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Alexander Calder - Untitled 

Lot 33053 Signature Auction # 5004

ALEXANDER CALDER (American, 1898-1976)
Untitled, Butterfly on Spiral, 1966
Gouache on paper
22-3/4 x 30-5/8 inches (57.8 x 77.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Calder / 66

PROVENANCE:
Perls Galleries, New York;
Private collection, Houston.

Accompanied by a photograph from Perls Galleries, New York

In February 2008, Calder Foundation, New York, approved this work as authentic and assigned it registration number A06939. Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000.

Calder, Alexander: American sculptor, painter, and designer, 1898-1976. Calder graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1919 with a degree in mechanical engineering. After taking classes at the Arts Student's League, he became a freelance artist and illustrator, and published a book titled Animal Sketching. In the 20s, Calder began traveling to Paris, becoming influenced by the work of Klee and Miro. In 1930, after visiting Piet Mondrian's studio, he began to create abstract constructions incorporating biomorphic forms, specifically with variations on the mobile, which he is most known for. Calder divided his time between trips abroad, and his farm in Roxbury, Connecticut, and as his commissions grew more frequent, his mobiles became increasingly gigantic. Examples are Flamingo, the stabile at Federal Center Plaza in Chicago, and La Défense, at the Rond Point de La Défense Métro station in Paris.

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Frantisek Kupka - Polaire 

Lot 33030 Signature Auction # 5004

FRANTISEK KUPKA (Czech, 1871-1957)
Polaire, 1919-21
Gouache and watercolor over a preliminary drawing in black chalk
12-3/4 x 11-1/8 inches (32.4 x 28.3 cm)
Signed in pencil lower left: Kupka

PROVENANCE:
Royal S. Marks Gallery, New York, stock no. 254 (label verso).

EXHIBITED:
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, May-June 1960;
Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich, March 1961;
Gallery Royal S. Marks, New York, 1961.

LITERATURE:
L. Vachtova, Frank Kupka. Pioneer of Abstract Art, New York and Toronto, 1968, p. 207, illus. black and white, cat. no. 266, p. 310.

This dynamic painting in gouache relates closely to a series of larger-scale oil paintings entitled Cosmic Spring (National Gallery, Prague) which were breakthrough works in Kupka's career as a pioneering abstractionist. In this work and others dating from the mid-1910s through the early 1920s, the Czech modernist became dazzled by the phenomenon of nature's energy. By the mid-1920s, this interest shifted from nature's energy into an intense exploration of the energy generated by machines. Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000.

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Alexander Calder - Orbs in Orange 

Lot 33052 Signature Auction # 5004

ALEXANDER CALDER (American, 1898-1976)
Orbs on Orange, 1963
Gouache on paper
27 x 40 inches (68.6 x 101.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Calder '63

PROVENANCE:
Klaus Perls, New York;
Mrs. John O'Boyle, Dallas, c. 1965;
Buck J. Wynne, III, Dallas;
By descent to current owner.

In March 2008, Calder Foundation, New York, approved this work as authentic and assigned it registration number A06172.

Alexander Calder, one of the giants of American twentieth-century art, explored the themes of colored orbs in space throughout his career, especially in his textbook mobile constructions. Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000.

Calder, Alexander: American sculptor, painter, and designer, 1898-1976. Calder graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1919 with a degree in mechanical engineering. After taking classes at the Arts Student's League, he became a freelance artist and illustrator, and published a book titled Animal Sketching. In the 20s, Calder began traveling to Paris, becoming influenced by the work of Klee and Miro. In 1930, after visiting Piet Mondrian's studio, he began to create abstract constructions incorporating biomorphic forms, specifically with variations on the mobile, which he is most known for. Calder divided his time between trips abroad, and his farm in Roxbury, Connecticut, and as his commissions grew more frequent, his mobiles became increasingly gigantic. Examples are Flamingo, the stabile at Federal Center Plaza in Chicago, and La Défense, at the Rond Point de La Défense Métro station in Paris.

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Andy Warhol - Jacqueline Kennedy I 

Lot 33054 Signature Auction # 5004

ANDY WARHOL (American, 1928-1987)
Jacqueline Kennedy I (Jackie I), 1966
Published in the portfolio 11 Pop Artists I
Screenprint in silver
24 x 20 inches (61.0 x 50.8 cm)
Edition in pencil verso: 93/200
Published by KMF, Inc., New York
Artist's stamped signature verso: Andy Warhol

PROVENANCE:
Pacific Fine Arts, San Francisco, California;
Private collection, Watertown, Wisconsin.

