Works from the Berkshire Museum Collection

Works from the Berkshire Museum Collection

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  John La Farge, Magnolia, 1859–60. Estimate $200,000–300,000. To be offered in American Art, New York, 23 May 2018.

  Painted in 1859-60, Magnolia is one of John La Farge’s earliest still-life paintings. The artist first experimented with still-life early in his career and returned to the genre again in the 1880s. Magnolia demonstrates his ability to seamlessly blend botanical realism with an ethereal aesthetic. In 1869, La Farge painted a variation of this picture as one of his diploma pieces for admission to the National Academy of Design.
  
  
  

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  Charles François Daubigny, Paysans allant aux champs (Le Matin). Estimate $70,000–100,000. To be offered in European Art, New York, 22 May 2018.

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  Henry Moore, Three Seated Women, 1942. Estimate $400,000–600,000. To be offered in Impressionist & Modern Art Evening, New York, 14 May 2018.

  Henry Moore’s Three Seated Figures is a classic example of Moore’s most-highly-prized works on paper executed during the Second World War and shortly thereafter. The seated female figure is central to Moore’s iconography and form the basis of his most important sculpture and graphic works.
  
  

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  © 2018 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

  Alexander Calder, Double Arc and Sphere, executed circa 1932. Estimate $2,000,000–3,000,000. To be offered in Contemporary Art Evening, 16 May 2018.

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  © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

  Francis Picabia, Force comique, 1914. Estimate $800,000–1,200,000. To be offered in Impressionist & Modern Art Evening, New York, 14 May 2018.

  Force comique is one of four watercolors that Picabia painted in the South of France in the Spring of 1914, and sent to an exhibition in Amsterdam which opened in May of that year. This group of works were executed following the artist’s return from New York the previous year where he exhibited several works at the legendary 1913 Armory Show.
  
  

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  Adriaen Isenbrant, The Temptation of Adam and Eve. Estimate $150,000–200,000. To be offered in Master Paintings, New York, 22 May 2018.

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  William Bouguereau, The Newborn Lamb, 1873. Estimate $1,500,000–2,000,000. To be offered in European Art, New York, 22 May 2018.

  The Newborn Lamb was painted in 1873, at the height of Bouguereau’s career. It promptly joined the legendary collection of the wealthy American businessman, Alexander Turney Stewart, which also included Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). At this time, Bouguereau and Bonheur were friends and neighbors, and it is likely that the lamb who posed for this composition was Bonheur’s own.
  
  

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  Alberto Pasini, Faubourg de Constantinople, 1877. Estimate $700,000–1,000,000. To be offered in European Art, New York, 22 May 2018.

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  Adriaen Isenbrant, The Flight into Egypt. Estimate $150,000–200,000. To be offered in Master Paintings, New York, 22 May 2018.

  Rendered from a birds-eye perspective, this remarkably intricate panel is an extraordinary example of an early Netherlandish landscape. Beyond a rocky foreground, across which travel the Holy Family on their Flight to Egypt, unfolds a vast and lush landscape of rolling hills and pastures, peaceful rivers and seas, quiet villages, and mountains. Although Joachim Patinir was once suggested as the author of this panel, more recent scholarship places the work closer to Adriaen Isenbrant, one of the leading figures of the Northern Renaissance in Bruges during the first half of the sixteenth century.
  
  

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  William Bouguereau, Les deux sœurs, 1884. Estimate $2,000,000–3,000,000. To be offered in European Art, New York, 22 May 2018.

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  Norman Rockwell, Blacksmith's Boy – Heel and Toe, 1940. Estimate $7,000,000–10,000,000. To be offered in American Art, New York, 23 May 2018.

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  Frederic Edwin Church, Valley of Santa Isabel, New Granada, 1875. Estimate $5,000,000–7,000,000. To be offered in American Art, New York, 23 May 2018.

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  Rembrandt Peale, George Washington. Estimate $200,000–300,000. To be offered in American Art, New York, 23 May 2018.

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  Shuffleton’s Barbershop illustration © SEPS licensed by Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved.

  Norman Rockwell, Shuffleton’s Barbershop, 1950. Acquired privately by a nonprofit American museum.

  Norman Rockwell painted Shuffleton’s Barbershop for the April 29, 1950 cover of The Saturday Evening Post. Executed at the height of his career, Shuffleton’s Barbershop is a technical tour-de-force that demonstrates the continuing power and resonance of the artist’s distinctive vision of American life. To create this work, Rockwell set the scene in an actual barbershop located on Maple Street in East Arlington, Vermont, where the artist and his family moved in 1939, and asked several Arlington residents to pose as the trio of musicians stationed in the back room including its owner, Rob Shuffleton, who plays the cello with his back to the viewer.
  
  

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