Paul Evans chairs and table, offered as separate lots, command $90K at PBMA

A set of six bronze sculpted side chairs by Paul Evans, dating to 1975, sold for $64,000 at Palm Beach Modern Auctions.

LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. – Fans of American studio furniture artist Paul Evans (1931-1987) enjoyed an unusual opportunity at Palm Beach Modern Auctions (PBMA) on February 17. Offered as subsequent lots were a 1975 Paul Evans Stalagmite table and a set of six sculpted bronze side chairs. The signed and dated table, its base made from bronzed resin over steel, hammered for $21,000 ($26,800 with buyer’s premium) against an estimate of $9,000-$12,000, while the set of chairs, which were estimated at $25,000-$35,000, hammered for $50,000 ($64,000 with buyer’s premium). Full results for the auction can be seen at LiveAuctioneers.

Lurking in the lot images for each was a photograph of the May 1975 shipping order that dispatched them from Wisneski Furniture Delivery of Bayonne, New Jersey. The presence of this paperwork “bolstered the sale,” according to Wade Terwilliger, president of the auction house. “People who collected Paul Evans’ work in the 1960s and 1970s did so out of passion for the aesthetic and craftsmanship, and didn’t always keep receipts. The owners of the Stalagmite table and sculpted bronze chairs in our February 17th sale kept meticulous records and passed those on to their children,” he said. “We often have gallery provenance or correspondence, but the level of documentation accompanying these pieces is pretty rare.”

The shipping slip identified the table base as model PE102 and the chairs as model PE106. Though Paul Evans did not design the two as complementary furnishings, the consignor paired the table with the chairs in their home. “Though not specifically intended for use together, the table and chairs have a shared texture – so important to Evans’ pieces – that ties them together. There was a good deal of crossover bidding on the two lots, buyers intending to use them together,” Terwilliger said, and observed that bidding for both was “heated from all sources”. That intensity ultimately resulted in the table going home with one bidder and the chairs being claimed by another, an outcome that surprised Terwilliger.

He was unfazed by the chairs selling for more than the Stalagmite table, a Paul Evans form that he said is popular at auction in any size. “The chairs are quite a find, especially in sets of six or more – though this is an atypical set in that there were no captain’s chairs,” he said. “Typically, we’ve seen them sold as four or six side chairs plus two arm chairs. Maybe one or two sets come to auction per year, anywhere, and we were excited to offer these.”

A set of six bronze sculpted side chairs by Paul Evans, dating to 1975, sold for $64,000 at Palm Beach Modern Auctions.

A set of six bronze sculpted side chairs by Paul Evans, dating to 1975, sold for $64,000 at Palm Beach Modern Auctions.

One from a set of six bronze sculpted side chairs by Paul Evans, dating to 1975, which sold for $64,000 at Palm Beach Modern Auctions.

One from a set of six bronze sculpted side chairs by Paul Evans, dating to 1975, which sold for $64,000 at Palm Beach Modern Auctions.

A 1975 Paul Evans Stalagmite table sold for $26,800 at Palm Beach Modern Auctions.

A 1975 Paul Evans Stalagmite table sold for $26,800 at Palm Beach Modern Auctions.

Visible in the lot images for both the Paul Evans side chairs and Stalagmite table are shots showing the furnishings together, as the consignor used them. Offered as separate, subsequent lots, the table sold for $26,800 and the chairs for $64,000 at Palm Beach Modern Auctions.

Visible in the lot images for both the Paul Evans side chairs and Stalagmite table are shots showing the furnishings together, as the consignor used them. Offered as separate, subsequent lots, the table sold for $26,800 and the chairs for $64,000 at Palm Beach Modern Auctions.

Visible in the lot images for the Paul Evans side chairs and also the Stalagmite table is a photograph of the shipping slip for both, dated May 28, 1975. Offered as separate, subsequent lots, the table sold for $26,800 and the chairs for $64,000 at Palm Beach Modern Auctions.

Visible in the lot images for the Paul Evans side chairs and also the Stalagmite table is a photograph of the shipping slip for both, dated May 28, 1975. Offered as separate, subsequent lots, the table sold for $26,800 and the chairs for $64,000 at Palm Beach Modern Auctions.

Sheila Gibson Stoodley

Sheila Gibson Stoodley

Sheila Gibson Stoodley is the associate editor for Auction Central News. She has written and edited for Robb Report, Art & Antiques magazine, and Andrew Harper online. She also authored The Hot Bid, a blog devoted to intriguing and delightful lots coming up at auction.

Disney theme park items performed beyond expectations at Van Eaton

Columbia Pictures one-sheet for the 1929 short 'Barnyard Battles,' which sold for $18,000 ($21,780 with buyer’s premium) at Van Eaton.

