15 More Prendergast Paintings Go to Auction Block on Thursday

Leon-Jean-Basile Perrault’s Sleep, Baby, Sleep is one of 15 paintings on the Feb. 1, 2018 auction block at Sotheby’s. It was part of the Prendergast Library’s Classic Art Collection before the board voted to sell the collection in mid 2017.

JAMESTOWN – The Post-Journal is reporting that more Prendergast Library oil paintings are available for purchase Thursday during an auction hosted by Sotheby’s.

The auction, titled “Fine Old Master & 19th Century European Art,” will include 15 oil paintings from the Prendergast Classic Art Collection with a total estimated value between $75,500 and $118,500:

• Wilhelm Schutze’s The Schoolmaster – estimate: $3,000-$5,000
• Leo Herrmann’s Painting a Madonna – estimate: $1,000-$1,500
• Alberto Pasini’s The Passageway – estimate: $3,000-$5,000
• Paul Jean Clays’ Port Of Ostend – estimate: $2,000-$3,000
• Georges-Jean-Marie Haquette’s The Fisherman’s Wife – estimate: $2,000-$3,000
• Luis Jimenez Aranda’s Washday on the Seine – estimate: $5,000-$7,000
• Paul Louis Narcisse Grolleron’s Sharpening the Knife – estimate: $2,000-$3,000
• Leon-Jean-Basile Perrault’s Sleep, Baby, Sleep – estimate: $30,000-$50,000
• Etienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour’s Reminiscences of the War – estimate: $2,000-$3,000
• Emilie Preyer’s Still Life with Peaches and Grapes On A Table – estimate: $5,000-$7,000
• Emilio Sanchez Perrier’s Autumn – estimate: $8,000-$12,000
• Charles-Olivier de Penne’s Awaiting the Master – estimate: $3,000-$5,000
• Jean-Baptiste Robie’s Roses – estimate: $3,000-$5,000
• Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, R.A.’s A Landscape with Herdsmen, Animals – estimate: $5,000-$7,000
• John Lewis Brown’s On Guard – estimate: $1,500-$2,000.

It’s the fourth auction of the library’s art collection, which the library board approved the sale of in 2017, in order to help address a shortfall in funding from both donations and the city. So far 13 other paintings have been sold in three prior auctions and one post-auction sale, totaling $871,150.  An additional five paintings had also been sent to auction, but failed to sell.

In 2016 the collection was assessed at $1.17 million dollars. The library plans to place the money generated from the auctions into its endowment fund so it can generate more interest, with that interest then being applied to annual operating budgets.

PRENDERGAST PAINTINGS SOLD
(as of Jan. 31, 2018)

(Total Sale Proceeds: $871,150 with 13 Paintings Sold as of Jan. 31, 2018)

Jan. 18, 2018 – Post Auction Sale Approved by Library Board

• Jehan-Georges Vibert – LE NOUVEAU COMMIS
  Estimate $30,000 – $40,000
  (Unsold at Nov. 21, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction)
  Sold for $25,000 Post-Auction

Nov. 21, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction

• Giovanni Boldini – IN THE GARDEN
  Estimate $400,000 — 600,000
  Sold for $399,000
• Alfred Stevens – LA NEIGE
  Estimate $70,000 — 100,000
  Sold for $68,750
• Anton Mauve – CARTING THE LOG
  Estimate $10,000 — 15,000
  Sold for $40,000

Oct. 28, 2017 Stair Galleries Auction

• Otton Von Thoren – THE RELAY
  Estimate $2,000-4,000
  Sold for $5,000
• Walter Gay – AFTER THE HUNT
  Estimate $ 5,000-10,000
  Sold for $4,000
• Douglas Duder – EAST RIVER
  Estimate $ 800-1,200
  Sold for $900

October 6, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction

• Jasper Francis Cropsey – LAKE GEORGE
  Estimate: $30,000 — 50,000
  Hammer Price: $275,000
  
• Chauncey Foster Ryder – CAMEL’S HUMP
  Estimate $3,000 – 5,000
  Hammer Price: $16,250 
• William Trost Richards –EBBING TIDE
  Estimate $15,000 — 20,000
  Hammer Price: $15,000
  
• Chauncey Foster Ryder – SNOW IN NOVEMBER
  Estimate $3,000 — 5,000
  Hammer Price: $11,875
• John Francis Murphy – THE DAY IS DONE
  Estimate $1,200 — 1,800
  Hammer Price: $5,625
  
• Charles Warren Eaton – AN OCTOBER SUNSET
  Estimate $3,000 — 4,000
  Hammer Price: $4,750

PRENDERGAST PAINTINGS UNSOLD
(as of Jan. 31, 2018)

• Charles Victor Thirion – PAYSANNE DE LA CREAUSE
  Estimate $50,000 – $70,000
  Unsold at Nov. 21, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction
• Jules Joseph Lefebvre – FATIMA
  Estimate $60,000 – $80,000
  Unsold at Nov. 21, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction
• Emilio Sánchez Perrier – ENVIRONS DE TANGERE
  Estimate $80,000 – $120,000
  Unsold at Nov. 21, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction
• Martín Rico y Ortega – PONTE DELL’ANGELO
  Estimate $80,000 – $120,000
  Unsold at Nov. 21, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction
• Johann Mari Henri ten Kate – BEHIND THE RAMPARTS
  Estimate $50,000 – $70,000
  Unsold at Nov. 21, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction