Friday, October 16, 2015, 6 PM
Previews
Thursday, October 15, 2015, 5–8 PM
and Friday, October 16, 10 AM–5 PM
To be held at
The Abromson Center
88 Bedford Street,
Portland, Maine
On the campus of the University of Southern Maine
Among the 200 lots, this sale features a small collection of 9 oils and watercolors by Richard Estes that includes an important oil of commuters on a New York subway seen through the graffiti on a doorway window, studies of New York, and three exquisite small landscapes of Maine.
RICHARD ESTES (Am., b. 1932)
B Train
Oil on board, 24 3/8 x 15 7/8 in. (61.9 x 40.3 cm)
Property of a gentleman, New York
Provenance: The artist to the current owner
$30,000–50,000
JAMES FITZGERALD (Am. 1899–1971)
Saltin' Mackerel aka Working Day, Monhegan
Signed "James Fitzgerald" l.r., Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Provenance: The artist, Estate of the artist, Anne Hubert, Executor, Monhegan Island, Maine To Jean and John Driscoll, Portland Barridoff Galleries, Auction, August 4, 2006, lot 173 To the current owner
Exhibited Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, May 2–July 19, 1992
Literature: By Land and Sea: The Quest of James Fitzgerald, Portland Museum of Art, May 2–July 19, 1992, page 18, #9. illustrated in color
$50,000–75,000
EDWIN LORD WEEKS (Am. 1849–1903)
Boy on a charpoi holding a bird on a stick
Signed, inscribed, and dated "E. L. W. Delhi '83" l.l.
Oil on canvas, 20 1/4 x 14 in. (51.4 x 35.6 cm)
EDWIN LORD WEEKS CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ PROJECT LETTER OF AUTHENTICATION 5 June 2015 Re: Study by Edwin Lord Weeks of a boy on a charpoi holding a bird on a stick Signed “E.L.W.” and inscribed “Delhi ‘83” (lower left) Oil on canvas 20 by 14 in. (51.4 by 35.6 cm) $6,000–9,000