STUDIO CITY, Calif. — Anticipated high lots underperformed and surprise lots overperformed wildly at Van Eaton Galleries‘ Disney Studio and Disney Parks Live Auction on March 2. The sale’s overall outcome demonstrated the ongoing demand for official Disney memorabilia, and it seems that the more obscure it is, the better. Complete results are available at LiveAuctioneers.

Many of the top-estimated lots merely hit their low estimates, such as the Mary Blair concept painting for It’s A Small World at Disneyland, which realized $20,000 ($24,200 with buyer’s premium). In a rare instance, a Disneyland Haunted Mansion stretching portrait, estimated at $100,000-$150,000, passed.

Probably to the surprise of Van Eaton, the top lot was an early 2000s metal Disneyland resort transportation sign identifying a back of house shuttle stop that transported cast members from the entrance at Harbor Pointe to various other stops. Estimated at $300-$500, it hammered for a whopping $22,500 ($27,225 with buyer’s premium).

An original Columbia Pictures one-sheet for Barnyard Battles, a 1929 film short featuring Mickey Mouse, also exceeded its $9,000-$12,000 estimate by hammering for $18,000 ($21,780 with buyer’s premium). Van Eaton notes that pre-United Artists Disney posters are scarce, and this example is believed to be from 1930, after animator and director Ub Iwerks, whose name would normally appear on early Disney posters, left Disney.

A large-format (34 by 36in) area closure sign featuring Tinker Bell also blew out expectations. Annual Cleaning and Pixie Dusting was estimated at $300-$500 but sold for an outstanding $6,000 ($7,260 with buyer’s premium).

Robert Olszewski (b. 1945-) is a renowned miniaturist who has worked for Walt Disney Company, the Franklin Mint, Goebel, and many others. A collector commissioned a scale model of Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean building complex with incredible detail and an illuminated ‘interior view’ showing the bride auction and ship battle scenes. Once again moderately estimated at $300-$500, it hammered for $6,500 ($7,865 with buyer’s premium).

 

 

 

Disneyland transportation sign identifying a back of house shuttle stop, which sold for $22,500 ($27,225 with buyer’s premium) at Van Eaton.

Disneyland transportation sign identifying a back of house shuttle stop, which sold for $22,500 ($27,225 with buyer’s premium) at Van Eaton.

Columbia Pictures one-sheet for the 1929 short 'Barnyard Battles,' which sold for $18,000 ($21,780 with buyer’s premium) at Van Eaton.

Columbia Pictures one-sheet for the 1929 short 'Barnyard Battles,' which sold for $18,000 ($21,780 with buyer’s premium) at Van Eaton.

Disneyland 'Annual Cleaning and Pixie Dusting' area closure sign, which sold for $6,000 ($7,260 with buyer’s premium) at Van Eaton.

Disneyland 'Annual Cleaning and Pixie Dusting' area closure sign, which sold for $6,000 ($7,260 with buyer’s premium) at Van Eaton.

Robert Olszewski scale model of Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean building complex, which sold for $6,500 ($7,865 with buyer’s premium) at Van Eaton.

Robert Olszewski scale model of Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean building complex, which sold for $6,500 ($7,865 with buyer’s premium) at Van Eaton.

Adventureland entryway mask, which sold for $7,500 ($9,075 with buyer's premium) at Van Eaton.

Adventureland entryway mask, which sold for $7,500 ($9,075 with buyer's premium) at Van Eaton.

Jim Bunte

Jim Bunte

Jim Bunte has worked in editorial, design and the toy and auction industries for more than 30 years. He co-founded Auction Central News in 2007.

British World War II recruiting poster in Hebrew leads our five auction highlights

‘You can shorten the road – To Victory. Join the ATS,’ a 1943 poster designed by the Shamir Brothers, hammered for $6,000 and sold for $7,800 at Ishtar Auctions in Israel.

World War II-era Poster, in Hebrew, Recruiting Jewish Women to Join the British Army, $7,800

‘You can shorten the road – To Victory. Join the ATS,’ a 1943 poster designed by the Shamir Brothers, hammered for $6,000 and sold for $7,800 at Ishtar Auctions in Israel.
‘You can shorten the road – To Victory. Join the ATS,’ a 1943 poster designed by the Shamir Brothers, hammered for $6,000 and sold for $7,800 at Ishtar Auctions in Israel.


TEL AVIV – Second World War posters recruiting British and American women to the war effort are a familiar sight at auction. Less well known, and much harder to find, are the posters that encouraged thousands of Jewish women to serve in variety of combat support roles in the Middle East.

