NEW YORK, NY.- The 19th & 20th Century Art auction at Swann will take place on Thursday, March 6. An eclectic and engaging dialogue between several European, American, and Latin American artistic traditions and movements, the sale will include original artwork, prints, and sculpture.
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Latin American art leads the auction with José Clemente Orozco’s Man in Chains (Prometheus), circa 1930. A powerful, anguished image and the same subject of Orozco’s important 1930 Prometheus mural at Pomona College. The work is expected to bring $200,000 to $300,000. Other highlights in this section include original works by Wifredo Lam and Pablo Esteban O’Higgins.
An early American highlight is a New England Tonalist landscape by George Inness, Thunderstorm, Medfield, Massachusetts, circa 1877. In this painting, men load a hay wagon in preparation for a storm about to roll in. Estimated at $12,000 to $18,000. In contrast to Thunderstorm’s brooding tumult, we will offer a tranquil painting with crisp details portraying Dollar Island, Lake George, 1873 by David Johnson. A Luminist artist, part of the movement which is characterized by the absence of visible brushstrokes and the interplay between light and reflection in natural landscapes. This work is expected to bring $15,000 to $20,000.
More early highlights include a beautiful 1863 watercolor by Rosa Bonheur of a cow and her calf, at $7,000 to $10,000. Another expressive animal artwork is a small bronze by Renée Sintenis, Springendes Pferd (Augsteigendes Fohlen), 1915, a German sculptor who not only specialized in these small-scale animal sculptures, but also in sculpting nudes and athletes, at $7,000 to $10,000.
Among Modern highlights is a lovely ceramic by Pablo Picasso, Bright Dove, 1953, estimated at $15,000 to $20,000; and Lyonel Feininger’s watercolor Locomotive, 1942, a highly sought-after subject for the artist, at $25,000 to $35,000. We are also privileged to offer an intriguing selection of artworks formerly in the collection of the important artist, teacher, and art historian Gerald Ferguson, who lived and worked in Halifax, Nova Scotia, edited the book Marsden Hartley and Nova Scotia (1987), and passionately collected works by Hartley and Rockwell Kent, who explored this region. We look forward to offering original works on paper from Hartley’s time in Europe, as well.
Exhibition hours are 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 1, and Monday, March 3, through Wednesday, March 5. Bidding is available through online platforms, absentee, the phone, and live in-person. Live online bidding platforms will be the Swann Galleries App, Invaluable, and Live Auctioneers.
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