Fine Art & Antiques Auction Ending 10/25

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Four Keane framed prints, titles incl "At The Fair", "Rejected', "Best Friend", and "Watching", all signed lower left "Keane", sizes range from 13" x 7" to 24.5" x 10.5", two having plaques and one matted. Bio from AskArt: Walter Keane (1915-2000) born in Lincoln, Nebraska, became a highly-popular artist post World War II who was credited as a figure painter of wide-eyed "lost" children, waif-like and sympathy provoking. These images were reproduced throughout the world with originals in many collections including the United Nations, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid, Spain, and the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, Japan. From 1946 to 1947, he went to Berlin where he began his signature theme of "Lost Children." These paintings were inspired by his shock at seeing the thousands of war-orphaned, poverty-stricken children. He married his wife, Margaret, also an artist, and they lived in Oakland, and became public personalities because his work was collected by so many movie stars. By 1956, he and Margaret opened a gallery at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu, and again his work got much attention. Shortly after, the couple returned to San Francisco where they had a gallery at for two years and then opened a gallery in New York City. Again he had many collectors but also received criticism for being repetitious with every canvas having a "lost" child. Margaret Keane (born 1927) is an American artist. She is an illustrator and painter, and mainly draws women and children in oil or mixed media. Her works are instantly recognizable from the doe-eyed children that are depicted in the drawings. In the 1960s, Margaret Keane's artwork was sold under the name of her husband, Walter Keane. He locked her in a room and forced her to paint, while taking credit for her work. Conflict over that issue was cited as one of the reasons they divorced. Neither wanting to relinquish rights to the artwork, Walter and Margaret's divorce proceedings went all the way to federal court. At the hearing, Margaret created a painting in front of the judge to prove that she was the artist. Walter declined to paint before the court, citing a sore shoulder. In 1986, the courts sided with her, enabling her to paint under her own name. In 2014, their story became a movie titled "Big Eyes" directed by Tim Burton.

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Alberto Giacometti bronze statue of tall and skinny person on marble stand, marked on side "Giacometti", 5" x 4.5" x 17.75"T. Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901-January 11, 1966) a Swiss-born Paris-based artist most famous for his sculptures. He devised innovative sculptural forms as a surrealist in the 1930's.

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18th C two part step back hutch with wood pulls, carved molding, and carved scroll decoration, approx. 55.5" x 23.5" x 74"T. Pickup only.

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Barbara Strawser framed acrylic on board under glass of black rooster signed lower right "Barbara Strawser 2000", 30.75" x 35.75". Bio from AskArt: Barbara Strawser is a third generation Pennsylvania German folk artist. A self-taught painter, she depicts animals, gardens, farms and everyday living. Barbara has been painting since childhood and her paintings can be found in collections and galleries around the world.

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Salvador Dali bronze owl statue on marble stand with backing, marked on side of base "Salvador Dali", 4.25" x 6.75" x 13"T. Salvador Dali (May 11, 1904- January 23, 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist best known for his striking and bizarre images.

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J.D. Young & Sons three drawer desk having leather top, metal pulls and dovetail construction, 60" x 32" x 32"T. Pickup only.

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Robert Scott framed and matted oil on canvas of cityscape scene signed lower right "Robert Scott", 18" x 21.75".

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Salvador Dali bronze statue of seated woman with plant on marble base, marked on side "Dali", 5.25" x 5.25" x 9.5"T. Salvador Dali (May 11, 1904- January 23, 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist best known for his striking and bizarre images.

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19th C. pair of sevres figurines both signed on back "Gilles 1777" having hallmark, largest being approx. 7.25".

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Basilius Besler framed and matted print under glass of "Cnicus Sativus Chamemelum Romanum flore multiplici Chamemelum Romanum flore simplici", marked on bottom "Besler 1613", 32.5" x 28.5". Bio from AskArt: Basilius Besler (1561-1629) was a respected Nuremberg apothecary and botanist, best known for his monumental Hortus Eystettensis. He was curator of the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, Prince Bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria. The gardens surrounded the bishop's palace, Willibaldsburg, which was built on a hill overlooking the town. These gardens had been started in 1596 and designed by Besler's colleague, Joachim Camerarius the Younger (1534-1598), a physician and botanist. Upon Camerarius' death in 1598, Besler had the remainder of Camerarius' plants moved to Eichstätt and carried on the work of planting and supervision. The bishop commissioned Besler to compile a codex of the plants growing in his garden, a task which Besler took sixteen years to complete, the bishop dying shortly before the work was published. The work was named Hortus Eystettensis (Garden of Eichstätt). The plates were of garden flowers, herbs and vegetables, exotic plants. These were depicted near life-size, producing rich detail. The work generally reflected the four seasons, showing first the flowering and then the fruiting stages. "Winter" was sparsely represented with a mere 7 plates. "Spring" was a season of abundance with 134 plates illustrating 454 plants and "Summer" in full swing showed 505 plants on 184 plates. "Autumn" closed off the work with 42 plates and 98 species. Descriptions of the plants were in Latin and showed remarkable anticipation of the binomial system, in that the captions often consisted of the first two or three words of the description. The work was published twice more in Nuremberg, in 1640 and 1713, using the same plates, plates which were destroyed by the Royal Mint of Munich in 1817. The gardens were sacked by invading Swedish troops under Herzog Bernhard von Weimar in 1633-4; following Hortus Eystettensis they have been reconstructed and opened to the public in 1998.

