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MARC CHAGALL (Belarussian/French, 1887-1985)

Fleurs et couple, circa 1948-52
Gouache, pastel, pe...
Auction 676 | Lot: 33240 | Oct 13, 2007

Sold For: $448,125.00
JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER (American, 1874-1951)
Honeymoon, The Saturday Evening Post cover, July 17, 1926
Oil on canvas
28.25 x 21.25 in.
Monogrammed lower right

Auction 5126 | Lot: 78299 | Apr 11, 2013

Sold For: $194,500.00
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
Fire Belle (Always Ready), 1956
Oil on canvas
29 x 23 in.
Signed lower center

Auction 5066 | Lot: 78204 | Oct 22, 2011

Sold For: $191,200.00

Make Offer to Owner
$382,400 or more
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY (American, 1872-1952)
Nymphs in Summer, 1946
Oil on canvas
60.5 x 72 in.
Signed lower left

Auction 5066 | Lot: 78158 | Oct 22, 2011

Sold For: $179,250.00
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
Skirting the Issue (Breezing Up), 1956
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower left

From the Estate of Charles Martignette.

Auction 5087 | Lot: 78139 | Jun 27, 2012

Sold For: $176,500.00
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (American 1923-1997)
Untitled Head I, 1970
Brass
25-1/2 x 11 x 6 inches (64.8 x 27.9 x 15.2 cm)
Ed 2/75
Gemini G.E.L., pub.

Auction 656 | Lot: 23538 | Dec 7, 2007

Sold For: $167,300.00
JOHN KOCH (American, 1909-1978)
Father and Son, 1955
Oil on canvas
30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm...
Auction 5062 | Lot: 64167 | May 17, 2011

Sold For: $155,350.00
FRANK FRAZETTA (American, b. 1928)
Warrior with Ball and Chain, Flashing Swords #1, paperback cover, 19...
Auction 7015 | Lot: 87143 | May 6, 2010

Sold For: $150,000.00
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
The Wrong Nail, 1967
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower right

From the Estate of Charles Martignette.

Auction 5087 | Lot: 78138 | Jun 27, 2012

Sold For: $146,500.00
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
Cover Up, 1955
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower left

Auction 5066 | Lot: 78206 | Oct 22, 2011

Sold For: $119,500.00
PROPERTY FROM A TEXAS COLLECTION

CLAUDE LALANNE
"Trône de Pauline" A Gilt Bronze Chair, Paris, France, 200...
Auction 5032 | Lot: 74156 | Dec 10, 2009

Sold For: $119,500.00
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
Quick Change, Brown & Bigelow calendar illustration, 1967
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower right

From the Estate of Charles Martignette.

Auction 5111 | Lot: 78250 | Oct 14, 2012

Sold For: $110,500.00
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
Up in Central Park, 1950
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower right

Auction 5066 | Lot: 78202 | Oct 22, 2011

Sold For: $107,550.00
FREDERIC SACKRIDER REMINGTON (American 1861-1909)
Bronco Buster
Bronze
22.75in. tall
Signed on base
Roman Bronze Wo...
Auction 621 | Lot: 30255 | Nov 17, 2005

Sold For: $107,550.00
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
Peek-a-View, Louis F. Dow Company calendar illustration, 1940
Oil on canvas
29 x 23 in.
Faintly signed lower right

Auction 5111 | Lot: 78247 | Oct 14, 2012

Sold For: $101,500.00
JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER (1874-1951)
Saturday Evening Post cover, November 24, 1928
Oil on canvas
28.5in. x 20.5in. (sight size)
Initialed lower left: JCL

As Michael Schau noted in J.C. Leyendecker, "Leyendecker painted his first Saturday Evening Post cover in 1899 and he continued to work for the magazine until 1943, creating 322 covers for The Post. The reputation gained as a result of his magazine covers established Leyendecker as one of America's most popular illustrators." This painting is reproduced on page 142 of Michael Schau's book. Leyendecker was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame in 1977.

