SCULPTURE

Sculpture | Lots 914 – 1003

Monday 8 October 2012

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914* A French Gilt Metal Figural Group, depicting a youth with a goat, dated 21 Mars 1849. Width 5 1/8 inches. Property from the Estate of Samuel and Dora Kaner, Southfield, Michigan $200-400

915 A French Bronze Animalier Figure, Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875), depicting a striding polar bear, raised on a naturalistic white marble base, signed Oursartic 1845, Barye. Height 5 inches. $300-500

916 A French Bronze Sculpture, Christophe Fratin (1801-1864), depicting a bridled standing horse raised on a rectangular naturalistic base inscribed FRATIN, further set on a later stepped wood base. Height 24 1/2 inches. $1,000-2,000

917 A French Bronze Animalier Figure, Alfred Dubucand (1828-1894), depicting a standing deer, raised on a naturalistic oval base. Height 5 1/2 inches. $400-600

918* A French Silvered Bronze Figural Group, Alfred Dubucand (1828-1894), depicting a horse and hounds after the hunt. Width 10 3/4 inches. Property from the Collection of Mr. Steven Kaner, Southfield, Michigan $2,000-4,000

919 A French Silvered Bronze Figure, Lalouette, depicting Psyche holding an oil lamp and having a dagger at her feet, raised on a stepped circular base. Height overall 14 5/8 inches. $800-1,200

920 A French Bronze Figure, depicting a standing Napoleon with a book, raised on a rectangular marble base. Height overall 15 3/8 inches. $300-500

921* Two French Bronze Figures, Benoit (Benedict) Rougelet (1834-1894), depicting fencers with foils and masks, each raised on a circular base. Height of taller 12 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Samuel and Dora Kaner, Southfield, Michigan $2,000-4,000 922 A French Bronze Figure, Nicolas Leconey, 19th century, depicting a boy in a hat and cape playing a lute, bearing a stamp from the Susse Frères Foundry. Height 21 1/8 inches. $1,000-2,000

923* A French Bronze Figural Group, after Hippolyte Moreau, depicting a mother and child, raised on a marble base. Height of bronze 20 1/4 inches. Property from the Collection of Mr. Steven Kaner, Southfield, Michigan $1,000-2,000

924* A French Bronze Bust, Jef Lambeaux (18521908), depicting a Bacchic youth. Height 8 3/4 inches. Property from the Estate of Samuel and Dora Kaner, Southfield, Michigan $700-900

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925 A French Bronze Figural Group, Emile LaPorte (1858-1907), depicting a mother nursing a child, raised on a circular base, signed E. LaPorte. Height 32 inches. $3,000-5,000 926 A French Patinated Metal Figural Group, after Emile LaPorte (1858-1907), Pro Patria, depicting a maiden and a soldier holding a dagger, raised on a square base signed E. LaPorte and bearing a plaque reading Pro Patria, par Emile LaPorte, Salon des Beaux Arts, further set on a marble plinth. Height 27 inches. $800-1,200

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927 A French Gilt Bronze Figural Group, FrancoisRaoul Larche (1860-1912), depicting a Bacchic figure with goat, signed Raoul Larche with Colin foundry mark, Paris, raised on an oval marble base. Height 11 1/2 inches. $800-1,200

928* A Pair of French Bronze Figures, Anatole J. Guillot (1865-1911), each depicting a soldier in Renaissance style dress holding a mace, set on marble plinth bases. Height of bronze 15 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Samuel and Dora Kaner, Southfield, Michigan $2,000-4,000

929 A French Silvered Bronze Sculpture, Maurice Frecourt (b. 1890), depicting a pheasant, raised on a naturalistic fern and rocky base, further set on a marble plinth with canted corners, impressed Frecourt. Width 12 5/8 inches. $600-800

930 A French Gilt Bronze Figural Group, after Claude Michel Clodion, depicting a Bacchic scene with a female satyr seated on a stump and dangling a cluster of grapes over a youthful satyr, raised on a naturalistic base cast with grapevines and further set on a stepped marble plinth. Height overall 14 1/4 inches. $3,000-5,000

