Art at Doyle - 2020 Year in Review

Margaret Kilgallen

American, 1967-2001 Untitled (Blinded Fate), 1998 Acrylic on wood in four parts 41 ½ x 39 inches Estimate: $100,000 – $150,000

Sold for $281,250

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Thomas Downing

Untitled Acrylic on canvas 23 ¾ x 30 ¾ inches The Collection of Gilbert & Sandra Oken

Sold for $21,250

Doyle’s team of Specialists are delighted to share with you works of art that we were privileged to bring to auction recently. We are honored to have been chosen by distinguished collectors, heirs and fiduciaries. Our specialists combined their vast experience and unparalleled expertise to achieve outstanding prices for these remarkable works. Working in tandem with our art specialists, our marketing professionals excel at creating and implementing strategic campaigns to target collectors, dealers and advisors around the world.

With sale categories offering American, European, Modern & Contemporary and Old Master Paintings, Street Art, Outsider Art, Drawings & Sculpture, Prints & Multiples from the 17th century to the present, as well as Photographs, our auctions conveniently accommodate buyers and sellers at all levels of the market. We invite you to join thousands of the world’s most active buyers and sellers who participate in our auctions throughout the year and discover for yourself the advantages of buying and selling art at Doyle.

Please contact our specialists and regional advisors to discuss the appraisal and sale of an individual piece or an entire collection.

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Cecil Skotnes

(South African, 1926-2009) Untitled, Circa 1980 Painted and incised wood panel 49 ⅝ x 97 ½ inches A La Jolla Family Collection Estimate: $20,000 – 30,000

Sold for $106,250

Nancy Graves

(American, 1939-1995) Vertigo, 1979 Oil and encaustic on canvas 64 x 80 inches Property of an Elegant Lady Estimate: $10,000 – 20,000

Sold for $200,000

Marie-Victoire Lemoine

(French, 1754-1820) Madame Leclerc, née Pauline Bonaparte Circa 1798-99 Oil on canvas, 77 x 54 ⅛ inches Private Collection, Washington, D.C. Estimate: $40,000 – 70,000

Richard Stankiewicz

(American, 1922-1983) Tribal Diagram, 1953-55 Welded steel and mixed metals Height 42 inches From the Estate of Richard and Carole Rifkind Estimate: $20,000 – 30,000

Sold for $162,500

Sold for $387,000

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Emile Bernard

(French, 1868-1941) Eglise et Ferme Bretonne, 1892 Oil on canvas, 19 ⅝ x 24 inches From the Collection of Dr. Abraham and Carolyn Schlossman Estimate: $40,000–70,000

Wolf Kahn

(American, 1927-2020) Sunny November, Circa 1972 Oil on canvas, 50 x 66 inches Private Collection Estimate: $30,000–50,000

Sold for $93,750

Sold for $56,250

Martin Wong

(American, 1946-1999) IMU UR2, Circa 1976 Acrylic on canvas, 8 x 10 inches Estimate: $6,000–9,000

Sold for $34,375

Orville Bulman

(American, 1904-1978) Les Freres, 1961 Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches Estimate: $15,000–25,000

Sold for $34,375

Alexander Calder

(American, 1898-1976) Untitled, Circa 1946 Oil on canvas mounted to board 5 ¾ x 15 ⅜ inches The Collection of Dorothea Benton Frank Estimate: $70,000–90,000

Sold for $137,500

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Albert Bierstadt

(American, 1830–1902)

Sunset over the Trees Oil on paper laid to canvas 14 x 19 ½ inches Estimate: $30,000–50,000

Sold for $106,250 George Inness

(American, 1825-1894)

View on the Hudson, Circa 1875-78 Oil on canvas-faced artist’s board 11 x 9 ½ inches Estimate: $6,000–8,000

Sold for $34,375 John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925)

Portrait of Louis Alexander Fagan, 1893 Oil on canvas 30 ¼ x 25 ⅛ inches Estimate: $80,000–120,000

Sold for $118,750

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Marie-Victoire Lemoine

Ottavio Maria Leoni

Madame Leclerc, née Pauline Bonaparte, Circa 1798-99

Portrait of a Gentleman Wearing a Ruff

Oil on canvas, 77 x 54 ⅛ inches Private Collection, Washington, D.C. Estimate: $40,000–70,000

Black chalk on blue paper 7 ½ x 5 ¾ inches Estate of Robin R. Henry Estimate: $3,000–5,000

Black chalk heightened with white on blue paper 10 ⅛ x 8 inches Estate of Robin R. Henry Estimate: $600–900

Sold for $387,000

Sold for $50,000

Sold for $17,500

(French, 1754-1820)

(Italian, 1578-1630)

Attributed to Louis-Leopold Boilly Portrait of Actor Simon Chenard

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Albrecht Dürer

(1471-1528) The Desperate Man Etching, Circa 1515 7 3/16 x 5 ¼ inches Provenance: Private collection Estimate: $6,000–8,000

Sold for $17,500

Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso

(1881-1973) Vase Aztèque Aux Quatre Visages Painted white ceramic vase, 1957 Height 21 ¾ inches From the Estate of Hattie Lynton Estimate: $60,000–80,000

Sold for $78,125

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(1881-1973) Jacqueline Au Chapeau De Paille Color linocut, 1962 13 ¾ x 10 ⅝ inches From a Park Avenue Collection Estimate: $40,000–60,000

Sold for $62,500

Andy Warhol

(1928-1987) Gem (Emerald) Color screenprint, 1978 30 ¼ x 40 inches Property of a Global Corporation Estimate: $8,000–12,000

Sold for $40,625 A World Auction Record

David Hockney Keith Haring

(1958-1990) Growing #2 Color screenprint, 1988 28 ⅝ x 38 ¼ inches Property of a Sarasota Lady Estimate: $20,000–30,000

(b. 1937) Pool Made With Paper And Blue Ink For Book Color lithograph, 1980 10 ½ x 9 inches Estimate: $20,000–30,000

Sold for $43,750

Sold for $28,125 A World Auction Record

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In 1965, the Washington Gallery of Modern Art presented the exhibition Washington Color Painters, curated by Gerald Nordland.

