To print, your print settings should be ‘fit to page size’ or ‘fit to printable area’ or similar. Problems? See our guide: https://atg.news/2zaGmwp 7 1 -2 0 2 1 9 1 ISSUE 2497 | antiquestradegazette.com | 19 June 2021 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 S E E R 50years D V A I R N T antiques trade G T H E KOOPMAN (see Client Templates for issue versions) THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY [email protected] +44 (0)20 7242 7624 www.koopman.art London charity is beneficiary of restituted art A sight loss charity in London has benefited from a surprise windfall after pictures restituted to the estate of a benefactor were sold at auction in Vienna. Four decades ago, the Vision Foundation (then named the Greater London Fund for the Blind) received a bequest of the estate of Irma Löwenstein Austin (c.1892-1976) when she died without an heir. More recently, the charity discovered that pictures she and her husband had sold under duress in Vienna in 1938 were in museums in Munich, Dortmund and Berlin. Small in size but certainly packing a punch, a three-lot sale of collectables The restitution process that began in 2018 raised almost $28m ($32.1m including premium) at Sotheby’s New York. was concluded last year. On June 7, The Compassionate Child (The Top left: the 1933 Double Eagle 20-dollar coin surpassed a $10m-15m Beggar) by Austrian artist Ferdinand Georg estimate and sold at $16.75m (£11.88m), an auction record for any coin. Waldmüller (1793-1865) was offered at Below left: the British Guiana One-Cent Magenta stamp was already the Dorotheum with an estimate of €150,000- world’s most expensive before this sale and here sold at $7m (£4.97m). 200,000. It was hammered down at Above: the 24-Cent ‘Inverted Jenny’ plate block made $4m (£2.84m). €240,000 (£207,000) (plus 28/25/22/18% buyer’s premium). Two other pictures by Buy a share in the world’s Continued on page 7 most expensive stamp Tennis museum nets Perry medal Stanley Gibbons, the buyer of British Guiana One-Cent Magenta collector Weitzman had bid for it at the world’s most expensive was offered at an auction branded Sotheby’s in 2014. This time round, A gold medal won at Wimbledon in 1936 by stamp at Sotheby’s New York Three Treasures – Collected by the price including premium was British tennis great Fred Perry has been last week, said it plans to Stuart Weitzman on June 8. $8.3m. purchased by the Lawn Tennis Museum at “democratise” its ownership by Estimated at $10m-15m, it was Stanley Gibbons, the world’s the All England Lawn Tennis Club. It was inviting the public to buy shares knocked down at $7m (£4.97m), a oldest stamp dealership, said it offered at auction by sport specialist in it. sum shy of the estimate and also the Graham Budd on June 7-9 and sold for a The sole-surviving example of the record $7.9m that shoe designer and Continued on page 6 hammer price of £20,000. Full story on page 8 Antiques&CollectorsFair...is BACK! TUES 22 & WEDS 23 JUNE TUES & WEDS SOUTH OF ENGLAND SHOWGROUND WEST SUSSEX RH17 6TL Tuesday 9am - 5pm £20 (Tues ticket allows entry on Weds) Wednesday 8am - 4pm £5 PAY BY CARD OR CASH AT THE GATE OR ONLINE IN LINE WITH COVID GUIDELINES 01636 702326 l www.iacf.co.uk [email protected] PAGE 001,006,007 2497.indd 1 11/06/2021 16:47:28 Longfield, Midhurst Road, Fernhurst, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 3HA Tel. 01428 653727 FINE PAINTINGS AUCTION To include Oils, Watercolours, Prints and Engravings and Russian Paintings. WEDNESDAY 23rd JUNE - 11.00AM David Cox Sr (1783-1859) British, ‘The Vale of Clwyd’, George Adolphus Storey Herbert James Draper John Linnell (1792-1882) British, Henry Dawson (1811-1878) British, wayfarers gathering supplies with a harvesting scene beyond, (1834-1919) British, oil on canvas, (1864-1920) British, a portrait of a gentleman a view of Chepstow Castle from the River Wye, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘1854’, signed and indistinctly dated, oil on canvas, signed possibly Samuel Warren, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘1866’, 36in x 60in. 36in x 28in, in a fine quality with remnants of label oil on canvas, signed and 20in x 30in. 1 1 £6,000-£8,000 (+BP*) Barbizon-style frame. verso, 53 /2in x 27in. dated ‘1837’, 18 /2in x 15in. £3,000-£5,000 (+BP*) £1,200-£1,800 (+BP*) £6,000-£8,000 (+BP*) £3,000-£5,000 (+BP*) James and John Cleveley, circa 1789. 