931 A French Gilt and Patinated Bronze Figure, cast as a reclining robed maiden with a circular mirror set on a rectangular marble base. Height overall 20 inches. $1,500-2,500

932* A French Bronze Figure, after the Antique, Aeschines, F. Barbedienne foundry, A. Collas Reduction. Width 15 3/8 inches. Property from the Collection of Mr. Rollin Feld, Highland Park, Illinois $1,000-2,000

933 A Neoclassical Bronzed Figural Group, after the Antique, depicting two wrestlers set on a naturalistically cast base. Height 29 1/2 inches. $3,000-5,000

934 An Italian Bronze Figural Group, after the Antique, depicting the infant Bacchus on the shoulders of faun, bearing a label that reads Copiato Della Originale, Nel Museo di Napoli, Per Il St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts, Sabatino de Angeles, Apravato dal Comm., Giulio de Petra, Dirretore de Museo Nationale. Height 74 inches. $10,000-15,000

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935 A Neoclassical Bronze Figural Group, after the Antique, depicting two Pankration wrestlers set on a naturalistically cast base. Height 15 inches. $1,000-2,000

936 A Continental Bronze Figure, after the Antique, depicting Venus Callipyge, also known in Greek as Aphrodite Kallipygos, raised on a circular plinth base. Height 23 1/4 inches. $800-1,200

937 Four Grand Tour Bronzes, after the Antique, 19th century, comprising three figures depicted in various poses and a vessel. Height of tallest 7 inches. $400-600

938 A Continental Bronzed Figure, after the Antique, depicting a dancing Faun after the Pompeian example, raised on a plinth base. Height overall 33 inches. $1,000-2,000

939* A Bronze and Slate Encrier, after the Antique, Lorenzo de Medici, A. Collas Reduction. Width 15 3/8 inches. Property from the Collection of Mr. Rollin Feld, Highland Park, Illinois $800-1,200

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940 A Continental Bronzed and Patinated Metal Figure, after the Antique, Mercury, depicted in a seated pose, raised on a naturalistic rocky base. Height 20 inches. $800-1,200

941* A Bronze Figure, after the Antique, depicting a nude figure in a sash leaning on a tree stump, raised on a rectangular base, having Reduction Mechanique A Collas stamp. Height 27 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Charles P. Wood, Chicago, Illinois $600-800

942 A Continental Neoclassical Gilt Bronze Figure, depicting a Neoclassical robed female, raised on a stepped octagonal base. Height overall 20 1/2 inches. $1,000-2,000 943* A Continental Bronze Figure, depicting a classical youth wearing robes and sandals. Height 14 inches. Property from the Estate of Samuel and Dora Kaner, Southfield, Michigan $800-1,200

944 A Tobacconist’s Cast Metal Advertising Figure, depicting a gentleman in an overcoat lighting his pipe, an umbrella stuck under his arm, set on a later marble base. Height 28 5/8 inches. $2,000-4,000

945 A Continental Bronze Figure, depicting a robed man, set on a square marble base. Height 15 1/4 inches. $600-800 946* A Continental Gilt Bronze Figure, Ribot, depicting a standing nude with arms outstretched, raised on a square marble base. Height of bronze 10 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Samuel and Dora Kaner, Southfield, Michigan $600-800

947 Three Continental Bronze Figures, 19th century, comprising a seated blacksmith by Pilet, a standing young man in hat by Holand and a farmer sharpening his scythe, signed indistinctly. Height of tallest 9 inches. $300-500

948 A Pair of Austrian Cold Painted Bronze Bookends, each depicting an orientalist figure before a fountain having an architectural landscape in the background and flanked by palm trees, raised on a naturalistic base, stamped Made in Austria. Height 6 1/4 inches. Property from R & M Collection, Illinois $800-1,200

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949 An Austrian Cold Painted Figural Group, depicting a Middle Eastern gentleman in a fez with a pipe standing over a similarly dressed monkey with a tambourine, raised on a carpet draped pedestal. Height 27 1/2 inches. $2,000-4,000

950* An Austrian Bronze Figure, Professor Victor Heinrich Seifert (1870-1953), depicting a knight holding a sword before him, raised on and octagonal plinth base. Height 29 inches. Property from the Estate of Charles P. Wood, Chicago, Illinois $800-1,200