The idea of Jewish women serving in the British army was not without its opponents, both in Britain and in the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine prior to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. However, after representatives of local women’s organizations formally requested that the British Army open the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) to volunteers from Mandatory Palestine, permission to draft up to 5,000 women was granted in October 1941. The first class of 60 women designated to become officers and NCOs appeared for duty at the British Army camp at Sarafand in January 1942.

Due to religious objections, not all of the eligible women were actually enlisted in the ATS. However, an estimated 3,500 Hebrew women were recruited to the ATS and 700 to the WAAF (the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force) during the course of the war. Arguably, their finest hour was the Second Battle of El Alamein (October 23-November 4, 1942), when ATS drivers trucked in Allied troops and weapons to the front lines, helping secure the victory that was the beginning of the end of the Western Desert Campaign.

Numerous recruitment posters were made at the time encouraging women to volunteer, many of them designed by the Latvian-born brothers Gabriel and Maxim Shamir, who had opened a graphic design studio in Tel Aviv in 1935. Typical of their work is the rare 2ft 2in by 19in (65 by 48cm) 1943 poster offered at Ishtar Auctions on March 7. In the foreground is a woman driver dressed in the ATS uniform while written in Hebrew the slogan reads: You can Shorten the Road to Victory, Join the ATS. 

The Shamir Brothers Collection at the National Library of Israel – the subject of an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1999 – holds a huge archive of similar works, but this example hammered at $6,000, tripling its high estimate of $1,500-$2,000, and it sold for $7,800 with buyer’s premium.

 

Lute and Molecule 1’, $20,480

‘Lute and Molecule 1’ by Ben Shahn, which hammered for $16,000 and sold for $20,480 at Hill Auction Gallery.
‘Lute and Molecule 1’ by Ben Shahn, which hammered for $16,000 and sold for $20,480 at Hill Auction Gallery.


SUNRISE, Fla. – The artist Ben Shahn (1898-1969) worked primarily as an academic in the last two decades of his life, joining Harvard University as a professor in 1956 and publishing both The Biography of Painting (1956) and The Shape of Content (1960). However, he continued to paint. Hill Auction Gallery’s February 28 Hidden Gems sale included Shahn’s original gouache titled Lute and Molecule 1 and dated circa 1958.

The composition, depicting a stringed musical instrument with molecular pattern designs in shades of gray, brown, blue, black, and yellow formed the basis for two of the artist’s most popular screenprints, Lute and Molecule, No. 1 and Lute and Molecule, No. 2, published in 1958. It came for sale from a private collection with an estimate of $500-$1,500, but hammered for $16,000 and sold for $20,480 with buyer’s premium.

 

 

Zun-form Cloisonné Enamel Vase Attributed to the Xuande Period, $70,170

Zun-form cloisonné enamel vase attributed to the Xuande period, which hammered for £43,000 and sold for £55,040 ($70,170) with buyer’s premium at Hannam’s.
Zun-form cloisonné enamel vase attributed to the Xuande period, which hammered for £43,000 and sold for £55,040 ($70,170) with buyer’s premium at Hannam’s.


SELBORNE, UK – This 8in (19cm) high vase, offered for sale at Hannam’s Auctioneers on February 27, may belong to a select group of Ming cloisonné enamel vases dating to the Xuande period (1426-1435). All are approximately the same size, follow the zun form inspired by ancient Shang and Western Zhou bronzes, and are decorated with similar peony blossom and lotus-scroll decoration. More specifically, they share heavy bronze bodies, feature strong colors, and are set within fine, accurately bent wires. The best known of these vessels is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, where it is dated to the Xuande period and attributed the Yuyongjian workshop, a division of the department responsible for providing furnishings to the Imperial household. Other examples were sold at Christie’s in London in May 2010 for £210,000 (roughly $267,645) and at Christie’s New York in September 2021 for $300,000 ($382,375).

Hannam’s zun-form vase, described as ‘probably imperial and Xuande period’, appeared without a published provenance and a modest estimate of £800-£1,200 ($1,020-$1,530). However, showing some confidence in its pedigree, several potential buyers competed for it, prompting the lot to hammer for £43,000 and sell for £55,040 ($70,170) with buyer’s premium.

 

Krishen Khanna, ‘Aftermath’, $142,680

Krishen Khanna, ‘Aftermath’, which hammered for $116,000 and sold for $142,680 at Taurus Auctions.
Krishen Khanna, ‘Aftermath’, which hammered for $116,000 and sold for $142,680 at Taurus Auctions.


FAIR LAWN, N.J. – A relatively early work by the contemporary Indian painter Krishen Khanna (b. 1925-) hammered for $116,000 and sold for $142,680 against an estimate of $4,000-$8,000 at Taurus Auctions on February 29. Aftermath, a circa-1960s meditation on the Partition, was consigned from the collection of Lewis and Leanne Goodfriend of Westchester, New York.

