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101
Louis Icart
(1888-1950) French, Anonymous
& Madeline Scellier (b. 1928)
French (three)
Louis Icart
PINK LADY (H.430), 1933, color etching, signed in pencil lower right, artists
blind stamp lower left and copyrighted upper left, image 8 ½ x 11, full
margins, frame 16 Ύ x 13 Ό with glass; Anonymous ELEGANT WOMAN WITH FAN,
watercolor on paper, sheet 13 ½ x 9 Ό, frame 20 x 16 with glass; Madeline
Scellier WOMAN WITH HAT, watercolor on paper, signed lower center right,
sight 10 ½ x 8, frame 16 Ό x 13 Ύ, with glass. (3)
Icart
with toning in margins at mat; The second with old mounting glue residue on
verso and masking tape on perimeter verso; Scellier with mild toning
mainly at perimeter; otherwise in apparently good condition.
Auction Estimate $200/400
Starting Bid $100
102
Eli Jacobi
(1898-1984) American
CARD PLAYERS, linocut, initial stamp in margin lower right, image 8 x 10, full
margins, frame 16 ½ x 18 ½ with glass.
Foxing speckles in margins, otherwise in apparently good condition.
Auction Estimate $300/600
Starting Bid $150
103
Antal Jancsek
(1907-1985) Hungarian
PARIS, oil painting on canvas, signed and inscribed Paris P 57 lower right, 24 x
30, frame 32 Ό x 38 ½.
Surface soiling, canvas slack at corners, otherwise in good aged condition.
Auction Estimate $200/400
Starting Bid $100
104
Japanese Artist Unidentified
(20th/ 21st Century) (two)
UNTITLED, ten color screenprints, each signed in pencil from the numbered
editions of 1000, and four color prints, all in two frames (seven in each),
sights 3 ½ x 5 ½, with edition numbered certificates in Japanese on frame
verso, each frame 36 x 11 with glass. (2)
Both in apparently good condition.
Auction Estimate $100/200
Starting Bid $50
105
Japanese Export Porcelain Cider Mugs
(18th/ 19th Century) (three)
A Japanese painted porcelain mug with gilding and handle, with scene of daily
life on molded flora motif, 4
tall, 3
diameter;
A painted porcelain mug with single handle, with floral and courtship motif, 5
tall, 4 Ό diameter, A Japanese Imari-style painted porcelain mug with single
handle, with floral motif, 5 Ύ tall, 4 ½ diameter.
(3)
The first and second mug with a hairline crack; The Imari style mug with
repaired handle; All with
some wear, glazing and firing flaws;
Otherwise all in good aged
condition.
Auction Estimate $100/200
Starting Bid $50
106
Japanese Imari-Style Porcelain Jars
(18th/ 19th Century) (two)
Two painted porcelain baluster shaped lidded jars with fluted bodies and bird
and floral motifs, both with character marks underneath, each 9 Ό
tall. (2)
Some wear, glazing and firing flaws, otherwise in good aged condition.
Auction Estimate $200/400
Starting Bid $100
107
Japanese Artist Unidentified
(20th Century)
UNTITLED, 1966, oil painting on canvas, signed and dated on verso, 18 x 21,
discardable frame 25 x 28 ½.
Some ingrained surface soiling, small chip lower left corner, a couple of
miniscule chips, otherwise in apparently good studio condition.
Auction Estimate $200/400
Starting Bid $100
108
Japanese Cloisonne Hexagonal Vases
(19th / 20th Century) (two)
Two cloisonne enameled tapered vases with butterflies and floral motifs, each 8
Ύ tall, 3 ½ diameter. (2)
Some tarnishing, some wear, natural pitting, otherwise in good aged condition.