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Juliet Erte cold painted bronze statue of woman in dress on marble base, signed in front "Juliet Erte", 5.5" x 5.5" x 18.5"T.

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Framed and matted oil on canvas replica of Pablo Picasso's "The Ironer la Repasseuse" from his blue period, originally displayed in Guggenheim Museum, 22" x 30".

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Basilius Besler framed and matted print under glass of 'Iafminum Indicum, feu flosmi, rabilis peruanus" marked on bottom "Besler 1613", 32.5" x 28.5". Bio from AskArt: Basilius Besler (1561-1629) was a respected Nuremberg apothecary and botanist, best known for his monumental Hortus Eystettensis. He was curator of the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, Prince Bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria. The gardens surrounded the bishop's palace, Willibaldsburg, which was built on a hill overlooking the town. These gardens had been started in 1596 and designed by Besler's colleague, Joachim Camerarius the Younger (1534-1598), a physician and botanist. Upon Camerarius' death in 1598, Besler had the remainder of Camerarius' plants moved to Eichstätt and carried on the work of planting and supervision. The bishop commissioned Besler to compile a codex of the plants growing in his garden, a task which Besler took sixteen years to complete, the bishop dying shortly before the work was published. The work was named Hortus Eystettensis (Garden of Eichstätt). The plates were of garden flowers, herbs and vegetables, exotic plants. These were depicted near life-size, producing rich detail. The work generally reflected the four seasons, showing first the flowering and then the fruiting stages. "Winter" was sparsely represented with a mere 7 plates. "Spring" was a season of abundance with 134 plates illustrating 454 plants and "Summer" in full swing showed 505 plants on 184 plates. "Autumn" closed off the work with 42 plates and 98 species. Descriptions of the plants were in Latin and showed remarkable anticipation of the binomial system, in that the captions often consisted of the first two or three words of the description. The work was published twice more in Nuremberg, in 1640 and 1713, using the same plates, plates which were destroyed by the Royal Mint of Munich in 1817. The gardens were sacked by invading Swedish troops under Herzog Bernhard von Weimar in 1633-4; following Hortus Eystettensis they have been reconstructed and opened to the public in 1998.

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Franz Bergman erotic Vienna cold painted bronze figurine of woman on rug having maker's mark on bottom, 7" x 5.5" x 1.5"T.

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Judith Paridoc framed oil on canvas landscape scene titled "Snows of Kilimanjaro", signed lower left "Judith Paridoc", 33.5" x 25.25".

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Karl Schrag framed numbered print titled "Of Island Nights - Sicklemoon and Birches", marked lower right "1/50 Karl Schrag. 1989.", 32.5" x 24.75". Bio from AskArt: Karl Schrag (1912-1995) is known for modernist-leaning landscape-figure-genre, engraver. In a career that spanned more than 60 years, Karl came to specialize in a painting style characterized by loose, energetic brushwork and resonant colors that restated the concerns of Van Gogh, Matisse and Kirchner in contemporary terms. Although he made many self-portraits, his stronger works were paintings and prints of gently pastoral landscapes inspired by his many summers in Maine. Karl had his first retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum in 1960, and at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine in 1992. He is represented in museums incl the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the British Museum in London and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

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Franz Bergman erotic Vienna cold painted bronze figurine of woman in dress with her foot on a stool on a rug, having maker's mark on bottom, 4" x 2.75" x 5"T.

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Framed oil on paper under glass of fisherman with family, 13" x 16".

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Larry Horowitz framed oil on canvas landscape scene signed lower left "Horowitz", 10.5" x 10.5". Bio from AskArt: Larry Horowitz (1956) is an American landscape painter, focused especially on vanishing landscapes, graduated from SUNY( State University of New York) Purchase, and then served as apprentice to Wolf Kahn. Horowitz has been selected to participate in the Arts-In-Embassies program in the United States Embassies in Finland and Russia. Horowitz strives to captures the beauty of the American landscape with an expert use of texture and color that invites imagination and discovery. Museum collections incl Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Provincetown, MA Marvin Smalley Sculpture Garden and Center for Judaic Studies in Los Angeles, CA, The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX and Yorktown Museum in Yorktown, NY.

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Vienna cold painted bronze statue of two men on a rug with hookah on marble base having rectangular opening, 7.75" x 7.5" x 3".