Tonalist Painting Brings Record Price at Clars Auction Gallery
Tonalist Painting Brings Record Price at Clars Auction Gallery
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OAKLAND, CALIF. â Clars Auction Gallery kicked off the New Year with a record $25,000 hammer price for a work by the artist Charles Warren Eaton (American, 1857â1937).
Bidding for the lot opened at $5,000 and rapidly soared past the previous high record of $17,000 as ten phone participants fiercely fought for first place. When the dust settled, the hammer fell at $25,000 to a Rhode Island buyer.
The work was an oil on canvas entitled âOctober Twilight,â 1891, signed and dated lower right, titled in pencil on a stretcher bar verso, 14 by 20 inches, and came from the estate of former banker and Ampex Corporation chairman, Richard J. Elkus, Woodside, Calif.
The sale came on the heels of a comprehensive two-month exhibit at Spanierman Gallery featuring 70 works by the American Tonalist painter.Â
Other strong prices in the sale include $12,870 for a pair of monumental beaux-arts-style figural torchieres depicting Achilles and Helena, and $4,480 for a 1913 Georg Jensen sterling footed compote.
Prices quoted do not include buyers premium. For information, 888-339-7600.
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ELIAS PEKALE SHOWS PRESENTS WINTER ANTIQUES FAIR JAN 30 w/3 cuts
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HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. â The Winter Antiques Fair returns Sunday, January 30, the Marriott Islandia Hotel from 10 am to 4:30 pm. Under the management of Elias Pekale Shows, 60 exhibitors will display in the Grand Ballroom a diverse selection of merchandise.
Dealers include: Louis Halloway, Middletown, Conn., Nineteenth Century furniture and decorative accessories; Andrea Meyer, Northport, N.Y., hand painted fine porcelain; Born Again Antiques, Centerport, N.Y., American art potters; Ina Merdinger, Just For You, vintage and fine estate jewelry; and Joy Starr, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., silver.
Other merchandise on display includes advertising memorabilia, World War II trade cards and ephemera, kitchen collectibles, Depression glass, china, primitives, Americana and country smalls.
The Marriott Islandia Hotel is on the Long Island Expressway. Children under 12 free. For information, www.PekaleShows.com or 516-868-2751.
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ALEXANDER GALLERY NEW PALM BEACH, FLA.,
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PALM BEACH. FLA. â Alexander Gallery of New York City is opening a new gallery on Palm Beach Island on February 18.
For the past three decades, the Alexander Gallery at 942 Madison Avenue in Man-hattan has been a driving force in the Nineteenth Century American paintings market. Legendary for his eclectic taste and connois-seurship, Alexander Acevedo, the galleryâs owner, has been an active and influential player in a multitude of other areas â from Old Masters, Nineteenth Century European paintings and decorative arts, rare gems and period jewelry, Asian and tribal arts, to important books and manuscripts.
In addition to assembling and contributing to some of the most significant public and private American collec-tions, works from Acevedoâs own personal collection have been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Cleveland Museum, the Prado and the Louvre Museum.
The new gallery on Palm Beach Island is Acevedoâs first gallery outside of New York since first opening on Madison Avenue in 1976. Unlike the grand scale of the current New York City gallery, the focus of the new jewel-sized Palm Beach gallery is paintings, showcasing very high-quality European and American paintings dating from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century.
The gallery is at 292 South County Road. For information, 561-835-8344.
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CRAIG F. STARR âAMERICAN MODERNISMâ (no slug)
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NEW YORK CITY â Craig F. Starr Associates, 5 East 73rd Street, is hosting âAmerican Modernismâ through February 12.
The show features works by early Twentieth Century American artists in a range of media, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, etchings, lithographs and woodcuts.
Highlights include a large charcoal drawing of New York by Georgia OâKeeffe; precisionist works by Charles Sheeler, George Ault and Niles Spencer; three large lithographs by Stuart Davis from 1931; early John Marin etchings of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Woolworth building; and color woodcuts by Max Weber and Blanche Lazzell.
Also included are water-colors by Arthur Dove and Oscar Bluemner, ink drawings of New York City by Abraham Walkowitz and a pointillist watercolor by Earl Horter.
For information, 212-570-1739 or www.starr-art.com.