LITERATURE:
F. Feldman and J. Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, Almicare Pizzi, Milan, 1997, pg. 60, no.11.13, illus. Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000.

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Andy Warhol - Jacqueline Kennedy II 

Lot 33055 Signature Auction # 5004

ANDY WARHOL (American, 1928-1987)
Jacqueline Kennedy II (Jackie II), 1966
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Published in the portfolio 11 Pop Artists II
24 x 30 inches (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
Published by Original Editions, New York
Artist's stamped signature on verso: Andy Warhol
Artist proof in pencil verso: XI (there were fifty artist's proofs)

PROVENANCE:
Pacific Fine Arts, San Francisco, California;
Private collection, Watertown, Wisconsin.

LITERATURE:
F. Feldman and J. Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, Amilcare Pizzi, p. 60, no. 11.14.

A son of an immigrant coal miner and arguably the most influential visual historian of the twentieth century, Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol moved to New York City in 1949 where he became a successful illustrator, painter, film-maker, and author and kept the company of socialites and street people alike. In a meaningful departure from Expressionism, Warhol embraced popular culture and commercial processes. In the 1960s he switched from painting to silkscreen prints which were produced serially, often in bright colors with off-set effects. This process allowed Warhol not only to create art out of the mass-produced but also to mass produce the art itself. The series of silkscreens produced in the 1960s ranged from the banal to the tragic with images of soup cans and Brillo pads, celebrity portraits of Marilyn, Jackie, and Elvis, and electric chairs and guns.

This portrait captures one of the most traumatic events in postwar America and marks the development of instant news, mass emotion and mass reaction. Rather than a common voyeur, Warhol created a statement of American culture which is just as poignant today as it was in 1966. This image of Jackie Kennedy standing with dignity as the body of her husband was laid to rest before a throng of photographers and television reporters reflects classic Warhol cynicism of mass media. The visual imagery, based on newspaper photos rather than a firsthand account, is more a commentary on how the media represented the event than a study of Jackie's experience. The choice of Jackie Kennedy is also illustrative of Warhol's obsession with celebrities and how the media suppresses their ability to retain individuality and humanity. Estimate: $20,000 - $25,000.

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Andy Warhol - Jacqueline Kennedy III - Hand Signed 

Lot 33056 Signature Auction # 5004

ANDY WARHOL (American 1928-1987)
Jacqueline Kennedy III (Jackie III), 1966
Published in the portfolio 11 Pop Artists III
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
39-3/4 x 30 inches (101.0 x 76.2 cm)
Published by Original Editions, New York
In pencil verso: A.P.
Artist's stamped signature verso: Andy Warhol
Signed in ink verso: Andy Warhol

PROVENANCE:
Pacific Fine Arts, San Francisco, California;
Private collection, Watertown, Wisconsin.

LITERATURE:
F. Feldman and J, Schellmann, Andy Warhol A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, Amilcare Pizzi, Milan, 1997, p. 60, no. 11.15, illus.

Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000.

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Willem De Kooning - Untitled 

Lot 33066 Signature Auction # 5004

WILLEM DE KOONING (American, 1904-1997)
Untitled, 1986
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper
One plate from Quatre Lithographies
Published by Editions de la Difference, Paris
28-1/4 x 24-3/4 inches (71.8 x 62.9 cm)
Edition in pencil lower left: XV/L
Signed and dated in pencil lower right: de Kooning '86
Estimate: $6,000 - $9,000.

De Kooning, Willem: American painter and sculptor, 1904-1997. De Kooning was born in the Netherlands, but active primarily in America. He was a leading figure of Abstract Expressionism. His style strongly influenced art after World War II.

