Post War & Contemporary Art 
24 May 2022
Post War & Contemporary Art 
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Charles Sheeler 1883–1965

Tree Trunk

1923
charcoal on rice paper 10 h × 8⅛ w in (25 × 21 cm)
estimate: $8,000–12,000
result: $11,250
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Signed and dated to lower right ‘Charles Sheeler 1923’.
provenance: Estate of the Artist | Estate of Musya Sheeler (artist's wife) | Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York | Acquired from the previous in 1982 by the present owner, Private Collection, Texas
exhibited: Charles Sheeler: The Works on Paper, 10 February - 20 April 1974, Terry Dintenfass, New York | Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), Classic Themes: Paintings, Drawings and Photographs, 10 - 30 May 1980, Terry Dintenfass, New York
literature: Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, unpaginated

This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.

Charles Sheeler

This present lot is one of several that come from an important private collection in Texas. The collectors, generous patrons of the arts, amassed an exceptional selection of works bridging the modern and post war period in America.

191 Ella Bergmann-Michel

B 188

estimate: $7,000–9,000

result: $10,625

192 Thomas Nozkowski

Untitled

estimate: $10,000–15,000

result: $8,750

193 Werner Drewes

Resurgence

estimate: $6,000–8,000

result: $11,250

194 Thomas Nozkowski

Untitled

estimate: $10,000–15,000

result: $21,250

195 Werner Drewes

Untitled (A588)

estimate: $3,000–5,000

196 Ella Bergmann-Michel

Archimedes eins (Archimedes I)

estimate: $6,000–8,000

result: $37,500

197 Penrod Centurion

Composition (Black and Red Fugue)

estimate: $2,500–3,500

result: $20,000

198 Dwinell Grant

Accents

estimate: $1,000–1,500

result: $3,000

199 John von Wicht

Converging Forces

estimate: $1,000–1,500

result: $2,750

200 Dwinell Grant

Untitled (eight works)

estimate: $2,000–3,000

result: $8,750

201 Arthur N. Christie

Land Ho!

estimate: $1,000–1,500

result: $2,000

202 Janet Todd Young

Untitled

estimate: $600–800

result: $500

203 Sir Terry Frost

Whiteout

estimate: $2,000–3,000

result: $2,000

204 Elizabeth Morgan Campbell

Fugue VI

estimate: $2,000–3,000

result: $10,625

205 Frederick Kann

Untitled

estimate: $1,500–2,500

result: $1,375

206 Elizabeth Morgan Campbell

Sea Wave (Study for the Sea Wave series)

estimate: $800–1,000

result: $1,500

207 James Guy

Untitled Abstraction

estimate: $2,500–3,500

result: $6,500

208 Ralph Rosenborg

Untitled (E-289)

estimate: $700–900

result: $1,875

209 Robert Jay Wolff

Untitled

estimate: $600–800

result: $768

210 Hannelore Baron

Untitled (B81044)

estimate: $10,000–15,000

212 Hannelore Baron

Untitled (B84034)

estimate: $6,000–8,000

213 Gugger Petter

Five People with One Dog #1

estimate: $2,500–3,500

result: $12,500

214 Hannelore Baron

Untitled (C86072)

estimate: $1,500–2,500

result: $2,375

215 Robert Graham

Cherie Fragment

estimate: $6,000–8,000

result: $5,625

216 Clyde Connell

People Puppets

estimate: $1,000–1,500

result: $1,500

217 John Frederick Mowbray-Clarke

Embrace

estimate: $1,200–1,800

result: $4,000

218 Clyde Connell

Football Woman

estimate: $800–1,200

result: $1,500

219 Will Henry Stevens

Untitled

estimate: $6,000–8,000

result: $52,500

220 Will Henry Stevens

Untitled (Landscape)

estimate: $2,500–3,500

result: $4,875

221 B.J.O. Nordfeldt

Logs Drifting

estimate: $8,000–12,000

result: $16,250

222 Will Henry Stevens

Untitled

estimate: $2,500–3,500

223 Howard Schleeter

El Bulto

estimate: $1,000–1,500

result: $4,940

224 Howard Schleeter

Landscape Variations

estimate: $1,000–1,500

result: $4,750

225 Charles Sheeler

Delmonico Building

estimate: $8,000–12,000

result: $7,500

226 Louis Lozowick

Industrial Complex

estimate: $4,000–6,000

result: $4,375

227 Howard Norton Cook

Financial District, Old New York

estimate: $3,000–5,000

result: $5,250

228 Charles Sheeler

Tree Trunk

estimate: $8,000–12,000

result: $11,250

229 Charles Sheeler

Roses

estimate: $5,000–7,000

result: $8,750

230 Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Still Life with Columbine and Yellow Flower

estimate: $2,000–3,000

result: $15,000

231 Miklos Suba

Our Yard No. 4

estimate: $1,000–1,500

result: $1,000

232 Jackson Lee Nesbitt

Fractionation Towers at Baytown Refinery

estimate: $7,000–9,000

result: $26,250

233 Robert Baard Peterson

Two Eggs

estimate: $800–1,200

result: $2,750

234 Edmund Lewandowski

Amish Farmscape #4

estimate: $6,000–8,000

result: $8,125

235 Xanthus Russell Smith

Cape May Landing

estimate: $700–900

result: $1,625

236 William Sidney Mount

Sketch of the Artist's Mother

estimate: $700–900

result: $5,000
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