The work of the nonagenarian today resides in many museum collections both in India and abroad, but when this picture was painted, Khanna had only recently committed to a career as a painter. He had been awarded the Rockefeller Fellowship in 1962 (the year he represented India at the Venice Biennial) and was an artist-in-residence at American University in Washington, D.C. in 1963 and 1964.

Painted in the Expressionist style, Aftermath (which is titled on the verso alongside the fragment of an exhibition label) depicts a somber figure seated at a table with a chicken waiting to be carved. Measuring 2ft 10in by 2ft 9in and in its original frame, is thought to be one of many works from this period to explore the aftermath of the partition of the Indian subcontinent. In August 1947, Khanna and his family had been forced to flee south from the newly created state of Pakistan with thousands of other Hindus.

The estimate for the painting was certainly modest for an artist whose work has made more than $200,000 on several occasions, with Khanna’s auction record (set in India, where most of his paintings appear for sale) now close to $500,000.

 

Six Mythological Oils on Copper by Luca Giordano, $70,400

Group of six oil-on-copper mythological scenes by Luca Giordano, which hammered for $55,000 and sold for $70,400 with buyer’s premium at Brunk.
Group of six oil-on-copper mythological scenes by Luca Giordano, which hammered for $55,000 and sold for $70,400 with buyer’s premium at Brunk.


ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Brunk’s March 7 auction included a group of six small oil-on-copper mythological scenes by Neapolitan painter Luca Giordano (1634-1705). Known as Fa Presto (which translates as ‘does it quickly’) because of his speed of painting, his dramatic religious and mythological subjects were in demand in Rome, Venice (where he traveled in 1667), Florence (1680-1682) and Madrid (1692-1702), as well as in Naples.

Giordano painted many large-scale canvases, but here, the artist worked on a more intimate scale. Similar sets of copper panels were incorporated into late 17th-century furniture – a good example being the cabinet on stand dated circa 1670 in the collection of the Dubrovnik Cultural History Museum. The subjects of these six 6 by 6in (15 by 15cm) paintings at Brunk are: Mars and Venus; The Death of Lucretia; Pan and Syrinx; Olindo and Sophronia; Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira; and Diana and Endymion. The Italian-style stippled and giltwood frames were made by Lowy of New York.

With an earlier provenance to the Suida-Manning collection (most of which is now in the Blanton Museum of Art in Texas), the set had been bought from Robert Simon Fine Art in New York in 2007 for $300,000. They were offered by Brunk with a far more modest estimate of $25,000-$35,000, hammering for $55,000 and selling for $70,400 with buyer’s premium as 62 people watched on LiveAuctioneers.

Roland Arkell

Roland Arkell

Roland Arkell is editor of Auction Central News and deputy editor at Antiques Trade Gazette. He has been writing about all aspects of the art and antiques market for more than 25 years.

1929 Whippet roadster was the top Howard Meyer estate lot at Miller and Miller

1929 Whippet Model 96A four-cylinder roadster, which sold for CA$22,000 ($19,990 with buyer’s premium) at Miller & Miller.

NEW HAMBURG, Canada – A 1929 Whippet Model 96A four-cylinder roadster roared away for CA$22,000 ($19,990 with buyer’s premium), a vintage Canadian porcelain sign for White Rose realized CA$15,000 ($18,450 with buyer’s premium), and vintage Schuco toys commanded high prices at Miller & Miller on March 1 and March 2. Complete results can be seen at LiveAuctioneers.

The March 1 toys auction showcased the late Howard Meyer collection, including 180 lots dominated by examples from Schuco. “Condition and rarity reign supreme as the determining factors when it comes to value in toys,” said Justin Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions Ltd. “Many of the toys in Howie’s collection were exceptional examples.”

The March 2 sale contained 398 lots of petroliana (gas station collectibles), advertising signs, toys, soda advertising, and model planes. “As the market for quality petroliana and advertising continues to mature, collectors are willing to pay higher and higher prices for top examples,” Miller said.

A 1930s Red Indian Motor Oils single-sided porcelain sign boasted excellent color and gloss and measured 24 by 17in. It sold for CA$12,000 ($10,905 with buyer’s premium).

A Murad Turkish Cigarettes single-sided tin sign, made in the US in the 1900s and featuring a detailed image of a Turkish beauty in colorful attire holding a serving tray with a package of Murad Cigarettes, the whole measuring 39 by 28 ½in, went for CA$10,000 ($9,090 with buyer’s premium).

The top earner of all the toy lots was a 1962 Schuco 6333 Disneyland Alweg-Monorail G-Set, marked ‘Disneyland’ and ‘Schuco’ on all parts, with track, cable, supports, a three-piece model monorail, and its original box and instructions. It brought CA$1,800 ($2,105 with buyer’s premium).

