IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART Wednesday, November 6, 2019 NEW YORK IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART INCLUDING PROPERTY AUCTION FROM THE ESTATES OF Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Elizabeth H. Fuller Session I: Impressionist & Modern Art at 11 am A Gentleman, Park Avenue and Session II: Post-War & Contemporary Art at 2 pm Southampton, New York The Marian Sulzberger Heiskell and EXHIBITION Andrew Heiskell Collection Saturday, November 2, 10am – 5pm A New York Estate Sunday, November 3, Noon – 5pm A Private New York Estate Monday, November 4, 10am – 6pm A Palm Beach Heiress Tuesday, November 5, 10am – 2pm A Park Avenue Lady Carol Schein Leonard and Elaine Silverstein, Bethesda, MD LOCATION Frederieke Sanders Taylor Doyle Joan Harmon Van Metre, The Plains, VA 175 East 87th Street A Vero Beach Lady New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM The Gertrude D. Davis Trust CONTENTS A Family Collection IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART 1001-1072 A Florida Collector The Metropolitan Museum of Art POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART A Prominent Philadelphia Collector Post-War 2001-2042 A Society Hill Collection Contemporary 2043-2062 Glossary I Conditions of Sale II Terms of Guarantee IV Information on Sales & Use Tax V Buying at Doyle VI Selling at Doyle VIII Auction Schedule IX Company Directory X Absentee Bid Form XII Catalogue: $40 The Marian Sulzberger Heiskell & Andrew Heiskell Collection Doyle is honored to present The Marian Sulzberger Heiskell and Andrew Heiskell Collection as a highlight of the Fall auction season. Marian Effie Sulzberger was born in 1918 in Manhattan, the daughter of Arthur Hays Sulzberger and the former Iphigene Ochs, whose father, Adolph S. Ochs, purchased The New York Times in 1896. For 34 years, Marian worked as a Director of The Times, where her grandfather, father, husband, brother, nephew and grand-nephew served as successive publishers. Her work at the newspaper focused on educational projects. A civic leader and philanthropist, Marian championed outdoor community spaces across the city. In 1970, Marian joined forces with New York City Mayor, John Lindsay, to establish the Council on the Environment, which created community-run parks, playgrounds and gardens, organized farmers markets, introduced environmental education in schools and pioneered wastepaper recycling programs. She was instrumental in the 1972 campaign to create the Gateway National Recreation Area, a 26,000-acre park The New York Times The New York with scattered beaches and wildlife refuges around the entrance to the New York-New Jersey harbor. As chair of the nonprofit organization New 42nd Street, Inc., she launched the 1990 revitalization of the New Amsterdam, the Victory and other landmark theaters. Bill Cunningham for In 1965, Marian married Andrew Heiskell, the chairman of Time, Inc. Like his wife, Andrew was a passionate philanthropist. Among his civic projects were the successful campaign to ART Born in 1915 in Naples to American expatriate parents, rescue the New York Public Library and transform IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN Andrew had a peripatetic childhood, traveling between Bryant Park. He also helped to secure funding for low-cost luxurious hotels throughout Europe with his mother and housing in the South Bronx and the Brownsville section sister. He attended school in Lausanne and Paris, and in of Brooklyn. 1935 came to the United States. Following a year at the Harvard Graduate School of Business, he entered publishing. Highlights from the couple’s remarkable art collection At 22, he was hired by Life magazine, initially editing articles include works by Helen Frankenthaler, Carl Frederick in science and medicine, then focusing on business, Frieseke, Pierre Eugène Montézin, Arnaldo Pomodoro, and at 30, he was named the magazine’s publisher. In 1960, Auguste Rodin and Georges Braque comprising lots 1008, he became chairman of Time, Inc., remaining so until his 1015, 1016, 1030, 2020-2022, 2037 & 2038 in the retirement in 1980. During his tenure, he presided over the November 6 auction. conglomerate’s growth in publishing, introducing such magazines as Money and People, and oversaw its Additional property from The Marian Sulzberger Heiskell expansion into wood pulp and paper production, film, and Andrew Heiskell Collection will be offered in the sales cable television and data marketing. of Books, Autographs & Maps (Nov 12), Doyle at Home (Nov 26) and Photographs (Dec 11). Lot 1015 1001 Louis Paul Dessar American, 1867-1952 The Departure of the Fishermen, 1891 Signed L. P. Dessar and dated Paris 1891 (lr) Oil on canvas 63 1/2 x 80 1/2 inches (161.3 x 204.5 cm) Provenance: [Sale] Phillips de Pury and Co., Dec. 3, 2002, lot 54 C $12,000-18,000 1001 1002 Property from a Family Collection Johann Jan Zoetelief Tromp