Fine estates comprise sale at Fairfield Auction, March 18

18.05.12

A large an impressive coastal scene by Aaron Draper Shattuck leads a strong selection of American works. Works by Walter Oddie, Clinton Loveridge, William Trost Richards, Frederick Schaffer, William Saterlee and C.P. Ream will also be sold. Other American paintings include works by Robert Atkinson Fox, Berney Lettick, Johanne Berthelsen, Robert Hogg Nisbet and a pair of pencil signed lithographs by Grant Wood.

Western art includes Native American portraits by Harley Brown and E.A. Burbank, a cowboy etching by Edward Borein and an estate found portfolio of 10 original signed Edward Curtis photographs.

European art includes a river landscape with young lovers in a boat by Hippolyte Camile Delpy as well as works by Meyer Deithelm, Andre Jeovov, Carl Moser, Karl Stuhlmuller, Carl Hand Wright, Louis Devedeaux, Gertrude Staats, Reinhold Nagele, Augustus Schenk and Lucien Moretti.

Of particular note is a large gouache of two nudes in Barbados by Evgeniy Agafonoff (Russian/American, 1879-1956). The artist traveled to Barbados in the 1930s perhaps mimicking Gauguin's trip to Tahiti and certainly depicting the natives similarly. He lived the later part of his life in Connecticut.

Source: Auction Central News