Romare Bearden (1911-1988), In the Garden, 1978. Acrylic and cloth and paper collage on board, 10¼ x 67/8 in. Courtesy Grogan & Company. Estimate: $40/60,000
Boston, MA
Grogan & Company
November 15
The Fall Auction
A curated selection of 200 fine works of art from private collections and estates will hit the market during Grogan & Company’s Fall Auction. The sale, happening on November 15, will be live in the Beacon Hill headquarters, in Boston, with all bidding taking place remotely through absentee, internet and phone. To watch the sale as it happens, collectors can stream it through the Grogan & Company website.
Two private collections will hit the market, including Robert Motherwell works on paper from Drs. Dorothy and Norman Zinberg, who were friends with the Motherwells and received 11 of the lots offered as gifts from the artist. The second collection is 25 works of art from a Wellesley, Massachusetts, family, who collected the pieces in the 1970s and 1980s. Many of the works in the collection were acquired directly from the artists and it is highlighted by a mixed media collage by Romare Bearden titled In the Garden (est. $40/60,000). The work, dated to 1978, was exhibited at Massachusetts College of Art’s Boston Collects Bearden show in May 1982.
Also included in the sale are works by Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg and Angel Botello, among others.
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Granville Redmond (1871-1935), Landscape with poppies and lupine. Oil on canvas. Courtesy John Moran Auctioneers. Estimate: $80/120,000
Monrovia, CA
John Moran Auctioneers
November 17
California & American Fine Art
On November 17, John Moran Auctioneers will bring to market an array of fine paintings during its next California & American Fine Art sale. The auction will include a number of California views by the impressionists of the area, including a landscape with poppies and lupine by Granville Redmond that is expected to sell between $80,000 and $120,000. Also in the sale will be Kansas artist Birger Sandzén’s Mountain Landscape, which has a snowpack and tranquil rolling hills. It has an estimate of $60,000 to $80,000.
Hanson Duvall Puthuff is also represented in the sale with the painting Golden Summer (est. $15/20,000). According to the auction house, “The orangey-yellow grass of the foreground is a familiar sight to any Californian at the height of summer and a relief of tall trees in the midground promises a hint of shade to break the heat.”
Drying Chili Peppers, North San Diego, 1937, by Phil Dike, also hits the block with an estimate of $10,000 to $15,000, as does a Yosemite painting with a lakeside campfire by Thomas Hill that looks to sell between $8,000 and $12,000.
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Leon Kroll (1884-1974), Summer Afternoon. Oil on canvas, 27 x 36 in., signed lower right: ‘Leon Kroll’. Courtesy Brunk Auctions. Estimate on request.
Asheville, NC
Brunk Auctions
November 20-21
Two Important Single Owner Collections
On November 20 and 21, Brunk Auctions in Asheville, North Carolina, will host an online sale dedicated to two important collections that are being released to the market. Titled Two Important Single Owner Collections, the auction will include an array of fine artwork that will entice collectors. One of the notable pieces is Leon Kroll’s Summer Afternoon, which previously appeared in a Christie’s auction in March 1994. The painting depicts a man and woman relaxing beside a waterway; behind them is a lush green village with a farm.
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Hughie Lee-Smith (1915-1999), Man with White Flag, 1987. Oil on canvas. Courtesy Swann Auction Galleries. Estimate: $40/60,000
New York, NY
Swann Auction Galleries
December 10
African American Art
December 10 marks Swann Auction Galleries’ next African American Art auction, with this sale including significant material by innovative artists. The standout of the sale is the Harlem Renaissance-era sculpture Gamin, by Augusta Savage, which was acquired directly from the artist. Artist Faith Ringgold is represented in the sale with a pair of her soft sculpture dolls titled Tut and Betty. This auction marks the first time dolls by the artist are arriving at auction, and they carry an estimate of $80,000 to $120,000.
Also included will be Emma Amos’ Water Baby, from her late-1980s series of women bathers, and Hughie Lee-Smith’s painting Man with White Flag, a 1987 painting that “epitomizes the surrealism found in his late-career painting.” Lee-Smith’s work has a presale estimate of $40,000 to $60,000.
Other notable artists in the sale include Simone Leigh, Kara Walker, Ernie Barnes, Frank Bowling, Sam Gilliam and Kenneth Victor Young, to name a few. —
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