Dutch, 1872-1947 With Grandfather 1003 Signed J. ZOETELIEF Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée TROMP (lr) Dutch, 1837-1904 Oil on canvas The Fisherman’s Goodbye 25 3/4 x 40 inches Signed Ph. Sadée (ll) (65.4 x 101.6 cm) Oil on canvas 22 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches (56.5 x 70.5 cm) Provenance: Julius Oehme, New York Provenance: [Sale] American Art Galleries, [Sale] Christie’s, New York, March 1, 1990, lot 219 New York, Valuable Modern C Paintings Belonging to $20,000-30,000 Mr. Julius Oehme, Jan. 27, 1911, lot 35 Henry Reinhardt Galleries, Milwaukee, WI C $25,000-35,000 1002 6 DOYLE • NOVEMBER 6, 2019 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 7 1004 Property of a New York Estate Eugène Boudin French, 1824-1898 Le Vieux Port de Touques, 1890 1005 Signed and dated E. boudin 90. and inscribed Touques. octobre (ll); Eugène Boudin inscribed on a piece of the original stretcher which has been affixed to French, 1824-1898 the new stretchers E. Boudin...Trouv... de Touques (Calvados) Dordrecht, Moulin sur Les Bords de La Meuse, 1875 Oil on canvas Signed E. Boudin and dated 75 (lr) 18 x 25 5/8 inches (45.7 x 65 cm) Oil on canvas 19 7/8 x 24 inches (50.5 x 61 cm) Provenance: Arthur Bourges, Bordeaux Provenance: Private collection The artist Paris, Hôtel Drouot, June 19, 1959, no. 50, illus. [Sale] Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Apr. 19, 1888, lot 19 David Findlay Galleries, New York [Sale] Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Dec. 8, 1953, lot 1 M. Knoedler & Company, New York Exhibited: R. Thomas McDermott, Houston, TX Paris, Salon, 1891 [Sale] Christie’s, New York, May 6, 1998, lot 151 Private collection, New York Literature: Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin 1824-1898, vol. III, Paris, 1973, no. 2702, Literature: p. 55, illus. Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, Paris, 1973, vol. I, p. 382, no. 1098, illus. C C $70,000-100,000 $60,000-90,000 8 DOYLE • NOVEMBER 6, 2019 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 9 1006 Jean Béraud Exhibited: French, 1834-1935 New Orleans, The New Orleans Museum of Art, Carrefour Drouot (Drouot Crossroads), circa 1887 2016-2019 Signed Jean Béraud (ll) Oil on canvas Literature: 15 3/8 x 22 1/4 inches (39 x 56.5 cm) Patrick Offenstadt, Jean Béraud Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 1999, pp. 106-07, no. 41, illus. Provenance: C Knoedler & Co., New York, 1887 $400,000-600,000 Mr. Stern, Dec., 1891 Knoedler & Co., New York, 1903 Eugene Fischhoff, Paris The Fischhoff Sale, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, Feb. 23-24, 1906, no. 58 Charles Kranich Edna and Alfred Hermann, New York Dr. Richard Fenichel, Wyncote, PA [Sale] Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Oct. 30, 1980, no. 59, illus. Private collection 10 DOYLE • NOVEMBER 6, 2019 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 11 1009 Property from the Estate of After Paul Gauguin Joan Harmon Van Metre, The Plains, VA Idole a la Perle Stamped with the foundry mark Valsuani Cire Perdu and numbered 1010 4/6 at bottom Alfred Maurer Bronze with brown and gold patina American, 1868-1932 Height 9 1/4 inches (23.5 cm) Paris Café, circa 1904 Signed Maurer (lr) Provenance: Oil on canvas Mrs. and Mrs. Irving Moskovitz, 18 1/8 x 21 7/8 inches (46 x 55.5 cm) New York Provenance: Literature: Zabriskie Gallery, New York Arsene Alexandre, Paul Gauguin: Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., Sa vie et le sens de son oeuvre, Paris, New York 1930, illus. of the wood version, p. 270 Collection of Leslie Katz Christopher Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, Exhibited: 1963, no. 94, illus. of the wood New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Inc., version pp. 97 & 217-18 Bohemian Night life: 1910-1935, Apr. 22-Jun. 1, 1989 Carved in tamanu wood circa 1890; C it was cast by the Valsuani foundry in $20,000-30,000 1959 in an edition of 6 authorized by Mme. Agnès Huc de Montfreid, the representative of the Gauguin Estate at that time. This seated figure also appears in the woodcut Te Atua. C $15,000-25,000 1007 1009 1007 Property from The Marian Sulzberger Jean-Louis Forain Heiskell and Andrew Heiskell Collection French, 1852-1931 Exhibited: L’Effet de Brume en Gare, circa 1884 Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Forain, Inscribed Forain on the revrese 1913, no. 54 (belonging to M. Pellet) 1008 Oil on panel New York, Hirschl & Adler, Forain, 1967, Auguste Rodin 17 5/8 x 21 3/4 inches (44.7 x 55.3 cm) no. 12, illus. French, 1840-1917 New York, Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Main Droite Féminine, doigts semi repliés, Provenance: Museum of Art, Poets and Painters, annulaire levé Gustave Pellet, Paris Jun. 7-Sep. 7, 1997 Conceived circa 1890-1900; cast circa 1930-1940 Docteur Maurice Robin, Paris Signed A Rodin on the right side of the wrist Mr.