Day 1: Modern/Contemporary Art & Design | African & Oceanic Arts
Modern Art highlights include two Alexander Calder gouaches from a Private New York Collection, a Jean Arp bronze, a Rufino Tamayo watercolor, an Arthur Davies oil mural study, and works by Takashi Murakami, Stanley Boxer, Miro, Chryssa, Ruth Duckworth, Romare Bearden, David Salle, Dale Chihuly, and John Fenton. Design highlights include over 50 pieces of furniture from an important Peter Marino Palm Beach Commission including a Jean Dunand Lacquer bed, and Peter Marino designed lighting and Art Deco inspired furniture. Other design highlights include a custom c. 1935 TH Robsjohn-Gibbings Lotus console, important custom Secessionist pieces by Josef Hoffmann, American Studio works deaccessioned from the Museum of Art and Design, and pieces by Edward Wormley, Poul Kjaerholm, Gio Ponti, Finn Juhl, Pierre Gauriche; Lighting by Willy Daro, Pierre Forsell, Ercole Barovier, Christopher Spitzmiller, and a Tiffany Studio Turtleback lamp. Tribal Arts feature works from the, including over 30 pieces of African and Oceanic objects, many with Klejmin and museum provenance.
Day 2: Asian Arts | American, British Art & Antiques | Native American | Art Books & Historical Letters
Asian highlights include almost 50 works from the Lewis Stein Collection, including antique and ancient Chinese and Korean porcelains, bronzes, jade, and stone carvings, featuring a monumental Ming-era wood carved Guanyin. Two Song-era silk scrolls come from an Important New York Family. New York area collections provide exceptional Chinese blue and white, Famille and Export porcelains. Art highlights include a John Singer Sargent watercolor, a Daniel Ridgeway Knight oil on canvas, and a JMW Turner drawing. Fine Antiques include an extraordinary single-owner collection of over 150 rare early-mid 18th c. porcelains by Chelsea, Bow, Derby and Worcester. Other collections include Arts & Crafts furnishings from the home of a Hollywood leading man, a selection of Georgian to Edwardian English furniture from a private residence at the Sherry-Netherland, and signed letters and documents from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine. Ten extraordinary 19th c. American Southwest and Pacific Coast artifacts are offered from the Faith-Dorian and Martin Wright Collection
Day 3: Continental Art & Antiques | Carpets | Antiquities | Books | Silver
Art Highlights include a large Old Masters oil portrait from the Circle of Velazquez, an oil on panel by Pieter de Hooch, and early engravings by Durer and Van Lyden. A group of collages attributed to Kurt Schwitters comes from the Collection of artist Lewis Stein. A single owner collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist prints includes important examples by Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Matisse and Picasso. Also from this collection, 50 examples of early-mid 18th c. Continental porcelains including Meissen, Mennecy, Sevres, and Doccia. Other highlights include a group of Moser jeweled glass, an important Galle ‘Parlant’ coupe, Louis XVI ebeniste signed furniture, a selection of 17th c. military weapons, 19th c. Persian and Bessarabian rugs from the collection of a media executive, and silver by Tiffany, Buccellati, and Matthew Boulton.
Preview Hours
Our doors will be open for preview on Mon, Nov 14 from 11am to 7pm, Tue, Nov 15 from 11am to 5pm, Wed, Nov 16 from 9am to 5pm, Thu, Nov 17 from 9am to 5pm, and Fri, Nov 18 from 9am to 10am. Hope to see you there!
