SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK HIGHLIGHTS APRIL – JUNE 2001

APRIL 5, 6, AND 7, 2001THE COLLECTION OF GIANNI VERSACE

This April, Sotheby’s New York offers collectors a unique insight into a source of inspiration for the late Gianni Versace, whose name remains one of the most influential in fashion to this day, when it sells art and furnishings from his Miami palazzo, Casa Casuarina. Ranging from European antique furniture of the 19th century to academic paintings both traditional and exotic, to pieces of the designer’s own creation, the collection reflects a consistent vision of Classical Italian style infused with the boldness of Versace’s own distinctive taste. Examples include a Jacob signed bureau-plat (est. $100/150,000 ), a Charles X hardstone mounted ormolu console (est. $70/90,000), an unusual Anglo-Indian brass and bone inlaid rosewood settee from the mid-19th century (est. $70/90,000). Following an exhibition in New York from March 30th – April 4th, the sale will take place on the evening of April 5th and in day sessions on April 6th and 7th . A portion of the auction proceeds will be donated to charity. The entire collection carries an estimated value of $5-7 million.

APRIL 17 - 21, 2001 HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE LEVERHULME COLLECTION ON EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK TO BE AUCTIONED AT THORNTON MANOR, WIRRAL, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND JUNE 26TH – 28TH , 2001

In a three-day sale at Thornton Manor, home of 1st Viscount Leverhulme, the great industrialist and builder of Port Sunlight, Sotheby’s offers paintings and furniture from one of the greatest collections ever assembled by an Englishman. The sale follows the death last year of the 3rd and last Viscount Leverhulme. It encompasses the 1st Viscount’s private collection of fine art and antiques which remained at the Manor, and will include highly important English Furniture; his celebrated collection of 19th century British Paintings; Old Master and early British Pictures; fine and important Continental furniture; Oriental porcelain and European ceramics; silver; fine 19th and early 20th century sculpture and clocks.

APRIL 18 – 24, 2001 HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF PAUL F. WALTER ON EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK TO BE AUCTIONED AT SOTHEBY’S LONDON, MAY 10TH, 2001

This May Sotheby’s London offers rare masterpieces by some of the most distinguished photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Focusing on the history of the art of photography, the Paul F. Walter collection includes works by outstanding photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton and Gustave Le Gray and Charles Nègre. Thoughtfully selected images by artists such as Heinrich Kuhn, Constant Puyo, Robert Demachy and Frederich Evans tell the story of aesthetic developments in photography at the turn of the century and works by Brancusi and Jaromir Funke introduce the first strands of modernism in the early 20th century. Highlights include Cameron’s fine life-sized portrait of Kate Keown which is estimated at £40/60,000 ($57/85,800), and Fenton’s Billiard Room at Mentmore (pictured), which is estimated to sell for £15/20,000 ($21//28,600). The entire collection is expected to bring £1.5 /2 million ($2.1/2.9 million).

APRIL 20 - 26, 2001 HIGHLIGHTS FROM LEWIS CARROLL’S ALICE ON EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK TO BE AUCTIONED AT SOTHEBY’S LONDON, JUNE 6TH, 2001

On June 6th, a magical collection of photographs, books, papers and other items belonging to the real Alice in Wonderland, Alice Pleasance (née Liddell) Hargreaves (1852-1934), will be sold in London on behalf of the Alice Family Trust. The collection is the largest and most significant of its kind in existence and was carefully preserved by Alice herself and her family over several generations. It is expected to fetch in the region of £2,000,000 ($2.9 million). Among the books is Alice’s own copy of the story created for her by Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, inscribed by Carroll “to her whose namesake one happy summer day inspired his story’’, which is estimated to sell for £200/300,000 ($286/429,000). Also of particular significance is the unique album of compelling images of the Liddell sisters and portraits of Carroll and his Oxford contemporaries, which is estimated to fetch £500/800,000 ($700,000/1 million). This album is the most important group of Carroll photographs in the world, and includes some of the most touching, enchanting and magical pictures of the sisters made in the late 1850s.

