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A Rare and Large Pierre-Philippe Thomire Empire Gilt Bronze and Verde Antico Marble Allegorical Mantel Clock Depicting the Intervention of the Sabine Women, circa 1810
Marks to clock face: Galle, Rue Vivienne, Paris
36 h x 30-1/4 w x 12-1/2 d inches (91.4 x 76.8 x 31.8 cm)

Auction 5360 | Lot: 61321 | Jun 10, 2018

Sold For: $100,000.00

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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Caroline Law (Mrs. Theodore), 1975
Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas
Diptych, each 10 x 10 inches (25.4 x 25.4 cm)
Stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York and numbered 'P050.554' and 'P050.556' on the reverse

Auction 5274 | Lot: 66117 | Nov 11, 2016

Sold For: $100,000.00

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Keith Haring (1958-1990)
Untitled, 1981
Acrylic on canvasboard
11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Signed twice, inscribed, and dated verso: Keith Haring Kutztown 230 S. Whiteoak, Dec. 29-81, K. Haring

Auction 5258 | Lot: 69201 | May 2, 2016

Sold For: $100,000.00
Charles Bell (American, 1935-1995)
Study for Ta-Daa, 1985
Colored pencil on board
40 x 60 inches (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
Signed in pencil lower right: Charles Bell '85

Auction 5258 | Lot: 69223 | May 2, 2016

Sold For: $100,000.00
Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
Shoes, 1980
Screenprint in colors with diamond dust, on Aquarelle Arches paper
40-1/4 x 59-1/2 inches (102.2 x 151.1 cm)
Ed. 60 (the total edition includes 10 artist's proofs)
Signed and numbered in pencil on the reverse
Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York

Auction 5224 | Lot: 70295 | Nov 14, 2015

Sold For: $100,000.00
Patrick Nagel (American, 1945-1984)
Pin-Up with her Hair Up, #327, 1983
Acrylic on canvas
33 x 26 in.
Signed and dated lower right

Auction 5221 | Lot: 71197 | Oct 14, 2015

Sold For: $100,000.00
G. (GERALD HARVEY JONES) HARVEY (American, b. 1933)
The Country Post Office, 1982
Oil on canvas
24 x 40 inches (61.0 x 101.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: G. Harvey - © / 1982
Titled with artist's stamps verso: "The Country Post Office"

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Auction 5198 | Lot: 68260 | Nov 17, 2014

Sold For: $100,000.00
G. (GERALD HARVEY JONES) HARVEY (American, b. 1933)
Showers on Broadway, 1992
Oil on canvas
61 x 39 inches (154.9 x 99.1 cm)
Signed lower left: G. Harvey - ©
Signed, titled and dated with artist's stamps verso: 'Showers on Broadway' / G. Harvey - / © 1992

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Auction 5198 | Lot: 68273 | Nov 17, 2014

Sold For: $100,000.00
KING FAROUK I OF EGYPT'S SILVER ASWAN DAM MODEL, Omar Ramsden, London, England, circa 1933
Marks: (lion passant), (leopard's head), (date mark), OR; OMAR RAMSDEN, ME. FECIT, MCMXXXIV
9-3/8 x 20-3/4 x 10-3/8 inches (23.8 x 52.7 x 26.4 cm)

(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 5189 | Lot: 65622 | Sep 13, 2014

Sold For: $100,000.00
CYRUS EDWIN DALLIN (American, 1861-1944)
Appeal to the Great Spirit, 1913
Bronze with brown patina
21-3/4 inches (55.2 cm) high
Inscribed on base: © C.E. Dallin 1913
Inscribed and stamped along base: #70 / Gorham Co Founders/ QPN

PROPERTY OF A DALLAS COLLECTOR

Auction 5174 | Lot: 70239 | May 10, 2014

Sold For: $100,000.00

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SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD (American, 1823-1880)
A Sketch at the Camp on the La Bonté, Wyoming Territory, 1870
Oil on canvas
6 x 13 inches (15.2 x 33.0 cm)
Artist's estate stamp verso
Inscribed on stretcher: La Bonté / Wyoming Terr

