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Illustrated Catalog
The Estate of Naomi Sims, February 27th, 2010
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| LOT NUMBER: 1 THREE STERLING SILVER TIFFANY & CO. APPLE-FORM COVERED BOXES Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d • e • f Send to a friend |
#2374823.
Each 4 1/2"h | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 2 A TIFFANY & CO. STERLING SILVER CHILD`S ID BRACELET Detail Image(s): a • b • c Send to a friend |
Together with a pair of signed silver oval cuff links, a Scottish
silver pin, and another pin.
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| LOT NUMBER: 3 THREE MARY MCFADDEN VINTAGE 1970`S HAND-CRAFTED GILT METAL CHIGNON STICKS Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d • e • f • g Send to a friend |
Together with a similar unmarked stick. 4 pieces.
Longest 8"l | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 4 A VINTAGE LOUIS VUITTON TRAVEL AND COSMETIC CASE Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d • e • f Send to a friend |
Of typical form, with locking handles opening to a lid fitted with
a mirror.
8 1/2"h x 12"w | $600 - $900 | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 5 A TANTRIC DIAGRAM Detail Image(s): a • b • c Send to a friend |
Indian, from Rajastan, verso labeled "J.H. Duffy & Sons, Ltd., 157 Spring St., New York City, 10012/Tantric Diagram/Rajastan, c. 18th century/Exhibited: 1969 Los Angeles County Museum/Los Angeles/1970 Richard Feigen Gallery/New York". 9 1/2"h x 9"w | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 6 A CONTEMPORARY CRUCIFORM SCULPTURE, BY KEITH MILOW Detail Image(s): a • b Send to a friend |
(British, b. 1945) In a teal green finish, the green pigmented
surface resembling verdigris, inscribed verso "A Cross Between
Painting and Sculpture, #16," signed partially illegibly
Keith, further inscribed "NYC, 1975". Milow was born in London, lived in New York from 1980-2002 and now lives in Amsterdam. In the 1960s he studied at the Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art; in 1970 he received a Gregory Fellowship from Leeds University, which was followed in 1972 by a Harkness Fellowship to the US. He is known as an abstract sculptor, as well as a painter and printmaker, and his works have been described variously as architectural, monumental, and post-minimal. Throughout his career he has been preoccupied with the form of the Latin cross. Milow has been awarded the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation award (1976), the Arts Council of Great Britain major award (1979), and the Edward Albee Foundation award (1983).His works can be found in the public collections of such institutions as Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Walker Art Center, Dallas Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Tate Galleries, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds City Art Gallery, National Gallery of Australia and Art Gallery of South Australia. 44 1/2"h x 33"w Some losses to painted surface. | $800 - $1,200 | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 7 AN ABSTRACT IMAGE OF A CROSS, BY KEITH MILOW Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d • e Send to a friend |
(British, b. 1945). With verdigris patination, inscribed verso "A
Cross Between Painting and Sculpture, #11," further with a sticker,
"Duffy-Meeker."
39 1/2"h x 30"w | $800 - $1,200 | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 8 AN ABSTRACT COMPOSITION OF GOLD LEAF ON BOARD, BY GORDON HART Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d Send to a friend |
(American, b. 1940.) Inscribed verso "Oil and Gold Leaf" and "Gold
with Black Lines". Labeled verso "J.H. Duffy & Sons, Ltd., 157 Spring St., New York City, 10012/Gordon Hart/Gold with Black Lines, 1974/oil on gold leaf and board/45 1/2"h x 26"w". This work was probably exhibited in the 1978 exhibition "Gold", at New York`s Museum of Modern Art. 45 1/2"h x 26"w | $800 - $1,200 | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 9 A STERLING SILVER ART NOUVEAU-STYLE HANGING BUD VASE Detail Image(s): a Send to a friend |
4 1/4"l | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 10 A TIFFANY & CO. RECTANGULAR STERLING SILVER FLASK Detail Image(s): a • b • c Send to a friend |
Stamped "1 pint #12712".
6 1/2"h x 3 3/4"w | $500 - $700 | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 11 A HEAVY STERLING SILVER HANDLE Detail Image(s): a • b Send to a friend |
3 7/8"l | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 12 A SQUARE MEXICAN SILVER DISH Detail Image(s): a • b Send to a friend |
#564, with rounded corners.