1929 Whippet Model 96A four-cylinder roadster, which sold for CA$22,000 ($19,990 with buyer’s premium) at Miller & Miller.

1929 Whippet Model 96A four-cylinder roadster, which sold for CA$22,000 ($19,990 with buyer’s premium) at Miller & Miller.

White Rose sign, which sold for CA$15,000 ($18,450 with buyer’s premium) at Miller & Miller.

White Rose sign, which sold for CA$15,000 ($18,450 with buyer’s premium) at Miller & Miller.

Red Indian Motor Oils sign, which sold for CA$12,000 ($10,905 with buyer’s premium) at Miller & Miller.

Red Indian Motor Oils sign, which sold for CA$12,000 ($10,905 with buyer’s premium) at Miller & Miller.

Schuco 6333 Disneyland Alweg-Monorail G-Set, which sold for CA$1,800 ($2,105 with buyer’s premium) at Miller & Miller.

Schuco 6333 Disneyland Alweg-Monorail G-Set, which sold for CA$1,800 ($2,105 with buyer’s premium) at Miller & Miller.

Jim Bunte

Jim Bunte

Jim Bunte has worked in editorial, design and the toy and auction industries for more than 30 years. He co-founded Auction Central News in 2007.

Trio of Roman portrait busts of women earned almost $1.6M at Lyon and Turnbull

Roman Trajanic marble bust of Pompeia Plotina, one of three larger-than-life busts of women that sold for a combined £1.26 million ($1.59 million) at Lyon & Turnbull.

GREENFORD, UK – Three larger-than-life-size Roman portrait busts with an 18th-century provenance linked to Cobham Hall in Kent, England have sold for a combined £1.26 million ($1.59 million) at Lyon & Turnbull.

The trio of massive second century marble heads all sold to the same determined phone bidder as part of the Edinburgh and London firm’s first designated sale of Classical Ancient Art on March 21. Results can be seen at LiveAuctioneers.

The sculptures were previously owned by John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley (1767-1831), the Lord of the Manor of Cobham. A noted amateur cricketer who made at least 27 appearances in first-class cricket matches between 1789 and 1796, he employed the architect James Wyatt to remodel the interiors at Cobham Hall.

The sculptures, each now housed on 19th-century stands, remained in situ until the house changed hands in 1957. They were part of a sale held by Sotheby’s in London in July of that year.

As with the best Roman sculpture, these were pieces that combined huge decorative appeal with academic clout.

In chronological order and setting the pace when it hammered at £600,000 ($767,360) and sold for £780,000 ($988,120) against an estimate of £25,000-£35,000 ($31,670-$44,340) was a 3ft 3in (97cm) bust of Pompeia Plotina dating to circa 110-120 AD. Born around 70 AD, she assumed the role of empress consort when Trajan rose through the ranks of the Roman military to become emperor in 98 AD.

Although she eschewed many of the trappings of power and luxury often associated with imperial life, she is shown in the bust as an idealized beauty with an elaborate coiffure and corkscrew fringe and a palla draped over the back of her head and over her shoulders. There had been huge interest around the £100,000 mark, but two phone bidders and a bidder online tussled as the competition reached the end game.

Trajan was conservative in nature, and Trajanic portrait sculpture was idealized to accentuate Roman virtues. With changing artistic sensibilities and philosophical trends, far more naturalism emerged during the reign of his successor, Hadrian. This is observed in a sensitively rendered bust of an older aristocratic lady of the middle Hadrianic period, dating to circa 125-130 AD. That sculpture was estimated at £20,000-£30,000 ($25,335-$38,005), hammered for £160,000 ($204,630) and sold for £209,600 ($265,470) with buyer’s premium.

In 138 AD Antoninus Pius would succeed Hadrian as emperor, and his wife Faustina the Elder was granted the title of Augusta by the Senate. A highly idealized and rejuvenated image of the empress in the guise of the goddess Hera, dated to around 135-140 AD, was estimated at £25,000-£35,000 ($31,670-$44,340), but as with the Pompeia Plotina bust, it hammered for £600,000 ($767,360) and sold for £780,000 ($988,120) with buyer’s premium.

“Three monumental sculptures with monumental prices to boot,” said Gavin Strang, auctioneer on the day. The winning bidder of all three lots was described as an international buyer.

Roman Trajanic marble bust of Pompeia Plotina, which hammered for £600,000 ($767,360) and sold for £780,000 ($988,120) with buyer’s premium at Lyon & Turnbull.

Roman Trajanic marble bust of Pompeia Plotina, which hammered for £600,000 ($767,360) and sold for £780,000 ($988,120) with buyer’s premium at Lyon & Turnbull.