Auction 5174 | Lot: 70195 | May 10, 2014

Sold For: $100,000.00

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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

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JOSEPH RUSLING MEEKER (American, 1827-1889)
Florida Lowlands, 1886
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches (...
Auction 5004 | Lot: 33151 | May 8, 2008

Sold For: $95,600.00
WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE (American, 1849-1916)
Portrait of Esther M. Groome, circa 1912
Oil on canvas
Auction 5004 | Lot: 33163 | May 8, 2008

Sold For: $95,600.00
EANGER IRVING COUSE (American 1866-1936)
Study for Flute Player with his Sons (Indian Campfire), 1916
Oil on canvas
6 x 35 inches (15.2 x 58.4 cm)
Signed lower left: Couse

Provenance:
Dorothy and William Harmsen, Sr. (Denver, Colorado)

Literature:
Couse family Archives;
Ellen Landis, Eanger Irving Couse: Image Maker for America (Albuquerque, New Mexico: Albuquerque Museum Foundation, 1991) p. 19;
Nicholas Woloshuk, E. Irving Couse 1866-1926 (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Santa Fe Village Art Museum, 1976), illus. p. 37

Couse was born and raised in the logging town of Saganaw, Michigan, where as a youngster he drew the Chippewa Indians who lived nearby. While still a teenager he attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Academy of Design in New York. At the age of twenty he traveled to France, where he studied at the Académie Julien under William Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. Couse remained in France for nearly a decade, and specialized in painting landscapes and peasant subjects. In 1889, he married fellow art student Virginia Walker, a rancher's daughter from the state of Washington. In 1891 they settled for a year at the Walker family's ranch in Klikitat County. While living there Couse produced his first oil paintings of Native Americans.

In 1898, Couse established a winter studio in New York, and spent the next few summers away from the city, painting in Washington, Connecticut and France. In May 1902, Couse learned of Taos, New Mexico through a conversation with his artist friend Ernest Blumenschein. Shortly thereafter he traveled to Taos for the first of his regular summer stays. In 1910 he purchased an old Spanish monastery, which he converted into a studio and home. Five years later, when the Taos Society of Artists was formed, Couse was elected its first President. In 1928, he and his family gave up their New York home and settled permanently in Taos.

Couse
Auction 652 | Lot: 24021 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $95,600.00
JACOB VAN HULSDONCK (Flemish 1582 - 1647)
Still Life with Fruit, circa 1620-25
Oil on oak panel
7-7/8 x 12-7/8in.
Si...
Auction 638 | Lot: 24046 | Nov 9, 2006

Sold For: $95,600.00
TOMMASO REALFONSO, known as MASILLO (Italian 1677 - 1743)
Flowers in a Delft Vase (set of four)
Oil on canvas
28-3/8 ...
Auction 638 | Lot: 24056 | Nov 9, 2006

Sold For: $95,600.00
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (English 1723 - 1792)
Portrait of Caroline Cox (Lady Champneys), 1764
Oil on canvas
29-3/...
Auction 638 | Lot: 24059 | Nov 9, 2006

Sold For: $95,600.00
GEORGE ROMNEY (British 1734 - 1802)
Portrait of Lady Caroline Price, 1774
Oil on canvas
29-1/2 x 24-1/2in.

PROVENA...
Auction 638 | Lot: 24060 | Nov 9, 2006

Sold For: $95,600.00
An American Bronze Of A Young Woman

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (American, 1880-1980)
Circa 1929-
Bronze with green patin...
Auction 637 | Lot: 33400 | Oct 19, 2006

Sold For: $95,600.00

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GUY PÈNE DU BOIS (American, 1884-1958)
The Artist's Wife, 1928
Oil on canvas
36 x 29 inches (91.4 x 73.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Guy Pène Du Bois / 28

Auction 5136 | Lot: 64151 | May 11, 2013

Sold For: $95,500.00

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Patrick Nagel (American, 1945-1984)
Terri Welles, Playmate of the Year, Playboy, 1981
Acrylic on board
34 x 24 inches (86.4 x 61.0 cm) (image)
Signed lower right