APRIL 19, 2001 SILVER, RUSSIAN WORKS OF ART AND OBJECTS OF VERTU

Highlighting this spring’s sale is an important selection of Fabregé from the Collection of Joan and Melissa Rivers. The group of 21 pieces includes not only one of royal provenance, but also items that were part of a major exhibition of Fabregé at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Chief among the notable pieces in the Rivers’ collection is a fine and rare Fabergé gold and enamel cigarette case, workmaster Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1900 (est. $70/90,000), pictured right. Once owned by Queen Alexandra, Queen Consort of Edward VII, daughter of Christian IX, King of Denmark and sister of Marie, Alexandrovna, Empress of Russia. Another highlight is a Fabergé carved nephrite, gold and enamel bonbonniere, St. Petersburg, circa 1903 (est. $40/60,000). Its carved nephrite body with gold rim has a hinged gold cover enameled translucent pink over a guilloché ground. The inside cover is marked with Cyrillic initials of workmaster Michael Perchin and the rim of the base is marked with the initials Henrik Wigstom. This piece was exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and at A La Vieille Russie.

APRIL 19 – 20, 2001 CELEBRATION OF THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE

This annual sale features paintings, sculpture, English ceramics, Chinese export porcelain, furniture and decorations. An extremely rare Chinese Paktong twelve-light chandelier form probably the mid 18th century will highlight the portion of the sale devoted to furniture and decoration. Chandeliers are one of two of the rarest forms of Chinese export art to have survived the 18th century and this example is estimated at $60/80,000. Another highlight among the furniture lots is a George I black-japanned and parcel-gilt cabinet on chest, circa 1715 and is estimated to sell for $20/30,000.

The sale once again offers a wide variety of British and Sporting paintings. Ranging from traditional portraits to shooting and fishing subjects, the sale will also contain a special section of maritime pictures featuring many fine paintings of ships by Montague Dawson. Dawson was one of the most exceptional British marine painters of his generation. The subject of his painting, The Coriolanus, is a Clyde-built clipper whose model gained the highest award at the 1877 Shipwrights Exhibition in London. The ship itself was built in 1876 by Archibald McMillan and Son in Dumbarton, Scotland and was owned by J. Patton, Jr. and Co. The painting is estimated at $70/100,000.

APRIL 23, 2001MAGNIFICENT JEWELS

This spring, Sotheby's sale of Magnificent Jewels presents a brilliant selection of jewelry originating from some of the most distinctive private collections and estates. The sale includes a range of rare and antique period pieces to modern and sophisticated designs, created by the most coveted and celebrated jewelry makers in the world including Cartier, Tiffany & Company, Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, Buccellati and Harry Winston. With more than 420 lots of graceful jewelry, highlights include a magnificent fancy colored diamond brooch, designed by Schlumberger, Tiffany & Co. (est. $300/350,000) set with a cushion-shaped fancy intense yellow old-mine diamond weighing 44.35 carats and a brilliant selection of diamond rings including a ruby and diamond ring (est.$500/700,000) weighing 7.44 carats of “Classic” Burmese origin, the highest pedigree a ruby can have.

APRIL 25, 2001PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

In a single-owner offering, Sotheby’s presents for sale approximately 350 photographs from The Museum of Modern Art expected to bring approximately $3 million. The sale focuses on the first half of the 20th century and includes outstanding examples of the work of such seminal artists as Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Walker Evans, and Man Ray. Among the highly desirable photographs to be offered are rare and early prints of pictures that are icons of modern photographic history. Notable is Edward Steichen’s Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France (est. $150/250,000), Walker Evans’s photograph of a photographer’s studio window, the Penny Picture Display, Savannah, 1936 (est. $150/250,000), and Alfred Stieglitz’s sensitive and expressive photograph of Dorothy Norman’s hands (est. $100/150,000).

APRIL 26, 2001PHOTOGRAPHS

Following the record-breaking April 2000 sale of Photographs from The Collection of 7-Eleven, Inc., Sotheby’s is pleased to offer a selection of photographs from the same collection in the April 2001 auction. Chief among the works consigned by 7-Eleven, Inc., is Paul Strand’s Central Park, New York (est. $70,000/100,00), a platinum print that was featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Paul Strand, Circa 1916 exhibition in 1998. Also from 7-Eleven are three large-format 19th-Century views of the American West, including Carleton E. Watkins’s El Capitan, 3600 Feet (est. $20/30,000) and Secret Town Trestle (est. $30/50,000), and a striking view of Vernal Fall (est. $20,000/30,000) in Yosemite by Eadweard Muybridge.

