MODERNISM Auction, May 2020: Selkirk Auctioneers

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VICTOR VASARELY (FRENCH-HUNGARIAN, 1906-1997) Left: Silkscreen, 1968. Image for his "From Constructivism to Kinetic Art" exhibition, London Arts Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, November 1968.

Estimate: $100 - $400 Below: Silkscreen, 1968. Image for his "From Constructivism to Kinetic Art" exhibition, London Arts Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, November 1968.

Estimate: $100 - $400 Right: Silkscreen, 1971, unframed. Exhibition poster, "denise rene 196 bd saint-germain paris 17 juin 19 juillet 1971".

Estimate: $60 - $200

EDVARD MUNCH EXHIBITION POSTER Printed by "K & W Oslo 1973".

"Tegninger, skisser og studier - Utstilling i Munch-museet 14. februar - 29. april 1973". Drawings, Sketches and Studies Exhibition in the Munch Museum.

Estimate: $60 - $160

JOAN MIRÓ (SPANISH, 1893 - 1983) Estimate: $100 - $300 JIM DINE (AMERICAN, B. 1935) "8 Hearts", mixed media, signed and dated.

Estimate: $500 - $1,000

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MODERNISM Saturday | MAY 23, 2020 | 10AM central 200+ LOTS OF FINE ART, SCULPTURE, GLASS, CERAMICS, MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE & LIGHTING, JEWELRY & VINTAGE ELECTRONICS FEATURING PROPERTY FROM THE POSNER-MCCLEARY ESTATE, COLUMBIA, MO AND CONSIGNMENTS FROM FLORIDA, GEORGIA, ILLINOIS, KENTUCKY, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, WASHINGTON

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MURANO ART GLASS SCULPTURE OF BIRDS ON A BRANCH Italy, mid-20th century. Large group of 5 colorful birds resting on a clear crystal branch. 12.5"h. 20"l.

Estimate: $250 - $500

ALESSANDRO PIANON FOR VISTOSI MURANO GLASS BIRD

MURANO ART GLASS SCULPTURE OF BIRDS ON A NEST Italy, mid-20th century. Large group of 5 birds resting around the edge of a nest. 10”h.

Estimate: $200 - $500

Italy (Vistosi, Murano), ca. 1950s, orange and transparent glass, copper.

Iconic "Pulcini" bird sculpture with blown textured surface and applied glass eyes. 8.5"h.

Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000

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ROBERT COTTINGHAM (AMERICAN, B. 1935) Barrera - Rosa's Lithographic print, edition 18/20, 1986. Bright multi-colored realism street scene with up close view of storefront facades. 23.5"h. 48"w.

Estimate: $1,000 - $3,000

CLIFTON KARHU (U.S. AND JAPAN, 1927-2007) Higashiyama Sanso-Fall Color Woodblock. 14"h. 25.5"w.

Estimate: $200 - $400

BETSY LOWENHAUPT (AMERICAN, 1881-1968) Dinner Meeting Oil on canvas board still life.13"h. 19"w.

Estimate: $700 - $1,200 LARRY BELL (AMERICAN, B. 1939) Valencia, vaporized metals and mixed media, signed L Bell and dated '91 verso. Large vertical image of abstracted geometric iridescence. Former Selkirk Auction purchase, Autumn Modernism 2006.

85"h. 65"w.

Estimate: $4,500 - $7,500

HANNIBAL ALKHAS (IRANIAN, 1930 - 2010) Untitled Oil on canvas, pencil notation on stretcher "Hannibal Alkas (sic) artist in residence, Hanover college - 1968 Hanover, Indiana”. framed, 23.75"h. 24"w.

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ROGER SAN MIGUEL, (PHILIPPINES, B.1941) Oil on board, signed. Beauty with Oil on board, signed and dated 1975. bird cage, with another figure & Two beauties in a green landscape more birds. Frame 41.5"h. 30"w. with flowers. 30"sq. Frame 36"sq.

Estimate: $600 - $900 Estimate: $600 - $900

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SERGE FERAT (RUSSIAN, 1881-1958) Oil on canvas, signed lower right S. Ferat. A vertical Cubism landscape with figures and animals highlighted by industrial symbolism. The reverse bearing label of Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet 19 rue Vavin, Brea, Paris VI and W.S. Budworth & Son, Packers & Shippers, 424 West 52nd St., New York with cursive pencil notation "Sterner". Painted circa 1930-31.

45.5"h. 32"w.

Exhibited: The Marie Sterner Gallery, New York, Autumn 1931 Literature: Covershot for June 15, 1932 edition of Town & Country magazine, vol. 87 no. 4082, cited within.

Provenance: Gifted to private owner by Renee Reichman (1898-1990) of the former Olympia & York empire.

Estimate: $6,000 - $12,000

About the Artist: Born into Russian nobility as a count, Alexander Rudniev attended the School of Fine Art in Kiev and later Academie Julien after his arrival to Paris in 1901 where he later became heavily involved in the Parisian avante-garde movement and known as Serge Ferat under the influence and association of Pablo Picasso.

Solo Exhibitions: Paris in 1935, Galerie Bonjean, Paris in 1938, Galerie de Beaune, Paris in January 1963, Galerie Lucie Weill (with Jean-Joseph Crotti) Paris in 2010, Galerie Bérès.

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EMORY P. SEIDEL (AMERICAN, 1881-1954) Bronze, "Roman Bronze Works N. Y." to the underside of bowl and the stand, signed. Art Deco figural centerpiece showing two nude women, kneeling while holding birds, flanking a bowl. 9.8"h. 20"w.

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

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ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)

Reclining Figure No. A Bronze, edition 1/12 marked A for artist's cast.

Abstract Cubist sculpture of reclining female figure, signed Archipenko, dated 1913, noted No. A. Bearing label of Perls Galleries, New York, NY to underside noting artist, title, and date.

4.3"h. 11.8"l.

Estimate: $25,000 - $40,000

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TABLE IN THE MANNER OF NAKASHIMA Japan, ca.1960. Naturalistic dished top on four stick-carved legs. 12"h. 42"w. 25"d.

Estimate: $300 - $500

THREE VETRI SOFFIATI MURANO GLASS CHANDELIERS

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GALUMA MAYMURU (B.1951 AUSTRALIA) Sacred Crab at Waterhole Australian, Yirrkala, Northern Territory, second half 20th century, painting, natural earth pigments on Eucalyptus bark. Hangtag label to verso. 17.75"h.

Estimate: $400 - $600

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PAIR OF QUAD ELECTROACOUSTICS CONVEX SPEAKERS Estimate: $300 - $600

VINTAGE APPLE IIc COMPUTERS Estimate: $100 - $300

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