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French 30-day skeleton clock with pinwheel escapement, 14½ inches high, pictured in Collard’s book on skeleton clocks.

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Frederick John Mulhaupt oil on board.

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Early palace-size Tabriz carpet.

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Isamu Noguchi sanguine drawing.

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Italian bed with elaborate inlay, circa 1880.

4 photos on CD, 1 via email

 

 

‘Post War Perspectives’ Will Open

At Laurence Miller Gallery Jan. 19

Andy Warhol: Diamond Dust’

On View At Woodward Gallery

 

 

Rowayton Arts Center To Spotlight

‘Emerging Artists & Their Mentors’

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Rowayton Arts Center Vice President Susan Leggett, second from left, is pictured with five of the arts center teachers, from left, Charles Ray, Christy Gallagher, Frank Bruckmann, Joanne Roy and Michael Douglass.

 

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EARLY NOGUCHI DRAWING WILL LEAD FAIRFIELD AUCTION EVENT JAN. 13 w/5 cuts

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NEWTOWN, CONN. — Fairfield Auction will present more than 300 lots on Sunday, January 13. With items culled from 20-plus local estates, highlighted categories include fine paintings, illustration art, American furniture, Oriental carpets, clocks, autographs, silver and jewelry.

Three significant works lead a large selection of fine art. An early drawing by Isamu Noguchi was an unexpected discovery in a Danbury, Conn., estate. The reclining nude female is probably among a small group of figural drawings executed about 1930 by the famed sculptor and furniture designer.

A drawing by Paul Cesar Helleu depicting a Parisian beauty was found in an Old Greenwich, Conn., estate, having been received as a gift some 50 years prior. Last among the highlights is a quintessential Gloucester harbor scene by Frederic John Mulhaupt also discovered in a local home.

Other art offered includes paintings by Chauncey Foster Ryder, Eric Sloane, Henry Pember Smith, Johann Berthelsen, Carl Weber, Elliot Candee Clark, A.G. Nunez, John Augustus Thelwall and Richard Newton.

Signed prints by Norman Rockwell, Joseph Pennell, Robert Gwathmey, Adolf Dehn and an Eighteenth Century mezzotint after Joshua Reynolds will also be offered. A collection of some 50 science fiction original illustrations includes work by Gray Morrow and Virgil Findlay.

A variety of Americana includes a Federal cherry corner cupboard, a Chippendale maple tall chest, Queen Anne drop leaf table and a North Shore secretary desk with maple crossbanding. A Nineteenth Century painted barber’s pole, more than 8 feet tall, a child’s express wagon in original blue paint with yellow details and a pair of Shaker maple tilter chairs in old finish also highlight the Americana offerings.

Continental highlights include an Italian bed with extensive inlay dating to about 1880. A Regency console table with marble top, a compact George III mahogany drop leaf table with ball and claw feet and a John Poole ship’s chronometer, circa 1860, are also expected to do well. A clean Edwardian satinwood display cabinet with inlay will also be auctioned.

A selection of estate carpets include a Tabriz circa 1890 measuring nearly 13 by 15 feet. More than a dozen other early carpets include two Sarouks, a Caucasian, a Bidjar, an unusual Chinese carpet and a Lavar Kerman dating to the turn of the Twentieth Century.

Items of special interest include presidential autographs, a two-carat diamond solitaire pendant, four French Art Nouveau posters, including one by Steinlen, a couple of large Stickley rockers and a first edition of Hemingway’s Farewell to Arms.

A Tiffany Venetian pattern desk, a Tiffany sterling flatware set and a Tiffany sterling tea set will also cross the block. A group of clocks includes two early English tall clocks, a French skeleton clock circa 1850, a Howard #4 regulator, a Seth Thomas #2 regulator and a Baird advertising clock.

Preview will be the Friday and Saturday prior from 11 am to 4 pm and auction day from 9 to 11 am. Fairfield Auction is at 53 Church Hill Road. Most items can be previewed during the sale.

For additional information, www.fairfieldauction.com or 203-364-1555.