The auction also features a wide variety of material from other sources, including a fine group of surrealist photography highlighted by Man Ray’s provocative Reclining Nude (from the ‘La Priere’ series) (est. $70/100,000). Other Surrealist works include an untitled Rayograph (est. $40/60,000), and the Electricité portfolio (est. $30/40,000), by Man Ray, and Maurice Tabard’s photomontage Composition (est. $15/20,000). The auction features a strong selection of Contemporary photography, including two important and rare works by Francesca Woodman, as well as work by Thomas Struth, Nan Goldin, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sally Mann and Michael Kenna.

APRIL 26, 2001 THE JUSTICE WARREN SHEPRO COLLECTION OF CLOCKS

Sotheby’s New York offers collectors, connoisseurs and horologists one of the finest and most extensive collections of clocks to be amassed in this country with the sale of The Justice Warren Shepro Collection of Clocks. This collection celebrates one man’s passion for collecting timepieces, particularly his passion for acquiring some of the world’s rarest examples of Renaissance, English and French clocks. Mr. Shepro’s knowledgeable interest covered both the technical and the decorative merits of the timepieces. Among the highlights from this collection stands a Louis XVI important ormolu-mounted mahogany regulator with remontoire and Equation of Time, Robert Robin, Paris, circa 1790, (est. $200/300,000) and a rare, large gilt brass astronomical Augsburg quarter striking pedestal clock, German, mid-16th century(est. $130/150,000).

MAY 1, 200119TH CENTURY PAINTINGS

MAY 3-5, 2001OLD MASTER, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PRINTS

The section of Old Master Prints includes an early etching of The Raising of Lazarus: The Larger Plate by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn from circa 1632. In this bright, early impression, one truly sees the dramatic contrasts of the composition: the figure of Lazarus spotlighted as if by Christ’s gesture while the spectators shrink into the darkness in shock and terror. The sale also features an etching from Los Desastres de la Guerra by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. Escapan entre las Llamas (They escape through the flames) circa 1810 is estimated to bring $25/35,000. The first edition of Los Desastres was only published in 1863, well after Goya’s death. However, during his lifetime he printed proofs of the various plates, which differ significantly from the published edition. They are far more subtle and with a greater range of values. Many of these qualities are obscured in the 1863 edition, which was printed with heavy tone, dulling the figures and eclipsing the delicate hatching.

From the section of Modern Prints is a rare, complete set of progressive proofs of Pablo Picasso’s Jacqueline au Chapeau à Fleurs printed in 1962. Printed in color from a linoleum cut, the set of eight images features Picasso’s wife Jacqueline, and is estimated to sell for $120/150,000. Also included is a lithograph of Toulouse-Lautrec’s famous image, Moulin Rouge, La Goulue from 1891. The Moulin Rouge opened in 1889 and immediately Toulouse-Lautrec was fascinated with the atmosphere, and here captures variety star Louise Weber, called La Goulue (the glutton), in her erotic solo dance. Dating to 1891 the poster, which was widely displayed to advertise the new season at the Moulin Rouge, is estimated to fetch $150/180,000.

Included in the Contemporary section of the May print sale is a monumental portrait by Chuck Close of his daughter Georgia which is estimated at $30/40,000. Measuring 57 x 45 inches, the work of handmade paper pulp in 36 different gray tones is from an edition of 35, which originated from a collage made in 1984. As is often seen in Close’s work, the viewer is assaulted by the imposing scale of the work, but is presented with a paradox because of the sensitive and intimate treatment of the subject. Also featured is a set of ten screenprints of Mao by Andy Warhol from 1972, which is estimated to sell for $80/100,000. From an edition of 250, Warhol based his series on the photograph from the cover of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and published it in 1972, the same year during which President Nixon traveled to China.

MAY 8 - 9, 2001 “THE EYE OF A COLLECTOR”, THE COLLECTION OF STANLEY J. SEEGER

The highlight of Sotheby’s spring season in New York is an exceptional group of 130 paintings, drawings and sculpture from the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger. Mr. Seeger’s Collection, which is estimated to sell for $32-40 million, was acquired over the last 45 years and focuses on works of art made during the 20th Century by European and American artists. The Collection embraces works spanning the entire century from powerful depictions of the human figure by artists as diverse as Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele and Francis Bacon to quintessential Cubist works, such as a Georges Braque still life, a major Joan Miró from the Constellation series, key works by Jasper Johns and sculptures by Alexander Calder. While Mr. Seeger has always been a very private collector, his name became well-known in the auction world with Sotheby’s remarkably successful sale in 1993 of 88 works by Picasso which he owned. The sale exceeded its presale estimate and achieved a total of $32 million, with every single work finding a buyer. Highlights from the collection include Francis Bacon’s triptych, Study of the Human Body, 1979 (est. $4/6 million), Joan Miró’s Nocturne (est.$2.5/3.5 million) and Colored Alphabet by Jasper Johns (est. $2/3 million).

