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Indianapolis, IN, United States
Auction Details
Classic Art & Antiques from Great Estates
Rembrandt, meet Penrod! (Or: Everything and even more)
Our August 31 auction will be an antiques fest, with a wide range of impressive art objects, uniquely elegant furniture and a book collection of historic importance. A feast for the mind of anyone interested in artistic expressions older ? for the most part ? than a 100 years!
Many of our auctions are suitably focused on one major region or school, on one form of art or event (Indy 500, anyone?). The one that will take place at the end of this month, however, will venture beyond any constraints other than age and will make for what we hope will be a captivating and variegated landscape bringing together oil paintings by 19th century British and American artists, art photography haunting in its linear simplicity, fine silverware, early maps ? some hand-colored and dazzling the viewer with striking decorative details, incunabula folios with added calligraphy in colorful inks, Asian art going back to the Han dynasty, and even tribal art.
One of the nuclei of this auction will consist of books (and a few other objects) that once belonged to a very prominent son of Indianapolis, Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) and has been kept together by some of his descendants. Tarkington was enormously successful during the first decades of the 20th century, authoring quite a few best sellers. His plays were staged on Broadway and he was indeed a rockstar before the invention of rock!
Collectors will be able to bid on such monuments of early 20th c. American literature as signed first editions of Penrod, The Magnificent Ambersons (Pulitzer Prize), Alice Adams (Pulitzer Prize again ? a rare feat!), among many other such bibliophilic marvels. Long dedications and several vivid sketches adorn a number of those books. Tarkington was also an avid art collector, who traveled throughout Europe, and some of the prized possessions he gathered in his house in Maine, such as bronze statuettes, are currently available for
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0001: After Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), The Prodigal Son Amid the Swine, ca. 1880s heliogravure 11 1/2"H xEst. $200-$300
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0002: After Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse original woodcut 18"H x 13Est. $1,000-$2,000
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0003: Albrecht Durer, German (1471-1528), The Crucifixion (from The Great Passion / Die Grosse PassionEst. $1,500-$3,000
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0004: Folio volume including high quality heliogravures of Dürer's engravings and etchings Approx: 18" xEst. $200-$300
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0004A: Two prints; Copper engraving after a woodcut by Durer, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and Maria ofEst. $100-$200
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0005: Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian (c.1480 - c.1527), The Climbers (Three Figures after Michelangelo’sEst. $200-$300
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0006: Raphael Sanzio, Italy (1483-1520), Pope Julius II, oil on canvas, 13 1/2"H x 10 1/2"W (sight), 21"HEst. $200-$300
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0007: Raphael Sanzio (after), by Giovanni Battista dei Cavalieri (1526-1597 Italian) large engraving 17Est. $300-$400
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0008: Frans van Schooten (1558-1617, Dutch), engraving, portrait of Descartes, 1644 6 1/2"H x 4"W (Sight),Est. $200-$400
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0009: Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617, Dutch); The Betrayal of Christ (1598) engraving 10 1/47"H x 7 3/4"WEst. $300-$400
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0010: Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617, Dutch); etching Christ before Pilate (1596) 10 1/4"H x 7 1/2"W (Sight)Est. $300-$400
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0010A: After Guido Reni, Italian (1575-1642), Cleopatra with Asp, 1610, oil on canvasEst. $4,000-$6,000
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0011: Jacques Callot, French 1592-1635, portraits, etchings, The largest: 14 W x 10 H (with theEst. $80-$120
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0012: Lot of four old-master etchings from the 16th and 17th centuries 12" x 9" largestEst. $200-$300
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0012A: after Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) 10 1/2" H x 8" W (sheet), 10" H x 7 1/2" W (plate)Est. $160-$250
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0012B: after Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) 11" H x 8" W (sheet); 10 1/2" H x 7 1/2" W (print)Est. $160-$250
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0012F: Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) and Schelte a Bolswert (Dutch; 1586-1659) 10" H x 6 1/2" WEst. $200-$300
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0012G: Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) and Schelte a Bolswert (Dutch; 1586-1659) 9 1/2" H x 6" WEst. $200-$300
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0012H: Two portraits after Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) 9 3/4" H x 6 1/4" WEst. $160-$250
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