AUCTION AUGUST 26, 2012
PAINTINGS & FRAMES: Very fine 18th c portrait of a lady Mrs. John Stump of Stafford, Maryland perhaps in the manner of Charles Wilson Peal (PA 1741-1827) or Gilbert Stuart and a 18th c portrait of Admiral Byng (English 1704-1757).
Walfred Thulin Arts & Crafts frame. John J. Enneking (Am 1841-1916) Portrait of a Man with a Gun, Enneking pastel landscape ("Neponset river").17th 17th C oil, Rug merchant with young Knight attributed to Barent Fabritius (Flemish 1624-1673)
L. Picard (Paris) "The Traveling Doctor". Russian oil of old man sitting in a chair, clay pipe with fishing net. European oil withcountry house. Signed Chung Suk, Kia (Chu San) Korean landscape. Irene Pages oil Sun bathers on crowded beach (French B. 1934). Charles Peter Demetropoulos (1912-1976) watercolor "Muddy River" 1950.
Mary Rosamond Coolidge (MA 1884-1978) portrait "The Brunette". Watercolor (window) Michael Sorrentino (Scituate MA, b. 1931).Identified portraits Aristus & Betsy Brown 1850 Calvin Balis (Am. 1817-1963).
Signed oil still life (William Potter) and contemporary signed watercolors by Walter L. Chalone (1852-1922), etc.
BRONZES: After Charles C. Rumsey (1879-1922)--original for Mary Harriman Rumsey "Dog Lying Down", Valsuani Founduer. and "Whisper", study for Smithtown, NY life size bull (Roman Bronze Works) after Charles Cary Rumsey.
Brancusi "Sleeping Muse" posthumous recast from a mold taken from the original owned by the Rumsey family. Charles & Mary Rumsey bought the original from Brancusi and it was found in storage after their deaths. Prior to the sale of the original, a mold was made by the family and approximately 8 pieces were created and given to close friends. Believe this is the first time one of these pieces has come up for auction.
Madrid 1986 bronze woman with bird, Xavier Medina-Campeny.