This sensational painting shows America's evolution over three centuries of Thanksgiving holidays. From the accomplishments of the stern, pioneering, and freedom-fighting colonists of 1628, to the entertainments provided by the battered, yet playful grid-iron stalwarts of 1928, this blessed country has plenty to celebrate each November. Both figures regard each other as they are each given a heroic and monumental presence by Leyendecker. His vigorous and energetic brushwork bathes the figures in a sparkling light, creating a noble vision of pure Americana.
RKeywords: oil, painting, post , cover, football, portrait
Auction 604 | Lot: 25127 | Oct 29, 2004

Sold For: $98,587.50
ALBERTO VARGAS (American, 1896-1982)
Legacy Nude, First Playboy Pin-Up, March 1957
Watercolor on board
17.5 x 23 in.
Signed lower right

From the Estate of Charles Martignette.

Auction 5066 | Lot: 78399 | Oct 22, 2011

Sold For: $95,600.00

Make Offer to Owner
$200,000 or more
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
Dampened Doll, 1967
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed center ...
Auction 5066 | Lot: 78205 | Oct 22, 2011

Sold For: $89,625.00
ALBERTO VARGAS (1896-1982)
Original Pin-Up Art
American Fantasy, 1953
Watercolor on paper
29in. x 20in. (sight size)
Signed and dated lower right: Vargas, 1953

Feast your eyes on this sensational package! Here she is -- American Fantasy, the very first Vargas girl ever to appear in the pages of Playboy, and as the saying goes, you never forget your first time! The March, 1957 issue of Playboy featured Jon Campbell's ground-breaking pictorial, "The Vargas Girl." The spread opened with a large reproduction of American Fantasy, and it was a delicious taste of the "cheesecake" yet to come; reader response was so enthusiastic that starting with its September, 1960 issue, Playboy commissioned Vargas to produce a masterwork for each issue. Quoting from Campbell's paean, "The Forties belonged to Vargas and his Vargas Girl -- and we'll concede the Fifties too, if pressed. The Vargas Girl possesses something more than the sum of her perky parts; she is Anatomical Perfection, put together in a way certain to set the most unfeeling amongst us aquiver and amumbling in our Martinis." Indeed, Playboy had officially appointed Vargas its "High Priest of Va-Va-Voom."

The sensual, tactile qualities of the airbrush painting technique were showcased at their most perfect in American Fantasy. Pure color was applied as a fine mist, and the hues were carefully built up, even as forms were delicately modeled. The see-through, sheer fabric of the American Fantasy's negligee made her especially sultry and glamorous, in a most teasing manner, and her auburn hair glowed invitingly with its lustrous sheen. As Ray Bradbury noted in The Art of Playboy, for the U.S. male, Alberto Vargas often ran fevers with his selection of bonbons and midnight truffles. Ray quipped, "I don't know if this is what G.I. Joe was fighting for, but -- forgive me, ladies -- it was better than ap
Auction 604 | Lot: 25211 | Oct 29, 2004

Sold For: $89,625.00
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
Up in the Air (Whooooooosh!), 1965
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower left

From the Estate of Charles Martignette.

Auction 5087 | Lot: 78137 | Jun 27, 2012

Sold For: $86,500.00

Make Offer to Owner
$129,750 or more
Francisco Zuñiga (Mexican, 1912-1998)
Silvia Nude, 1968
Onyx
13.25in. x 17.5in. x 10.5in.
Signed and dated lower right
...
Auction 631 | Lot: 30217 | May 24, 2006

Sold For: $83,650.00
JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER (1874-1951)
Saturday Evening Post cover, October 19, 1935
Going South
Oil on canvas
29in. x 22in. (sight size)
Signed lower right: JC Leyendecker

Leyendecker titled his painting "Going South." Although Leyendecker's early Saturday Evening Post covers illustrated stories inside the issue, the vast majority of his later Post covers had more general and conceptualized themes such as "Fall," "Christmas," and "New Years." This painting is reproduced on page 155 of J.C. Leyendecker by Michael Schau.

Leyendecker studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the Acadamie Julian in Paris. This superb painting showcases Joseph Leyendecker's mastery of reflected light and color. The subject's shadowed forms are infused with a golden "fill light," so that the unlit hues never become dominated by stark value contrasts and lose their chromatic sparkle. This successful colorist approach to painting affected generations of illustrators and cartoonists for decades to come. The young Norman Rockwell was such an avid devotee of the Leyendecker Post covers, that, in Michael Schau's book, it was revealed, "Once Rockwell confided to a model, who had also worked for Leyendecker, that as a teenager in New Rochelle, New York, where the Leyendeckers later lived, Rockwell would take every opportunity just to catch a glimpse of Joe."

