Spectacular Three Day Fall Auction - Fine Antiques, Antiquities and Asian Treasures - Day Three Monday 05 November 2012 11:00 Thomaston Place Auction Galleries (USA) 51 Atlantic Highway Thomaston Maine 04861 Thomaston Place Auction Galleries (USA) (Spectacular Three Day Fall Auction - Fine Antiques, Antiquities and Asian Treasures - Day Three) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1300 Lot: 1306 SET (4) HANDCOLORED ENGRAVINGS - 'Four Prints of an CHARCOAL DRAWING BY HYMAN BLOOM-Hyman Bloom (. Election' by William Hogarth (British, 1697-1764), engraved by 1913- 2009), considered by Jackson Pollack to be the first Charles Grignion (1717-1810), signed in plate, including the Abstract Expressionist painter. Landscape #24, charcoal and plates: 'An Election Entertainment', 'Canvassing for Votes', 'The white chalk on paper, In a welded aluminum gallery frame, 69"x Polling' and 'Chairing the Members', Paulson #198-201; these 46" Good condition, unexamined out of frame. From the Marvin are the 1822 Heath edition on wove paper, unframed, Sadik Collection. Estimates are In US Dollars : $2000-2500 shrinkwrapped, 17 1/2" x 22" impression, 19 1/4" x 24 3/4" sheet, edge chips and bends, light handling dimples. Estimates are In US Dollars : $2400-3200 Lot: 1307 MEZZOTINT ENGRAVING AFTER GEORGE STUBBS, "LION AND STAG" Stubbs( 1724 -1806) was an English artist, best Lot: 1301 known for his paintings of horses. Mezzotint engraving, SS: 18 MONUMENTAL WOODBLOCK PRINT - Self-Portrait by 1/2" x 22" , OS: 22" x 25 1/2", Restorations and minor Leonard Baskin (MA/NY, 1922-2000), Artist's Proof, just his abrasions. From the Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates are In head rendered in green and black, captioned below in the print US Dollars : $1800-2000 'LB-AET-S-51', pencil signed and inscribed 'To Marvin with Leonard's Abiding and Constant Regards', unframed, 31 1/2" x 23 1/4" on 35" x 23 3/4" sheet of Japan paper, corner and edge Lot: 1308 bends, image is fine. From the Marvin Sadik Collection. REMARKABLE BOUND VOLUME OF FIFTY EIGHT OLD Estimates are In US Dollars : $2000-3000 MASTER DRAWINGS- with a dedication page reading: "To Sr, Jos. A Reynolds PRESIDENT of the ROYAL ACADEMY These Etchings are DEDICATED by his humble Servt. I.H. Lot: 1302 MORTIMER 1778." The subjects of the drawings, done in pen COLOR LITHO - 'le chevalier n'est pas a la croisade' (The and ink, are mythological and allegorical and appear to relate to Knight Did Not Die in the Crusade), from 'Amour' by Maurice known works by Reynolds, Guercino, Rosa, Michelangelo and Denis, (French, 1870-1943), pencil signed lr and dated '88, an other Old Masters. Mounted on sheets bound into an oversize edition of 100, in gold box frame, matted and glazed, 15 1/8" x volume 21 1/2" x 15 1/2". The works are of consistently high 10 7/8" image on 21" x 15 7/8" sheet of wove paper, OS: 25 quality throughout and may have been done by the same hand. 3/4" x 21", fine condition, not examined out of frame. Estimates Some damp staining to mount pages, the drawings in very are In US Dollars : $2000-3000 good condition overall. From the Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates are In US Dollars : $1500-2500 Lot: 1303 INK DRAWING-by Leonard Baskin (American, 1922 - 2000), Lot: 1309 'Portrait of Bernard Berenson', signed 'Baskin 1964' lower right. MONUMENTAL WOOD BLOCK PRINT, "THE HANGED MAN" Ink on laid paper, In a fine gold frame. SS: 15" 1/2" x 20", BY LEONARD BASKIN- Leonard Baskin's(1922-2000) iconic OS:21 1/2" x 25" good condition, minor spotting. From the image, woodblock print on rice paper, linen backed scroll Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates are In US Dollars : $2000- mount. circa 1955, 80" x 37" Good condition with wrinkles and 2500 delamination. From the Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates are In US Dollars : $1500-2000 Lot: 1304 RARE FOLIO ETCHINGS - Lawyer Humor! 'Jurisprudence II; A Lot: 1310 Suite of Etchings' by Charles Bragg (CA, 1931- ), number GRAPHITE DRAWING - Study of Seated Woman with Handfan 78/100 limited edition on Arches buff paper, numbered and by Jefferson David Chalfant (DE, 1856-1931), signed upper signed by the artist in pencil, containing eight original etchings, right, in gilt molded frame, matted and glazed, SS: 19" x 14", the first being untitled, the others titled 'Objection Overruled'; OS: 28 1/2" x 22 1/2", toned, some soiling, horizontal bend at 'Divorce Lawyer'; Objection Sustained'; 'Recess'; 'Out of Court bottom, bend on left edge, repaired tear to top edge. From the Settlement' & 'Nolo Contendre', 5" x 5" to 8 3/4" x 11 3/4" Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates are In US Dollars : $1250- impressions on 11 1/2" x 14 1/2" sheets, in the original titled 1500 liner set into the burlap covered folio with applied leather label having gilt title, 12 1/2" x 15 1/2", near fine condition, prints are fine, small chafed spots and finger smudges to liner. Estimates Lot: 1311 are In US Dollars : $2000-3000 PENCIL STUDIES by Thomas Hovenden (American (born Ireland), Dunmanway 1840-1895 Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania) -Hovendon, best known for his genre paintings Lot: 1305 especially relating to the last days of John Brown, succeeded PAIR OF WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY LEONARD BASKIN- Two Thomas Eakins as instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of wood engravings: "Tobias and the Angel" 17" x 17 1/2" and the Fine Arts. Rag matted in a fine burl frame, Provenance: "Death Among the Thistles". Image size 6" x 8", OS: 17" x 17". Kennedy Galleries, New York. SS 10 1/2" x 6 3/4". OS: 20 1/2" Signed and inscribed by the artist. Good condition. From the x 15 3/4". Good condition, unexamined out of frame. From the Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates are In US Dollars : $2000- Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates are In US Dollars : $1000- 2500 1500 1 of 43 Thomaston Place Auction Galleries (USA) (Spectacular Three Day Fall Auction - Fine Antiques, Antiquities and Asian Treasures - Day Three) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1312 Lot: 1319 LEONARD BASKIN ( 1922 - 2000) - Untitled ink drawing on CARICATURE DRAWING BY GUSTAVE DORE'- Paul paper. Showing a man resembling the artist holding a Gustave Doré ( 1832- 1883) This drawing relates to a book of Renaissance style portrait medallion depicting Marvin Sadik. illustrations by Dore entitled "200 Sketches: Humorous and Signed and dated 1965, inscribed "Marvin with Medallic Fervor Grotesque― The collection displays Dore's genius for capturing from Leonard". In a fine French mat and gilt frame. SS: 7 1/2" x the personalities of diverse types of people from all social 6", OS: 19" x 15". Good condition, unexamined out of frame. classes with just a few lines. In red crayon on paper. From the Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates are In US Dollars : Provenance: Gallery Houtthaker, Amsterdam. 14" x 10" Good $1000-1500 condition. From the Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates are In US Dollars : $900-1200 Lot: 1313 SAMUEL F.B. MORSE ( ATTRIB.) 1791-1872- INK PORTRAIT Lot: 1320 SKETCH OF EDGAR ALLEN POE AND SEVEN OTHERS.-pen ETCHING-PORTRAIT OF THOMAS EAKINS by Leonard and brown ink and wash. According to a label on the verso, Baskin ( 1922-2000) American sculptor, book-illustrator, wood- said to be by the same hand as a similar drawing by Morse in engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher. the Frick Collection. Rag matted, SS: H, 6 1/4" x W. 9 3/4" OS: Inscribed by eminent gallerist Herman Shickman, Baskin's H 14" x W. 17". From the Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates dealer and publisher. Shickman considered this to be among are In US Dollars : $1500-2000 the best of Baskin's prints. Plate size 18" x 13 3/8", OS: 28 1/2" x 21". From the Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates are In US Dollars : $900-1200 Lot: 1314 "WATERCOLOR- 'Emblem"" by Charles Wells (b. New York, New York, 1935) Sepia ink and watercolor on paper-signed in Lot: 1321 pencil lower center. Wells was apprenticed to Leonard Baskin, SIGMUND ABELES ORIGINAL ZINC ETCHING PLATE for his and won the Prix de Rome in l964. Elegantly framed in a gold print " The Black Slip". SS: 11" x 17", Framed OS: 17" x 23" APF frame with a natural silk mat. SS. 13"" x 9"", OS: 19"" x Good condition. From the Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates 16"". Good condition. From the Marvin Sadik Collection." are In US Dollars : $900-1000 Estimates are In US Dollars : $1000-1200 Lot: 1322 Lot: 1315 MEZZOTINT PORTRAIT OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON- from a OOC-SELF PORTRAIT BY THOMAS CORNELL- Oil on linen, painting by Opie, engraved by C. Townley, 1792. Rag matted in H. 20" x W.10". From the Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates a black frame. SS: 15" x 11", OS: 21 1/2" x 17 1/2". Good are In US Dollars : $1000-1500 condition, unexamined out of frame. From the Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates are In US Dollars : $800-1000 Lot: 1316 WOOD ENGRAVING, "THE DEATH OF THE LAUREATE", BY Lot: 1323 LEONARD BASKIN (Am. 1922-2000) wood engraving on RARE PRINT FOLIO - Eichenberg, Fritz; Erasmus, Desiderus; paper, 1959, signed and inscribed, artist's proof, Framed, SS: 'In Praise of Folly (Ecomium Moriae)', a limited edition of 150, Diameter 13", OS: 20 1/2" x 20" Good condition, unexamined this is copy 50, published with ten original pencil signed out of frame. From the Marvin Sadik Collection. Estimates are woodcut prints by the artist on handmade mulberry paper by In US Dollars : $1000-1500 Aquarius Press, New York and Baltimore, 1972; in red cloth clamshell folio, the prints tissue guarded, loose, with opposing pages of original text in Latin translated to English by the artist, Lot: 1317 21" x 15", rippling to the colophon page, text and prints are fine, MONUMENTAL WOODBLOCK PRINT - 'Angel of Death case is clean, front is a bit sun-faded, has a single long scratch.