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Andy Warhol - Hand Painted Flowers 

Lot 33065 Signature Auction # 5004

ANDY WARHOL (American, 1928-1987)
Flowers (Hand-Colored), 1974
Screenprint hand-colored with Dr. Martin's analine watercolor dyes on Arches and J. Green paper
40-7/8 x 27-1/2 inches (103.8 x 69.9 cm)
Portfolio of ten published by Peter M. Brant, Castelli Graphics, and Multiples, Inc., New York
Edition in pencil verso: 21/250
Initialed in pencil lower right: AW
Signed and dated verso: Andy Warhol 74
Stamped verso: Copyright by / ANDY WARHOL MULTIPLES INC./ & CASTELLI GRAPHICS 2, 1972

PROVENANCE:
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York;
Private collection, Watertown, Wisconsin.

LITERATURE:
F. Feldman and J. Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, Amilcare Pizzi, Milan, 1997, p. 83, no. 11.116, illus. Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500.

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John Marin - Shapes Colors 

Lot 33029 Signature Auction # 5004

JOHN MARIN (American, 1870-1953)
Shapes--Colors, Delaware Country, Pa., 1916
Watercolor on paper
16-1/4 x 19-1/4 inches (41.3 x 48.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Marin 16

PROVENANCE:
Alfred Stieglitz, New York;
Edith Halpert, New York;
The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1963.

EXHIBITED:
DG, "Abstract Painting in America, 1903-23", March 27- April 21, 1962;
SUI, "Vintage Moderns", May 24 - August 2, 1962, no. 33;
The University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson, "John Marin 1870-1953", February 9-March 10, 1963, no. 16;
The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, "Art on Paper", 1975.

LITERATURE:
The University of Arizona, John Marin 1870-1953, Tucson, 1963, cat. no. 16, p. 11.
S. Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonne, Tucson, Arizona, 1970, p. 423, no. 16.41, illus.

During the course of the second decade of the 20th century, John Marin became recognized for his abstract landscapes rendered most often in watercolor. As Sheldon Reich noted in his essay that accompanied the 1963 John Marin exhibition in Tucson where the present work was shown, Marin devised his own pictorial language to express his view of nature. "Upon the large forms of earth, water and sky, deftly and luminously brushed in, Marin suggests their planes without becoming involved with modeling in the traditional sense. Most important is the calligraphy that plays against these broad color areas--here suggesting trees, there, waves, and always symbolic of the movement inherent within the scene. Often these lines become pure symbols of force and tension. For Marin, nature was a precarious balance between warring parts, and the task of the artist was to bring these factors together in some kind of equilibrium without losing the life-enhancing quality imparted by these opposing forces." Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000.

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Zao Wou-Ki - Marches Montantes 

Lot 33141 Signature Auction # 5004

ZAO WOU-KI (Chinese/French, b. 1921)
Marches Montantes, 1954
Oil on masonite
18 x 15 inches (45.7 x 38.1 cm)
Signed in Chinese characters and dated lower right
Signed, titled, and dated verso: ZAO WOU-KI/ Marches Montantes/ III-IV 54
Inscribed in pen on original stretcher: LE NYC, Ven du Lowy
Dymo label no. 8 on front of frame lower liner

Born in Bejing in 1921, Zao Wou-Ki studied at the School of Fine Arts in Hangchow where he later became a professor of drawing. In 1947, Zao moved to Paris where he was influenced by the modern language of Western abstraction. This transitional period in Zao's career, when he first departed from his own traditions and began to embrace Western abstraction, is the most provocative: in works from the late 1940s through early 1950s as we observe him wrestling with conflicting aesthetics and identities. His signature, for example, straddles the east and west. His first name is always signed in Chinese characters and the last name in Western orthograph.

In 1951 Zao traveled to Bern, Switzerland where he was first exposed to the paintings of Paul Klee (1879-1940), which proved to be highly influential. The present painting, consistent with his early work, is not entirely committed to abstraction, although it gestures in that direction, creating a dialogue between the traditional and the experimental. Thin black lines resolve out of what appears to be a continuum of fog, haze, and clouds - an atmosphere typical of traditional Chinese landscape painting. From these black markings, which were clearly influenced by Klee's draftsmanship, we see rising steps that parallel ancient Chinese architecture. The palette is almost monochromatic gray with only thin applications of blues, yellows and pinks. These subtle fields of color evoke atmospheric effects that are common in Klee's later works.

Zao would continue to develop more explosive styles of abstraction in the late 1950's. However, this period of his production, during his early thirties when he was attracting attention in American as well as Europe, is justly viewed as the highpoint in the artist's career. Estimate: $100,000 - $120,000.

