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Maine Antique Digest, December 2016 23-D
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Holland Hotel
, this 45½" x 72¼" 1980 screenprint by Richard
Estes (b. 1932), was published by Parasol Press Ltd. of NewYork
and printed in Stuttgart, Germany by Edition Domberger in an
edition of 100 and 15 proofs. It is signed and numbered 53/100
and came from a California collection. It represented a good
value to the buyer, who paid $11,685 (est. $15,000/25,000).
A lively bidding competition ended only when a bidder in the gallery
defeated the phones to take
Baith Faither and Mither
by Scottish-
born artist Thomas Faed (1826-1900) for $70,110 (est. $1800/2200).
The 1864 oil on canvas, 29" x 36", came from the collections of C.F.H.
Bolckow, Esq., William Leaf, Esq., and Thomas Agnew & Sons, and
from a Florida collection. A label on the back of the frame expands
the title to include the quotation “He was faither and mither and a’
things tae me / Ballantyne”—likely a reference to Scottish author
and artist Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825-1894). The painting
was accompanied by a letter from Toronto dealer Leslie W. Lewis
detailing its provenance.
Portrait of a Lady
by Sir
Joshua Reynolds (British,
1723-1792) is unsigned, but
Reynolds is identified on a
presentation plaque as is
the sitter, Mrs. Frampton.
The 50" x 40" oil on canvas
portrait sold for $30,750.
The subject of the picture
is thought to have been the
wife of James Frampton of
Moreton House in Dorset,
England. It came from the
collection of H. Fetherston-
haugh Frampton, Esq., who
lent it to an exhibition at
Burlington House in Lon-
don in 1910. Later it was in
the collection of New York
lawyer Willis F. McCook,
and then it went to Graciela
Sanchez Brownlow (d. 2012)
of Miami, who lent it to the Vizcaya Museum from 1983 to 2001. The consignor pur-
chased it from the Brownlow estate. The portrait was authenticated using digital
images by Dr. David Mannings, head of the history of art department at the Uni-
versity of Aberdeen in Scotland, and a copy of a 2012 letter from him accompanied
the painting. Mannings dated it to sometime between 1755 and 1760. The painting
came from a southern consignor, and Robin S.R. Starr, paintings department direc-
tor and auctioneer, said it sold “right where it should be.”
Madre con
Niño de Pie
,
this 27"
high bronze
by Mexican
sculptor
Francisco
Zuñiga (1912-1998), is signed, numbered,
and dated “ZUNIGA/IV/V/1965” on the
base. The bronze has brown and green
patina and depicts a woman and a small
boy. It sold for $19,680.
Street View, Soho
, this 68" x 48"
acrylic on canvas scene by Chinese
American artist Hsiang-Ning Han
(b. 1939), is signed and dated 1974.
The artist arrived in New York
City in 1967 and lived in a loft in
SoHo, likely in proximity to the
scene. Estimated at $4000/6000,
the painting realized $15,990. The
proceeds from its sale will benefit
the College of Fine Arts of Boston
University.
When
Sheep in Winter, Scotland
by Scottish artist and laird Joseph
Farquharson (1846-1935) was
estimated at $2000/4000 and
opened at $5500, the gallery
sprang alive. Internet bidders and
ten phone bidders drove the 18"
x 12" oil on canvas depiction of
a shepherd and a small flock of
sheep in the snow to a final price
of $38,130. It bore a label from
the Walter Klinkhoff Gallery
in Montreal, Canada, and a
London, England, stamp on the
canvas. A detached presentation
plaque and a fragment of a
paper label identified the work
as depicting Aboyne, which
is a village in Aberdeenshire,
Scotland.
Boats’ Rendezvous
, this 25" x 30" oil on canvas
by Rockport, Massachusetts, artist Antonio
Cirino (1889-1983) brought $8610. It passed
from Cirino’s estate to the Salmagundi Club
in New York City and retains labels from
the Rockport Art Association’s 59th annual
exhibition in 1979 where it received the Gold
Medal of Honor. Mascolo photo.