Date: Fri 25-Jun-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: SARAH

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Rousseau-Doyle

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Rousseau View At Doyle

(with 4 cuts)

NEW YORK CITY -- William Doyle Galleries' auction of European and American

paintings and Sculpture on Wednesday, May 26, featured a selection of European

and American artists, including an array of Nineteenth Century European

Orientalist works, traditional landscapes, genre scenes, sporting art and

Impressionist canvases.

Theodore Rousseau's (1812-1867) "Les Marais" was the top seller of the day.

After being in a private collection in the Midwest for almost 80 years, the

country landscape, featuring a sweeping view of farmland with cows coming to

drink at the water's edge, achieved $82,250 from a New York buyer.

Another pair of works by Rousseau, "Sous Bois" more than doubled the pre-sale

estimate at $11,500. Another Barbizon painter, Emile van Marcke de Lummen, was

represented by a (1827-1890) vignette of "Cows Resting in a Stream," which

brought $10,350 from a Georgia bidder.

Orientalist works also fared well, with spirited bidding sending prices over

estimate on several items. Competitive bidding sent American expatriate

Frederic Arthur Bridgman's (1847-1928) exotically attired "Reclining Woman"

over estimate to a final sale price of $36,800 from a California buyer.

Italian artist Antonio Rivas' (b. 1840) colorful "Harem Scene" also went over

estimate, yielding $18,400.

Landscapes were especially attractive to bidders among the strong showing of

works by American artists. Early Hudson River School artist William Guy Wall's

(1792-circa 1864) "View of the Hudson Near West Point" featuring a placid view

of the Hudson River from a wooded bank achieved $19,550. A Florida bidder

picked up the snow-capped winter scene "Storm Clearing, Winter" by George

Henry Durrie (1820-1863) for $18,400.

There was much interest in Herman Herzog's (1832-1932) "Leading the Way,"

depicting a woman leading her cow down a country lane. This country landscape

more than tripled the pre-sale estimate at $10,350 from a Florida buyer.

Roswell Morse Shurtleff's (1838-1915) tranquil "Adirondack landscape with

Black Bear" brought $12,075; a watercolor of canoes on the water's edge, "Rest

by the Lake," by Alfred T. Bricher also more than doubled the pre-sale

estimate at $18,400; Albert Bierstadt's "Study of a Forest Interior,"

displaying a fiery autumn landscape, sold for $16,100; and heated bidding over

"Schooners in Rough Seas," a stormy seascape by James Edward Buttersworth

(1817-1894), brought the final sale price to $34,500.

Genre scenes were also represented. "Baby's Sleeping" by Leon Caille

(1836-1907) doubled the pre-sale estimate at $14,950 from a British buyer.

Nineteenth Century Turkish artist Sarkis Diranian's soft portrayal of "Women

in a Field of Poppies" achieved $9,200 from a New York bidder.

A scene of a woman feeding birds, "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not," by Adriano

Cecchi, (1850-1936), went for $18,400, tripling the pre-sale estimate. James

Charles (1851-1906) "In the Orchard," a portrait of a young boy resting and

enjoying the fruits of his labor saw fierce bidding, bringing the final price

up to $15,525.

Several sculptural works also found buyers. A rendering of "Pocahontas" in

white marble, by Joseph Mozier (1812-1890), focusing on the religious future

the heroine would encounter in her life in England, yielded $39,100 from a new

York bidder. Bessie Potter Vonnoh's (1872-1955) "Enthroned," a portrait of a

mother with her children gathered around her, sold for $24,150.

For information, 212/427-4141, extension 238.