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Louis Jean Francois Lagrenee - Galatee se jouant sur les eaux avec plusiers Tritones 

Lot 33001 Signature Auction # 5004

LOUIS JEAN FRANÇOIS LAGRENÉE (French, 1725-1805)
Galatee se jouant sur les eaux avec plusiers Tritones, circa 1755-57 and Dianne surprise au Bain par Acteon, circa 1755-57
Pen and brown ink with wash
7 x 8-1/4 inches each (17.8 x 21.0 cm)
Signed lower right and lower left respectively: De Lagrenée and De Lagrenée f.
Inscribed beneath each image, respectively: Galatee se jouant sur les eaux avec plus.Tritones and Dianne surprise au Bain par Acteon, elle le change en Cerf

PROVENANCE:
Mme. Montmartel, 1755-57;
C. T. and Theodore Rousseau.

EXHIBITED:
Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, April 2-May 7, 1978 (both).

RELATED LITERATURE:
Etat des tableaux fait par Monsieur Lagrenée depuis son retour de Rome, manuscript by Lagrenée, published by Edmond de Goncourt, L'Art: Lagrenée, vol. IV, 1877, pp. 25-26, 136-141, 255-260, no. 34;
Marc Sandoz, Les Lagrenée: Louis, Jean, François, 1983, p.168, cat. no. 25, under paintings outside of the Salon dating 1755-1757, preparatory drawing illustrated, pl. XLIII. Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000.

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Joan Miro - Three Joans 

Lot 33062 Signature Auction # 5004

JOAN MIRÓ (Spanish, 1893-1983)
Three Joans, 1978
Color etching and aquatint
20-3/4 x 42 inches (52.7 x 106.7 cm)
Ed. P.A. IX/X
Signed lower right: Miró,
Inscribed lower left: P.A. IX/X

LITERATURE:
Catalogue raisonné: Dupin, 1034. Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000.

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Niki De Saint-Phalle - Angel of Temperance 

Lot 33135 Signature Auction # 5004

NIKI DE SAINT-PHALLE (French, 1930-2002)
Angel of Temperance, 1987
Sculpted resin
27 x 21 x 8 inches (68.6 x 53.3 x 20.3 cm)

PROVENANCE:
Commissioned directly from the artist, 1987;
Crow Art Partnership Collection, Dallas.

Born in 1930 in France, Niki de Saint Phalle took up painting and sculpture in the 1950s as therapy for an emotionally tumultuous life. Her method of using guns fired at bags of paint to create splatter designs made her a celebrity artist of her time. Her Nana series of female sculptures in outrageously modern contortions and bright colors brought her wide acclaim. A Niki Museum devoted to her art is in Nasu, Japan. Niki also designed and created a fantasy garden in Tuscany, Italy with large colorful figures and shapes based on tarot cards. This sculpture is a model of Temperance, card number XIIII. The full size piece crowns the chapel of Temperance in the garden in Italy. This model was made for consideration of an additional full sized sculpture to adorn an office building in Dallas. The full size angel was not ordered. Niki said of this visualization of Temperance, card number XIIII, "I had great difficulty understanding this card, it was too far from my passionate nature. Temperance seemed to me to be a compromise. A middle road. One day the light dawned. Temperance is the RIGHT WAY. I made an angel of this card which crowns the chapel of Temperance." Niki continued to be a prolific artist of humorous and colorful works until her death in California in 2002.

A certificate of authenticity by the Niki Charitable Art Foundation will accompany this lot. Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000.

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James Emil Bisttram - Untittled 1944 

Lot 33043 Signature Auction 5004

EMIL JAMES BISTTRAM (American, 1895-1976)
Untitled, 1944
Encaustic on paper
12-1/2 x 11 inches (31.8 x 27.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Bisttram 44
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500.

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Jime Dine - Untittled 

Lot 33057 Signature Auction 5004

JIM DINE (American, b. 1935)
Untitled (The Cheese Weeze), 1970-71
Mixed media and collage on artist's board
60 x 40 inches (152.4 x 101.6 cm)
Signed and dated verso: Jim Dine / 1970-1

PROVENANCE:
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, (label verso);
Acquired by the current owner from the above in 1972.

