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8 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — October 16, 2015
Auction Action In Jackson, Wyo.
“Hope of the Confederacy” by G. Harvey’s made $263,250.
Albert Bierstadt’s “Wind River Range, Wyoming” was top lot at $800,000.
“Olympic House” by Richard Schmid brought $111,150.
Setting an auction record was Jenness Cortez’s
“Four American Visionaries” at $128,700.
“White Water Passage” by Martin
Grelle sold for $157,590.
Western Art Fetches $6.5 Million
At Jackson Hole Art Auction
“Good Medicine” by Howard Terpning realized $228,150.
PIONEER VALLEY ANTIQUES
DEALERS ASSOCIATION
11th Annual Show
NEW LOCATION
SUNDAY OCTOBER 25, 2015
10:00 AM TO 4:00 PM
Elks Lodge
17 Spring Street
Florence section of
Northampton, MA
ADMISSION $5.00
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FOR UP TO 2 PEOPLE
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JACKSON, WYO. — The ninth annual Jackson
Hole Art Auction on September 18–19, hosted
by Trailside Galleries and the Gerald Peters
Gallery, attained $6.5 million in sales, established 18 new artist world auction records and
resulted in an 81 percent sell-through rate of
the 304 lots on offer.
Among the auction records were “Four American Visionaries” by Jenness Cortez, which realized $128,700. Both days of the sale saw enthusiastic bidding across a variety of genres, strong
floor attendance and robust remote bidding.
The cover lot, Albert Bierstadt’s “Wind River
Range, Wyoming,” fetched $800,000. Additional
top sales included Carl Rungius’s “Grizzly
Bear” at $269,100 and G. Harvey’s “Hope of the
Confederacy” for $263,250. Howard Terpning’s
“Good Medicine” realized $228,150, while Martin Grelle’s dramatic “White Water Passage,”
created specifically for this auction garnered
$157,590.
Richard Schmid’s “Olympic House” brought
$111,150 and Jackson Hole Art Auction continues to hold the world record price for Richard
Schmid.
Wildlife offerings, a staple of Jackson Hole Art
Auctions, also yielded healthy results: Bob
Kuhn’s “Cheetahs on a Termite Hill” went for
$204,750 and “Winter Browse-Mule Deer” realized $87,750.
The Top Tier jury selected Z.S. Liang’s “The
Holy Rattle (Elkwater Lake Battle, 1864)” for
the merit award. The painting realized
$111,150.
All prices reported include the buyer’s premium.
For additional information, www.jacksonholeartauction.com or 866-549-9278.
‘Charles Pollock: Black To Color’
On View At Jason McCoy Gallery
NEW YORK CITY — Jason
McCoy Gallery is presenting
“Charles Pollock: Black to
Color” through November 13.
Drawing from three series of
the artist’s oeuvre from the
1960s — “Black and Gray,”
“Rome” and “New York” — this
selected group of large-scale
paintings aims to document
Charles Pollock’s transition
from relatively monochrome
abstractions to explorations
related to color field painting.
Completed in Michigan in the
early 1960s, the “Black and
Gray” series is characterized by
large, irregular shapes stemming from torn paper collages,
sharply contrasted with monochromatic backgrounds. Set
against subdued variations of
gray, these forms appear both
rooted and amorphous; though
black, their edges seem unrestricted.
Pollock’s subsequent “Rome”
series introduces subtle explorations of color. Named after
their place of origin, where the
artist took a sabbatical year
from teaching in 1962–63, these
paintings embrace dark silhouettes that establish a haunting
effect, allowing for a more direct
relationship between the viewer
and the painting. By the late
1960s, Pollock was focusing
exclusively on color.
In his “New York” series, which
marked Pollock’s return to New
York City after an absence of 33
years, biomorphic shapes have
been replaced with vertical
quasi-geometric
structures.
Born in Denver, Pollock’s interest in the work of Max Weber,
Orozco, Rivera and Thomas
Hart Benton took him to New
York in 1926. There, he studied
with Benton at the Art Students League and soon became
his assistant and friend. These
totemic forms evoke color
stacks, which are sometimes
slanted diagonally. Emanating
a strong transcendental quality,
these ethereal constructs seem
to be floating in space, at once
emergent from and receding
into the surrounding atmosphere.
Jason McCoy Gallery is at 41
East 57th Street. For information, www.jasonmccoyinc.com
or 212-319-1996.