MAY 9 - 10, 2001 IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART

The evening sale is highlighted by one of the greatest German paintings left in private hands, Max Beckmann’s Self-Portrait with Horn which is estimated to sell for $7/10 million. Painted in Amsterdam in 1938, when Beckmann was in exile following the appearance of his name on the Nazi list of “degenerate” artists, the painting is being sold from the estate of his life-long patron, the late Dr. Stephan Lackner.

The Part I sale also includes exceptional works by, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Henri Matisse, and Claude Monet. Chief among the masterworks on offer is a superb still-life by Paul Cézanne entitled Pichet et fruits sur une table (est. $14/20 million). Cézanne’s still-lifes have long been recognized as among his greatest achievements, the works in which we can see most clearly the innovations that led to the stylistic developments that provided the foundations of twentieth-century art. Painted circa 1893-94, Cézanne used the earthenware jug seen here in six other canvases, and also familiar is the patterned blue drapery that appears in a number of still-lifes of the 1880s and 90s.

The sale also features one of the finest sculptures by Matisse to appear at auction, Figure decorative, estimated to sell for $10/15 million. Painting and sculpture are intertwined throughout his work, and Matisse frequently turned to the latter to resolve figural compositions. This work reflects not only the avant-garde movements of the time, such as

Fauvism and Cubism, but also draws upon the anatomies of African art and the facial features of Etruscan art. Figure decorative was conceived in 1908 and has remained in private hands since 1960.

MAY 15 – 16, 2001 CONTEMPORARY ART

Pop culture and high art collide in Jeff Koons’ artwork to reveal the truths of modern culture - especially its emphasis on materialism, celebrity, and consumerism. Nowhere is his genius for subverting reality more apparent than in his groundbreaking 1988 porcelain sculpture, “Michael Jackson and Bubbles.” Taking as his subject the undisputed King of Pop and his chimpanzee companion, Koons created a work that comments not only on Jackson’s unique celebrity, but on the very issues of identity and idolatry. The medium is very much the message in this sculpture, as porcelain’s slick and seamless surface mimics the impenetrable public image that Jackson created for himself. Koons has created a commentary on the pop star that is at once impenetrable and inherently fragile, an icon made of clay, glazed and gilded to perfection. This work was produced in an edition of three, and this is the first time that the sculpture has ever appeared at public auction. It carries an estimate of $3-4 million.

Highlights from the spring sale of Contemporary Art also include masterworks by Pollock, Rothko and Warhol, among others.

Jackson Pollock’s powerful canvas Black and White/Number 6, 1951 (est. $6/8 million) represents a period in the artist’s career when he felt compelled to abandon his earlier layering of entwined pastel colors and return to elemental black and white, drawn freely in glistening enamel upon sized linen. In these works Pollock found a way to move beyond his drip paintings by re-introducing the suggestion of the figure to his abstract painting style.

Mark Rothko’s genius for creating a dynamic dialogue between two opposing colors is immediately apparent in his painting Black and Red on Red, done in 1962. Although smaller in scale than his well-known canvases from the same prolific period, this oil on paper carries all of the emotional impact and formal beauty of his larger works. This painting’s palette is similar to two of his best-known commissions for Seagrams and Harvard University and is estimated to sell for $1/1.5 million.

In the early years of Pop Art, Andy Warhol was drawn to the image of the Campbell Soup can because it represented to him “everything that can be bought and sold” in America. In his 1962 painting Group of 5 Campbell Soup Cans,

Warhol rendered his images in precise, mechanical lines that predate his later use of screen prints. The painting comes from the internationally known collection of Karl Ströher and carries and estimate of $2.5/3.5 million.

