MUST-SEE WORK BY CARL ANDRE, ANDY WARHOL, JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, FRANCIS BACON, CHILDE HASSAM AND WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE IN RAGO’S MAY 7 FINE ART AUCTIONS. 

Lambertville, NJ: On Saturday, May 7, 2016, Rago will hold auctions of 19th/20th Century American and European Art and Post-War/Contemporary Art. The sales feature works fresh to market, with many significant deaccessions from important collections.

19TH / 20TH AMERICAN / EUROPEAN ART: Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. (Lots 1-160)

Paintings by William Aiken Walker, Frederick Judd Waugh, Edward Moran, William Merritt Chase, Joseph Moerenhout, Alfred Walter Williams, Allen Tucker, Joseph Floch, James Carroll Beckwith, Emile Albert Gruppe, Hayley Lever, Richard Alan Schmid, Gary Erbe, Eric Sloane, Robert Gwathmey, Humbert L. Howard, Claude Venard and Raya Sorkine. Pennsylvania Impressionists and Modernists include Fern Isabel Kuns Coppedge, Vira B. McIlrath Scheibner, Hugh H. Breckenridge, Henry Bayley Snell, Robert Spencer, Mary Elizabeth Price, Walter Emerson Baum and William Langson Lathrop. Prints by Jules Chéret, Alphonse Mucha, Henri Matisse, Leonetto Cappiello, Thomas Hart Benton, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Rufino Tamayo, M.C. Escher, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Le Courbusier, Henry Moore and Marc Chagall. Sculpture by Boris Lovet-Lorski, Mabel Conkling, Alexander Proctor, Katherine Lane Weems, Ettore Colla, Charlotte Yazbek, Francisco Zúñiga, Nat Neujean and several works by Malvina Hoffman from the collection of Paul Nassau. Works on paper by Childe Hassam, John Marin, Hans Erni and a small collection of works by Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Also included are a number of photographs from the Collection of Dorothy Norman including works by Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams and Dorothy Norman herself.

Select Highlights

Lot 9: William Merritt Chase, The Copper Urn, $45,000-65,000

Lot 94: Richard Alan Schmid, Untitled, $12,000-18,000

Lot 73: Fern Isabel Kuns Coppedge, Spring on the Delaware, $20,000-30,000

Lot 79: Robert Spencer, The Grey Bridge, $8,000-12,000

Lot 21: Alphonse Mucha, Hiver/Winter from The Seasons, 1896, $6,000-8,000

Lot 128: M.C. Escher, Ascending and Descending, 1960, $15,000-20,000

Lot 26: Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled, $8,000-12,000

Lot 64: Alexander Proctor, Head of a Cowboy, $2,500-3,500

Lot 22: Childe Hassam, Newburgh, NY, 1914, $25,000-35,000

POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART: Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. (Lots 500-750)

Post-War and Contemporary Art features paintings by Donald Sultan, Ludwig Sander, Lucia Stern, Esteban Vicente, Stephen S. Pace, Albert Kotin, Jim Dine, Gandy Brodie, Michael Goldberg, April Gornik, Theodoros Stamos, Walter Darby Bannard, Grace Hartigan, Saliba Douaihy, Robert Goodnough, Mark Kostabi, Thomas Nozkowski, Leonard L. Nelson and Alex Katz. Photographs by Johanna Alexandra "Lotte" Jacobi, Inge Morath, Melvin Sokolsky, Roger Mayne, Yul Brynner, Duane Michals, Allen Ginsberg, Ansel Adams, Elliott Erwitt, Annie Leibovitz, Lucien Clergue, Lee Friedlander, Stephen Shore, Lee Jaffe, Nan Goldin, Aaron Siskind, Mitch Epstein, Richard Misrach, William Wegman, Karen Knorr, Joel-Peter Witkin, Huang Yan, Vik Muniz, Matthew Barney, Gregory Crewdson and several works by Victor Skrebneski. Prints by Robert Motherwell, Josef Albers, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, Richard Estes, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns, Richard Diebenkorn, George Rodrigue, Jules Olitski, Robert Mangold, Louise Bourgeois, Sol LeWitt, Komar and Melamid, Robert Cottingham, Frank Stella, James Siena, Elizabeth Peyton, Richard Serra, Banksy, Kehinde Wiley, Shepard Fairey, Zeng Fanzhi, Yue Minjun, Wang Guangyi and Gego (Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt). Sculpture by Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Tony Rosenthal, Louise Nevelson, Abbott Pattison, Robert Goodnough, Isaac Witkin, Richard Erdmann, Arman, Allan Capron Houser (Haozous), Roxy Paine, Carl Andre and Jeff Koons. Works on Paper by William Baziotes, Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze), Esteban Vicente, Mark di Suvero, Wolf Kahn, Andy Warhol, Joseph Stashkevetch, Sharon Louden, Damien Hirst, Mr. Brainwash and multiple works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Raymond Pettibon.

Select Highlights

Lot 521: Stephen S. Pace, Untitled, 1958, $30,000-50,000

Lot 533: Michael Goldberg, Still Life with Tiffany Lamp, 1964, $30,000-50,000

Lot 549: Andy Warhol, Mao, 1972, $30,000-50,000

Lot 566: Francis Bacon, Study for Bullfight No. 1, 1971, $30,000-50,000

Lot 649: Richard Diebenkorn, Folsom Street Variations III, 1986, $22,000-28,000

Lot 583: Louise Nevelson, End of Day, No. 27., 1972, $20,000-40,000

Lot 685: Carl Andre, Third Aluminum Quartile, $30,000-50,000

Lot 625: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pure At Heart, $30,000-50,000

Lot 634: Raymond Pettibon, Untitled, 1987, $15,000-25,000

Auction Exhibition/Preview/Bidding

• Saturday, April 30 through Thursday, May 5, 12-5 p.m. and by appointment. Friday, May 6, 12-7 p.m. Doors open at 9 a.m. the day of the sale.
• Open House with guest speaker, Robert Wittman, author of “The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich,” Tuesday, May 3, reception at 5 p.m., lecture at 6 p.m. RSVP to 609.397.9374 ext. 119 or raac@ragoarts.com.
• Rago is located midway between New York City and Philadelphia. Directions online at ragoarts.com.
• Telephone, absentee, online bidding available for those unable to attend.

Catalogues

• Print: $20 (or both for $30). Available by calling 609.397.9374 or e-mailing a request to info@ragoarts.com.
• Online at ragoarts.com as of April 19.

• Consignments invited for all of Rago's Auctions. Please call 609.397.9374 or email info@ragoarts.com.