Treadway-Toomey Showcases

Midcentury Design Sept. 9

1 col. #258

A tall tapered form designed by Fritz Albert ($10/15,000)

2  cols. #098

Classic Gustav Stickley china cabinet #815 with two hinged eight-light doors, from early Twentieth Century ($4,5/6,500).

2 cols #631

Audley Dean Nichols (1875–1941), “Texas Landscape,” oil on canvas ($7/9,000).

MUST FOR 9/7

TREADWAY-TOOMEY PRE SEPT. 9 AUCTION, w/3 cuts

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OAK PARK, ILL. — The Treadway-Toomey Galleries’ September 9 auction will showcase a wide spectrum of early to midcentury decorative arts and furniture. The event will feature top names in Twentieth Century art and design, including Gustav Stickley, Roycroft, Tiffany, Teco, Grueby, George Nelson, Charles and Ray Eames, and Mies van der Rohe.

The three-session sale will begin at 10 am with a selection of furniture by Gustav Stickley and L.&J.G. Stickley, including several Gustav Stickley bow-armed Morris chairs as well as a rare Stickley Brothers Morris chair with the original leather cushions. Included will be two sideboards, both exhibiting English influence. The first is a large unusual form with slatted gallery and cabinet doors with copper overlay designs and copper strap hinges ($4/6,000). The second is an early form with a slatted plate rail over two drawers, with an open compartment over one full drawer at the base, all with copper strap hardware ($2,5/3,500).

Fine art pottery will be led by an unusual yet highly collectable Grueby vase with a rare light blue suspended matt glaze over a carved lead and bud design ($2/3,000), and an outstanding plaque in a Vellum glaze with a painted landscape by E.T. Hurley in an Arts & Crafts frame ($5,5/7,500).

Admirers of Newcomb College pottery will enjoy a fine selection that includes an unusual Swamp Lily vase painted by Emma Urquart ($6/8,000). Several pieces of Teco art pottery will be offered, including a large Teco vase designed by Orlando Giannini ($6,5/$8,500); a tall tapered form designed by Fritz Albert was described by owner Don Treadway as “a great glaze on an exceptional form” ($10/$15,000).

Among the selection of amphora there are two exceptional vases, each a slightly tapered shape, with a fancifully detailed female profile portrait ($3,5/$4,500).

An unusual Lalique light fixture exhibiting a design of two swirling female nudes is expected to attract great attention ($9/12,000). A Handel floor lamp with an octagonal leaded glass shade features a colorful cattail design on a column base ($15/20,000); and a rare Tiffany Studios floor lamp with three lily lights with gold Favrile shades on a bronze telescoping base is expected to bring more than $12,000. With over three decades of experience, Treadway admits this Tiffany lamp is “a model we’ve never seen.”

The second session will begin around 4 pm and will feature examples of American and European paintings, including compositions by American painter Theodore Clement Steele, known for his picturesque landscapes, costal views and portraits, as well as work by Jane Peterson, an American painter who is considered one of the leading female post-Impressionists, 1910–30s.

Audley Dean Nichols is often hailed for his ability to capture the surprising the depth of the dramatic western landscape. Treadway-Toomey paintings expert Alan Platt remarked that Nichols’s painting “Texas Landscape” ($7/9,000) is “an excellent example of his work.”

This sale features a dynamic watercolor by the Italian abstract painter, Alfo Basaldella, titled “Abstract” and is expected to bring $7/9,000.

There will be two characteristic linear portraits by Pablo Picasso. The colorfully abstract “Fumeur” is a limited edition aquatint, signed and numbered by the artist ($7/9,000), while “Sable Mouvant: Pl. 7” features a sinuous portrait from the series “Sable Mouvant” published by Louis Brader ($1/5,000).

An outstanding color offset lithograph by American Pop artist Andy Warhol features the iconic and sophisticated image of Elizabeth Taylor, “Liz” is expected to bring between $20/30,000.

Top lots from the third session include a Roland Smith Victor table lamp, featured in the “An Exhibition in Modern Living” at the Detroit Institute of Art in 1949 ($3/4 ,000); a set of four Warren McArthur aluminum chairs with original green vinyl upholstery from the 1930s ($1,2/1,500); and a Alfredo Barbini Inciso vase designed by Martinuzzi, circa 1962 ($4/6,000).

A unique Renzo Rutili cabinet by Johnson Brothers exhibits a black lacquer base that supports three removable cabinets, each decorated with Asian-inspired gold leaf motifs ($3/4,000).

The gallery is at 818 North Avenue. For information, 513-321-6742, 708-383-5234 or www.treadwaygallery.com.