20th century Scandinavian School, M. Scurr mid-19th century British School, P.C. Dommersen (1834-1908) Dutch, 1 ‘Mort du Capitaine Cook’. Hand-coloured aquatint, oil on canvas, indistinctly signed, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘1841’, 21 /4in x 36in. A similar oil on oak panel, signed with initials, inscribed to the lower right, 17in x 23in. 38in x 54in. work is in the collection of the Scarborough Art Gallery. and bearing artist’s wax seal verso, 6in x 8in. £1,500-£2,500 (+BP*) £1,500-£2,500 (+BP*) £1,500-£2,500 (+BP*) £600-£800 (+BP*) John Charles Moody (1884-1962) Attributed to Arthur Meadows (1843-1907) British, Stanley Barkeley (1855-1909) Henry John Yeend King (1855-1924) British, 19th century Continental British, oil on canvas, ‘Mackerel boats Nearing the Port Of Calais’, oil on canvas, British, oil on canvas, a framed triptych, oil on panel, signed, school, oil on mahogany 1 1 signed, 44in x 44in. signed and with remanence of label verso, 12in x 24in. signed, 21in x 17in. central panel 8in x 27 /2in, adjacent panels each 8in x 8in. panel, 16in x 12 /4in. £1,200-£1,800 (+BP*) £1,000-£1,500 (+BP*) £800-£1,200 (+BP*) £800-£1,200 (+BP*) £1,000-£2,000 (+BP*) Linda Mary Weir (b.1951) British, Walter Stuart Lloyd (fl. 1875-1929) British, Phyllis Bray (1911-1991) British, Konstantin Razumov (b.1974) Konstantin Razumov (b. 1974) a view of boats in the harbour at St. Ives, ‘Appledore, North Devon’, boats in a harbour, a recumbent female nude in antheral forest glade, Russian, ‘Box Seat’, Russian, oil on canvas, signed, oil on canvas, signed, with buildings beyond, watercolour, signed, oil on canvas, signed with initials, oil on canvas, signed, signed and inscribed verso, 1 1 16in x 20in, (unframed). 20in x 36in. 24in x 36in. 16 /8in x 13in. 55 x 45 cm, 21 /2in x 18in. £700-£1,000 (+BP*) £500-£800 (+BP*) £400-£600 (+BP*) £1,000-£1,500 (+BP*) £1,500-£2,500 (+BP*) Pre-sale viewing times: Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th June 10.00am-2.00pm, Monday 21st June 9.00am-5.00pm, Tuesday 22nd June 9.00am-5.00pm, Wednesday 23rd June, morning of the sale, from 9.00am We are open for viewing, observing all COVID-19 safety precautions. Masks MUST be worn on site unless exempt and social distancing must be adhered to. There will be a limited number of spaces available in the room on the day of the auction, so please phone ahead to book a space. Collection within 7 days. We also accept Online Bidding commission and is available through: telephone bids BP* - Buyer’s Premium 25% of the hammer price + VAT on the premium Please contact Philip Maggs for further information on 01428 653727 or 07970 440959, email [email protected], or visit the website www.johnnicholsons.com Contact us by email for condition reports. 2 |11_06_2021_ATG_PAINT_PRINT 19 June 2021 216W X 308H_V04.indd 1 antiquestradegazette.com11/06/2021 10:44 PAGE 002 2497.indd 2 11/06/2021 11:36:53 Longfield, Midhurst Road, Fernhurst, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 3HA Tel. 01428 653727 SELHAM HOUSE AUCTION Auction of the contents of Selham House, near Petworth, GU28 0PS FRIDAY 25th JUNE Antiques from 10.30AM, Paintings from 2.00PM Viewings at Selham House An Antwerp Tapestry (circa 1720) by Jacob Van Der Goten, 8ft 2in x 13ft 8in. Provenance: Powderham Castle, Devon. Auction at John Nicholson’s Salerooms £6,000-£8,000 (+BP*) A good pair of Victorian A Persian floral carpet, Howard leather armchairs. 11ft x 8ft 6in. £800-£1,200 (+BP*) £800-£1,500 (+BP*) A George III mahogany desk, William Powell Frith (1819-1909) British, ‘An Incident in the Life of Lady Mary A Louis XV commode. £5,000-£8,000 (+BP*) A good Victorian figured 4ft 6in x 2ft 8in. Wortley Montague’, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1872, 44in x 56in (112cm x 156cm). Aubusson tapestry, 7ft 2in x 8ft 4in. £2,500-£5,000 (+BP*) walnut credenza 5ft 5in long. £1,000-£2,000 (+BP*) £15,000-£20,000 (+BP*) Sèvres, Oriental porcelain & clocks. Various estimates (+BP*) £1,000-£1,500 (+BP*) Charles Napier Hemy (1841-1917) British, James Clark Hook (1819-1907) British, Chinese School, Circa 1850, Henry Redmore (1820-1887) British, ‘A Slight Catch’, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘Milk for the Schooner’, oil on canvas, signed with ‘The Hongs of Canton’, oil on canvas, A pair of oil on canvas marine scenes, 1890, 36in x 48in (91cm x 122cm). monogram and dated 1864, 28in x 42in (71cm x 107cm) 12in x 18in (30cm x 46cm) signed and dated 1857, 8in x 11in (20cm x 28cm), (2). £10,000-£15,000 (+BP*) £7,000-£10,000 (+BP*) £4,000-£6,000 (+BP*) £3,000-£5,000 (+BP*) Arthur Joseph Meadows (1843-1907) British, Korean School, 19th Century, Chinese School, Circa 1876, A pair of oil paintings, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898) ‘Breezy Day’, oil on canvas, signed, triptych, ink and watercolour on silk, ‘A French Clipper off Hong Kong’ and ‘The Danish Clipper J.