Keywords: oil, painting, post, African, American, humor, cover, portrait
Auction 604 | Lot: 25125 | Oct 29, 2004

Sold For: $83,650.00

Make Offer to Owner
$125,475 or more
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
"Doggone!", Brown & Bigelow calendar illustration, 1946
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed center right

Auction 5111 | Lot: 78246 | Oct 14, 2012

Sold For: $83,500.00
CHESLEY BONESTELL (American, 1888-1986)
Saturn Viewed from Titan, c. 1952
Oil on board
18.25 x 23...
Auction 7015 | Lot: 87117 | May 6, 2010

Sold For: $77,675.00
FRANK MCCARTHY (American, 1924-2002)
By the Snow Moon, 1978
Oil on canvas laid on board
24 x 36 i...
Auction 5019 | Lot: 38131 | Jul 16, 2009

Sold For: $77,675.00
JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH (American, 1863-1935)
Little Girl with Irises, Good Housekeeping cover, June 1930
Oil on board
16.5 x 14.5 in.
Signed lower right
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 5066 | Lot: 78383 | Oct 22, 2011

Sold For: $71,700.00
BJORN WIINBLAD (Danish, 1918-2006)

The Gossips
20th century
Four Bronze sculptures
Signed...
Auction 676 | Lot: 33271 | Oct 13, 2007

Sold For: $71,700.00

Make Offer to Owner
$107,550 or more
JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER (1874-1951)
Original Advertising Art
The House of Kuppenheimer
Merry Christmas from Kuppenheimer's, c.1924
Oil on canvas, mounted on board
30.5in. x 25.5in. (sight size)
Signed lower left: JC Leyendecker

J.C. Leyendecker's portrayals of handsome, stylishly dressed men soon became the symbol of fashionable American manhood, just as Charles Dana Gibson's portrayals had become the symbol of elegant young women. As author Michael Schau points out in his superb monograph, J.C. Leyendecker, "The characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby come to mind in many Leyendecker pictures of the twenties: well-to-do civilized people with self-confidence reinforced by breeding, education, position, and taste. They were sophisticated but not above gaiety." Indeed, Fitzgerald himself paid tribute to Leyendecker in his 1929 story, The Last of the Belles, with this passage, "She showed me his picture -- it was a handsome, earnest face with a Leyendecker forelock -- and told me that when she met someone who measures up to him she'd marry."

Leyendecker's success with his Arrow Collar campaign soon had other clothiers seeking him out, and his ads were touted as among the most stylish ever produced. Illustrator Haddon Sundblom has often been credited with "branding" the image of Santa Claus with his Coca-Cola ads. The authors of The American Magazine write, "There was nothing elfin about Sundblom's painting, except perhaps the twinkle in his eye. He was a ruddy-faced fellow, with a hearty smile and a lap ample enough to accommodate a child or two. Not incidentally, his suit and cap were red and white, the colors of the soft drink's logo." Other Santa-philes however, credit Leyendecker with establishing the modern Santa Claus image with his Post covers. Key Leyendecker images of Santa appear on Post covers dated December 22, 1923; December 26, 1925; and December 20, 1
Auction 604 | Lot: 25126 | Oct 29, 2004

Sold For: $71,700.00
Gil Elvgren (American, 1914-1980)
Unexpected Lift (A Nice Catch), Brown & Bigelow calendar illustration, 1961
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower right

From the Estate of Charles Martignette.