The show exalted in the achievements of a select group of Washington, DC artists whose experiments with color and canvas led to a new level of expression. This seminal exhibition included works by Paul Reed, Howard Mehring and Thomas Downing, along with Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Gene Davis and Sam Gilliam, as well as important women artists like Anne Truitt and Alma Thomas ­— several of whom later became associated with The Washington Color School.

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Howard Mehring

American, 1931-1978 Blue Key, 1965 Oil on canvas, 54 ½ x 44 3/8 inches Estimate: $20,000–30,000

Sold for $28,125 Paul Reed

(American, 1919-2015) #2b, 1965 Acrylic on canvas, 63 x 93 ½ inches The Collection of Gilbert & Sandra Oken Estimate: $10,000–15,000

Sold for $25,000 Thomas Downing

(American, 1928-1985) Untitled Acrylic on canvas, 23 ¾ x 30 ¾ inches The Collection of Gilbert & Sandra Oken Estimate: $5,000–7,000

Sold for $21,250 Alma W. Thomas

(American, 1891-1978) Carnival of Autumn Leaves , 1973 Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 inches Estimate: $100,000–150,000

Sold for $254,500

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Gordon Parks

(1912-2006)

Muhammad Ali, 1966 Gelatin silver print 25 ¾ x 19 ½ inches Property of The College of New Rochelle Estimate: $1,500–2,500 Sold for $20,625 American Gothic, Washington D.C. [Ella Watson],1942 Gelatin silver print 27 ¾ x 20 inches Property of The College of New Rochelle Estimate: $5,000–8,000 Sold for $25,625 Emerging Man, Harlem, 1952 Gelatin silver print 19 ¼ x 28 ¼ inches Property of The College of New Rochelle Estimate: $1,500 –2,500 Sold for $25,625

Sunday Morning, 1947 Gelatin silver print 19 ¼ x 24 inches Property of The College of New Rochelle Estimate: $1,000–1,500 Sold for $24,375 Red Jackson, Harlem, New York, 1948 Gelatin silver print 28 ½ x 20 inches Property of The College of New Rochelle Estimate: $1,500 –2,500 Sold for $22,500 Provenance of all: Gifted by Gordon Parks to The College of New Rochelle, 1991

A photographer and film director whose compassionate vision explored the worlds of the disenfranchised and dispossessed, Gordon Parks “saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs,” to quote his own words. He was the first Black photographer to be hired by Life magazine.

An exceptional collection of large-format images by Parks highlighted Doyle’s auction of Photographs on June 29, 2020. From The College of New Rochelle, this group included American Gothic [Ella Watson], 1942, which Time magazine included in its list of the 100 Most Influential Photographs, and Emerging Man, Harlem, 1952, which was part of a Life photo-essay entitled A Man Becomes Invisible, inspired by Parks’ friend Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, Invisible Man. Each sold for $25,625 – A World Auction Record for the Artist.

Four additional photographs by Parks from the same collection appeared separately in the auction, each realizing an auction record for the image. These include the portrait of the Harlem gang leader Red Jackson, taken in 1948 for Life as part of a gritty series depicting gangland life. It is unlikely that any other American photographer of the period could have gained Jackson’s trust. Another stunning portrait is that of Muhammad Ali, shown dripping with sweat, looking unusually vulnerable, with no trace of the braggadocio for which he was famed. Also done for Life (in September 1966, with the title The Redemption of the Champion), this was taken as Ali, a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, was under prosecution for draft evasion. Both Ali and Parks were at the height of their powers in this image.

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Grace Hartigan

(American, 1922-2008) Flower Still Life, 1954 Oil on canvas, 42 x 27 inches From the Estate of Richard and Carole Rifkind Estimate: $70,000–100,000

Louise Bourgeois

(French/American 1911-2010) Untitled, 1968 Oil on paper, 17 x 24 inches From the Estate of Richard and Carole Rifkind Estimate: $100,000–150,000

Sold for $187,500

Tamara de Lempicka

(Polish/Russian, 1898-1980) Still Life with Apples, Circa 1946 Oil on canvas, 8 x 10 ¼ inches Private Collection, New York Estimate: $20,000–40,000

Sold for $87,500

Barbara Hepworth

(British, 1903-1975) Sculpture with Colour, 1968 Bronze with string on bronze base Dimension with base 4 ⅜ x 6 x 4 ¼ inches Estate of Patricia Patterson Estimate: $50,000–70,000

Sold for $125,000

Sold for $175,000

Elaine de Kooning

(American, 1918-1989) Home, 1953 Oil on masonite, 17 ½ x 14 inches Estimate: $8,000–12,000

Sold for $25,000

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Tamara de Lempicka,

Still Life with Apples, Circa 1946 Oil on canvas, 8 x 10 ¼ inches Private Collection, New York

Sold for $87,500

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