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Maine Antique Digest, March 2015 15-C
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These three paintings by Paul Jenkins (1923-2012) were shown by
Galerie Diane de Polignac, Paris. The large painting on the left,
Phenomena Katherine’s Guardian
, 1974, was $75,000.
East Hoof
(top right), 1959, was $50,000 and
Phenomena-Down Wind
, 1960,
was $45,000.
This solid walnut Growth Table
was designed in 2014 by
Mathias Bengtsson, who was born in Denmark in 1971. It
was available at Maria Wettergren’s booth and sold. Asking
price was $100,000. A limited edition of eight, with four art-
ist’s proofs, the table is 63" x 35½" x 29½". Bengtsson cre-
ated this organic design by envisioning what a table would
look like if it could be grown directly from nature. A “digital
seed” grows within a computer program designed by the
artist, said Wettergren, whose gallery is in Paris.
Spencer Throckmorton of Throckmorton
Fine Art, New York City, sold this Olmec
mask, slightly bearded, Vera Cruz style,
1100-500 B.C.E., to a private collector. The
mask is jade, 8¼" high. Also on display was
this Costa Rican pelican of volcanic stone,
sitting on a drum with a snake on the bottom,
from the 9th-12th century. The dealer asked
$20,000 for it.
J. Lohmann Gallery, New York
City, sold several pieces of con-
temporary studio art including
three porcelain pieces by San-
dra Davolio (center left), priced
from $6500 to $10,000, and
Blue
Wall Loop
(top left) by Merete
Rasmussen, stoneware, 2013.
Lohmann sold the large ceramic
piece from
Points & Circles
(lower left) by Lone Skov Mad-
sen, 2014, for $4500.
Red/Black
in earthenware by Ann Van Hoey
(top right), 2014, sold for $4800.
The red one seen below it was
$4250. Both were painted with
“Ferrari red” car paint.
These “almost still life” portraits of birds could be considered a
present-day answer to Audubon prints.
Ruffled
by Dominic Har-
ris (b. 1976) of London caused a commotion in Priveekollektie
Contemporary Art/Design’s booth opening night. People flocked
to the booth to see the birds respond when someone walked in
front of each display. The 20 species, including crested partridge,
Atlantic puffin, greater flamingo, salmon-crested cockatoo, and
snowy owl, vary in size from 11½" to 17½" wide x 13½" to 20½"
high and were priced at $25,000 to $30,000. The materials used
to create each
Ruffled
bird were industrial LCD screen, custom
electronics and software, sensor, steel, blackened aluminum, and
acrylic. Priveekollectie is based in the Netherlands.
R & Company, New York City, showed this cast
bronze with porcelain flowers fireplace screen
and mirror by David Wiseman (b. 1981). The
screen is 33½" x 58½" x 18". The mirror is 54"
in diameter. Each was priced at $85,000. The
three glass vessels are by Thaddeus Wolfe (b.
1979). The two smaller ones, one pink and one
green, were $7500 each, and the tall blue one
was $12,000.
François Laffanour/Galerie Downtown, Paris, sold a rare pair of arm-
chairs (not shown) by Jean Royère on opening night. The bent steel chairs
were designed for the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. Seen here is a set of six
chairs by Jean Prouvé from the 1950s, made of wood, bent steel, and red
“pleather.” They were $110,000.
Hart Crane, an American poet, commissioned this 5" x 12½" bronze
Sleeping Gull
from Gaston Lachaise in
1926. Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, New York City, sold it at this show. Goldberg also sold these two Edgar
Brandt wrought-iron floor lamps, 1925 and 1923. Between the lamps are two paintings by John Marin,
$135,000 each.