Furniture, Art, Pottery Lead

Treadway-Toomey’s Auction

Twentieth Century Art & Design Sale

Auction Action In Oak Park, Ill.

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This Gustav Stickley Morris chair fetched $12,000.

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A Teco vase by Fritz Albert in green matte glaze took $15,600.

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The top lot of the auction was this Theodore Clement Steele oil landscape that attained $30,000.

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Andy Warhol’s “Liz” exhibition poster took $24,000.

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Edward Wormley sofa by Dunbar, model no. 5316, floating backrest, realized $6,000.

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An Edmond Casarella bronze sculpture, “Soaring,” in unusual geometric form, sold for $10,450.

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OAK PARK, ILL. — The draw toward the classic and sophisticated designs of Twentieth Century decorative art and furniture continues to attract avid buyers and collectors, evident in Treadway-Toomey Galleries’ annual fall Twentieth Century Art and Design sale, held September 9, at the John Toomey Gallery.

The top lot of the auction was an oil on board landscape by American painter Theodore Clement Steele that fetched $30,000.

The first session featured a collection of Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau furnishings, decorative lamps, art pottery, metals and glass, as well as a collection of embroidery, photogravure and woodblock prints.

Gustav and Stickley Brothers furniture sold well within and exceeded estimates. A bow arm Stickley Morris chair with original finish jump-started the sale, selling for $12,000. An early and unusual Stickley Brothers English-inspired sideboard sold for $4,800, while a desirable L&JG Stickley encyclopedia table brought $7,200.

A Frank Lloyd Wright coffee table, manufactured by Heritage Henredon, with Taliesin designs engraved at the edges, fetched $4,500.

Art pottery included two framed Van Briggle tiles, featuring incised and painted landscapes individually, at $2,520 and $2,760. A Rookwood vellum plaque, with a landscape painted by Charles McLaughlin in 1916, achieved $6,600.

Teco pottery highlights included a large and unusual Teco vase, decorated by Orlando Giannini with a green glaze and geometric flowers, that went for $8,400 and a Teco form, designed by Fritz Albert, at $15,600. An Amphora vase, slightly tapered in shape with an elaborately painted female profile portrait, sold for $9,000.

There was extensive interest in a colorful Arts and Crafts woodblock, “Landscape with Haystacks,” which pulled $3,900, well above its $150/$250 estimate.

Twentieth Century art glass included a Steuben broad shade of green glass with a colorful pulled design at the edge that sold above estimate for $5,700. A rare dark blue jade Steuben Grotesque bowl went for $4,500.

An L.C. Tiffany blue Favrile vase with pulled design sold at the high end of its $2,2/2,700 estimate, while two Tiffany Furnaces boxes sold well above estimates.

The second session of the sale featured various paintings and prints by early to mid-Twentieth Century American and European artists.

Treadway-Toomey painting expert Alan Plat remarked that Audley Dean Nichols’ painting “Arizona Landscape,” which sold for $16,800 ($7/9,000), was “an excellent example of [Nichols’] work.”

A photograph by Laura Gilpin of a Navajo craftswoman, “Navajo Silversmith” went for $3,360. Included in the lot was the accompanying text, “The Enduring Navajo,” which features the image.

A native of Illinois, Jane Peterson’s “Florida landscape” oil on board landscape sold for $10,800.

An exhibition poster featuring the iconic image of Elizabeth Taylor signed by the equally iconic Pop artist Andy Warhol entitled “Liz” sold for $24,000.

In the third session of the sale, featuring 1950s Art Deco and Modern decorative arts and furnishings, a Gilbert Rohde sling/glider sofa by Troy Sunsahde, tubular steel frame with original burgundy mohair, realized $5,400. A large floating backrest Edward Wormley sofa by Dunbar, although unsigned and newly reupholstered, brought $6,000.

The sale closed with Edmond Casarella’s kinetic bronze sculpture “Soaring,” circa 1975. The geometric bronze form rose far above its $1/2,000 estimate to bring $11,400.

The next Treadway-Toomey Galleries Twentieth Century Art and Design Auction is set for December 2 at John Toomey Gallery, 818 North Boulevard, in Oak Park, Ill.

For information, 513-321-6742, 708-383-5234 or www.treadwaygallery.com.