Auction Estimate $100/200
Starting Bid $50
109
Japanese Cloisonne Wine Pot
(19th / 20th Century) (two)
Two cloisonne enamel wine pots, each with two handles, each 4 Ό tall, 3 Ύ
diameter. (2)
Both with some tarnishing, some wear and natural pitting; One with some minor
corrosion at the small handle base and with inappropriate sized handles
preventing easy removal of inner canister; Otherwise both in good aged
condition.
Auction Estimate $200/400
Starting Bid $100
110
Japanese Cloisonne Brush Pot
(19th / 20th Century)
A cloisonne enameled polygonal brush pot with floral motif, 8 tall, 5 Ό
diameter.
Some tarnishing, some wear, natural pitting, otherwise in good aged condition.
Auction Estimate $200/400
Starting Bid $100
111
Japanese Lacquerware Chest and bowl
(two)
Red and gold lacquerware chest with traditional motif and with narrative pattern
on lid interior, with metal latch and handles, 9 Ό x 17 x 10 ½; A round
rosewood finished lidded serving rice bowl, 6 tall 9 ½ diameter. (2)
Chest with scuffs, scratches, wear and overall small losses; Bowl with 4 crack
with associated chips inside, lid with 2 crack, scuffs, scrapes and wear to
lacquer; Otherwise both in good aged condition.
Auction Estimate $200/300
Starting Bid $100
112
Japanese Sumida Gawa Earthenware
(two)
MUG; PITCHER, a pair of painted and partially glazed ceramics with handles, Mug
5 Ό x 4 Ό x 6, Pitcher 7 ½ x 4 x 6; Both with character stamps. (2)
Both with some wear and soiling; otherwise both in apparently good aged
condition.
Auction Estimate $100/200
Starting Bid $50
113
Sue Jester
(20/21st Century) New Mexico; Leslie Snipes (b. 1974) South
Carolina (two)
Sue Jester
WAITING, circa 2001, color etching, signed and titled in pencil, plate 23 ½ x 17
Ύ, full margins, frame 40 x 34 with glass; Leslie Snipes BEFORE WE GO
INTO THE PAST, 1997, drypoint etching and collagraph, signed in pencil lower
right, image 17 ½ x 13 Ύ, sheet 19 Ύ x 15 Ύ, frame 28 Ύ x 24 ½ lacking glass.
(2)
Jester in apparently good condition; Snipes with four strips of framers
tape on recto at sheet edges and two removed from lower sheet edge with
associated skinning, otherwise in good condition.
Auction Estimate $100/200
Starting Bid $50
114
Luigi Kasimir
(1881-1962) Austrian &
Tanna Kasimir-Hoernes
(1887-1972) Austrian (two)
Luigi Kasimir
CITY SQUARE, etching on chine colle over wove paper, signed in pencil lower
center, image 22 Ύ x 17 Ύ, frame 35 x 29 ½ with glass;
Tanna Kasimir Hoernes
PARIS, color etching, signed and numbered 31/300 in pencil, image 17 x 11 ½,
full margins, frame 25 Ύ x 19 Ύ with glass.
(2)
Kasimir
with some chine colle lifting mainly in lower left corner, otherwise in
apparently good condition; Kasimir
Hoernes some crinkling or cockling
around center (possible blistering from being unevenly laid down?), otherwise in
apparently good condition.
Auction Estimate $200/400
Starting Bid $100
115
A. Katan
(20th Century)
UNTITLED, oil painting on canvas, signed lower left, 12 x 9, frame 15 x 12.
Edge wear under frame, particularly upper right corner, otherwise in good studio
condition.
Auction Estimate $100/200
Starting Bid $50
116
Eleanor M. Keller
(20th Century) American (two)
MALE FIGURE STUDIES, circa 1935, two charcoal drawings on paper, each framed
with glass 28 ½ x 22 ½. (2)
Both with some speckles and stains and some blistering (possibly mounted to
board), otherwise in apparently good aged condition.
