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Charleston Paintings Auction for More Than $325,000 at Skinner
Boston, MA - A group of watercolors by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (1876-1958)
highlighted Skinner/Boston’s auction of American and European paintings on May
11. The artist, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, is known for her scenes
of Carolina evenings, birds, and ocean views, and a variety were featured at
the auction. All had been presented by the artist to Ensign Harry McInvaill
and his wife Talulah in the middle of this century, and descended in their family.
Examples included "Misty Moon" that sold for $63,000, "Poetry" that realized
$58,600, and "Evening" that sold for $51,750. "Sound of the Wind in the Pines"
sold for $48,875, "Sea" for $47,150, "Wood This Flight" for $34,500, and "Sea
Dwellers" for $21,850. Skinner auctioned another work by the artist, "Egrets
Perched in a Tree," for a record-breaking $64,100 in November of 2000.
Marine scenes in the auction were led by two works by William Bradford, Icebound
Whaler that sold for $49,450 and Whaling Vessels Among the Ice Floes
that reached $35,650. Also faring well, Seascape/A Main View by Warren
Sheppard sold for $10,350. Spring Orchard by Ernest Lawson highlighted
the extensive and varied selection of landscapes, realizing $28,750, with others
including Mount Shasta by Thomas Hill that sold for $11,500, and Mountain
Landscape by Hermann Herzog that went for $8,050.
From a private New England collection, the sale offered Shall I or Shall
I Not by Francisco Miralles, a late 19th century garden scene
that sold for $26,450. Genre offerings also included "Hagar"/The Flower Vender
by Elizabeth O’Neill Verner that sold with its original bill of sale for $20,700,
Watched on Her Way from Market by Luis Jimenez y Aranda that realized
$9,200, and The Artist’s Studio by Frederick Dielman that sold for $8,050.
Leading the selection of still lifes was a work by William James Glackens,
Still Life with Flowers in a Ceramic Pitcher, that sold for $58,600.
This painting, and Lawson’s Spring Orchard, had been acquired early in
the century from the artists and then descended within a private Canadian collection.
Additional highlights in the auction included a twentieth century American School
The Cavalry Officer Battles a Bear by Harold von Schmidt that reached
beyond expectations selling for $17,250, Poodles by Arthur Wardle that
sold above estimate at $14,950, and Hutchison Geese that also sold high
for $10,350. Sculpture featured Julia Marlow Tabar, a bronze by Bessie
Potter Vonnoh that realized $9,200.
A complete list of prices realized at this auction is available at www.skinnerinc.com.
Skinner’s next auctions of paintings and prints will be the Studio Auction in
Bolton on Thursday, July 12, and the auction of American and European Paintings
and Prints in Boston on Friday, September 7. For more information, call the
department of American and European Paintings at 978.779.6241, or fax 978.779.5144.
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