Bonhams & Butterfields’ November Sale of Modern, Contemporary and Latin American Art
Auction: Sunday November 5 at 11am, San Francisco and Los Angeles
Previews:
San Francisco
October 21-23, 10am to 5pm
Los Angeles
November 2-4, 10am to 5pm
November 5, 10am to 12pm
Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to announce the November 5 sale of Modern, Contemporary and Latin American Art. Simulcast between the San Francisco and Los Angeles salesrooms, the sale contains works by renowned 20th century masters and icons of the present day. Featured artists include: Karl Appel, Willem de Kooning, Claire Falkenstein, Alexander Calder, James Casebere, John Baldessari, David Hammons, Nathan Olivera, Paul Wonner, German abstract expressionist artist Emil Nolde, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Takanori Oguiss, Tsuguharu Foujita, Rufino Tamayo, Chris Ofili, and instillation artist Arnaldo Pomodoro, best known for his monumental public works.
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The above drawing by Willem de Kooning is one of the sale highlights, with an estimate of $100,000 to 150,000. From the late 1930s through the 1950s Willem de Kooning’s biomorphic abstractions (which allude to figures and landscapes) and his series of women placed de Kooning in the center of the Abstract Expressionist art movement. The gestural style of painting and the visual vocabulary of forms that he developed at this time continued to inform his later work. This pencil on paper drawing, Untitled, c.1944 , signed ‘de Kooning’ in the lower right, 11x14inch, comes from his first series of women, begun in circa 1940.
Other Modern highlights from the sale include Emil Nolde’s watercolour Red and Gold Sunflowers (estimate $70,000/90,000), Arnaldo Pomodoro’s sculpture Primo Sezionale, 1966 (estimate $100,000/150,000), Jean Dufy’s oil on canvas, Chambre des Deputes, c. 1935 (estimate $100,000/130,000), a 1976 oil on canvas by Karel Appel (estimate $100,000/150,000) an ink on paper drawing from Itallian Gino Severini c. 1913, Danzatrice, (estimate $25,000/35,000) an oil on canvas from Austrian Carl Moll, Heiligenstaedter Kirche in Wien, c. 1905 (estimate $25,000/30,000), a watercolor from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Hortensientopf, (estimate $20,000/30,000), a selection of works from German artist Max Pfeiffer Watenphul, Garden with Classical Ruins, oil on burlap, (estimate $12,000/16,000) , a watercolor by Lyonel Feininger, The Landing Place, 1940, (estimate $15,20,000), a 1935 watercolor by George Grosz, No 1 Winter, (estimate $35,000/45/000) and two oil on canvas works by Chilean Roberto Matta from 1976 Saison Mon enfer and Coeur Vole, (each estimated at $30,000/60,000)
California artists are well represented with works by Nathan Oliveira, oil on paper, Untitled (Front View), 1988, (estimate ($15,000/20,000), a gouache on paper by Paul Wonner, Figures in Sunlight, c. 1960, (estimate $15,000/20,000), a Wayne Thiebaud pencil drawing, Portrait of a Woman, 1955 (estimate $5000/7000), a Never Ending Screen from Claire Falkenstein, (estimate $10,000/15,000), multiple works by sculptor Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano, including the work in marble, Horse, (estimate $30,000,40,000), several small Richard Pettibone works including Thomas Eakins, The Thinker, 1973 (estimate $12,000/16,000), a casein on canvas from Ynez Johnston, Sahara, 1961, (estimate $6000/8000), a work on canvas from Helen Lundeberg, Shadow on the Road to the Sea, 1960, (estimate $4000/6000) and many more.
A Rufino Tamayo charcoal on canvas, Portrait of Eloise La Boyteaux, 1954 (estimate $40,000/60,000) highlights our Latin American selection with other offerings, which include artists Diego Rivera, Francisco Zuniga, Fernando Botero.
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holly.sherratt@bonhams.com
Los Angeles
Cecilia Dan
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cecilia.dan@bonhams.com
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