8 1/2"w | |||||
| LOT NUMBER: 13 A MIXED MEDIA WORK DEPICTING STYLIZED WINGED FIGURES, BY ENRIQUE CASTRO-CID Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d • e • f Send to a friend |
Titled l.l. "Partisis," and signed l.r.c. Castro-Cid
(Enrique Castro-Cid, Chilean, 1937-1992). Labeled verso "J.H. Duffy
& Sons, Ltd., 157 Spring St., New York City, 10012", further inscribed "Enrique Castro-Cid/Partisis, 1965/Pencil, Crayon, and Collage on paper/17 3/4"h x 21 3/4"w". Enrique Castro-Cid was born in 1938 in Chile, and studied art there until the early 1960s, when the Organization of American States awarded him a grant to study in the United States. Castro-Cid was awarded two Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships and won the William Copley award. He later served as a Fellowship juror for the Guggenheim Foundation. The University of Illinois appointed Castro-Cid "visiting artist" in 1968. He was one of the first artists to use computer-aided design, creating the robot hound seen in the film "Fahrenheit 451" directed by Francois Truffaut. Castro-Cid was married to Christophe de Menil of the de Menil family of art patrons and Willem de Kooning, James Rosenquist, William Copley and George Plimpton were among his many noteworthy friends. 17 3/4"h x 21 3/4"w | $500 - $800 | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 14 TWO COPPER MIXING BOWLS Detail Image(s): a • b Send to a friend |
One 10" dia., the other 12" dia. | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 15 A GROUP OF SILVER-PLATE TABLE ARTICLES Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d • e • f Send to a friend |
Comprising three trays, a centerpiece bowl, two bowls, a vase, two
candlesticks, a bud vase, and a cup. 11 pieces.
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| LOT NUMBER: 16 AN ABSTRACT COMPOSITION OF GOLD LEAF ON BOARD, BY GORDON HART Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d Send to a friend |
(American, b. 1940), inscribed verso "Small Gold IV/22k gold leaf
and pigmented gesso on masonite panel/22"h x 17"w/July 1981/Gordon
Hart. Hart is best known for his non objective-minimalist pieces and collages. This work was probably exhibited in the 1978 exhibition "Gold", at New York`s Museum of Modern Art. 22"h x 17"w Some losses and condition issues. | $600 - $800 | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 17 AN ART DECO-STYLE MAHOGANY CABINET Detail Image(s): a • b Send to a friend |
With an arrangement of cupboard doors and drawers.
4`10"h x 38"w Some wear and losses. | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 18 A UNIQUE 1970`S VINTAGE GILT METAL-MOUNTED GOURD-FORM EVENING BAG, POSSIBLY HALSTON FOR NAOMI SIMS Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d Send to a friend |
9"h | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 19 A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF OSTRICH EGGS, HATS AND BASKETS Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d • e Send to a friend |
Approximately 19 pieces.
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| LOT NUMBER: 20 A CONTEMPORARY COLLAGE BY BETYE SAAR, "GRANDMA`S HOUSE" Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d Send to a friend |
(American, b. 1926). Comprising a pair of old-fashioned reading
glasses, doilies and a vintage black and white photograph. Labeled
verso "Betye Saar/Grandma`s House/Dominique Knowlton Gallery, 19
East 71st St., New York City". The sculptor and installation artist Betye Saar was born in Los Angeles, where she received a non-art B.A. from UCLA and an M.A. in graphic design from California State University at Long Beach. Her artistic career was strongly influenced by a childhood memory of having watched the sculptor Simon Rodia build his now famous Watts Tower out of the accumulated junk, refuse and debris of his environment. This fascinating and inventive, combined with her discovery of Joseph Cornell`s boxes, inspired Saar in her own search for an art of constructed, gathered objects. Her own early boxes were filled with objects that she believed contained the power inherent in natural forces. Of African, Indian and Irish heritage, Saar imbues her work with a mix of personal, cultural and magical expression ranging from childhood memories and African motifs to works of social commentary, such as 1972`s "Aunt Jemima", in which the iconic figure is dressed in black fatigues, giving the "Black Power" salute and carrying a gun. Today Saar teaches in Los Angeles at the Otis-Parsons Institute. 13 1/2"h x 11"w | $500 - $700 | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 21 SIX PERFUME BOTTLES Detail Image(s): a • b Send to a friend |
Together with a photograph of "Naomi" perfume. 7 pieces.
