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SB & COMPANY AUCTIONEERS SPRING AUCTION W/4CUTS DISK

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WATERTOWN, MASS. — On Wednesday, May 4, S.B. & Company Auctioneers will host a sale of goods from several local estates at the Hibernian Hall, 151 Watertown Street, Route 16 at 6 pm.

Highlights include a Eugene LeJeune 26- by 36-inch genre painting of children on a country road with a wagon, found wrapped in a sheet behind a chair in the basement of an estate in Brookline, Mass.

Also offered will be the Ben Shahn J. Levine signed prints and another unidentified monogrammed etching of a rabbi.

A Max Fritz watercolor, from a large lot of artwork out of a house in Worcester, will be sold and women artists, Helen Andrews, Theresa Bernay and H.A. French will be represented.

Furniture will include a banquet-sized round mahogany dining table with five leaves, ten chairs and a buffet with bottle draws. Country furniture, tavern tables, stands, cupboard and a wagon bench from an estate in Belmont will be sold.

A period European linen chest, dining table and a French table originally owned by artist Conger Metcalf will be offered as will an Art Nouveau hall table and matching mirror, an oak paw foot pedestal and several barrister’s bookcases.

Many lots of sterling and other silver will include a set of 12 goblets, serving pieces, flatware, small Tiffany bowls, dresser jars and a Georg Jensen bowl and ladle.

Porcelain and pottery will include a Copeland Spode tea set made for Tiffany & Co., Wedgwood “Steer” pattern blue and white platter and dishes, three Dedham pottery pieces, Staffordshire, Royal Doulton and Austrian cabinet plates.

An iridescent glass thread vase as well as an unsigned master salt are among the glass lots offered.

A house in Newton supplied two Native American pieces, a basket and a scoop.

Other lots from the Worcester home include a candlestick phone; early license plates; entertainment photos; regimental steins; postcards from the early 1900s, with scenes from Worcester and surrounding areas; holiday cards; a Lionel train set with many original boxes of Plasticville accessories; and boxes of old unused radio tubes.

For information, 617-354-7919 or sbauctioneers.com.

4/22

EVOLUTION IN ABSTRACTION W/1CUT

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NEW YORK CITY — “Evolution in Abstraction: Antecedents and Descendents” will be on view at D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc until June 15.

This is the gallery’s second exhibition of 1930–1940s biomorphic and geometric abstraction. Thirty-four paintings and constructions are included in a 56-page full-color catalog of the exhibition.

The cover piece of the catalog is Charles Green Shaw’s “Bull’s-eye,” a bold and textured painting of concentric circles fused together with a trapezoidal shape.

Featured in the exhibition are works by fellow Park Avenue Cubists Albert Gallatin and George L.K. Morris, as well as members of the American Abstract Artists Group: Ilya Bolotowsky, Burgoyne Diller, Werner Drewes, John Ferren, Balcomb and Gertrude Greene, Carol Holty and Paul Kelpe.

The artists who participated in the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, Irene Rice Pereira, Rolph Scarlett and John Sennhauser are represented, as are the New Mexico transcendentalist painters Raymond Jonson, Emil Bistramm and Ed Garman.

These four groups of abstract artists are the “Antecedents,” or pioneers, who created out of the European-based styles of Cubism, Purism, Neoplasticism, Constructivism, Surrealism and Biomorphism, the American strain of Modern art.

Although the “Descendents” of these original American Abstract artists are the contemporary artists of today, the gallery chose to look at only two contemporary artists, Lorser Feitelson (1898–1978) and Karl Benjamin (born 1925). These paintings evidence the continued interest and further development of 1930s and 1940s geometric and biomorphic abstract styles in later art of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

The gallery is at 22 East 76th Street and is open Monday through Saturday, 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. For information, call 212-794-2128 or visit www.dwigmore.com.