Roman Antonine marble bust of Faustina the Elder, which hammered for £600,000 ($767,360) and sold for £780,000 ($988,120) with buyer’s premium at Lyon & Turnbull.

Roman Antonine marble bust of Faustina the Elder, which hammered for £600,000 ($767,360) and sold for £780,000 ($988,120) with buyer’s premium at Lyon & Turnbull.

Roman Hadrianic marble bust of a lady, which hammered for £160,000 ($204,630) and sold for £209,600 ($265,470) with buyer’s premium at Lyon & Turnbull.

Roman Hadrianic marble bust of a lady, which hammered for £160,000 ($204,630) and sold for £209,600 ($265,470) with buyer’s premium at Lyon & Turnbull.

Sheila Gibson Stoodley

Sheila Gibson Stoodley

Sheila Gibson Stoodley is the associate editor for Auction Central News. She has written and edited for Robb Report, Art & Antiques magazine, and Andrew Harper online. She also authored The Hot Bid, a blog devoted to intriguing and delightful lots coming up at auction.

African American historical ephemera was the focus at Freeman’s Hindman

'I Am A Man' poster, which sold for $7,500 ($9,825 with buyer’s premium) at Freeman's Hindman.

CINCINNATI — Nearly 330 lots of historical ephemera crossed the block at Freeman’s Hindman February 27, with the focus on African American items. Complete results are available at LiveAuctioneers.

The sale’s top lot was a first edition of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the prominent black author and civil rights advocate. Published by Lippincott in 1937, the book recounts a strong, independent black woman protagonist on a quest to find her true identity. It hammered for $15,000 ($19,650 with buyer’s premium).

The legendary ‘I Am A Man’ poster became a powerful and prominent symbol of the Civil Rights Movement after its use, originally during the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, which continued from February to April of 1968. More than a thousand black sanitation workers in Memphis walked off the job after two of their own were crushed by a garbage truck compactor and the public works department refused compensation to their families. The cause drew the attention and support of Martin Luther King, Jr. The poster sold for $7,500 ($9,825 with buyer’s premium).

Two photographs of ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ from Company D, 24th US Infantry, sold for $7,000 ($9,170 with buyer’s premium). One of the images was credited to African American photographers J. P. Ball & Son of Helena, Montana. The image dated to 1902-1904.

A final highlight was an 1866 marriage license and certificate for a freedman and freedwoman in Talbot County, Georgia. The license authorized the union of ‘Cicero Vaughn (freedman) and Ellen Gorman (freedwoman)’ in holy matrimony, and was dated 15 September 1866. It hammered for $6,000 ($7,860 with buyer’s premium).

Zora Neale Hurston, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which sold for $15,000 ($19,650 with buyer’s premium) at Freeman's Hindman.

Zora Neale Hurston, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which sold for $15,000 ($19,650 with buyer’s premium) at Freeman's Hindman.

'I Am A Man' poster, which sold for $7,500 ($9,825 with buyer’s premium) at Freeman's Hindman.

'I Am A Man' poster, which sold for $7,500 ($9,825 with buyer’s premium) at Freeman's Hindman.

Two photographs of 'Buffalo Soldiers,' which sold for $7,000 ($9,170 with buyer’s premium) at Freeman's Hindman.

Two photographs of 'Buffalo Soldiers,' which sold for $7,000 ($9,170 with buyer’s premium) at Freeman's Hindman.

1866 marriage license and certificate for a freedman and freedwoman in Talbot County, Georgia, which sold for $6,000 ($7,860 with buyer’s premium) at Freeman's Hindman.

1866 marriage license and certificate for a freedman and freedwoman in Talbot County, Georgia, which sold for $6,000 ($7,860 with buyer’s premium) at Freeman's Hindman.

Jim Bunte

Jim Bunte

Jim Bunte has worked in editorial, design and the toy and auction industries for more than 30 years. He co-founded Auction Central News in 2007.

Woody Auctions wows the ABCG world with $132K centerpiece

J. Hoare three-handled American brilliant cut glass centerpiece with sterling silver mounts, $110,000 at Woody Auction. The winner looks to be a LiveAuctioneers bidder, and 86 people were watching the sale.

DOUGLASS, Kan. – It was, said Woody Auctions, an “exceptionally rare opportunity to add an outstanding one-of-a-kind-piece to your collection.” And one very eager bidder did not let that opportunity go. At the firm’s Presidential Auction Weekend< on March 16, an American brilliant cut glass (ABCG) centerpiece set in elaborate sterling silver mounts soared past its estimate of $20,000-$25,000 to bring $110,000 ($132,000 with buyer’s premium). The winner was a LiveAuctioneers bidder.