Auction 5221 | Lot: 71133 | Oct 14, 2015

Sold For: $68,750.00

Make Offer to Owner
$130,000 or more
LEROY NEIMAN (American, 1921-2012)
Playboy Bunny, 1964
Acrylic on board
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower right

Auction 5111 | Lot: 78284 | Oct 14, 2012

Sold For: $68,500.00
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
American Beauties (I Hope He Mrs. Me), 1949
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower right

Auction 5087 | Lot: 78142 | Jun 27, 2012

Sold For: $68,500.00
LEROY NEIMAN (American, b. 1926)
Carousel (From Reservoir Park, Chicago, Ill.), 1958
Oil on board
Auction 5014 | Lot: 73184 | Dec 11, 2008

Sold For: $65,725.00
GIL ELVGREN (1914-1980)
Original Pin-up Art
Claws for Alarm (Rude Awakening: Caught in a Pinch), 1958
Oil on linen
3...
Auction 628 | Lot: 23453 | May 4, 2006

Sold For: $65,725.00
JAMIE (JAMES BROWNING) WYETH (American, b. 1946)
Ship's Bell, 1976
Watercolor on paper
21 x 30 in...
Auction 5024 | Lot: 77128 | Jun 10, 2009

Sold For: $59,750.00
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
"I'm Not Shy, I'm Just Retiring", Brown & Bigelow calendar illustration, 1947
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower right

Auction 5111 | Lot: 78248 | Oct 14, 2012

Sold For: $59,375.00
ALBERTO VARGAS (American, 1896-1982)
Vargas Girl, Playboy Pin Up Illustration, October 1974
Watercol...
Auction 5014 | Lot: 73183 | Dec 11, 2008

Sold For: $57,360.00
PROPERTY OF A PROMINENT TEXAS COLLECTOR

RAY SWANSON (American, 1937-2004)
Shearing the Churro Sheep<...
Auction 5050 | Lot: 76331 | Nov 20, 2010

Sold For: $56,762.50
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
Miss Sylvania Backstage, Brown & Bigelow calendar illustration
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower right

Auction 5111 | Lot: 78251 | Oct 14, 2012

Sold For: $56,250.00
PATRICK NAGEL (American, 1945-1984)
Covering Up, pin-up illustration, 1983
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 29 in.
Signed lower left

Auction 5111 | Lot: 78282 | Oct 14, 2012

Sold For: $56,250.00
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
What a Line!, 1949
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower right

Auction 5066 | Lot: 78203 | Oct 22, 2011

Sold For: $53,775.00
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
Miss Sylvania's Mishap, circa 1955
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower right

Auction 5066 | Lot: 78207 | Oct 22, 2011

Sold For: $53,775.00
EARL MORAN (American, 1893-1984)
A Run on Sugar
Oil on canvas
24.25 x 19.25 in.
Signed lower left

From the Estate of Charles Martignette.

Auction 5066 | Lot: 78312 | Oct 22, 2011

Sold For: $53,775.00
MARGARET BRUNDAGE (American 1900 - 1976)
The Altar of Melek, Weird Tales cover, September 1932
Paste...
Auction 7001 | Lot: 89019 | Oct 15, 2008

Sold For: $50,787.50
GEORGE PETTY (American, 1894-1975)
Going Fishing, Brown & Bigelow calendar illustration, 1938
Gouache on paper
32 x 24 in.
Signed lower right
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 5111 | Lot: 78291 | Oct 14, 2012

Sold For: $50,000.00
ALBERTO VARGAS (American, 1896-1982)
Glamour Pin-Up, circa 1940s
Watercolor and pencil on board
11.5 x 11.5 in.
Signed lower left

Auction 5087 | Lot: 78234 | Jun 27, 2012

Sold For: $50,000.00

Make Offer to Owner
$75,000 or more
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
The Verdict Was Wow!, Brown & Bigelow calendar illustration, 1947
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower right

Auction 5111 | Lot: 78249 | Oct 14, 2012

Sold For: $46,875.00

Make Offer to Owner
$70,312 or more
Gil Elvgren (American, 1914-1980)
A Stitch in Time, Brown & Bigelow calendar illustration, 1957
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Signed lower left

From the Estate of Charles Martignette.

Auction 5221 | Lot: 71134 | Oct 14, 2015

Sold For: $45,000.00

Make Offer to Owner
$67,500 or more
MARGARET BRUNDAGE (American, 1900-1976)
The Albino Deaths, Weird Tales pulp cover, March 1936
Pastel on board
20 x 14 in.
Signed lower right

From the Estate of John McLaughlin.

Auction 5111 | Lot: 78218 | Oct 14, 2012

Sold For: $43,750.00

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