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Our Spring Auction, beginning on May 27th, will be loaded with some wonderful property from various Estates and private collections. The highlight property comes from the Estate of David Hamill of Jacksonville, Florida, which includes the largest collection of works by Yaacov Agam to come to market in many years. The eighty works include polymorphs, spacegraphs, serigraphs, and agamagraphs, most all in custom frames.
In addition, the Hamill Estate will be offering over eighty lots of contemporary studio and Murano Art glass, and the collection includes works by James Alloway, Leon Applebaum, White Elk, Robert Handley, Ioan Nemtoi, James Nowak, and others. Modern and Contemporary furniture and accessories from the Estate are also offered.
A Private Collection from Aiken, South Carolina, will be offering a large collection of early Chinese blue and white porcelains and other Asian decorations, a large group of English Staffordshire and other Continental decorative ceramics, as well as English decorative accessories and collectibles. Four paintings by Martha Walter and works by both British and American artists, country furniture, and miniature collectibles are also included.
From the Collections of Constantine and Margie Micuda, Brevard, North Carolina, and Dr. and Mrs. Arturo Gonzalez, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, comes a very fine group of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Prints and Paintings by James Coignard, Johnny Friedlaender, Max Papart, Robert Natkin, Lowell Nesbitt, Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall, Theo Tobiasse, Victor Vasarely, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Paul Cezanne, and Mary Cassatt. Works from both collections were acquired over many years and most all are in beautiful custom frames.
We are also offering a monumental oil on canvas by French artist Henric Maryan Frama, titled "La Musica Sentimentale," that measures 51" x 77", a particularly large early work by the artist; and two of my sale favorites- a wonderful marble sculpture by Naum Aronson, "Bust of a Young Beauty", measuring 28.5" in height, and a newly discovered early oil on canvas by William Russell Flint, "Hamadryan and a Woman".
In addition we have a collection of over one hundred pieces of 14thC to 17thC Southeast Asian ceramics from a Palm Beach Collection, and a collection of five antique slot machines rescued from a New Orleans casino back in the late 1930s. There is an assortment of American and English furniture and decorations, including a wonderful Simon Willard's Patent Mahogany Inlayed Banjo Clock from The Dommerich Collection, and an Antonio Jacobsen oil on panel of the "Steamship Philadelphia".
Of special interest are over 50 finished needlepoint pillows and over 450 painted original canvases, plus tons of needlepoint wool, from an old friend and colleague, Louis J. Gartner Jr., author of numerous needlepoint books including Needlepoint Design and More Needlepoint Design. For many years, Mr. Gartner operated the fine shop Needlepoint in Palm Beach and was Special Projects and Garden Editor and long-time Creative Crafts Editor of House and Garden magazine; he was also a well-known designer in both New York and Palm Beach. Many of the finished pillows being offered were personally done by Lou, and most all the painted canvases were his original designs.
All in all, a huge sale with lots of "Great Stuff" and one we hope you will enjoy.
Our Spring Sale is loaded with wonderful property. We hope that you will participate and enjoy- and please plan to come see for yourself at the exhibition!
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