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| Granville Redmond - Spring in Southern California |
I enjoy following auctions, not because I am searching for new pictures to place above the couch - it is nice to dream though - but because I like seeing the little-known treasures which come to light during that all-too-brief period before the gavel bangs, and the work goes back into hiding on a new person's wall (above their much nicer couch). Sometimes, my bated anticipation of annual auctions only leads to great disappointment; the sale comes up like clockwork, but the offerings just do not. It is almost a shame to hold the auction until more works present themselves in order to really fill out the available lots.
But occasionally a sale comes up which is a shame to hold, but for an entirely different reason. The artworks are so good as a group, that they should not be split up.
Such is the case with Bonham's upcoming auction of
California & Western Paintings & Sculpture, being held later this month. “This is the strongest selection of top California and Western paintings that we have organized in years," says Scot Levitt, Vice President and Fine Arts Department Director at Bonhams. "Many of these paintings are the best works we have offered by top artists such as Rose, Redmond, Fortune, Reiffel and Berninghaus. The market has rebounded considerably and our prediction is that this should be a stellar sale with record results.”
I wish I were able to see the previews of this auction in person. If Bonham's were just to put a lock on the door, and call the array a museum, it would be a good museum, and it would probably draw a lot of visitors, including, at some point, me. And as it is unlikely that a single buyer will take possession of the entire group with public display in mind, nor that the collection will spend time touring the country before the items in it go their separate ways, my only consolation is that the catalog is now
online.
Bonham's
California & Western Paintings & Sculpture will begin previews later this week in San Francisco before moving to Los Angeles the week after. The auction itself will be held in Los Angeles on April 30th at 6:00 PM PDT, and will be simulcast in Bonham's San Francisco facility.
Viewing Times
San Francisco
April 19, 2013 - April 21, 2013 / 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM daily
Los Angeles
April 26, 2013 - April 28, 2013 / 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM daily
Bonham's is located at 220 San Bruno Avenue in San Francisco, and at 7601 W. Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit Bonham's
website.
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| William Franklin Jackson - A Landscape with Poppies and Lupine |
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| Granville Redmond - Poppies on a Hillside |
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| Maurice Braun - California Splendor |
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| Benjamin Chambers Brown - Wildflowers on Rolling Hills |
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| Granville Redmond - Valley Splendor |
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| Granville Redmond - Poppy Field Near Millbrae |
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| Percy Gray - Green Valley |
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| Edgar Payne - Oaks with Blue Hills Beyond |
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| Alexis Matthew Podchernikoff - San Ynez Lake |
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| Edgar Payne - Mountains at Sunset, Santa Barbara |
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| Edgar Payne - Altadena Dawn |
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| John Marshall Gamble - Morning Mists, Wild Lilac |
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| Howard Russell Butler - Early Moonrise with Mountains in the Distance |
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| Franz Arthur Bischoff - Waves on a Rocky Coast |
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| Marion Kavanagh Wachtel - Yellow Sycamores |
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| Elmer Wachtel - Topanga |
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| Jack Wilkinson Smith - Mount Ritter, High Sierras |
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| Edgar Payne - Rae Lake, Sierra Nevada |
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| Edgar Payne - A Road to Alpine Homes |
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| Paul A. Grimm - Desert Slopes |
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| Paul A. Grimm - The Desert in All It's Glory |
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| Dedrick B. Stuber - Carmel Bay |
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| William Frederick Ritschel - Rockbound Coast |
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| Alan Wolton - Rocky Coastal Scene |
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| Thaddeus Welch - Southeast Farallon Island and Tower Bay |
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| Edgar Payne - Sunlight on Brittany Boats |
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| Edgar Payne - Boats off Concarneau |
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| Frank William Cuprien - The Golden Hour |
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| Guy Rose - Moonlight - Arch Beach, Laguna |
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| James Swinnerton - Walpi, Arizona |
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| Edgar Payne - Indians on Horseback Riding Through Canyon de Chelly |
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| Joseph Henry Sharp - The Old Chief's Query |
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| Oscar Edmund Berninghaus - Tracks on the Trail |
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| Charles Schreyvogel - The Scout |
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| Michael Coleman - Blackfeet Camp |
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| Robert Elmer Lougheed - IPacking in Truchas Country |
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| Duncan Gleason - Aloha |
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| Anna Althea Hills - Wind Blown, Laguna Beach Near Arch Beach |
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| Joseph Kleitsch - A View Across the Lake, Saugatuck, Michigan |
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| Wilson Henry Irvine - Old St. Ives |
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| Guy Rose - At Duck Cove |
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| E. Charlton Fortune - The Señora's Garden |
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| Theodore Wores - A Hillside in Saratoga; A Saratoga Road |
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| Granville Redmond - Study for Tiburon, California |
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| Elmer Wachtel - High Sierra Lake |
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| Arthur Grover Rider - Coming Storm |
