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American Art New York | November 19, 2019 AMERICAN ART | 39 2 | BONHAMS AMERICAN ART | 3 American Art at Bonhams New York Jennifer Jacobsen Director Aaron Anderson Los Angeles Scot Levitt Vice President Kathy Wong Specialist San Francisco Aaron Bastian Director American Art New York | Tuesday November 19, 2019 at 4pm BONHAMS BIDS INQUIRIES ILLUSTRATIONS 580 Madison Avenue +1 (212) 644 9001 Jennifer Jacobsen Front Cover: Lot 15 New York, New York 10022 +1 (212) 644 9009 fax Director Inside Front Cover: Lots 47 and 48 bonhams.com [email protected] +1 (917) 206 1699 Inside Back Cover: Lot 91 [email protected] Back Cover: Lot 14 PREVIEW To bid via the internet please visit Friday, November 15, 10am - 5pm www.bonhams.com/25246 Aaron Anderson Saturday, November 16, 10am - 5pm +1 (917) 206 1616 Sunday, November 17, 12pm - 5pm Please note that bids should be [email protected] Monday, November 18, 10am - 5pm summited no later than 24hrs prior to the sale. New Bidders must REGISTRATION also provide proof of identity when IMPORTANT NOTICE SALE NUMBER: 25246 submitting bids. Failure to do this Please note that all customers, Lots 1 - 101 may result in your bid not being irrespective of any previous processed. activity with Bonhams, are CATALOG: $35 required to complete the Bidder LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS Registration Form in advance of AUCTIONEER AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE the sale. The form can be found Rupert Banner - 1325532-DCA Please email bids.us@bonhams. at the back of every catalogue com with “Live bidding” in the and on our website at www. Bonhams & Butterfields subject line 48hrs before the bonhams.com and should be Auctioneers Corp. auction to register for this service. returned by email or post to the 2077070-DCA specialist department or to the Bidding by telephone will only be bids department at accepted on a lot with a lower [email protected] estimate in excess of $1000 To bid live online and / or leave Please see pages 110-114 for internet bids please go to bidder information including www.bonhams.com/ Conditions of Sale, after-sale auctions/25246 and click on the collection and shipment. All Register to bid link at the top left items listed on page 114 will be of the page transferred to offsite storage along with all other items purchased,if not removed by 5pm on November 26. Bonhams © 2019, Bonhams & Butterfields American Art Lots 1 - 101 Lot 9, detail 1 CHARLES GREEN SHAW (1892-1974) Untitled (Gray Abstract) signed and dated ‘Charles G. Shaw / 1939’ (on the reverse) oil on paperboard 11 x 8 1/2in (27.9 x 21.6cm) Painted in 1939. $7,000 - 10,000 Provenance The artist. Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., bequest from the above, 1974. Gift to the present owner from the above. AMERICAN ART | 7 2 SALLY MICHEL AVERY (1902-2003) Bathers and Seated Nude: A Double-Sided Work Bathers signed ‘Sally Michel’ (lower right) watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper 14 7/8 x 21 1/2in (37.8 x 54.6cm) $2,000 - 3,000 (verso) 8 | BONHAMS PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK CORPORATE COLLECTION 3 SALLY MICHEL AVERY (1902-2003) Feline Family inscribed with title and signed ‘Sally Michel’ (on the reverse) oil on canvas 52 x 40in (132.1 x 101.6cm) Painted in 1980. $10,000 - 15,000 Provenance The artist. Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 1980-85. AMERICAN ART | 9 PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITION FUND OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO 4 JOHN LANGLEY HOWARD (1902-1999) Provenance Flight of the Dandelion The artist. signed and dated ‘John Langley Howard 1978’ (lower right) Gift to the present owner from the above, 1991. oil on masonite 18 3/4 x 19 1/4in (47.6 x 48.9cm) Exhibited Painted in 1978. San Francisco, California, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, John Langley Howard: A Life in Art, February 22-May 19, 1991. $2,000 - 3,000 10 | BONHAMS PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK CORPORATE COLLECTION 5 SALLY MICHEL AVERY (1902-2003) Rosy Amaryllis signed and dated ‘Sally Michel / 1980’ (lower right) and signed and dated again and inscribed with title (on the reverse) oil on canvas 48 1/8 x 29 3/4in (122.2 x 75.6cm) Painted in 1980. $8,000 - 12,000 Provenance The artist. Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 1980-85. AMERICAN ART | 11 6 ¤ STEPHEN GREENE (1917-1999) The present lot is closely related to Stephen Greene’s painting The Untitled Mourners, painted in 1946, and is possibly a study for this work. signed ‘Greene’ (lower left) Many of the elements included in each work appear almost identical, oil on canvas especially that of the angel soaring overhead. He made a significant 29 x 11 1/4in (73.7 x 28.6cm) change in The Mourners, however, by not including the weeping Painted circa 1946. Magdalen figure and by depicting his figures in more contemporary dress. The striped shirts of the figures in The Mourners is reminiscent $7,000 - 10,000 of the uniforms worn by those imprisoned in Nazi extermination camps. One of Greene’s chief concerns at this stage in his career was how to Provenance address the tragedy of the Holocaust through his work. Stylistically, the The artist. painting reflects his love of Piero della Francesca, an artist he learned The Estate of Hollis MacLure Baker. to admire through the teachings of his mentor, Philip Guston, at the City Antiques, Grand Rapids, Michigan, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. (probably) acquired from the above. Acquired by the present owner from the above. 12 | BONHAMS PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITION FUND OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO 7 W HENRY VARNUM POOR (1888-1970) Provenance The Orchardist and his Family (Summer Afternoon) [With]Helgesen Galleries, San Francisco, California, by 1915. signed ‘H.V. Poor’ (lower right) oil on canvas Exhibited 54 1/4 x 77 3/4in (137.8 x 197.5cm) San Francisco, California, The Palace of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific Painted in 1914. International Exhibition, 1915, p. 63, no. 3145. $15,000 - 25,000 AMERICAN ART | 13 8 JOHN ATHERTON (1900-1952) Untitled (Entrance 242) signed ‘Atherton’ (lower left) tempera on renaissance panel 17 1/8 x 21in (43.5 x 53.3cm) $5,000 - 7,000 14 | BONHAMS PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MARIE K. LOWENSTEIN 9 CHARLES GREEN SHAW (1892-1974) Provenance Fifth Avenue Acquired by the late owner by 1987. signed ‘Shaw’ (lower right) and signed again and dated ‘1948’ (on the reverse) The present work by Charles Green Shaw depicts landmarks along oil on masonite Fifth Avenue in New York City, including St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the 48 x 32in (121.9 x 81.3cm) Empire State Building, and Karl Bitter’s (1867-1915) Pamona, which Painted in 1948. is installed in a fountain near The Plaza Hotel. $20,000 - 30,000 AMERICAN ART | 15 Property from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund Lots 10 - 18 Lot 15, detail PROPERTY FROM THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND 10 MORRIS KANTOR (1896-1974) Exhibited South Truro Church San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, The Face signed and dated ‘M. Kantor / 1934’ (lower right) of America, September 15-October 4, 1942, no. 5658.42. oil on canvas New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Romantic Painting in America, 24 1/8 x 27in (61.3 x 68.6cm) November 17, 1943-February 6, 1944, p. 137, no. 120. Painted in 1934. Venice, Italy, XXIV. Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, 1948, no. 508. $5,000 - 7,000 New York, The Museum of Modern Art, American Paintings from the Museum Collection, December 23, 1948-March 13, 1949, p. 3, Provenance no. 367. The artist. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York. Paintings from the Museum Collection, October 19, 1954-February 6, Acquired by the present owner from the above by exchange, 1936. 1955, p. 10. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, America Seen: Between the Wars, April 25-August 7, 1961, p. 3. Literature ARTnews Annual, 1938, p. 110. The New International Illustrated Encyclopedia of Art, vol. 12, New York, 1969, p. 2462. R.A. Kuchta, D.G. Seckler, Provincetown Painters, 1890s-1970s, Syracuse, New York, 1977, p. 57. 18 | BONHAMS PROPERTY FROM THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND 11 PATSY (PASQUALE) SANTO (1893-1975) Spring signed and dated ‘Patsy Santo 5-‘40’ (lower right) oil on canvas 24 1/8 x 18 1/8in (61.3 x 46cm) Painted in 1940. $3,000 - 5,000 Provenance The artist. Southern Vermont Artists, Inc., Manchester, Vermont. Acquired by the present owner from the above, September 30, 1940. Exhibited New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Modern Primitives: Artists of the People, October 21, 1941-April 30, 1944, p. 2. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Americans 1943: Realists Photograph from The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, and Magic-Realists, February 10-March 21, 1943, pp. 51, 66, Americans 1943: Realists and Magic-Realists, featuring an no. 212, illustrated. installation of Patsy Santo’s work, including Spring. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY. AMERICAN ART | 19 PROPERTY FROM THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND 12 GASTON LACHAISE (1882-1935) We are grateful to Virginia Budny, author of the forthcoming catalogue Head of a Woman [LF 320] raisonné sponsored by the Lachaise Foundation, for her assistance in signed ‘G.