Diverse in subject and theme, Jim Dine's career has spanned nearly four decades during which he has experimented in various media including painting, sculpting, printmaking and photography. His combination of painted surfaces, written text and found objects challenges the division between High Art and real life. Dine moved to New York in 1958 at the birth of the Pop Art movement and "Happenings" in which Dine was an early participant together with Allan Kaprow (1927-2006), John Cage (1912-1992) and Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929).

Tools, robes, palettes, trees, gates and hearts have been recurring themes in Dine's work. The Heart made its first appearance in 1965 when he incorporated it into stage designs for a San Francisco production of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. As a motif in his art, Dine likes this universally recognized emblem of one's emotional core as a human being. He returns to it again and again, using it as a backdrop for what he describes as "symbolic self portraits." The Heart for Dine embodies a gamut of personal impressions, emotions, and memories.

This large-scale work incorporates areas of scattered paint, block-printed text, stenciled numbers, painted vegetables and cartoon-like animals. Dine then attached a cut-out watercolor depicting a red bleeding heart and a brush, a found object, to the center of the composition. This work was completed shortly after Dine returned from London and moved to a small farm in Putney, Vermont. Vermont has historically relied upon dairy farming for its agricultural income, hence the title, The Cheese Weeze. This assemblage of vegetables, animals, cheese, and Heart thus represents an autobiographical account of his experience in southern Vermont, when it was new and fresh and emotionally charged. Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000.

Dine, Jim: American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, born 1935. Dine, a prolific artist, came to prominence in New York from 1959-1960 when he staged a series of "Happenings", creating action painting and assemblages. His works often repeat a visual theme (hearts) or frequently utilize objects (shoes, toothbrushes), throughout different mediums. Although he used objects from everyday life, he was not a Pop Artist, though he was not a pure abstractionist. By the 80s, he was considered a forerunner of the Neo-Expressionist movement.

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Salvador Dali - Les Douzes Tribus d'Israél - portfolio of 13 works 

Lot 33061 Signature Auction 5004

SALVADOR DALÍ (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Les Douzes Tribus d'Israél (portfolio of 13 works), 1973
Color drypoint etching with pochoir on Arches paper
26 x 20 inches (66.0 x 50.8 cm)
Edition: XXIX/XXXV Published: Transworld Art, S.A, Fribourg. (Suisse)
Signed in pencil lower right: Salvador Dali Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000.

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Carlo Dolci and Workshop - The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew 

Lot 33068 Signature Auction 5004

CARLO DOLCI AND WORKSHOP (Italian, 1616-1687)
The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew, circa 1646
Oil on canvas
47-3/4 x 38-1/2 inches (121.3 x 97.8 cm)

PROVENANCE:
Private collection, New York

Carlo Dolci painted different versions of this subject for distinguished Florentine patrons. The first and most intimate version of c. 1640 on panel was commissioned by Senator Paolo del Sera of Florence (52.5 x 41 cm., private collection New York; see Francesca Baldassari, Carlo Dolci, Catalogue Raisonné, Turin, 1995, no. 49). The next recorded version, dated 1643 and painted on canvas for an as yet unidentified collector, is now in the collection of the Birmingham City Art Gallery and Museum (inv. no. 45.62, 115.6 x 91.4 cm.), and is the most elaborate treatment of the subject (Baldassari, no. 50). It contains a self-portrait of the artist just below the right hand of the saint, quotations from the work of Titian and Rubens, and portraits of notable art world contemporaries such as that of Raffaello Ximines, a noted connoisseur and one of Dolci's earliest patrons who is shown in armor, and mustachioed, at the right. A third and largest recorded version also on canvas, painted in 1646 for Marchese Carlo Gerini, is now in the Palatine Gallery of the Palazzo Pitti, Florence (inv. no. 266; 122 x 99 cm.; Baldassari, no. 51). The present work is extremely close in size, composition, and handling to the Pitti version.

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Sir Thomas Lawrence - Richard Hart-Davis, M.P. 

Lot 33076 Signature Auction 5004

SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE (British, 1769-1830)
Richard Hart-Davis, M.P., 1815
Oil on canvas
31-1/2 x 25 inches (80.0 x 63.5 cm)

PROVENANCE:
Richard Hart-Davis, and thence by descent in the family;
Edward Foster, Esq., Twickenham;
Ehrich-Newhouse Galleries, New York, New York (by 1935);
Private collection, Kansas (purchased from the above on November 16, 1935);
Alan Barnes Fine Art, Dallas (2006).

