Everard’s Oct. 18-20 Fall Southern Estates auction series highlighted by renowned John and Virginia Duncan collection of antiques and Lowcountry treasures
Amassed over 75 years, Duncan collection encompasses fine, folk & ethnographic art; antiques, furniture, rare maps and broad range of material culture of Southeastern United StatesSAVANNAH, Ga. – Everard Auctions takes great pleasure in announcing highlights of its Oct. 18 Fall Southern Estates auction to be followed on October 19-20 by a very special sale of the John and Virginia Duncan collection of fine, folk and ethnographic art and antiques. Bidding options include absentee and live online, with gallery previewing available at specified times. Leonora Quarterman (Savannah, 1911-1979), ‘Savannah City Market,’ watercolor, 1948. Size: 18½in x 22in. From the John and Virginia Duncan collection, Savannah, Ga. Estimate $2,000-$3,000Fall Southern Estates Auction – Oct. 18, 2022The October 18 fine art selection includes two works by famous female artists from the Estate of Betty Melaver, Savannah, Georgia. The first is a colorful untitled Texas landscape by Georgia O’Keeffe (New Mexico/New York, 1887-1986). The 1917 watercolor measures 8¾ inches by 12 inches and is listed as Item 196 in the artist’s catalogue raisonne, which also notes that the artwork is associated with O’Keeffe’s Pink and Green Mountains series. The auction estimate is $100,000-$150,000, with a $90,000 reserve.O’Keeffe’s early watercolors, while not as well known to collectors as her oils, may provide another perspective on a storied career. In 1916, the artist took a job as the chair of the art department at West Texas State Normal College, in Canyon, Texas, where the Pink and Green Mountains series was created the following year. In a similar vein, the watercolor offered by Everard demonstrates her facility with what is widely acknowledged to be a very difficult medium in which to work. By 1918, O’Keeffe had returned to live in New York, where Alfred Stieglitz, her dealer and future husband, encouraged her to move away from watercolor,