This 14.5in bowl is well known in collecting circles and has been featured in many publications, including Jane Shadel Spillman’s 1999 book The American Cut Glass Industry: T.G. Hawkes and His Competitors. The glass element, cut with the design variously known as the Crystal City or the Wedding Ring pattern, is by J. Hoare & Co., the Corning, New York firm established by the Cork, Ireland glasscutter John Hoare in the 1860s. Although the winged serpents are mounts are marked only ‘Sterling’, the firm worked with both Tiffany and the Gorham Manufacturing Company.

The bowl, consigned in near-perfect condition, save for a small pattern chip, had provenance to the collection of respected members of the American Cut Glass Association, the late Tom and Mildred Jacks.

For three decades before the First World War, American brilliant cut glass was perhaps the finest in the world. Fighting the prejudice that claimed that the best glass was made in Europe, American companies steadily earned their stripes at a succession of international exhibitions. In 1893, J. Hoare & Co. entered a punch bowl into the Chicago World’s Fair; it took two months to make and weighed 70 pounds. The bowl won several medals for its quality and artistic design.

J. Hoare three-handled American brilliant cut glass centerpiece with sterling silver mounts, which sold for $110,000 ($132,000 with buyer's premium) at Woody Auction.

J. Hoare three-handled American brilliant cut glass centerpiece with sterling silver mounts, which sold for $110,000 ($132,000 with buyer's premium) at Woody Auction.

Roland Arkell

Roland Arkell

Roland Arkell is editor of Auction Central News and deputy editor at Antiques Trade Gazette. He has been writing about all aspects of the art and antiques market for more than 25 years.

Adnet and Quinet midcentury works were in strong demand at LAMA

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LOS ANGELES – Mid-century works by the modernist architects and interior designers Jacques Adnet (1900-1984) and Jacques Quinet (1918-1992) were in strong demand at Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA). A trio of pieces in their signature leather-clad style brought five-figure sums on February 28. Complete results are available at LiveAuctioneers.

While Adnet began his career in the heyday of Art Deco Paris, it is increasingly his post-war work — a modern take on the traditional French country house interior — that the market admires most. Particularly coveted are the range of elegant furniture designs with tubular metal frames clad in saddle-stitched leather, made between the late 1940s and late 1950s. Aimed at the very highest-end clients (Adnet’s high-profile interiors projects in this period include the renovation of French President Vincent Auriol’s private apartments at the Palais de l’Elysée), they were made in association with the luxury leather goods house Hermès.

Dated circa 1955 was a 7ft 4in (2.24m)-wide sideboard cabinet of three drawers and two doors in black leather over a steel and oak frame. Mounted in lacquered brass (a gallery, handles, and fittings to the ‘bamboo’ pillars), it was described as being ‘in good vintage condition’, with the leather refinished. Estimated at $10,000-$15,000, it took $35,000 ($45,850 with buyer’s premium) as 86 bidders ‘watched’ on LiveAuctioneers.

It was unsigned, but a similar six-shelf library book stand and ladder attributed to Jacques Adnet and dated circa 1960 hammered for $28,000 ($36,680 with buyer’s premium) against the same estimate.

Working at the same time for a similar clientele, Jacques Quinet was another proponent of functional design that married the ‘new’ of fabricated tubular steel and the warmth of organic materials such as tropical hardwood, leather, rattan, and lacquer. He also used leatherette, the then-recently available artificial fabric that was both cheaper and required less maintenance.

His series of desks that were installed in the Mobilier National and the residence of General Eisenhower at Marne-la-Coquette are prized by decorators and collectors. The February 28 LAMA sale had a circa-1950 President desk in rouge leather, brass, and oak veneer, offered in ‘very good vintage condition’, which hammered for $30,000 ($39,300 with buyer’s premium) against $10,000-$15,000.

Among the most popular American-designed pieces in the sale was a set of six enameled steel Model 132U chairs by Donald Knorr. This was the design for which Knorr shared first prize at the influential ‘Low Cost furniture Design’ competition organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1948. However, it was only made by Treitel Gratz of New York for two years. The six chairs hammered well above estimate at $22,000 ($28,820 with buyer’s premium).

The top price of the sale was shared by an Alexander Calder (1898-1976) tapestry — one of two in the lineup from the series made to raise money for victims of the earthquake that afflicted Nicaragua and Guatemala in December 1972. Local workers, using traditional techniques and jute rather than wool, were paid four times their usual rate to complete the project. There are 14 different designs, with each made in an edition of 100. A Floating Circles tapestry, number 38 from the edition of 100, was the one that tied for top-lot honors, hammering at $35,000 ($45,850 with buyer’s premium), while a second Calder tapestry in the Moon design, 73 from the edition of 100, brought $22,000 ($28,820 with buyer’s premium) from a LiveAuctioneers bidder.

