Joint Auction Previews

Asheville, Los Angeles, Marlborough

Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944), Seated Dancer in a Halo of Electric Light. Oil on canvasboard, 20 x 16 in. Courtesy Skinner Inc. Estimate: $70/90,000

Marlborough, MA
Skinner Inc.
January 22
American & European Works of Art

Skinner Inc. will host its first 2021 American & European Works of Art sale on January 22 with livestream audio and online, telephone and absentee bidding. While Skinner does not anticipate in-person bidders, the sale will be live virtually. Highlights include an oil sketch of a young girl by Mary Cassatt; a large Ludwig Bemelmans autumn view of Miss Clavel and the 12 girls from the Madeline series; Hudson River School paintings by John F. Kensett and David Johnson; and works by artists such as Gilbert Stuart, Jane Peterson and Theodore Clement Steele.

Florine Stettheimer is represented in the auction by Seated Dancer in a Halo of Electric Light, which “emphasizes the intense color and rhythmic patterns that the artist used, as the cord of the oversized electric lightbulb dances like a ribbon around the seated performer, whose inclined head is encircled in a halo of light. Stettheimer loved flowers and whimsy, and she included here a floral arrangement in a tall vase along with a tiny red mouse in the lower right.” The painting has an estimate of $70,000 to $90,000.

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Asher B. Durand (1796-1886), In the Shade of the Old Oak Tree. Oil on canvas, 25 ½ x 21 ¼ in., signed lower left: ‘AB Durand’. Courtesy Brunk Auctions. Estimate: $30/50,000

Asheville, NC
Brunk Auctions
February 11-13
Premier & Emporium Auctions

Brunk Auctions’ three-day Premier & Emporium Auctions will take place February 11 to 13 with American paintings hitting the market during the sale. One of the highlights is Jervis McEntee’s Entrance to the Highlands, 1874, which is in a fine period guild wood and composition frame. The work is a quiet painting, with boats and land off in the distance. It has an estimate of $12,000 to $18,000. Asher B. Durand’s landscape In the Shade of the Old Oak Tree is another notable painting. The work, with cows grazing underneath the billowing oak trees, carries a presale estimate of $30,000 to $50,000.

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William Herbert Dunton (1878-1936), Blackfeet Indians moving to the Buffalo Range. Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 in. Courtesy Bonhams. Estimate: $60/80,000

Los Angeles, CA
Bonhams
February 26
Western Art

On February 26, Bonhams in Los Angeles will host its first Western Art auction of 2021. The sale will include paintings and sculpture from some of the most prominent artists of the genre. Among the highlights is William Herbert “Buck” Dunton’s painting Blackfeet Indians moving to the Buffalo Range. The painting features the artist’s muted color palette and depicts a group of Blackfeet Indians on horseback heading off the left of the canvas. The work is estimated to sell between $60,000 and $80,000.

Other items that are available in the auction are Olaf C. Seltzer’s The Signal (est. $10/15,000) and a small-scale version of Cyrus Edwin Dallin’s Appeal to the Great Spirit, at just over 8 inches high, with an estimate of $4,000 to $6,000. —