Lark Mason Associates Online Extravaganza of Fine Art, Furniture and Decorative Arts Now Live on iGavelAuctions.com
New York: Lark Mason Associates announced that their two-part Fine Art, Furniture and Decorative Arts sale, which includes 475 lots, is now open for bidding on igavelauctions.com through November 16h. One of the important highlights is Marine, an oil painting by Henry Moret (1856-1913) with an estimate of $50,000-80,000. A member of the Pont-Aven school where Paul Gauguin played a prominent role, Moret was a French Impressionist painter best-known for his colorful landscapes of the Brittany coast.Henry Moret (1856-1913) Marine Oil on canvas (Estimate: $50,000-80,000)The painting’s impressive provenance dates to Paul Durand-Ruel–a loyal patron to Impressionists artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir–who was considered one of the most important art dealers of the 19th century. Moret’s painting came to its present owner by way of Hammer Galleries. Author Jean-Yves Rolland, an expert on the Pont-Aven school in Brittany, included Marine in his catalogue raisonné which accompanies the lot.Viennese sandalwood fan, circa 19th century, signed by Brahms and his circle of colleagues (Estimate: $3,000-5,000)Other notable paintings by American artists include Coney Island on Monday Morning, by Martha Walter (1875-1976), Oil on Panel (Estimate: $10,000-15,000); and two paintings by Guy Wiggins (1883-1962) Winter, an oil on canvas over card, dated 1931 (Estimate: $7,000-10,000) and Seascape and Harbor, an oil on board (Estimate: $3,000-5,000).Another star item is an important Viennese sandalwood fan, circa 19th century, signed by Brahms and his circle of colleagues (Estimate: $3,000-5,000). The signatures were gathered by singer Lillian Bailey Henschel, the wife of the Sir George Henschel, the German-born British baritone and conductor who noted their trip to Vienna on April 23, 1894, in his autobiography, Musings and Memories of a Musician, MacMillan and Co., St Martin’s Street, London, 1918. pp 124-126: “We left Vienna after charming, intimate days with him (Brahms) and our mutual friends — Ignaz Brull, Max
