Antiques Trade Gazette 27


Above left: Untitled (29.1.94) by Gerhard Richter, $195,000 from Barbara Mathes Gallery during Master Drawings New York. Above right: St. Francis Marrying Poverty, c.1633, by Andrea Sacchi, $25,000 from Mia N. Weiner.


MASTER DRAWINGS While the Winter Show takes place at the Park Avenue Armory, the surrounding galleries of the Upper East Side play host to 23 dealers from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Spain and Germany from January 21 to 28 for the sixth Master Drawings New York. This is the younger cousin of Master


Drawings London, launched in 2001, and follows the same model of a series of coordinated exhibitions in various galleries within walking distance of each other, showing works on paper from the 16th to 20th centuries. The event is organised by Margot


Gordon, the New York-based dealer, and English dealer Crispian Riley-Smith, founder of the London event, and all galleries will host a preview evening on Friday, January 20 from 4 to 8 pm. There are three new participants for


2012 – Pia Gallo from New York, Laura Pecheur from Paris and Moeller Fine Art of Berlin and New York. But only two British dealers will make the trip this time – Crispian Riley-Smith himself, who will take


Right: Study of Horses by


Franz Skarbina (1849-1910), a signed 15 x 19in (39 x 48cm) black and white chalk drawing on pink paper, $2500


from Nissman Abromson.


Above: golfing plate from the Peter Frelinghuysen Jr collection to be sold by Christie’s. Estimate $20,000-30,000.


EXPORT PORCELAIN FOR several years now, January has been a popular slot for the big New York rooms to offer single-owner collections of Chinese Export porcelain. The material seems to chime well with


those in town for the Americana sales, the Winter show and the ceramics fair. For January 2012 the big-ticket export


over Shepherd and Derom Galleries at 58 East 79th Street, for his show, and Lowell Libson who will be at Mitchell- Innes & Nash, 1018 Madison Avenue. The Connecticut-based Old Master


drawings specialistMia N. Weiner will be exhibiting at L’Antiquaire and the Connoisseur, 36 East 73rd Street. A highlight of her display is a red chalk, pen and brown ink study of St. Francis Marrying Poverty, c.1633, by Andrea Sacchi (1599-1661), a preparatory drawing for the painting in the Galleria Nazionale


d’Arte Antica, Rome. The 9½in x 7½in (24 x 19cm) drawing


was previously in the collection of Jonathan Richardson Jr and is priced at $25,000. Utterly different is a 1994 abstract


by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), Untitled (29.1.94), which will be on show at Barbara Mathes Gallery, dealers in modern and contemporary art at 22 East 80th Street. The signed, 11¾ x 16¼in (30 x 41cm) oil on paper is priced at $195,000. www.masterdrawingsnewyork.com


property is the collection of the late Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Jr who died earlier this year. A long-serving US Congressman, he was a man with the collecting gene in his blood (his grandparents were the legendary Impressionist art collectors H.O. and Louisine Havemeyer). Frelinghuysen collected export porcelain


throughout this life. His tastes leant towards pieces made for the American market; items with historical or political associations; a small group of Mexican-market wares and, as a reflection of his family heritage, examples with Dutch armorials. The 160-lot sale on January 24


immediately follows the auctioneers’ January 23 mixed-owner sale of Chinese Export ceramics and China trade paintings. Every collection worth its salt will have at


least one good example of a punchbowl. The Frelinghuysen property features two:


Right: 17th century floral still life by


Daniel Seghers – estimated at $40,000-60,000 at Doyle.


DOYLE NEW YORK Manhattan auctioneers Doyle will also be in action in late January, offering English and Continental furniture, works of art and Old Master paintings on the 25th. The Old Masters will include a 2ft 9in x 2ft (84.5


x 61cm) Flemish floral still life by Daniel Seghers (1590-1661), consigned from the estate of a New York private collector, which is estimated at $40,000- 60,000. The furniture will include a pair of mahogany


needlework-upholstered George III mahogany library armchairs and a 6ft 6in (1.98m) wide Regency painted and parcel-gilt console. The chairs, described as in the manner of Paul


Saunders, c.1760, are estimated at $15,000-30,000. The console, with a verde antico marble top above an acanthus-carved apron inset with monogram, raised on eagle supports, is guided at $30,000-50,000. wwwdoylenewyork.com


a 16in (40cm) diameter pair painted en grisaille with the Battle of the Saintes when Admiral Rodney defeated the French fleet and ended France’s ambitions to conquer Jamaica. Dated a couple of years later than the


1782 battle, the punchbowls are guided at $30,000-50,000. Another highlight will be a late 18th


century plate decorated with golfing scenes. Golfing subjects on export porcelain


are of the utmost rarity. This most unusual piece is very obviously derived from a print source which the artist has not attempted to adapt to a circular format, simply reproducing the images as two horizontal panels. The 9¾in (25cm) diameter piece is


guided at $20,000-30,000. www.christies.com


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