951 A Bronze Animalier Figure, after a model by Evgeny Aleksandrovich Lanceray (Lansere) (Russian, 1848-1886), depicting a bear in a seated pose, raised on a naturalistic round base, signed in Cyrillic and dated 1870. Height 9 inches. $500-700 952* A Hungarian Bronze Figure, depicting a seated nude female with hands behind her back, having a Budapest foundry mark, signed Montinelliz. Height of bronze 8 1/4 inches. Property from the Estate of Samuel and Dora Kaner, Southfield, Michigan $600-800

953* A French Gilt Bronze Figure, Charles Dumont, early 20th century, depicting a standing nude with a coupe, raised on a pedestal form marble base. Height of bronze 7 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Samuel and Dora Kaner, Southfield, Michigan $800-1,200

954* A Continental Cast Metal Figure, depicted in a standing pose with a tri-corner hat and walking stick, raised on an octagonal base. Height 34 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Samuel and Dora Kaner, Southfield, Michigan $800-1,200 955 A German Gilt and Patinated Bronze Figure, Helmut Schievelkemp (b.1849), depicting a hunter with eagle and spear, set on a stepped marble base. Height overall 13 inches. $600-800

956* A Romanian/Canadian Bronze Figure, Prince “Monyo” Mihailescu-Nasturel Herescu, 20th century, depicting a dancing girl, signed to base. Height of bronze 44 inches. Property from the Collection of Mr. Steven Kaner, Southfield, Michigan $500-700

957* A Continental Bronze Figural Group, after Victor Szczeblewski, depicting a standing youth, whistling with hands in his pockets, dated 1889. Height 15 inches. Property from the Estate of Samuel and Dora Kaner, Southfield, Michigan $800-1,200

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958 An Italian Alabaster Bust, Laura, carved as a maiden in provincial attire. Height 14 3/8 inches. Property from the Collection of a Lady, Chicago, Illinois $400-600

958A A Collection of Eight Antiquities, comprising five ceramic oil lamps of varying sizes, a handled, squat baluster form vessel, an amphora form vessel and a small iron figure of a man. Width of widest 5 3/4 inches. $800-1,200

959 A Classical Roman Marble Head, mounted on a pedestal. Height of marble 4 3/4 inches. $600-800

960* A Greco-Roman Style Marble Bust of a Classical Bearded Man, raised on an octagonal ceramic column. Height of bust 13 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Scherer Higbie, Grosse Pointe, Michigan $2,000-4,000 961 A Continental Carved Pine Figure, in the form of a Bacchic putto with a cluster of grapes and a chalice, raised on a rectangular pedestal base. Height overall 61 inches. $200-400

962* A Continental Carved Wood Figure, depicting a standing European knight in armor. Height 13 1/4 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Chester E. Zarr, Western Springs, Illinois $600-800

963 A French Terracotta Figural Group, after Claude Michel Clodion, depicting a satyr with a nymph and a putto, raised on a circular base. Height 20 1/2 inches. $800-1,200

964 An English Parianware Bust, Bentley, depicting the famed pugilist Benjamin Caunt, set on a circular base listing his fights. Height 15 1/2 inches. $500-700 965* An Italian Alabaster Bust, depicting a maiden, unsigned. Height 15 3/4 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Chester E. Zarr, Western Springs, Illinois $600-800

966* An Italian Marble Statue, depicting Dante, raised on a stepped marble base. Height 19 7/8 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Chester E. Zarr, Western Springs, Illinois $600-800

967* An Italian Alabaster Figure, depicting a kneeling female, raised on a rectangular base. Height 20 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Chester E. Zarr, Western Springs, Illinois $600-800

968* An Italian Alabaster Bust, signed G. Besji, depicting a maiden wearing a head scarf. Height 15 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Chester E. Zarr, Western Springs, Illinois $1,000-2,000

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969 An Italian Carved Marble Bust, F. Fossati, depicting a classical maiden with a ribbon in her hair, raised on a conforming socle. Height overall 21 inches. $1,000-2,000

970 An Italian Marble Figure, M. Passini, depicting a draped classical maiden laying on a chaise. Width 19 1/2 inches. $2,000-4,000

