Sale 8546
New York, Park Avenue
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4 December 1996
Price realised
USD 9,200
Estimate
Olaf Carl Wieghorst (1899-1988) A Group of Six Works: Profile of Indian; Indian with Braids; A Spinner; Indian on Horse; An Apache; A Blackfoot the first: signed with initials 'O.W.' lower center and inscribed 'To Harriet Happy Birthday 1969 Mae and Olaf Wieghorst' lower center; the second: signed with intials 'O.W.' lower center and inscribed 'Merry Xmas Olaf Wieghorst 1980' lower left; the third: signed with intials 'O.W.' and signed 'O. Wieghorst' lower right and inscribed with title lower left; the fourth: signed 'O. Wieghorst' lower left; the fifth: signed with initals 'O.W.' lower left and inscribed with title and 'Original by O. Wieghorst' lower center; the sixth: signed 'O. Wieghorst' lower center and inscribed with title lower right and 'original sketch by O. Wieghorst' lower left the first and second: watercolor on paper; the third: etching; the fourth: pen and ink on paper; the fifth and sixth: watercolor and pen and ink on paper the first: 6½ x 4 3/8in. (16.5 x 11.4cm.); the second: 7 x 5½in. (17.8 x 14cm.); the third: 5½ x 7¼in. (14 x 18.3cm.); the fourth: 6¾ x 6in. (17.2 x 15.3cm.); the fifth and sixth: 10 x 7½in. (25.4 x 19cm.) (6)
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Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY OF A LONG ISLAND COLLECTOR
Specialist Joy McCall answers key questions for collectors of the glassmaker’s exquisite pieces. Illustrated with lots offered in the Lalique sale on 15 May
Offered in May, a 1916 canvas that was included in every major survey of Malevich’s Suprematist works during his lifetime, and which revolutionised modern art