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The Cows of Kerry
by James Fitzgerald (1899-1971), this
40" x 30" oil on canvas scene of a shepherdess driving
cows along a cliff road above the sea, realized $6765 (est.
$8000/12000). Fitzgerald was born and studied in Boston,
painted in California and on Monhegan Island, Maine,
and visited Ireland late in life and then died there. Mascolo
photo.
These puma bronzes
by William Zorach
(1887-1966) brought $24,600. One is signed
“Wm M Zorach” and 18½" high; the other
is signed “Zorach” and 19¼" high. Both
are numbered 2/6 and stamped “4" on the
bases. The catalog said that the presence
of brown dust and dirt in the interstices
suggests that they were displayed outdoors.
Bidding on this 18½" x 22
⅜
" oil on canvas Orientalist scene,
Market in
Ispahan
or
Caravansary outside the Bazaar in Ispahan
by Edwin Lord Weeks
(1849-1903), opened at $30,000 and ended at $43,050 (est. $30,000/50,000).
The painting was authenticated through digital photos by Dr. Ellen K. Morris,
who dated it to around 1893-95 when it would have been painted at Weeks’s
Paris studio. It will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné
by Morris. The painting came from the collection of Howard P. Diamond.
Veere—Sunday
, Charles Herbert Woodbury’s 1902 oil on canvas, 17" x 21", is signed and
dated. The setting is Veere, the Netherlands, where Woodbury worked and studied in the
early 1890s. The picture sold to the trade for $8610 (est. $1500/2500). It was purchased
in Ogunquit, Maine, in the late 1950s or early 1960s by a forebear of the consignor and
retains a Woodbury estate stamp. Mascolo photo.
Rivière sous Bois, la Rivière de Mortain
, this 23
⅝
" x 29" oil on canvas view of the Cascades
of Normandy, France by post-Impressionist artist Gustave Loiseau (1865-1935), sold
online for $19,680. The painting, made around 1894, is titled on a presentation plaque and
titled and dated on a photo certificate from Didier Imbert of Paris. It was accompanied
by that certificate and a 2016 certificate of inclusion in the Loiseau catalogue raisonné by
Imbert that is in the works.
An ominous silence hung in the gallery until one of two phone bidders opened
Andrew Wyeth’s 21½" x 29½" watercolor
Corn and Grist
at $160,000. It went
for $195,000 (est. $150,000/250,000) to an area dealer. The picture is signed in
ink, and the label from Nicholas Wyeth, Inc. dated it to 1976. Nicholas Wyeth
is Andrew Wyeth’s son and an art dealer. The gallery sold the painting to New
York City plastic surgeon Howard P. Diamond in 1976. Mascolo photo.
Sunset at Sea
, this 25" x 30" oil on masonite by marine artist Frederick Judd
Waugh (1861-1940), sold for $13,530 (est. $5000/7000). Waugh, who lived and
worked in New Jersey and Provincetown, served as a marine camouflage artist
for the U.S. Navy duringWorldWar I, designing camouflage patterns for large
ships.