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| LOT NUMBER: 22 A CONCEPTUAL CLASSICAL-STYLE ARCHITECTURAL-FORM ARTWORK BY SARKIS ZABUNYAN Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d Send to a friend |
(Turkish, b. 1938), inscribed on the top "Sarkis". Zabunyan is a Turkish-born Armenian conceptual artist who, early in his professional artistic career, decided to use only his Christian name. In 1962, after moving to France with is family, he won the Paris Young Artists Biennial Prize. A leading conceptual artist, Sarkis has returned to his native Turkey many times since the 1980s to exhibit his work, participating in the Istanbul Biennial and in shows at the Akbank Art Gallery. The gallery devoted all of its six floors to the "Sarkis, A Milestone" exhibition; apart from Turkey and France, he has exhibited his work in over three dozen countries, including the US, Germany, India, Australia, China, Japan, Mexico and Brazil. 23"h x 19"w | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 23 AM ASSORTMENT OF TOILETRY ARTICLES Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d • e • f • g Send to a friend |
Comprising primarily sterling silver-mounted bottles and jars,
sterling silver-mounted brushes and hand mirrors, various markers
and sets, and a tray. 14 pieces.
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| LOT NUMBER: 24 A BAROQUE MARQUETRY-INLAID WARDROBE, GERMANY Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d • e Send to a friend |
The case top with an overhanging shell- and cherub-carved
architectural cornice, the case with two doors inlaid with
Bacchanalian figures, those doors opening to shelves. On a flaring
base and bun feet.
8 1/2"h x 5 1/2"w Some restoration. | $2,000 - $4,000 | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 25 A VICTORIAN-STYLE FAINTING COUCH Detail Image(s): a • b • c Send to a friend |
With rolled head and shallow carving on stylized paw feet.
7`8"l | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 26 TWO CAST AND PAINTED FIGURES OF CHERUBS HOLDING CORNUCOPIAS Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d • e • f Send to a friend |
36"h | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 27 AN ABSTRACT REDWARE SCULPTURE OF A GOLEM-TYPE FIGURE, BY MARK EISENBERG Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d • e Send to a friend |
Signed, dated and numbered on the back Mark Eisenberg, 12/74,
11/16.
17"h Repairs and losses. | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 28 A CHARLES X INLAID WALNUT AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOOKCASE CABINET Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d Send to a friend |
French.
41"h x 32 1/2"w Lacking door, some restoration. | $500 - $800 | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 29 A PAIR OF CHINESE-STYLE HAWK- AND BLOSSOM-DECORATED WHITE VASES Detail Image(s): a • b • c Send to a friend |
Impressed "R.W." on the underside, presumably Royal Worcester.
Approximately 15"h | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 29A TWO CARVED STONE LINGAM SCULPTURES Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d Send to a friend |
On carved wood bases.
Approximately 6"h | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 30 A POLYCHROME-PAINTED CAST-PLASTER IMAGE OF A FACE, BY MARK EISENBERG Detail Image(s): a • b • c Send to a friend |
Entitled "Self Portrait", labeled verso "J.H. Duffy & Sons, Ltd., 157 Spring St., New York City, 10012/Mark Eisenberg/Self Portrait/1974/Cast-plaster with acrylic, grease, pencil, and soft pastel/6 1/2"h x 5 1/2"w". 6 1/2"h x 5 1/2"w | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 31 A BRASS AND CAST-IRON SHAVING MIRROR Detail Image(s): a • b Send to a friend |
The hinged oval plate in a harp-form frame on tubular supports,
cabriole legs and stylized claw-and-ball feet.
Approximately 6`h Losses. | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 32 A TRIBAL MASK, AFRICAN Detail Image(s): a • b Send to a friend |
Decorated with animal hair, fabric, pigment, and pukka shells, with
long extended back.
Approximately 12"h | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 33 A PINK, FLORAL AND GILT-DECORATED LIDDED BOHEMIAN GLASS VESSEL Detail Image(s): a • b • c Send to a friend |
The ribbed body with floral decoration and chrysanthemums
throughout.