In November 2023, the Paris auction house Piasa offered a complete set of all 14 Calder weavings that had been owned by Kitty Meyer, the New York socialite who had first approached Calder with the earthquake fundraising idea. All numbered 53 of 100, they brought hammer prices between €30,000-€60,000 ($32,675-$65,350), with Moon selling at €32,000 ($34,850) and Floating Circle at €50,000 ($54,460).
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Jacques Adnet sideboard cabinet, which sold for $35,000 ($45,850 with buyer’s premium) at LAMA.
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Bookshelf and ladder attributed to Jacques Adnet, which sold for $28,000 ($36,680 with buyer’s premium) at LAMA.
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Jacques Quinet, President desk, which sold for $30,000 ($39,300 with buyer’s premium) at LAMA.
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After Alexander Calder, Floating Circles tapestry, which sold for $35,000 ($45,850 with buyer’s premium) at LAMA.
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After Alexander Calder, Moon tapestry, which sold for $22,000 ($28,820 with buyer’s premium) at LAMA.
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Set of six Donald Knorr chairs, model 132U, which sold for $22,000 ($28,820 with buyer’s premium) at LAMA.
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All roads led to Vegas for Morphy’s $4.26M Automobilia and Petroliana Auction

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LAS VEGAS – Morphy Auctions realized an amazing $4.26 million in sales for its Automobilia, Petroliana & Railroadiana Auction, held on February 24 and February 25. The 1,247-lot sale was conducted at its West Coast satellite gallery. Complete results are available at LiveAuctioneers. All prices include buyer’s premium.

The rainbow array of neon signage was led by a Polly Gas porcelain sign that illuminated in three colors. The 96in-long sign had never been removed from its original can. In the end, pretty Polly flew off to a new owner who paid $138,000 against an estimate of $60,000-$100,000.

Another sought-after highlight was an outstanding Mohawk Gasoline porcelain neon sign designed in a cathedral shape with an American Indian brave shown in profile. It sold for $105,000 against an estimate of $30,000-$60,000.

A double-sided porcelain neon sign for GMC Trucks, complete with its bullnose attachment, hammered for $56,580 against an estimate of $15,000-$25,000.

Another dealership sign that found favor was an outstanding Ford script three-dimensional neon sign. Its only message was ‘Ford’, and that’s all it had to say at a massive 111 inches wide by 42 inches high. It hit the road for $41,820 against an estimate of $15,000-$30,000.

In the non-neon group, success had been predicted for a Frontier Gas ‘Rarin’ To Go’ double-sided porcelain sign with the widely recognizable Golden Rider cowboy graphic. The 60in sign sold at the midpoint of its estimate for $60,000.

After the blockbuster sale closed its books, Dan Morphy said: “Las Vegas is really proving to be the hotspot for our antique advertising, coin-op and petroliana auctions. People enjoy attending those sales and they like coming to Las Vegas, where there’s so much to do.”
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Frontier Gas double-sided porcelain sign, which sold for $60,000 at Morphy.
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Two Chinese peony bowls soar to $102K at Oakridge Auction Gallery

A pair of Daoguang (1820-50) mark and period yellow-ground famille rose 'peony' bowls, $80,000 at Oakridge Auction Gallery.

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ASHBURN, Va. – A pair of yellow-ground ‘peony’ bowls raced away from a $100-$200 estimate to hammer for $80,000 ($102,400 with buyer’s premium) at Oakridge Auction Gallery on March 15. They came for sale from a gentleman in Tacoma, Washington and a collection formed by relatives in China during the early 1900s. All 227 lots of Chinese works of art in the sale were offered without reserve.

Bowls of this kind are among the most recognizable porcelains of the Daoguang (1820-1850) period. Once known as ‘Peking’ bowls or ‘medallion’ bowls, these 4.5in bowls with flaring rims were already popular during the reign of the Jiaqing (1796-1820) emperor, but reached their peak both in quantity, quality, and variety during the second quarter of the 19th century. Numerous ground colors and decorating themes are known.

The decoration to this pair combines the ‘imperial’ yellow ground with three large famille rose peony blossoms among a leafy meander that recall the Kangxi falangcai wares from a century before. Both have a six-character Daoguang mark in underglaze blue to the base and were sold with associated wooden stands and a storage box. They were ‘in exemplary condition’, according to the lot notes.

While the price was some 800 times the published low estimate, the auction house did point to other examples in major institutional collections in its cataloging. A number have appeared on the market in recent times, including the Daoguang yellow-ground peony bowl that sold for $69,300 at Sotheby’s New York in March 2022.
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Pair of Daoguang (1820-1850) mark and period yellow-ground famille rose ‘peony’ bowls, which sold for $80,000 ($102,400 with buyer’s premium) at Oakridge Auction Gallery.
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