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San Francisco…Butterfields, the West Coast’s
leading auctioneers, offers an exciting selection of Prints,
Photographs & 20th Century Fine Art over two-days –
October 14-15, 2002 in San Francisco, an auction featuring
real-time online bidding. The lots preview in San
Francisco October 11-13, the online illustrated catalog will
be posted for purchase and review at www.butterfields.com.
At auction will be several rare and
unusual works including a Salvador Dali double-sided mixed
media collage which was used as a 1960s Playbill/show
advertisement. Offered with various newspaper clippings and
rare reel-to-reel Super-8 performance footage, A Happening
with Salvador Dali is expected to bring $30,000 to $50,000.
Another dual-sided work is a very large Clyfford Still oil
on canvas (recto: an abstraction, circa 1938-42, and verso:
a 1941 portrait). Still’s Portrait of Harold H. Logan and
Untitled (Abstraction) could bring $60,000 to $80,000.
Fernando Botero’s oil on canvas Still Life with Two Fruit
Bowls could bring $50,000 to $80,000.
Within the selection of prints are
fine examples by masters and blue chip artists as well as
several rare offerings such as a 1904 Käthe Kollwitz color
lithograph Selbstbildnis en face, one of only eleven known
impressions. A complete portfolio of 12 dye transfer prints
Hawaii, 1978, by Richard Misrach is estimated at $10,000 to
$15,000. An extensive collection of Honoré Daumier
lithographs will be offered with the catalogue raisonné
volumes. The fine photographs session features a Dorothea
Lange gelatin silver print Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy,
Arizona, 1940 (est. $25/35,000) as well as two rare 1927
photograms by the Southern California pictorialist Fred R.
Archer.
In the Spring of 2002, Butterfields
set multiple record prices for prints, 20th century
paintings and for photographs, the auction bringing more
than $2 million. Strong collector interest was seen for
multiple lots - the competitive bidding pushing prices to
record-setting levels. David Park’s Finger Counting, 1960,
sold for a record $96,375, Bay Area figurative painter Paul
Wonner’s gouache on paper Jazz Club (John Coltrane playing
in S.F.) set a record, as did Roland Petersen’s oil on
canvas Blue Sky, 1965. Two prints by Latvian born artist
Vija Celmins set auction records this spring, as did a Jasper Johns print #6 (after ‘Untitled 1975’) which sold
for $11,750. William Henry Jackson’s set of two albumen
prints William’s Canon: Canon of the Rio Las Animas,
1880s, set an at-auction record in April 2002, selling for
$10,575.
To
schedule an appointment to consign your property to
Butterfields, please contact one of our specialists:
Morisa
Rosenberg, (323) 861-7500 Extension 5435
Judith Eurich,
(415) 861-7500 Extension 3259
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Prints, Photographs & 20th Century Fine Art over two-days
– October 14-15, 2002 in San Francisco, an auction featuring real-time online
bidding.
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