MAY 19, 2001WINE

MAY 19, 2001AFRICAN, OCEANIC, PRE-COLUMBIAN & AMERICAN INDIAN ART

MAY 22, 2001 IMPORTANT EUROPEAN FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART

Highlighting Sotheby's spring sale is the first work by Tilman Riemenschneider to come up for auction in the United States, a rare and important Franconian Limewood figure of a Female Saint. The sculpture, one of only three works by the artist remaining in private hands in the United States, is estimated to sell for $1.5/2.5 million. Dated to circa 1515-20, the work was recently included in the acclaimed exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tilman Riemenschneider, Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages. The proceeds of the sale will benefit the newly established Leo and Karen Gutmann Foundation, which supports financially needy and academically meritorious graduate students in the fields of art history, archeology, and conservation and technology of works of art. Carved from a single piece of limewood, this figure is elaborately ornamented using at least nine different tools to represent the different texture and detailing of her clothing. Because of the nuances of the decoration, it is believed that she was not meant to be painted, as some works by the artist were.

MAY 23, 2001OLD MASTER PAINTINGS

The May sale of Old Master paintings features a rediscovered work by Gian Domenico Tiepolo, known to scholars only through photographs since the beginning of the last century. Christ and the Adulteress, signed and dated 1752 is estimated to sell for $2/3 million. The theme of Christ confronting the adulteress’ accusers and chastising them for

passing judgement is among the most poignant in Christian iconography and is a subject that Gian Domenico treated several times. In this canvas, Gian Domenico has chosen the adulteress as his main focus with Christ kneeling to her right. By placing Christ in a submissive and humble position, the artist has expressed one of the most important Christian tenets: teaching by example. An additional highlight of the sale is a still-life, Tulips, Roses, Carnations, Morning Lilies, an Iris, a Sunflower and Other Flowers, by Abraham Mignon (1640-70) which is estimated to sell for $2/3 million. The popularity of flower still-lifes in the 17th century was partly due to the interest in botany, and in particular flowers that emerged in the Netherlands around 1600. This work shows how the genre developed from the early, neatly organized style of Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder to the overflowing composition of precisely drawn flowers employed here by Mignon. Other highlights include works by important artists such as: Guido Reni, Louis Leopold Boilly, Nicolas de Largillierre, Francesco Solimena, Jacob van Ruisdael, Antoine Watteau and Canaletto.

MAY 23, 2001THE COLLECTION OF VILLA FIORENTINA, CAP-FERRAT

Sotheby's offers over 400 lots of custom furniture and fine art from the former residence of Mr. and Mrs. Harding Lawrence in the spring sale of The Collection of Villa Fiorentina, Cap-Ferrat. Noted American designer Billy Baldwin filled the couples’ captivating villa on the French Riviera with an eclectic mix of pieces including one-of-a-kind painted furniture, works by internationally recognized artists, groups of Chinese export porcelain, and elegant interior decorations. Most of the furniture surfaces are painted with decorative finishes, as in the case of a German rococo painted and parcel-gilt commode from the mid-18th century (est. $20/30,000) which is decorated with palm fronds and shell-carved panels. A George I black lacquer and parcel-gilt cabinet/secretaire on stand is decorated over the entire surface in the Chinese taste (est. $8/12,000) with golden pavilions and floral motifs. Another unique melding of Eastern and Western tastes can be seen in a Louis XVI ormolu-mounted ebony and Chinese lacquer cabinet from the late 17th or early 18th century (est. 20/30,000). In addition to Baldwin’s designs, the villa was enlivened by an equally eclectic art collection that spans the 18th to late 20th centuries. One of Mr. Lawrence’s favorite paintings, Milton Avery’s Pink Nude, a signed oil on canvas dated 1949, (est. $100/150,000) is a highlight of the sale which is estimated to bring a total of $2.5 to $3.5 million.

MAY 24, 2001AMERICAN PAINTINGS

Two works by the expatriate American artist John Singer Sargent highlight the sale this May. The earlier of the two paintings, Rosina – Capri (pictured left), was painted in August of 1878 during Sargent’s sojourn on the Mediterranean Island. The composition focuses on the dancing figure of Rosina Ferrara, an Ana–Capri girl who was a frequent model for the artist. The painting records a moment of free and impassioned dancing by the young girl accompanied by a female musician playing a tambourine and is estimated to sell for $5 to 7 million. Girl Fishing, from 1913, reflects Sargent’s departure from the society portraiture of Rosina to again turn his attention to the personal world. Increasingly, Sargent had sought refuge from the demands of portraiture in painting intimate scenes, such as this one, of his friends and family engaged in leisurely outdoor pursuits. Girl Fishing exemplifies these glimpses into the artist’s private world and is estimated to sell for $4 to 6 million.

