On November 10 and 11, Santa Fe Art Auction will present its largest and most diverse auction with the Signature Live Sale held in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The works will include paintings and bronzes, but also pottery, weavings, carvings and much more.
Luis Jimenez (1940-2006), El Filo, cast fiberglass and automotive paint with epoxy coating, ed. of 5, 28 x 47 x 84 in. Estimate: $100/150,000
“It is an impressive selection,” says Gillian Blitch, the president and CEO of the Santa Fe Art Auction. “We really view this big November sale as the sale that will offer the best of all the genres we cover, from Western art to historical and contemporary Native American art, to jewelry, to textiles and pottery. It’s all here.”
The two-session sale will feature around 400 lots, including works by some of the superstars of Western art. One of those artists is Frederic Remington, who will be represented in the sale by the 1890 oil on canvas en grisaille painting titled A Moose Bull Fight (The Fighting Moose). The painting, which shows two moose locked in a duel in a snowy forest scene, originally appeared as the frontispiece in the October 1890 edition of Harper’s Monthly. It’s listed in the Remington catalogue raisonné as No. 1077. The work is estimated at $40,000 to $80,000.
Frederic Remington (1861-1909), A Moose Bull Fight (The Fighting Moose), 1890. Oil on canvas en grisaille, 18 x 277/8 x 2¼ in. Estimate: $40/80,000
Another famous name is Albert Bierstadt. The landscape painter’s Untitled (Mountain Landscape), measuring just 11 by 15 inches, will be offered with estimates of $30,000 to $50,000. The bright daytime scene showing a lovely valley with fall color and a cow.
The sale will also feature the last remaining Edward S. Curtis images from the Christopher Cardozo Estate, which the auction house has been handling for several years. More than 80 Curtis lots will be offered, including a complete portfolio (No. 11) from The North American Indian. “Additionally, there will be previously unpublished photographs, orotones and other gems in the selection,” Blitch says, adding that an image of Teddy Roosevelt will be among the pieces.
Maria Martinez (1887-1980) and Popovi Da (1923-1971), Polychrome Vase. Fired clay, pigments, 7½ x 93/8” Estimate: $20/30,000
Important Native American materials will also be offered in the auction. One key highlight is a Maria Martinez and Popovi Da polychrome vase. Measuring roughly 7 by 9 inches, these pots are treasured by collectors of all types. It is estimated at $20,000 to $30,000. In the jewelry category, a Charles Loloma silver cuff with stone inlay will be available. Made with ironwood, turquoise, coral, malachite and lapis, the cuff is a classic and elegant Loloma design, with estimates of $25,000 to $35,000.
A Luis Jimenez fiberglass piece should be a fascinating curiosity to bidders. El Filo is a lifesize sculpture cast in fiberglass showing a slumped figure on a motorcycle. The work is painted with automotive paint and has an epoxy coating, which gives it a high shine. The work is estimated at $100,000 to $150,000 “We know this is an edition of five and we even know where two of them are and they are in museum collections,” Blitch says. “These Jimenez pieces are very desirable, and this one is quite exciting.”
Allan Houser (1914-1994), Camp Talk, 1979. Bronze, ed. 7 of 8, 23¼ x 231/8 x 20½” Estimate: $10/15,000
Other works in the sale include pieces by Helen Hardin, Gustave Baumann woodblock prints and paintings by Emil Bisttram, Fremont Ellis, Will Shuster, Dorothy Brett, Rod Goebel and many others.
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