This month’s Auction Block features a lithograph by Roy Lichtenstein, a pastel by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, an oil painting on silk by Vietnamese and French artist Le Pho, a pair of hand-painted porcelain vases and an antique pendant necklace.
Bonhams
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Pastel on Paper
Sold for: $23,040
Part of Bonhams’ Modern Native American Art & Jewelry auction, this untitled pastel on paper by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith was painted in 1986. Framed under glass, it is inscribed in the lower left corner, “For RC Gorman with admiration,” and signed at lower right, “JQTS Smith.” Smith, who died on Jan. 24, aged 85, was an enrolled citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The highly regarded artist was also an educator, a political activist and a storyteller.
Freeman’s | Hindman
A Pair of Hand-Painted and Gilt Paris Porcelain Vases
Estimate: $1,000–$2,000
Sold for: $11,520
Part of the Freeman’s | Hindman Collect: Americana auction, this pair of hand-painted porcelain vases sold for over five times the high estimate. One depicts the Marquis de Lafayette and the other Andrew Jackson. The vases, 13 inches tall, were made in Paris around 1830 for the American market. Each has a red-painted accession number reading “83.10.”
Christie’s
“Blonde” from Surrealist Series by Roy Lichtenstein
Estimate: $25,000–$35,000
Sold for: $69,300
Titled “Blonde,” this 1978 lithograph from Roy Lichtenstein’s “Surrealist Series” sold for just under twice its high estimate at Christie’s Contemporary Edition: New York auction. Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 25/38 and published by Gemini G.E.L., the framed piece, in good condition, has Gemini’s stamps on the reverse. A star of the Pop Art movement, painter Roy Lichtenstein died in 1997.
The Potomack Company
Les Tulipes Rouges et Les Fleurs de Pommier Oil on Silk
Estimate: $30,000–$50,000
Sold for: $65,000
This title of this oil painting on silk, mounted on Masonite, translates as “Red Tulips and Apple Blossoms.” Vietnamese and French artist Le Pho developed his technique of painting on silk after a visit to Paris. It allowed him to create subtle, luminous still lifes, mixing Eastern and European influences.
Doyle
Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Sold for: $12,800
This antique necklace sold for more than two-and-a-half times its high estimate. The oval pendant displays a pear-shaped turquoise, a cushion-shaped ruby and two pear-shaped, rose-cut diamonds. With a chain 19 ¾ inches long, the necklace was the property of a New York art collector.
