William Hart (1823-1894), View of the Catskills. Oil on canvas, 26¼ x 36¼ in., signed lower right: ‘W. Hart Albany’. Courtesy Brunk Auctions. Estimate: $35/55,000
Asheville, NC
Brunk Auctions
July 8-10
Premier & Emporium Auctions
Brunk Auctions in Asheville, North Carolina, holds the summer rendition of its Premier & Emporium Auctions this July 8 to 10. The sales are broken into three segments, with the Emporium Auction beginning July 8, Premier Auction Session I on July 9 and Premier Auction Session II on July 10, with all sales starting at 9 a.m. Eastern time.
Among some of the noteworthy lots included are View of the Catskills by Scottish-American artist William Hart, which has a presale estimate of $35,000 to $55,000, as well as Alfred Thompson Bricher’s oil On the Water, also estimated to sell between $35,000 and $55,000.
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Severin Roesen (1816-1872), Lush Still Life of Fruit with a Wine Glass and a Nest of Eggs on a Marble Pediment. Oil on canvas, 38 x 33 in. Courtesy Thomaston Auction Galleries. Estimate: $25/35,000
Thomaston, ME
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
July 9-11
July Splendor
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries based in Thomaston, Maine, strives to “discover, research and present fine art and antique treasures to the buying public.” The auction house’s upcoming July Splendor sale, running July 9 to 11, will offer a wide range of fine art, Old Master paintings, cars, collectibles, antiquities, jewelry and more.
On the auction block for this summer sale is 19th-century American-Prussian painter Severin Roesen’s oil on canvas Lush Still Life of Fruit with a Wine Glass and a Nest of Eggs on a Marble Pediment. Roesen was known for his abundant fruit and botanical still lifes. Lush Still Life is expected to fetch between $25,000 and $35,000.
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Fern Isabel Coppedge (1883-1951), Carversville Brook. Oil on canvas, 18¼ x 20 in. Courtesy Sotheby’s. Estimate: $30/50,000
New York, NY
Sotheby’s
July 9-20
American Art
Paintings from some of the most respected names in historic American art will be hitting the auction block at Sotheby’s midseason online American Art sale, running July 9 to 20. Collectors can bid for works by such artists as William Glackens, Maurice B. Prendergast and Fern Isabel Coppedge. Several oils by Wolf Kahn will be included in the sale: In a Yellow-Gray Scheme (est. $6/8,000) features the saturated color palette and abstract aesthetic for which the artist is known as well as From Our Hillside to Theirs, a meadow of vibrant greens estimated at $10,000 to $15,000.
A watercolor and pencil on paper by Prendergast titled April Showers is expected to bring in between $80,000 and $120,000. Other highlights include Coppedge’s oil Carversville Brook (est. $30/50,000), Glackens’ oil Still Life with Chrysanthemums (est. $35/55,000) and Karl Buehr’s Lady with a Parasol, an oil on canvas with a presale estimate of $40,000 to $60,000, among other.
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Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908), Rocky coast, Naragansett Bay, ca. 1880. Oil on canvas, 22 x 32 in., signed lower left with conjoined: ‘AT Bricher’. Courtesy Eldred’s. Estimate: $18/22,000
East Dennis, MA
Eldred’s
July 29-30
Summer Sale
Eldred’s annual Summer Sale brings forth an exceptional group of Cape Cod and Provincetown art colony works by both historic and contemporary artists. Highlights in the sale include a 1975 commissioned work by Ralph E. Cahoon Jr. with an estimate of $15,000 to $20,000) and Karl Knath’s Whoa (est. $10/15,000). And perhaps the most anticipated lots are two white-line woodblock prints by painter, printmaker and designer Blanche Lazzell. Provincetown Waterfront and My Wharf each have an estimage of $35,000 to $45,000. Rocky coast, Naragansett Bay, a view of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, executed by Alfred Thompson Bricher around 1880, is estimated at $18,000 to $22,000.
“It’s always a privilege to handle a Lazzell woodblock,” says Eldred’s president Joshua Eldred. “Because they were only done in small runs, they are incredibly rare and desirable.”
The Summer Sale is a live auction with online, absentee and phone bidding available. A preview will be held several days before the auction.
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Edgar Payne (1883-1947), Dragon Lake, Looking Southwest, Kings Canyon National Park. Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in. Courtesy Bonhams. Estimate: $40/60,000
Los Angeles, CA
Bonhams
August 3
California Art
Bonhams’ California Art sale will take place in Los Angeles on August 3. Pioneers in the field, Bonhams was the first auction house to hold a sale specially dedicated to California and Western paintings back in June of 1980. A highlight of this 2021 sale is Western landscape painter and muralist Edgar Payne’s oil on canvas Dragon Lake, Looking Southwest, Kings Canyon National Park, which has an estimate of $40,000 to $60,000.
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Charles Craig (1846-1931), Ute Scouting Party, 1900. Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in. Courtesy Bonhams. Estimate: $7/9,000
Los Angeles, CA
Bonhams
August 4
Western Art
Bonhams holds its Western Art sale on August 4. The auction will feature a wide range of works by historic American artists depicting scenes, sentiments and stories of the West. Works to pay attention to include Charles Craig’s Ute Scouting Party (est. $7/9,000) and contemporary artist David Bates’ Magnolia II, a bas-relief bronze with polychrome with an estimate of $15,000 to $25,000.
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Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (1858-1923), View from the Sprague House, Prouts Neck, Maine (on Bohemia Lane, off Winslow Homer Road), a seascape from the shore. Oil on canvas, 32½ x 37½ in.,signed lower left; inscribed: ‘To my friend Sprague’ and dated: ‘1905’. Courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries. Estimate: $100/200,000
Thomaston, ME
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
August 27-29
August Splendor
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ August Splendor sale running August 27 to 29 will feature antiques, fine art and paintings by the Old Masters. Collectors should keep an eye out for works by celebrated artist and illustrator N.C. Wyeth, as well as painter and educator Joseph Rodefer DeCamp, who studied with Frank Duveneck for a time. Have a ‘Coke’ = How are things goin?, or GI’s in Newfoundland by Wyeth has a presale estimate of $20,000 to $30,000. The graphite on paper depicts a group of GI’s and fisherman relaxing and conversing with a few Coca-Colas. A subdued landscape by DeCamp titled View from the Sprague House, Prouts Neck, Maine (on Bohemia Lane, off Winslow Homer Road) is set at $100,000 to $200,000. —
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