Auction 8161 | Lot: 71174 | Apr 23, 2024

Sold For: $93,750.00
G. (GERALD HARVEY JONES) HARVEY (American, b. 1933)
Headin' Home for Christmas, 1982
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: G. Harvey © / 1982
Signed, titled and dated verso: Headin' Home for Christmas / © G. Harvey 1982

PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN

Auction 5198 | Lot: 68265 | Nov 17, 2014

Sold For: $93,750.00
NORMAN ROCKWELL (American, 1894-1978)
Oh Yeah (Four Sporting Boys: Basketball), preliminary Brown & Bigelow "Four Seasons" calendar illustration, Winter 1951
Oil on glossy paper laid on board
10-1/8 x 8 inches (25.7 x 20.3 cm) (sheet)
Signed in pencil lower right: Nor
Auction 5198 | Lot: 68314 | Nov 17, 2014

Sold For: $93,750.00
CARL ETHAN AKELEY (American, 1864-1926)
The Charging Herd, 1915
Bronze with brown patina
13-1/2 x 29 inches (34.3 x 73.7 cm)
Inscribed along left edge: Carl E. Akeley / © 1915 / The Charging Herd
Inscribed along rear edge: Cast for / John T. McCutcheon / Limited to Ten Copies No. I / C.E.A. 11-19-15
Stamped along right edge: Roman Bronze Works N.Y.

Auction 5174 | Lot: 70179 | May 10, 2014

Sold For: $93,750.00
H.R. GIGER (Swiss, b. 1940)
Biomechanoid II, 1975-83
Acrylic on paper laid on board
39.25 x 27.5 in.
Signed verso

From the Frank Collection.

Auction 5145 | Lot: 78227 | Oct 26, 2013

Sold For: $93,750.00
WALT KUHN (American 1877 - 1949)
Untitled (Still Life), 1932
Oil on panel
18-5/8 x 21-½in.
Signed and dated at lower...
Auction 638 | Lot: 24035 | Nov 9, 2006

Sold For: $92,612.50
HERMANN HERZOG (American, 1832-1932)
Lazy Days, Everglades
Oil on canvas
62 x 52 inches (157.5 x 132.1 cm)
Signed lower right: H. Herzog

Auction 5118 | Lot: 73088 | Nov 15, 2012

Sold For: $92,500.00
Olho do Onça ("The Eye of the Jaguar"): Gem Topaz - 9,630 CT.
Minas Gerais, Brazil

Auction 5234 | Lot: 73280 | Oct 4, 2015

Sold For: $90,625.00
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
JASPER FRANCIS CROPSEY (American, 1823-1900)
Wyoming Valley (Probably, Landscape with Sheep)...
Auction 5035 | Lot: 79194 | May 27, 2010

Sold For: $89,625.00
JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER (American, 1874-1951)
Two O'Clock
Oil on canvas
23-1/4 x 18-1/2 inch...
Auction 5019 | Lot: 38110 | Jul 16, 2009

Sold For: $89,625.00
BERT GREER PHILLIPS (American 1868-1956)
Corpus Christi Sunday in Taos
Oil on panel
13 x 18 inches (33 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower left: Phillips
Inscribed on reverse: Corpus Cristi Sunday in Taos by Bert Phillips

Provenance:
Mark Sublette, Medicine Man Gallery (Santa Fe, New Mexico);
Ex Harmsen Collection, Denver Art Museum (Denver, Colorado)

Born in Hudson, New York, Bert Phillips began his artistic career at age fifteen studying at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. He continued his training in Paris at Académie Julian, where he met artists Joseph Henry Sharp and Ernest Blumenschein, who would become life-long friends. Phillips is considered the founder of the Taos art colony and was deeply involved in promoting the town and pueblo to other artists. He adopted a modern approach by painting Taos Pueblo Indians in a vibrantly colored, realistic style that conveyed the romantic notions he felt about the culture.

