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IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART Wednesday, November 15, 2017 NEW YORK IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART EUROPEAN & AMERICAN ART POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTION Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 11am EXHIBITION Saturday, November 11, 10am – 5pm Sunday, November 12, Noon – 5pm Monday, November 13, 10am – 6pm LOCATION Doyle New York 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com Catalogue: $40 EUROPEAN ART INCLUDING PROPERTY CONTENTS FROM THE ESTATES OF IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART Elsie Adler European 1-58 Rhoda Blumberg American 59-87 Charles Austin Buck Helen Getler POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART Dr. Paul Hershenson Post-War 88-132 Rita Hirsch Contemporary 133-159 Mary Kettaneh The Collection of Willa Kim and William Pène du Bois Eve G. Kingsland Glossary I Ellin Jane Krinsly Trust Conditions of Sale II Eugene M. Lang Terms of Guarantee IV Dorothy Lewis 2013 Irrevocable Trust Information on Sales & Use Tax V A New York Private Estate Buying at Doyle VI Harry Oppenheimer Selling at Doyle VIII A Private New York Estate Auction Schedule IX Miriam and Howard Rand, Beverly Hills, California Company Directory X Stanley Silverstein, New York Absentee Bid Form XII The I. A. Victor III Trust The James P. and Joan M. Warburg Collection INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM Formerly in the inventory of Berry-Hill Galleries, New York A New York Collection A New York Collector The Collection of Faith Stewart-Gordon Lot 12 1 3 Jean-Joseph Benjamin Constant Sir John Lavery, R.A. French, 1845-1902 British, 1856-1941 Lady with a Jewel Box (Prima Donna Marguerite in “Jewel Song” of Gounod’s ‘Faust’ Portrait of the Artist’s Wife Signed Benj. Constant (ul) Signed J. Lavery (lr) Oil on canvas Oil on canvasboard 38 3/4 x 24 1/4 inches (98.5 x 61.5 cm) 13 7/8 x 10 inches (35.3 x 25 cm) Provenance: Provenance: Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York Ernest Brown & Phillips/The Leicester Galleries, London C Orgel & Co., $8,000-12,000 Private collection, CT, acquired from the above circa 1960, thence by descent in the family to the present owner C $8,000-12,000 2 John Brett British, 1831-1902 Some Fell on Stony Ground, 1890 4 Signed John Brett and dated 1890 (ll); inscribed by the artist on the canvas Leon-Augustin Lhermitte overlap Begun 7th day 90/ There is “a time to cast away stones”/Eccles French, 1844-1925 3/ some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth.../”no end of Chemin Face à Chartèves, 1913 Stones”; inscribed John Brett/Putney/London on the stretcher Bears signature L. Lhermitte (ll); also inscribed Chartèves, Brouillard Oil on canvas on the backing 24 x 48 inches (61 x 122 cm) Pastel on paper laid down on linen 16 x 23 inches (40.7 x 58.4 cm) Provenance: Sale: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, Oct. 30, 1990, lot 119 Provenance: Anderson Galleries, Chicago Bousson, Valadon & Cie. Sale: Christie’s East, New York, Oct. 29, 1985, lot 169 Sale, J.K. Newman, Anderson Galleries, American Art Association, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York Dec. 6, 1935, no. 7 Findlay Galleries Exhibited: London, The Royal Academy of Arts, 123rd Exhibition, 1891, no. 600, Literature: exhibited in Gallery VII Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Leon Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925), Birmingham, England, The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA), Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, Cercle d’Art, 1991, p. 265, no. 607, illus. 1891, no. 110 3 Manchester, 1892, no. 283 The Comité Leon Lhermitte has confirmed the authenticity of this work, Chicago, The World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893, The British Section, no. 98 and a letter from the Comité dated Paris October 3, 2017 will be offered with this lot. Literature: C The Academy Notes, 1901, London, May 1901, no. 647 $20,000-30,000 1 Christiana Payne and Charles Brett, John Brett: Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter, New Haven/London, 2010, no. 1344. p. 236 C $8,000-12,000 2 6 DOYLE • NOVEMBER 15, 2017 • NEW YORK 4 BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 7 6 Jules Breton French, 1827-1906 Jeune Femme Nourrissant ses Volailles, 1860, Signed Jules Breton and dated twice 1860 (lr) Oil on canvas 22 x 18 1/8 inches (55.8 x 46 cm) Provenance: M. Knoedler & Co., New York We kindly thank Annette Bourrut Lacouture for confirming the authenticity of this work, which she states is very characteristic of the artist's style in the 1860s. The painting will be included in her forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of Jules Breton. C $15,000-25,000 