Joint Auction Previews

East Dennis, Hingham, Los Angeles

Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983), Quail Hunting. Watercolor, 15 x 29 in. Courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions. Estimate: $40/60,000

Hingham, MA
Copley Fine Art Auctions
July 23
Sporting Sale

On July 23, Copley Fine Art Auctions will host its annual Sporting Sale in a virtual format due to COVID-19 restrictions. The sale, led by auctioneer Peter Cocculuto, will be live streamed and will utilize phone, absentee and internet bids, beginning at 10 a.m.

In the sporting paintings segment of the auction there will be a number of American works among the standouts. Included are a quail hunting scene by Ogden M. Pleissner that has an estimate of $40,000 to $60,000 and Aiden Lassell Ripley’s watercolors A Pair of Pheasants (est. $14/18,000) and Pheasants Near the Old Farm (est. $12/18,000).

Three pieces by Thomas Aquinas Daly will also hit the block, with Electric Mountain (est. $8/12,000) leading the group. The auction house will again offer items from the Estate of Alfred F. King III, who was the owner of The Sportman’s Edge in New York City. From his estate are items by Bob Kuhn, David A. Maass and Frank W. Benson.

Works on paper will also be strong in the sale with seven prints by wildlife artist Carl Rungius available; nine prints by Benson; and works by Marguerite Kirmse, Roland Clark and Percival Rosseau, to name a few.

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Granville Redmond (1871-1935), Poppies and Lupine, 1914. Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 in., signed and dated lower left: ‘Granville Redmond 1914.’ Courtesy Bonhams. Estimate: $100/150,000

Los Angeles, CA
Bonhams
August 4
California and Western Art

Bonhams will host its second California and Western Art sale of 2020 on August 4 with a number of classic California Impressionist works hitting the auction block. Granville Redmond’s Poppies and Lupine, coming from a private collection in Wyoming, features the artist’s signature color palette and subject, with a presale estimate of $100,000 to $150,000.

The sale will also feature a beautiful California landscape by William Wendt. The piece, painted in 1920, measures 28 by 36 inches and is expected to sell between $40,000 and $60,000. American genre painter Robert Eskridge’s Hukilau (est. $20/30,000) will also be available. Eskridge moved to Honolulu in 1932, with this painting having been completed in 1940. Theodore Wores’ Cypress Point, Monterey, California is also notable in the sale. It has an estimate of $15,000 to $25,000.

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Robert Salmon (1775-ca. 1851), Shipping of Greenwich. Oil on canvas, 10¾ x 17½ in., signed and dated lower right: ‘RS 1803’; titled on frame plaque. Courtesy Eldred’s. Estimate: $18/22,000

East Dennis, MA
Eldred’s
August 13-14
The Marine Sale

Eldred’s two-day Marine Sale will feature the Kelton Collection of Marine Art and Artifacts. Richard Kelton—who built the collection of paintings, ship models, navigation instruments and more—was an avid and well-known collector who created a foundation in 1982 to exhibit, loan and research his materials. Included in the offerings is Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen’s The Steamship Cottage City at Sea, which is expected to sell between $10,000 and $15,000.

Also available in the sale, from outside this collection, is Robert Salmon’s Shipping of Greenwich, which has a presale estimate of $18,000 to $22,000. Salmon, who was an active maritime artist in both England and America, often sees his career divided into two periods. The first half where he was influenced by artists such as J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Luny, and the second period where he developed his luminous style, which had an impact on American art and many younger artists such as Fitz Hugh Lane. —