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Impressionist & Modern IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART Tuesday, May 14, 2019 NEW YORK IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART AUCTION Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 11am POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTION Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 2pm EXHIBITION Saturday, May 11, 10am – 5pm Sunday, May 12, Noon – 5pm Monday, May 13, 10am – 6pm LOCATION Doyle 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART INCLUDING PROPERTY CONTENTS FROM THE ESTATES OF IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART 1001-1072 John Bocchieri, New York Frances "Peggy" Brooks POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART 2001-2079 Claire Chasanoff Post-War 2001-2042 David Follett Contemporary Art 2043-2079 A Gentleman, Park Avenue and Southampton, New York Robin Gottlieb Peter Mayer Glossary I A Palm Beach Heiress Conditions of Sale II Joan Harmon Van Metre, The Plains, VA Terms of Guarantee III Elisabeth B. Vondracek Information on Sales & Use Tax IV Buying at Doyle V Selling at Doyle VII Auction Schedule VIII Company Directory IX INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM Absentee Bid Form XI Formerly in the inventory of Berry-Hill Galleries, New York A Connecticut Private Collection The Gertrude D. Davis Trust A Private New Jersey Collection A New York Collector Two New York Gentlemen A North Carolina Collector The Collection of Faith Stewart-Gordon Lot 1009 1001 1001 1002 David James Attributed to Arthur J. Elsley British, 1853-1904 Playing with Fire, circa 1897 A Northeaster, The Coast of Devon, 1889 Remnants of a signature and date A.J. ELSLEY 18...7 (ll) Signed and dated D. James 89 (lr); Oil on canvas inscribed as titled on the reverse 19 3/4 x 26 inches (50.1 x 66 cm) Oil on canvas C 25 x 50 1/8 inches (63.5 x 127.3 cm) $10,000-20,000 C $10,000-15,000 1003 Johann Jan Zoetelief Tromp Dutch, 1872-1947 With Grandfather Signed J. ZOETELIEF TROMP (lr) Oil on canvas 25 3/4 x 40 inches (65.4 x 101.6 cm) Provenance: Julius Oehme, New York [Sale] American Art Galleries, New York, Valuable Modern Paintings Belonging to Mr. Julius Oehme, Jan. 27, 1911, lot 35 Henry Reinhardt Galleries, Milwaukee, WI C $40,000-60,000 1002 6 MAY 14, 2019 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 7 Property from the Estate of David Follett 1004 1005 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Eugène Louis Boudin French, 1796-1875 French, 1824-1898 Le Soir dans La Campagne au Bord de l’Eau, circa 1872 Les Bords de la Touques à Trouville Pendant Signed COROT (lr) les Grandes Marées, 1889 Oil on cradled panel Signed E. Boudin and dated 89 (lr); identified on 10 3/8 x 14 1/2 inches (26.4 x 36.8 cm) a label affixed to the stretcher Oil on canvas Provenance: 19 3/4 x 29 inches (50.2 x 74 cm), in a period frame Durand-Ruel, Paris M. Knoedler & Co., New York Provenance: Newhouse Galleries, New York J. Eastman Chase (1840-1923), art dealer, Boston Private Collection William Whitman, Boston, thence by descent within the family to the current owner Literature: Alfred Robaut, L’Oeuvre de Corot - Catalogue Raisonné Literature: et Illustré, Paris, vol. III, 1965, p. 352, no. 2290, illus. Robert Schmit and Manuel Scmit, Eugène Boudin 1824-1898, Deuxième Supplément, v. 2 (Paris: Editions Claire Lebeau states in a letter dated 8 February 2019, Galerie Schmit, 1993), cat. no. 4000, p. 61 illus. that this is an authentic work by J.B.C. Corot. C C $40,000-60,000 $60,000-80,000 8 MAY 14, 2019 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 9 1007 Marie Félix Hippolyte-Lucas French, 1854-1925 Salomé Signed F. Hippolyte-Lucas (lr) Oil on canvas 76 3/4 x 38 1/8 inches (195 x 96.8 cm) Unframed Provenance: Stuart Pivar, New York C $15,000-20,000 1006 Emilio Sanchez-Perrier Spanish, 1855-1907 Tranquil River, Alcala, 1886 Signed, inscribed and dated E. Sanchez Perrier/Alcala/86 (lr) Oil on panel 21 5/8 x 30 7/8 inches (55 x 78.5 cm) C $20,000-30,000 10 MAY 14, 2019 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 11 Property of the Gertrude D. Davis Trust Property from the Estate of Claire Chasanoff 1008 1009 Henry Moret Henry Moret French, 1856-1913 French, 1865-1913 Rochers de Penharn Baie de Douarnenez, 1911 Les Deux Bretonnes, Falaises à Moëlan, Finistère Signed Henry Moret and dated 1911 (ll); Signed Henry Moret (ll); inscribed Falaises a Moëlan, inscribed as titled on the stretcher Finistère on the stretcher Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 36 1/2 x 28 3/4 inches (92.7 x 73 cm) 21 1/8 x 25 5/8 inches (53.6 x 65 cm) Provenance: In a photo-certificate dated April 11, 2019, Jean-Yves Rolland Galerie Le Paul, Pont-Aven, France confirms the authenticity of this work and states that it will be included and illlustrated in his forthcoming Catalogue In a photo-certificate dated April 11, 2019, Jean-Yves Rolland Raisonné of the paintings of Henry Moret. confirms the authencitiy of this work and states that it will be C included and illustrated in his forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné $75,000-125,000 of the paintings by Henry Moret. C $75,000-125,000 12 MAY 14, 2019 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 13 1010 Francis Coates Jones American, 1857-1932 An Afternoon Reading Signed Francis Coates Jones (lr) Oil on canvas 26 x 19 1/4 inches (66 x 50.1 cm) Private Collection, Palm Beach, FL 1012 C $10,000-15,000 1010 Property from the Estate of 1011 Joan Harmon Van Metre, The Plains, VA Walter Gay American, 1856-1937 1012 1013 Le Boudoir Le Bréau Theodore Earl Butler Harriet Whitney Frishmuth Signed Walter Gay (lr) American, 1861-1936 American, 1880-1980 Oil on board The Wind in the Willows, Giverny, 1891 Crest of the Wave, 1925 21 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches (60.3 x 46.4 cm) Signed Theo Earl Butler and dated 91 (lr); Signed Harriet W Frishmuth, dated 1925, Provenance: inscribed This picture is by Theodore Butler and / and stamped Gorham Co. Founders QFHL Collection of Stuart Symington, Jr., is not part of the Guy Rose work Ethel Rose at the base St. Louis, MO on the stretcher, further inscribed “The Wind Bronze with a brown patina in the Willows” / by Theodore Earl Butler / Height 20 1/4 inches (51.4 cm) C $10,000-15,000 Claude Monet’s son in law / Painted in Giverny, France on a label affixed to the stretcher Literature: Oil on canvas Charles N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, 18 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches (46.3 x 61.6 cm) New York, 1973, pp. 158-162, illustration of another example Provenance: Janis Conner, Frank Hohmann, Goldfield Galleries, Los Angeles Leah Rosenblatt Lehmbeck, Thayer Tolles [Sale] Sotheby’s New York, et al, Captured Motion: The Sculpture of Dec. 3, 1987 lot 198 Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, A Catalogue of Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York Works, New York, 2006, no. 1925:5, pp. 27, C 48, 79-80, 85-6, 90-1, 97, 102-03, 178-79, $10,000-15,000 250, 277, another example illustrated C $8,000-12,000 1011 1013 14 MAY 14, 2019 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 15 1015 Frederick Carl Frieseke American, 1874-1939 The Dancer Signed Frieseke (lr) Oil on panel 13 7/8 x 10 1/2 inches (35.2 x 26.7 cm) Provenance: Maxwell Galleries, Ltd., San Francisco Private Collection, CA C $18,000-25,000 1015 1016 Thomas Wilmer Dewing American, 1851-1938 Female Nude Signed T. W. Dewing (ll) Graphite and pastel on dark brown paper mounted to board 10 1/2 x 7 inches (26.7 x 17.8 cm) Provenance: Davis and Long Company, New York • $8,000-12,000 1014 Frederick Carl Frieseke American, 1874-1939 Portrait of a Girl, 1932 Signed F C Frieseke and dated 32 (lr) and (cr) Oil on canvas 31 7/8 x 25 5/8 inches (81 x 65.1 cm) Provenance: Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., New York Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York Exhibited: Pittsburgh, PA, The Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition, 1933 C $40,000-60,000 1016 16 MAY 14, 2019 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 17 1017 1019 Maxime Maufra Julian Alden Weir French, 1861-1918 American, 1852-1919 Marée Basse à Kershostin, Lady with Mandolin presqu’ile de Quiberon Oil on canvas Signed Maufra (ll); titled and inscribed 40 x 30 3/8 inches (101.6 x 77.2 cm) indistinctly on the stretcher Provenance: Oil on canvas Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 18 1/4 x 21 5/8 inches (46.4 x 55 cm) The Edward Goldfield Collection Provenance: Goldfield Gallery, Los Angeles Acquired directly from the artist by [Sale] Christie’s, Los Angeles, Durand-Ruel, Paris on January 29, 1909 April 28, 2004, lot 37 Sold by Durand-Ruel to a private Exhibited: collector April 26, 1954 San Jose, CA, San Jose Museum of Art, Collection of Paul Myer Mazur, New York The United States and the Impressionist Era, By descent to Peter Mazur, Nov. 17, 1979 - Jan. 9, 1980 Oak Ridge, TN, 1979; to the current owner, C circa 2015 $15,000-25,000 Madame Caroline Durannd-Ruel Godfroy will include this work in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique of the works of Maufra.
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