970A* An Italian Carved Lava Relief, Il Giuoco Dell’Altalena, depicting a woman and children on a seesaw under a tree. Height 5 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Charles Andrew Seyferth, Muskegon, Michigan, formerly the Collection of Mr. Don Seyferth $500-700

971* An English Carved Alabaster Bust, Thomas Thurlow (1813-1899), depicting a shrouded child, signed Saxmunham 1844. Height 14 1/2 inches. Property from the Ethel Miller Siegel Trust, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan $800-1,200

972* Two Italian Marble Busts, depicting a laughing and a crying child, raised on turned socles. Height 14 inches. Property from the Ethel Miller Siegel Trust, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan $1,000-2,000

973* An Italian Alabaster Figure, depicting a maiden reclining on a chaise. Width 27 1/2 inches. Property from the Ethel Miller Siegel Trust, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan $1,000-2,000

974* An Italian Alabaster Bust, depicting a classical maiden with a floral wreath and toga. Height 14 inches. Property from the Ethel Miller Siegel Trust, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan $700-900

975* An Italian Marble Figural Group, depicting a gentleman and a lady in period costume. Height 30 inches. Property from the Ethel Miller Siegel Trust, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan $2,000-4,000

976 An Italian Carved Marble Bust, depicting a mother and child in an embrace. Height 15 1/4 inches. $1,500-2,500 977 An Italian Carved Alabaster Bust, depicting a maiden in a cap upon a tambourine form base. Height 18 3/4 inches. $1,500-2,500

978 An Italian Alabaster Figure, depicting a standing maiden clutching a bundle of wheat, raised on a marble pedestal. Height overall 80 inches. $1,000-2,000

979* An Italian Alabaster Figural Table Lamp, depicting a youthful courting couple seated near a post. Height overall 24 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Nidia Stolypin, Paris, France $1,000-2,000 980 An Italian Art Nouveau Carved Marble Bust, Sapho, depicting the maiden with ribbon-tied hair and having poppy decoration. Height 13 3/4 inches. $200-400

981 An American Bronze Sculpture, Frederick Aman (b. 1929), Persistent Devil, 1976, edition of 20, depicting a fish caught with a lure in its mouth upon crashing waves, set on a circular wood base. Height 15 inches.

Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist, September 10, 1978. $600-800

982 A Pair of American Bronze Animalier Figures, Jehu, each depicting a ram, with Griffoul Foundry stamp. Height 7 1/4 inches. $600-800

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M A ri O S PAMP in ATO

(italian/American, 1912-2000)

Born in Calabria, Italy and raised in Rome, Spampinato studied sculpture at the Liceo Artistico di Roma and the Academia di Nudo. He later immigrated to New York City and worked with his brother, the well-known sculptor Clemente Spampinato. Mario Spampinato eventually moved to the Chicago area, where he opened his own studio and foundry and was one of the first to use the lost wax process in the United States.

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983* An American Bronze Sculpture, Mario Spampinato (Italian/American, 1912-2000), Floral No. I, 1976, raised on a marble plinth, signed and dated. Height 19 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Mario Spampinato, Chicago, Illinois $700-900

984* An American Bronze Sculpture, Mario Spampinato (Italian/American, 1912-2000), Untitled Abstract, of geometric form, raised on a stone plinth, signed M. Spampinato. Height 16 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Mario Spampinato, Chicago, Illinois $700-900

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985* An American Bronze Sculpture, Mario Spampinato (Italian/American, 1912-2000), Untitled Abstract, from the Floral Series, raised on a marble plinth, signed M. Spampinato, 1970. Height 24 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Mario Spampinato, Chicago, Illinois $1,000-2,000

986* Two American Bronze Sculptures, Mario Spampinato (Italian/American, 1912-2000), Girl Golf Player and Male Golf Player, each depicted in mid-swing, raised on a marble plinth, signed. Height of taller 16 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Mario Spampinato, Chicago, Illinois $1,000-2,000

987* An American Bronze Sculpture, Mario Spampinato (Italian/American, 1912-2000), Male Tennis Player, depicted in mid-lob raised on a marble plinth, signed Mario Spampinato, 1976. Height 23 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Mario Spampinato, Chicago, Illinois $800-1,200