MAY 31 – JUNE 1, 2001 LATIN AMERICAN ART

An exciting selection of works by recognized Latin masters are being offered this spring. Rufino Tamayo’s magnificent 1948 Serenata a la Luna (est. $600/800,000) is among the highlights, along with two works by Chilean born Surrealist Robert Echauren Matta. His fascinating 1938 painting Morphology of Desire (est. $600/800,000) once belonged to the artist Gordon Onslow Ford, and an untitled work from 1938 (est. $250/300,000) is among his most powerful and beautiful of his works on paper. Leonora Carrington’s enchanging Les Chats, 1940 (est. $100/150,000) was formerly in the collection of famed Surrealist collector Edward James. From another member of the Paris Surrealists, Cuban Wilfredo Lam, come two beautiful large-scale gouaches, L’offrande ($80/100,000) and Femme Assisse ($60/80,000), along with an oil on canvas, La Rose Zombie (est. $200/250,000). This sale marks the first time that Fernando Botero’s 1982 monumental bronze sculpture Torso will be offered at auction. SOTHEBYS.COM will also be offering special sales of Latin American art online during the two-week period surrounding the live sales.

JUNE 4, 2001CONTEMPORARY WORKS OF ART

Since 1992, Sotheby’s has held an annual sale devoted exclusively to works of art, created after WWII, in traditional craft media including ceramics, glass, fiber, metal and wood. While this sale has historically taken place in March,

this year, to coincide with the 4th annual SOFA NEW YORK, the International Exposition of Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art, the sale takes place in June, alongside Sotheby’s regular sale of 20th Century Decorative Works of Art. Highlighting the sale is Untitled Stack Vessel by Peter Voulkos executed in 1986. Voulkos was an instrumental figure in the growth of the ceramics movement beginning in the 1950’s. His dynamic vessel pieces challenged the conventional hierarchy of western pottery. Made of thrown and altered wood-fired stoneware, the piece is estimated to bring $50/75,000. Also featured is Venetian, a blown glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly. Executed in 1990, the piece is estimated to sell for $25/35,000. Also included is a laminated and carved cherry wood Two Seater by Wendell Castle from 1977 which is estimated to bring $25/40,000.

JUNE 4, 200120TH CENTURY WORKS OF ART

JUNE 5 – 7, 2001 THE COLLECTION OF MARSHALL B. COYNE

Sotheby’s is pleased to offer art and rare books from the extensive collection of Washington D.C. hotelier Marshall B. Coyne in a single-owner sale this June. Marshall B. Coyne, the man who presided over the Washington, D.C. hospitality world for nearly forty years, amassed an impressive collection of fine and decorative arts, rare books and manuscripts in his Massachusetts Avenue mansion. While hosting kings, queens, diplomats and dignitaries at the Madison Hotel, he filled his stately home with an unequalled collection of 19th Century works of art. Highlighting this portion of the sale is one of the largest collections of bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye entitled War and Peace (est. $50/70,000 ) as well as an important painting by Rosa Bonheur entitled The Duel (est. $200/300,000). As a collector of fine art and rare books and manuscripts, Mr. Coyne maintained the same high standards of quality and style that he used to make the Madison Washington’s premier hotel.

The Library of Marshall B. Coyne includes both manuscripts and printed books. As befitted the owner of the Madison Hotel, the manuscript portion is particularly rich in letters and documents by the fourth president. Among the spectacular James Madison items are a 32-page autograph manuscript discussing the Constitution and its framers (est. $80/120,000) in addition to a partial draft of his message to Congress about the War of 1812. Another extraordinary highlight is a bold and clean autograph transcription of Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” which is estimated to sell for $80/120,000. The entire collection is estimated to bring $8/10 million.

JUNE 7, 2001SPORTING PAINTINGS

JUNE 12, 2001ANTIQUITIES

JUNE 13, 2001JEWELRY

JUNE 14, 2001ARCADE JEWELRY

JUNE 19, 2001

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JUNE 27, 2001 BOOKS

JUNE 28, 200119TH CENTURY AND OLD MASTER PAINTINGS

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