Olaf Seltzer (1877-1957), Crow 1909. Oil on board, 9½ x 11½ in. Courtesy Brian Lebel’s Old West Events. Estimate: $7/9,000
Mesa, AZ
Brian Lebel’s Old West Events
January 21-22
Mesa Old West Auction
Brian Lebel’s 32nd annual Mesa Old West Auction takes place on Saturday, January 22, as part of the grander Mesa Old West Show & Auction from January 21 to 23 at the Mesa Convention Center. The event returns fully in person this year and continues to be a haven for collectors and aficionados of historic Western art, artifacts and memorabilia.
The weekend Old West Show hosts hundreds of vendors in antique, vintage, and modern Western art and collectibles, and the auction will be available live, online, mobile, by phone or absentee. Two highlights in the Old West Auction are Crow 1909, an oil by Olaf Seltzer estimated to fetch between $7,000 and $9,000, and Untitled/Herd of Cattle by Daro Flood, which has a presale estimate of $3,000 to $5,000 and is the last painting the artist completed.
An auction on Friday night, January 21, will feature the Dick Flood Sr. & Daro Flood Family Collection (and much of the estate of friend and artist Joe De Yong), which includes hundreds of paintings, sketches, etchings, bronzes and more by artists like Charles M. Russell, Carl Oscar Borg, Maynard Dixon, Olaf Wieghorst and others.
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Henry Francois Farny (1847-1916), Danger/A Study. Oil on canvas; initialed and dated ‘H.F.F./92’ and with dragonfly and circle symbols lower right. Courtesy Skinner, Inc. Estimate: $80/120,000
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln), 1884-1887, cast in 1912 or later. Bronze with brown patina, 40 in., signed and inscribed on back edge of base: ‘COPYRIGHT 1912 BY A.H.SAINT-GAUDENS’; along left edge of base: ‘AVGVSTVS SAINT GAVDENS SCVLPTOR M.D.CCC.LXXXVII’; and on chair: ‘E PLVRIBVS VNVM’. Courtesy Skinner, Inc. Estimate: $700/900,000
Marlborough, MA
Skinner, Inc.
January 28
American Works of Art
Leading Skinner, Inc.’s winter edition of its American Works of Art live sale is a 40-inch tall bronze, titled Standing Lincoln, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. This work, from the holdings of a Massachusetts educational institution, was cast in 1912 or later and is estimated to bring in between $700,000 and $900,000. Another highlight in the sale, which takes place January 28, is an oil study by Henry François Farny for his masterpiece Danger, estimated at $80,000 to $120,000. As part of Skinner’s slate of January sales is the online timed sale Fine Prints & Photographs, which will take place January 14 through 27.
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Ned Burgess (1868-1958), Widgeon. Courtesy Leland Little Auctions. Estimate: $5/7,000
Hillsborough, NC
Leland Little Auctions
February 17
Winter Decoy and Sporting Art Auction
North Carolina-based Leland Little Auctions will hold its Winter Decoy and Sporting Art Auction on February 17. The auction will feature historic American art, Southern decoys, high-end shotguns and rare books.
A few of the highlights in the forthcoming sale include a carved juniper widgeon by Ned Burgess (1868-1958), from around 1920 to 1930s. This particular widgeon exhibits a rare finger-applied art deco decoration, commissioned for the hunting rig of Mose White. The decoy is estimated to fetch $5,000 to $7,000 and is among one of the finest decoys made by Burgess. Another top lot is a circa 1920s brant with a cast iron ballast by Myran Willis (1875-1934). This decoy, branded “LDB,” was last used by Luther Dudley Burrus. Both Willis and Burrus were guides at the Gooseville Gun Club in Hatteras, North Carolina. Brandt with Cast Iron Ballast is estimated at $4,000 to $5,000. —
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