988* An American Bronze Sculpture, Mario Spampinato (Italian/American, 1912-2000), Tennis Player Return, depicting a female with racket, raised on a marble plinth, signed Mario Spampinato, 1973. Height 17 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Mario Spampinato, Chicago, Illinois $700-900

989* An American Bronze Sculpture, Mario Spampinato (Italian/American, 1912-2000), Norma, 1976, depicting a female torso, raised on a marble plinth, signed and dated. Height 22 3/4 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Mario Spampinato, Chicago, Illinois $700-900

990* An American Bronze Animalier Figure, after Charles M. Russell, Texas Steer, recast by Mario Spampinato for Findlay Galleries, signed CMR. Width 5 7/8 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Mario Spampinato, Chicago, Illinois $200-400 991* An American Bronze Sculpture, after Charles M. Russell, Last Laugh, recast by Mario Spampinato for Findlay Galleries, signed C.M. Russell, 1916. Width 7 5/8 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Mario Spampinato, Chicago, Illinois $400-600

992* An American Bronze Sculpture, after Charles M. Russell, Snake Priest, recast by Mario Spampinato for Findlay Galleries, signed C.M. Russell, 1914. Width 8 1/8 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Mario Spampinato, Chicago, Illinois $400-600

993* An American Bronze Animalier Figure, after Charles M. Russell, Buffalo, recast by Mario Spampinato for Findlay Galleries, signed CMR. Width 5 inches. Property from the Estate of Mr. Mario Spampinato, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

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994 A German Bronze and Ivory Figure, Hans Keck (active 1900-1922), depicting a man in Renaissance costume, signed H. Keck fec., raised on a stepped rouge marble and gilt bronze base, mounted as a lamp. Height 8 3/4 inches. $1,000-2,000

995 A French Gilt Bronze and Ivory Figure, Georges Omerth (1895-1925), depicting a gypsy wearing a tied cloth hat and draped clothing, her hands issuing fans, raised on a tapering circular plinth, further set on an associated onyx and gilt bronze pedestal. Height of figure 7 3/8 inches, height overall 24 1/4 inches. $1,000-2,000 995A A Continental Bronze and Ivory Allegorical Figural Group, Contemplating Death, modeled as a gentleman doctor and a nude female patient standing on a marble base looking at the skeletal figure at their feet. Height 10 1/2 inches. $1,500-2,500

996 A French Gilt Bronze and Ivory Figure, X. Raphanel, depicting a young cavalier with a sword, set on a wood base. Height 14 inches. $3,000-5,000 997* A French Bronze and Ivory Figure, Demetre H. Chiparus (Romanian, 1886-1947), Odalesque, raised on an onyx base, bronze stamped Chiparus, having Etling foundry mark to base. Height 13 1/4 inches. Property from the Collection of Mr. Steven Kaner, Southfield, Michigan $8,000-12,000

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999 A French Bronze Figure, Pierre Le Faguays (18921962), depicting a nude holding clusters of grapes, mounted above an onyx bowl, marked Le Faguays Made in France to the underside. Height overall 14 1/2 inches. $800-1,200

1000* A Continental Bronze Figure, depicting an Art Deco female dancer, raised on an oval marble base. Height of bronze 9 3/8 inches. Property from the Ethel Miller Siegel Trust, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan $500-700

1001* An American Art Deco Bronze Figure, Gorham Foundry, 1925, depicting a standing nude female youth having one arm raised over her head with closed eyes, raised on a rectangular base, incised LLW ‘25 and stamped Gorham Co. Founders QFGJ. Height overall 38 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Charles P. Wood, Chicago, Illinois $3,000-5,000 1002 A French Art Deco Bronze Sculpture, Georges Lavroff (1895-1961), cast as a stylized racing hound, signed G. Lavroff and set on a marble base. Width of bronze 21 1/4 inches. $1,000-2,000

1003 A Polychrome Bronze Figure, Roman de Tirtoff Erté (Russian, 1892-1990), American Millionairess, depicting an Art Deco woman in ruffled evening wear with chain tassels, raised on a stepped oval base. Height overall 19 1/2 inches. $1,000-2,000

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