6 5 5 7 Jean Baptiste Camille Corot Odilon Redon French, 1796-1875 French, 1840-1916 Passeur en Barque à la Rive Boisée avec une Femme et ses Deux Enfants, circa 1860-65 A Man Standing Beside the Sea Signed COROT (ll) Signed Odilon Redon (lr) Oil on canvas Graphite pencil on paper 18 1/4 x 15 inches (46.5 x 38.1 cm) 10 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches (27.4 x 22.2 cm) Provenance: Provenance: Musard Collection, Paris, 1877 The Estate of Alexander Bing III Cottier and Co., New York C Dr. Arthur Corwin, Chicago, 1920 $8,000-12,000 Thence by descent in the Corwin Family Newhouse Galleries, New York Acquired by the family of the present owner in 1975 from the above We are grateful to Claire Lebeau for confirming the authenticity of this work, which will be included in the forthcoming Supplement to the Robaut Catalogue Raisonné. It is probably related to a Corot work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robaut 1728, entitled Passeur atterrissant avec deux paysannes dans sa barque. C $40,000-60,000 7 8 DOYLE • NOVEMBER 15, 2017 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 9 Property of a New York Collector 8 Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier French, 1815-1891 Midday Rest Monogramed EM (ul) Oil on panel 7 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches (19.7 x 13.7 cm) C $4,000-6,000 9 Luis Riccardo Falero Spanish, 1851-1896 Reclining Female Nude, 1893 Signed with conjoined first initials LFalero and dated 93 (ll) Oil on canvas 15 3/4 x 29 1/2 inches (40 x 75 cm) Provenance: Private collection, New York C $8,000-12,000 8 10 Property from the Estate of Harry Oppenheimer 10 Lovis Corinth German, 1858-1925 Portrait of a Man (possibly the artist Hermann Struck) Signed and dated Lovis Corinth/1918 (ul); also signed (lr) Oil on board 25 1/4 x 21 inches (84 x 53.3 cm) It has been suggested that the image on the reverse is of a peasant from Appenzell or the Black Forest. Hermann Struck, 1876-1942, was an artist from Berlin known primarily for his etchings and other graphic work. Among his students were Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth. C 9 $8,000-12,000 10 DOYLE • NOVEMBER 15, 2017 • NEW YORK 11 Property from the Collection of Faith Stewart-Gordon 11 12 Hermann Max Pechstein Leon Schulman Gaspard German, 1881-1955 Russian/American, 1882-1964 Fischerboote an der Kurischen Nehrung Troops in Winter, 1914 (16?) Signed with initials and dated HMP 1911 (ur) Signed Leon Gaspard and indistinctly Colored crayons on paper inscribed and dated Russie 191... (lr) 6 1/2 x 8 inches (16.5 x 20.3 cm) Oil on canvas laid down on board 7 3/4 x 19 inches (19.7 x 48.2 cm) Exhibited: Berlin, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Provenance: Der Junge Pechstein, Feb. 1-Mar. 15, 1959, no. 123 Sale: Sotheby’s, NY, Apr. 23, 1998, lot 144 Berry Hill Galleries, Inc., New York Provenance: C Private Collection, Berlin $30,000-50,000 C $8,000-12,000 13 Property from the Ellin Jane Krinsly Trust 13 Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova Russian, 1881-1962 Untitled, circa 1910-1922 Signed and dated N. Gontcharova Moscou 1910 on the reverse, center; also dated 1910 and numbered 50 at top center, all in a later hand (ul) and faintly inscribed Mme Gontcharova on the reverse; [contemporary to the painting]; also stamped Verlag der Sturm on the reverse Oil on canvas 34 1/4 x 27 3/8 inches (87 x 69.5 cm) Exhibited: Berlin, Kunstausstellung Der Sturm Provenance: Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London Waddington Galleries, London, acquired June 25, 2002 C $150,000-250,000 12 DOYLE • NOVEMBER 15, 2017 • NEW YORK 12 VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 13 14 14 Édouard Vuillard French, 1868-1940 Au Theatre Antoine, circa 1889 Stamped with initials E.V. (lr) Brush and ink on paper 16 9 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches (25 x 34 cm) Provenance: Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, Switzerland C $10,000-15,000 Property from the Estate of Eugene M. Lang 16 Jean Dufy 15 French, 1888-1964 Paul Signac Les Trois Fratellini au Cirque Medrano, 1927 French, 1863-1935 Signed Jean Dufy and dated 27 (lr); inscribed as titled on the reverse Notre Dame, Paris, 1910 Oil on canvas Signed P. Signac and dated 1910 (lr) 23 5/8 x 28 3/4 inches (60 x 73 cm) Watercolor and pencil heightened with white on paper Literature: 7 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (18.1 x 24.8 cm) Jacques Bailly, Jean Dufy: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre, 1888-1964, Paris, 2002, no. B. 497, p. 268, illus. (as Trio de Clowns Musiciens) This work was examined by Marina Ferretti and is accompanied The painting is accompanied by a photo-certificate of authenticity from by a certificate dated Paris, Madame Germaine Dufy, dated June 25, 1970.