Auction Estimate $100/200
Starting Bid $50
117
Sister Corita Kent
(1918-1986) California
WET & WILD, color screenprint, signed in pen lower right, small margins on three
sides, sheet 17 Ό x 23, in wood display frame 20 x 26 with thin plastic
(scratched).
Some discoloration mainly in the blue, four small adhesive remnants from
previous hinges in the corners on verso, otherwise in good condition.
Auction Estimate $500/1000
Starting Bid $250
118
Sister Corita Kent
(1918-1986) California
AIR CONDITIONER, color screenprint, signed in pen lower right, sheet 17 x 23,
in wood display frame 20 x 26 with thin plastic.
Soft handling creases, small gouge at center with associated surface loss, some
minor toning, skinning on perimeter verso, otherwise in good condition.
Auction Estimate $500/1000
Starting Bid $250
119
Sister Corita Kent
(1918-1986) California
THE GROUNDWORK DOESNT SHOW UNTIL ONE DAY, color screenprint, signed in pen
lower right, sheet 23 x 23.
A small loss upper sheet edge, mild toning and discoloration, mild cockling,
soft handling creases, otherwise in good condition.
Auction Estimate $200/400
Starting Bid $100
120
Lenard Kester
(1917-1997) California New York
PICNICKERS, LOS ANGELES, gouache on paper or board, signed lower left, signed
and titled on frame verso, sight 17 ½ x 23 Ύ, frame 25 x 31 with glass.
Two small chips on tree behind woman, otherwise in apparently good aged
condition.
Auction Estimate $200/400
Starting Bid $100
121
Alonzo Myron Kimball
(1874-1923) Wisconsin Paris New York
ILLUSTRATION FOR COLLIERS DECEMBER 6th, 1913, oil painting on canvas,
signed lower center and dated upside down upper right corner, 40 x 26, with
Colliers copyright stamp on verso.
2 tear upper right sky, surface soiling, scratches and scrapes, stretcher bar
impressions, some hairline cracks otherwise in aged condition.
Auction Estimate $300/600
Starting Bid $150
122
Koichi Kawana
(20th Century) Japanese
WATER BLOSSOMS, watercolor and collage on crinkled paper mounted to board,
signed and stamped upper left, 15 x 20,
frame 21 x 26.
Some professional restoration, otherwise in good condition.
Auction Estimate $100/200
Starting Bid $50
123
William S. Lacy
(1798-1855) British
BRITISH LANDSCAPE, circa, 1830, oil painting on canvas mounted to wood panel, 13
½ x 18, frame 17 Ύ x 22 x 2 Ό.
Some blistering and bubbles (should be remounted to board), otherwise in good
aged condition
Auction Estimate $200/400
Starting Bid $100
124
Alphonse Legros
(1837-1911) French
& others (three)
Alphonse Legros
MAN IN FORREST, etching, signed in ink lower right margin and initialed in plate
lower left, plate 10 Ό x 14 Ό,
full margins, frame 18 Ύ x 22 Ό
with glass; Artist Unidentified SHEPHERD NEAR WINDMILL, color etching,
signed and numbered 32/50 in pencil, image 14 Ύ x 9 Ύ,
full margins, frame 26 Ό x 20 Ό
with glass; Artist Unidentified COUNTRY STREAM, color etching, signed in
pencil lower right, image 5 ½ x 7 ½, sheet 7 ½ x 9 Ύ,
frame 11 Ό x 13. (3)
Legros
with some pale toning in margins at mat; The second in apparently good
condition; The third with toning and discoloration in the margins, some small
masking tape stains at the four corners verso; Otherwise all in apparently good
condition.
Auction Estimate $200/400
Starting Bid $100
125
Richard Lehman
(20th Century) American
VIEW OF LOS ANGELES FROM THE GRIFFITH PARK OBSERVATORY, watercolor on paper or
board, signed on verso, sight 10 ½ x 14, frame 24 x 30 with glass.
In apparently good condition.
Auction Estimate $100/200
Starting Bid $50
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