EXHIBITED:
Royal Academy, 1815, no. 276;
British Institution, 1830, no. 45;
British Institution, 1833, no. 7;
International Exhibition, 1862, no. 178;
Royal Academy, 1871, no. 33 (loaned by Vaughan Davis).

LITERATURE:
Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Goupil and Co., London/Paris/New York, 1900, p. 122.
Sir Walter Armstrong, Lawrence, Meuthuen & Co. Ltd, London, 1913, p.126;
Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence. A Complete Catalogue of Oil Paintings, Phaidon, Oxford, 1989, cat. no. 391 (ill.), p. 206.

Richard Hart Davis (1766-1842), art patron and friend of Sir Thomas Lawrence, was the third son of Henry Davis of Bristol and his second wife, Marianna, only daughter and heiress of Major Hart-Davis of Grantham, County Lincolnshire. He was M.P. for Colchester (1807-12), and for Bristol in six consecutive parliaments (1812-31). He was also a merchant active in trade with the West Indies.

Richard Hart-Davis formed a very fine collection of paintings which became the nucleus of the Leigh Court Collection of Sir Charles Miles, dispersed in 1899.

In addition to this widely-exhibited portrait of Richard Hart-Davis which remained in the sitter's family for over a century, Lawrence also painted Hart-Davis' daughter Louisa, son Hart, and daughter-in-law Charlotte in 1824, 1809 and after 1820, respectively. This portrait of Richard Hart-Davis was engraved by W. Sharp in 1816. Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000.

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William Keith - View of Mount Shasta 

Lot 33152 Signature Auction 5004

WILLIAM KEITH (American, 1839-1911)
View of Mount Shasta, 1891
Oil on canvas
23 x 32 inches (58.4 x 81.3 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: W. Keith/ S.F. 91

PROVENANCE:
Joseph Sartor Galleries, Dallas (label verso);
Private collection, Highland Park, Dallas.

One of California's most successful and prolific painters of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, William Keith found in Mt. Shasta a subject of enduring inspiration. He traveled to the area on numerous sketching trips, sometimes in the company of his great friend and fellow naturalist, John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club. Both men were natives of Scotland who met in the Yosemite Valley in 1872 and formed a lifelong bond. Both were committed to preserving California's natural beauty and wilderness areas and both found supreme artistic inspiration in those lands. Of Mt. Shasta, Keith wrote in his sketchbook in 1878, "clothed in white, mystic, wonderful." Keith painted Shasta from two primary vantage points, one close to the base of the mountain, and the other, such as this painting, from a greater distance that allowed the artist to present the full grandeur of the landscape. Keith wrote that he preferred the more distant vantage point because it presented a more encompassing view of the mountain. Keith began sketching and painting Mt. Shasta as early as 1868.

For much of his life, Keith lived in Berkeley and commuted to his studio in San Francisco. He marked many of his paintings with an S.F. below his signature to indicate the studio's location. In 1891 Keith shared his San Francisco studio with Tonalist George Inness, Sr. (1825-1894). At his death in 1911, Keith was said to have been the most financially successful artist in California.
Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000.

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Jack Bush - Rythms No. 4 

Lot 33203 Signature Auction 5004

JACK BUSH (Canadian, 1909-1977)
Rythms No. 4
Oil on paper
49-3/4 x 38-1/4 inches (126.4 x 97.2 cm)
Signed lower right: Jack Bush
Titled lower left: Rythms No. 4
Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000.

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Jackies by Warhol go to Dallas for Auction 

Signature Auction #5004

Jackies by Warhol go to Dallas for Auction

DALLAS -- As news photographs, the 1963 images of Jacqueline Kennedy as a grieving widow touched the nation, reflecting America's mourning after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

For pop artist Andy Warhol, the photos became the catalyst for his "Jackie" works, a series of paintings and screen prints created between 1963 and 1968 that captured the moments before and after the assassination as she was transformed from glamorous first lady to grieving widow.

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Jackies Go to Dallas

Heritage Signature Auction 5004 at Ebay Live  

Floor Auction May 8th 2008 - Session 1 10:00 am Dallas, TX Time

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