Considered one the top ten paintings by Phillips, Corpus Christi Sunday in Taos captures over forty worshippers in their Sunday best during the celebration of Corpus Christi. A traditional Catholic festival observed on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday, Corpus Christi commemorates the Christian Eucharist, in which the wine and wafer are symbolically transformed into the body and blood of Christ. The painting is in pristine condition and is accompanied by a letter of authenticity.
Auction 652 | Lot: 24020 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $89,625.00
Peter Pan

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980), American
Modeled 1935-36; Edition of 10.
Bronze with brown patina<...
Auction 650 | Lot: 33284 | Apr 26, 2007

Sold For: $89,625.00
CHARLES HENRY DEMUTH (American 1883 - 1935)
Biarritz, South of France, 1913
Oil on board
12 x 16in.
Signed lower lef...
Auction 638 | Lot: 24030 | Nov 9, 2006

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
SEVERIN ROESEN (German/American, 1805-1882)
Still Life with Fruit and Champagne, circa 1865
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127.0 cm)

Auction 5030 | Lot: 66017 | Nov 12, 2009

Sold For: $87,999.80

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Keith Haring (1958-1990)
Icons, 1990
Portfolio of 5 screenprints with embossing on wove paper
21 x 25 inches (53.3 x 63.5 cm) (each sheet)
Ed. 79/250 (editioned aside from 25 artist's proofs, 25 hors commerce, and 8 printer's proofs)
Each signed by Julia Gruen, executor of the Keith Haring Estate and editioned in pencil, verso lower right; publisher's chop mark, lower right
Published by Tony Shafrazi Editions, New York
Printed by Studio Heinrici, Ltd., New York

Private Collection, Miami, Florida
(Total: 5 Items)
Auction 8139 | Lot: 65119 | Oct 24, 2023

Sold For: $87,500.00
Robert Bechtle (b. 1932)
At The Golden Nugget, 1972
Oil on canvas
44-7/8 x 64 inches (114 x 162.6 cm)
Initialed lower right: RB

Auction 5258 | Lot: 69222 | May 2, 2016

Sold For: $87,500.00
Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
Rebel without a Cause (James Dean) (from Ads), 1985
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
38 x 38 inches (96.5 x 96.5 cm)
AP 18/30 (aside from an edition of 190)
Signed and numbered in pencil lower right with the blindstamp of the publisher
Published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York
Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York

Auction 5224 | Lot: 70300 | Nov 14, 2015

Sold For: $87,500.00

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G. (GERALD HARVEY JONES) HARVEY (American, b. 1933)
Footprints Along the Rockies, 1993
Oil on canvas
36 x 30 inches (91.4 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower right: G. Harvey - ©
Signed, titled and dated verso: Footprints Along the Rockies / G. Harvey - / © 1993

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Auction 5198 | Lot: 68278 | Nov 17, 2014

Sold For: $87,500.00
JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER (American, 1874-1951)
The Candidate, The Saturday Evening Post cover, September 18, 1920
Oil on canvas laid on board
28 x 22 inches (71.1 x 55.9 cm)
Signed with monogram lower left: JCLeyendecker

Auction 5198 | Lot: 68310 | Nov 17, 2014

Sold For: $87,500.00
LEROY NEIMAN (American, 1921-2012)
21 Dealer (The Girls of Caesars Palace), 1980
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower right: LeRoy Neiman / '80

Auction 5198 | Lot: 68322 | Nov 17, 2014

Sold For: $87,500.00
A MONUMENTAL PAIR OF ELIMEYER GERMAN SILVER FOURTEEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Moritz Elimeyer, Dresden, Germany, circa 1890
Marks: (crescent crown), 900, S (under crossed anvils), ELIMEYER, DRESDEN
23-1/2 x 18 inches diameter (59.7 x 45.7 cm)
704.60 troy ounces

(Total: 6 Items)
Auction 5076 | Lot: 68290 | Sep 26, 2011

Sold For: $86,637.50
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

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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE TEXAS COLLECTOR

DAVID JOHNSON (American, 1827-1908)
Near Shelburne, Vermont
Auction 5024 | Lot: 77061 | Jun 10, 2009

Sold For: $86,040.00

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LEROY NEIMAN (American, 1921-2012)
Roulette Dealer (The Girls of Caesars Palace), 1980
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61.0 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: LeRoy Neiman / '80

Auction 5198 | Lot: 68320 | Nov 17, 2014

Sold For: $84,375.00

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