Date: Fri 11-Sep-1998

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Mystic Fine Art Unveils New California Gallery

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NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. -- Mystic Fine Arts, Ltd, a leading fine arts speciality

auction house based in Mystic, Conn., has announced the opening of a second

facility, an art gallery, in Newport Beach.

The West Coast operation will open its doors on September 18 with a display of

California paintings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. European and

American works of art not indigenous to California will also be for sale.

Over the coming months, the gallery will offer works by John Marshall Gamble,

Orrin White, Selden Gile, George Demont Otis, Alexis Podchernikoff, Emil Kosa,

Jr, Victor Clyde Forsythe, William Clapp, Amadee Joulin, Frank Myers, Edith

White, Emery Gellert, Raoul De Longpre, Gustav Liljestrom, Christian von

Schneidau, and Elizabeth Strong, said Rick Ferry, owner of Mystic Fine Arts.

The Newport Beach gallery is at 3431 Via Oporto, Suite 100A. Hours are Tuesday

through Saturday, 11:30 am to 5:30 pm. Gallery director Bela Spanyol may be

contacted at 949/723-5485; fax 949/723-5584.

Mystic Fine Arts, Ltd, conducts auctions of American and European paintings

and works of art six times annually at the Groton Inn and Suites. Its next

sale will be October 1.

Mystic Fine Arts, Ltd, is at 47 Holmes Street in Mystic, telephone

860/572-8873.