Antiques and Art for sale.
Gaetan Laberge
An advanced collector, who is a friend of mine and doesn't have net access, has
asked if I could post the following message for him. Please respond to me
directly or call my friend at the number below.
Item 1: SOLD
Item 2: Arthur Peguegnan clock, Victoria Model with Oak mantle (quarter cut).
Asking: $1,200US - negotiable
Item 3: Wilson Steer Watercolour, Royal Academie, extremely rare.
Asking: $12,000US - negotiable
Item 4: SOLD
Item 5: 1840 Butternut Glengary Sideboard, Dovetail Pediment feet, see fig.408
p.294 of Furniture of Old Ontario (Canada) by Philip Shackleton.
Asking: $2,800US - negotiable
Item 6: Collection of 5000 (five thousand) European and Americain paintings. I
obviously cannot put down the specifics of such a large amount of art.
Those interested must contact Eric directly at the number below. A few
of the paintings are listed below.
Unique prestige collection of early museum quality African masks and figurines:
an extremely good value investment.
Item 7: Ashanti Fertility figure: female seated on bench nurses baby.
Padouk redwood ground, early 19th century. Approx. 14" tall.
Asking: $1700 US
Item 8: Pangwe "Fang", Gabon, Congo. Famous exima "bieri" figure circa 1834.
Coating original, mixture of copal, powdered charcoal black. For ref.
see pg220 of African Sculpture Speaks by Ladislas Segy, or pg19, pl20
African Art in Motion, by Robert Ferris Thompson, 1979 UofCal Press.
Asking: ????? US
Item 9: Benin Kingdom Chieftons Stool, early 17th century cast bronze relief
fertility male and female figure supports on convex ring.
Asking: $3200 US
Item 10: Extremely rare (mbulu ngulu) reliquary figure, 24" high male from
Bakota Gabon. Photographed pg83 fig.57 in ""African Sculpture Speaks"
by Ladisllas Segy, brass and copper strip bands alternate with rivets
on four sections of face.
Asking: $7500 US
Item 11: Extremely important "m'boueti" reliquary figure, Kota tribe, Gabon,
Ossyeba form, 20" high, photo pg.219 fig.285 of African Sculpture
Speaks by Ledislas Segy. Also in Musee de l'Homme Paris catalogue.
See also Carte Ethnographic, pub. in 1955 by l'Institu d'Etudes Central
Africain.
Asking: $7500 US
Item 12: Mask Ibo tribe Bakawely Congo Nigeria, early.
Asking: $350 US
Item 13: Baule Reliquary Mask, male head, human hair, painted, late 19th C.
See Musee de L'homme Catalogue, Paris.
Asking: $1200 US
Item 14: Rare Africain Minladi Stone Sculpture, 19th century figure.
Asking: $2500 US
Eric: Te/Fax 1-(613) 235-6668.
Here is a sample of some of the paintings my friend has:
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Artist: Narcisse Virgil Diaz De La Pina (1807-1876)
Medium: Oil on canvass.
Subject: Washer women feeding pigeons in Fontainebleu courtyard.
Size: 38.7cm by 50.8cm (15.25" x 20")
Condition: Cleaned, religned, varnished, unframed.
Style: Impressionist
Colours: Pink, turquoise, greens, baby blues.
Price: $7,700 US
Artist: Lucien Pissaro (1863-1944) British
Medium: Oil on canvass.
Subject: Bridge, horse drawn carriages, people walking with umbrellas, buses,
etc.
Size: 51.4cm by 61.0cm (20.5" x 24")
Condition: Needs cleaning, original stretcher, unframed.
Style: Impressionist
Colours: Soft blues, greys, pastel yellows.
Price: To be discussed.
Artist: Theodore Weber (1838-1907) French
Medium: Oil on canvass.
Subject: A quay in Paris with ships departing from harbor.
Size: 57.2cm by 31.1cm (22.5" x 12.25")
Condition: Original, gilded period frame, bears export stamp au verso.
Style: Barbizon
Colours: Blues, aqua marine, umber brown.
Price: $4,500 US
Artist: Adam Emory Albright (1862-1957) American
Medium: Oil on canvass.
Subject: Floral still life; flowers in a vase.
Size: 50.8cm by 66cm (approximately 20" x 26")
Condition: Gilded hand carved frame, excellent, cleaned and varnished.
Style: Expressionist
Colours: Lapis Laz. blue.
Price: $3,500 US
Artist: Hiram (Harry) Powers (19th or 20th century?) American
Medium: Oil on board.
Subject: Winter landscape of mountains.
Size: 22.9cm by 27.9cm (9" x 11")
Condition: Original
Style: Expressionist, realist
Colours: Ultramarine, cobalt blue, cadmium yellow, white.
Price: $800 US
Artist: E. Rickets, 19th century Victorian, English
Medium: Oil on wood panel.
Subject: "A Good Judge" - Dickens scene from Pickwick papers - A Victorian
judge having sifted his brandy proposes a toast while on the back-
ground table a peeled orange and oriental porcelaine are depicted.
Size: (14&3/4" x 9&1/2")
Condition: Painting very fine.
Style: Realist
Date: circa 1875
Price: $800 US
Artist: E. Rickets, 19th century Victorian, English
Medium: Oil on wood panel.
Subject: "In a Fix" - A Victorian attired merchant points to his pocket
watch (with hook replacing hand) depicting tardiness, graced by a
clay pipe and georgian Stem glass of Port on an adjacent table.
Size: (14&3/4" x 9&1/2")
Condition: Extremely fine, original
Style: Realist
Date: circa 1871
Price: $800 US
Artist: Kisuke Hirasama, rare Japanese impressionist
Medium: Oil on canvass.
Subject: "At Kamakura" - coastal scene, tide splashing against rocks.
Size: (12" x 4&1/2")
Condition: good original, needs cleaning, original frame
Style: Impressionist
Date: 1910-1915
Price: $1200 US
Artist: Philip Wilson Steer OM, NEAC, (English)
Medium: Watercolour wash.
Size: (7&1/2" x 11&3/4")
Style: English Watercolours.
Listed and dated 1928, gallery label on (verso) backing.
Provenance: The Fine Art Society London gallery label.
Price: $2400 US
Artist: Pierre Bosco, French
Medium: Pastel and charcoal, signed.
Subject: "Cheval Bleue" (Blue Horse)
Size: (12&1/2" x 9")
Condition: Excellent
Style: Abstract
Exhibited: Exposition Bosco, Galerie de L'Eysee, Paris, du 8 au 23 Mars, 1957.
Price: $1500 US
Artist: Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar (American)
Medium: Bronze relief
Subject: Profile of a woman.
Size: (20" x 12&1/2")
Listed in fielding dictionary, late 19th century bas-relief bronze plaque,
signed.
Price: $1500 US
Artist: A. Greppi, circa 1860, signed
Medium: Oil on stretched canvass.
Subject: Portait head peasant Italian father smoking pipe.
Size: (5" x 7")
Condition: Fine under glass.
Price: $350 US
Artist: A. Greppi, circa 1860, signed
Medium: Oil on stretched canvass.
Subject: Portait head peasant Italian mother.
Size: (5" x 7")
Condition: Fine under glass.
Price: $350 US
Any typo's are mine, of course.
Sincerely,
Gaetan Laberge
gae...@crpp.carleton.ca