11"h | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 34 A PAIR OF LOUIS XV-STYLE CARVED FAUTEUILS Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d Send to a friend |
With pink velvet upholstery.
39"h | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 35 A TANTRIC DIAGRAM Detail Image(s): a • b • c Send to a friend |
Indian, Inscribed verso "J.H. Duffy & Sons, Ltd., 157 Spring St., New York City, 10012/Tantric Diagram/Rajastan, c. 18th century/Exhibited: 1969 Los Angeles County Museum/Los Angeles/1970 Richard Feigen Gallery/New York". | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 36 A TANTRIC DIAGRAM IN RED AND BLACK Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d Send to a friend |
Indian, verso labeled "J.H. Duffy & Sons, Ltd., 157 Spring St., New York City, 10012/Tantric Diagram/Rajastan, c. 18th century/Exhibited: 1969 Los Angeles County Museum/Los Angeles/1970 Richard Feigen Gallery/New York". Further labeled "Richard Feigen Gallery/Tantric Diagram #56/ca. 18th c./#4711-8". | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 37 A HEAVILY-STRIATED IVORY CUFF BRACELET Detail Image(s): a • b • c Send to a friend |
1 3/4"w x 2 1/2"dia. | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 38 AN ELSA PERETTI IVORY DOUBLE-CUFF BRACELET Detail Image(s): a • b Send to a friend |
1 7/8"w x 2 1/2" dia. | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 39 AN IVORY CIRCULAR BOX, THE HAND-PAINTED LID DEPICTING A 19TH CENTURY AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN Detail Image(s): a • b • c Send to a friend |
2 3/4" dia. | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 40 A SILVER AND IVORY PENDANT Detail Image(s): a • b • c Send to a friend |
2 1/2"l x 2"w | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 41 A VINTAGE 1970`S ELSA PERETTI IVORY HORSESHOE-FORM BELT BUCKLE Detail Image(s): a • b Send to a friend |
With a hole on each side for the belt.
9 1/2"l x 3 1/2"w, irregular | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 42 AN IVORY BLADE-FORM ITEM Detail Image(s): a Send to a friend |
7 7/8"l x 4"w, tapering | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 43 A VINTAGE 1970`S ELSA PERETTI IVORY SNAKE-FORM BELT BUCKLE Detail Image(s): a • b Send to a friend |
With coral bead eyes.
3 1/2"l | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 44 A VINTAGE 1970`S ELSA PERETTI IVORY HORSESHOE-FORM BELT BUCKLE Detail Image(s): a • b • c Send to a friend |
Together with an Elsa Peretti faux ivory amphora-form pendant.
4 1/2"l x 2 3/4"w and 3"h, respectively | $600 - $800 | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 45 A PRE-COLOMBIAN-STYLE TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A WOMAN Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d • e Send to a friend |
Kneeling with arms akimbo, having a pierced nose and stylized hair.
5"h | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 46 A PRE-COLOMBIAN-STYLE TERRACOTTA SEATED FIGURE OF A MAN Detail Image(s): a • b Send to a friend |
7"h Repairs and losses. | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 47 A CHINOISERIE HARDSTONE-MOUNTED BAR CABINET Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d • e Send to a friend |
With hinged lid, the top opening to reveal figures at various
pursuits, the doors opening to shelves, the sides also hinged and
opening to shelves and spaces for cocktail glasses.
36"h x 31"w x 16"d | $500 - $700 | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 48 A PAIR OF GILT-DECORATED COMPOSITE OVAL MIRRORS Detail Image(s): a • b • c • d Send to a friend |
Together with a Neoclassical-style mirror.
The pair 21"h x 16"w | | ||||
| LOT NUMBER: 49 A TANTRIC DIAGRAM IN BLACK WITH STYLIZED FIGURES AND TRIANGLES Detail Image(s): a • b • c Send to a friend |
Indian, verso labeled "J.H. Duffy & Sons, Ltd., 157 Spring St., New York City, 10012/Tantric Diagram/Rajastan, c. 18th century/Exhibited: 1969 Los Angeles County Museum/Los Angeles/1970 Jewish Museum/New York ". Further labeled "U.M.N. 1970". 6"h x 4 1/2"w | |