (est. $75/125,000), will also be available in the upcoming sale. Porfirio Salinas’ Bluebonnets at Dusk, another highlight, is expected to sell between $40,000 and $60,000.Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973), Bluebonnets at Dusk. Oil, 20 x 30 in. Courtesy David Dike Fine Art. Estimate: $40/60,000

The auction house also brings two rare paintings by early Houston modernist Robert Preusser as well as several paintings from the estate of Carl Benton Compton. A preview will take place October 28 through November 2 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and doors open for the November 9 sale at 10 a.m. Bidding starts at noon.

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Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922), At the Lake. Oil on board, 9 x 12 in., signed lower left: ‘Julian Onderdonk’. Courtesy Heritage Auctions. Estimate: $10/15,000

Dallas, TX
Heritage Auctions
November 2
Texas Art Auction
Artwork reflecting the wide range of cultures and people in Texas will be featured in Heritage Auctions’ Texas Art Auction in Dallas on November 2. Highlights in the sale include an oil by Texas impressionist Julian Onderdonk titled At the Lake (est. $10/15,000) and a rare work from Dallas-born artist David Bates, revealing his love for the South and its landscapes, Self Portrait - Gulf Coast, estimated at $25,000 to $35,000.

“I am excited about this auction; it is as diverse as the state of Texas,” says Heritage Auctions Texas Art director Atlee Phillips. “There are some fabulous examples of works from across all periods and genres—something for every collector.”

Coming from a private Texas collection is an oil on Masonite painted in 1955 by Otis Dozier, Koshari Corn Dancers (est. $12/18,000). The artist was a member of a group of Texas regionalist artists known as “the Dallas Nine,” a group of artists who put Dallas on the art map in the 1940s.

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William Wendt (1865-1946), Winter thaw, 1913. Oil on canvas, 24¼ x 30 in., signed and dated lower right: ‘· WILLIAM WENDT · 1913 ·’. Courtesy Bonhams. Estimate: $30/50,000

Los Angeles, CA
Bonhams
November 25
California and Western Art
Bonhams will hold its California and Western Art sale this November 25 showcasing depictions of the prominent West Coast state and other scenes reminiscent of the West. Expected to be one of the top lots in the upcoming auction is an oil by Edgar Payne, titled Italian boats, estimated at $30,000 to $50,000. The impressionist piece features a subdued color palette with sailboats docked in a harbor on calm waters. Another highlight is William Wendt’s oil painting Winter thaw, 1913, which also has an estimate of $30,000 to $50,000. Other highlights include Mr. Wiggin’s Fish Pond by Joseph Raphael (est. $60/80,000) and Wilson Hurley’s Thunderstorm Building in the Sandias (est. $25/35,000).Edgar Payne (1883-1947), Italian boats. Oil on canvas, 24 x 28 in., signed lower right: ‘EDGAR PAYNE’; titled on verso. Courtesy Bonhams. Estimate: $30/50,000

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Mauritz Frederik Hendrick De Haas (1832-1895), Gloucester Harbor. Oil on canvas, 36¼ x 60¼ in. signed lower right: ‘M.F.H. De Haas N.A.’. Courtesy Brunk Auctions. Estimate: $12/18,000

Richmond, VA
Brunk Auctions
November 9
Premier Auction

A recent expansion at Brunk Auctions has brought the major Southeast auction house to Richmond, Virginia, where it will hold its first Premier Auction there on November 9. The Richmond location will host biannual auctions featuring fine art, jewelry, modern design and traditional antiques, and will also serve as a venue for previews, appraisal events and connoisseurship lectures. The inaugural sale in Richmond takes place at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden beginning at 9 a.m. Maud Earl (1864-1943), In the Slips,Two Black and White Greyhounds. Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in., signed  lower right: ‘Maud Earl’. Courtesy Brunk Auctions. Estimate: $12/18,000

Highlights in the sale include Gloucester Harbor by Mauritz Frederik Hendrick De Haas (est. $12/18,000); Maud Earl’s In the Slips, Two Black and White Greyhounds, also projected to sell between $12,000 and $18,000; Will Henry Stevens’ Modern Abstraction, 1939 (est. $4/6,000) and others. Previews will be held October 30 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Asheville, North Carolina, and November 8 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Richmond, Virginia. —

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