News from Hudson Valley Auctioneers

Hudson Valley Auctioneers, located at 432 Main Street, Beacon, New York will present a one owner antique and estate auction with absentee, phone and online bidding through Liveauctioneers.com on Monday September 23rd at 5:00 PM EST. featuring American Portraits and Paintings, Folk Art & Signs from the estate of Alfred Selnick.

Mr Selnick began his working career in a contractor’s office, after a year there he spent the next 8 years with an architectural-engineering firm, where he rose to the position of chief structural engineer.

In his long and distinguished career Mr. Selnick was a consultant for an extremely diversified array of structures including hospitals, hotels, industrial use buildings, cargo buildings, airports, theaters, schools, libraries, museums, shopping malls & stores.

His interests extended to woodworking and had built two large workshops in his Hillsdale NY home and showroom.

His particular interest was in turning bowls and creating useful objects for his family and friends.

Mr. Selnick’s interests in collecting folk art began after meeting Phyliss Solomon in the late 1960’s, they shared an appreciation for the arts and Phyllis began acquiring American portraiture.

She had become a volunteer at the American Folk Art Museum in NYC and her enthusiasm spurred Alfred’s serious pursuit of objects that spoke to the connection every collector shares with their personal passion

Their home and separate gallery on a mountainside in Hillsdale, designed by Alfred were perfectly suited to display both of the collections.

The auction has combined both collections for this public offering with a cataloged sale of artwork, folk art and signage, followed by an uncatalogued session of various other items, all to be offered in person, and on liveauctioneers.com.

Copies of the catalog may be ordered from the auction house.

Hudson Valley Auctioneers, located at 432 Main Street, Beacon, New York will present an unreserved antique and estate auction with absentee, phone and online bidding through Liveauctioneers.com on Monday August 12 at 5:00 PM EST.  In house previews are Sunday 8/11 from 1pm-5pm and Monday from 2-4:30 pm or by appointment beginning 7/29. The sale includes select items from estates in Rhinebeck, Peekskill, Brooklyn, Ho-Ho-Kus and other locales.

The sale begins at 5:00 pm with a vintage toy and collectable lot from a New Jersey estate including three gas powered copters, a Marklin steam toy, early tin carousel, large set Trix trains, tin cars and 70's/80's tv inspired items. The estate also yielded some fine estate jewelry and some Mid Century furnishings and artwork. 

Hudson Valley Auctioneers, located at 432 Main Street, Beacon, New York will present an unreserved antique and estate auction with absentee, phone and online bidding through Liveauctioneers.com on Monday June 17th at a 3:00 PM EST beginning with an incomparable collection of period Hollywood movie and stars related magazines and ephemera from the Estate of Paul Trent. In house previews are Sunday 6/16 from 1pm-5pm and Monday from 12 noon- 2:30pm or by appointment beginning 6/7.

The sale includes select items from estates in Woodstock, Putnam Valley, Scarsdale, Carmel and other locales.

The Paul Trent collection was housed in a large Victorian mansion on a bluff in Hastings on Hudson, Trent, a Mercy College professor, writer, and producer, started collecting ephemera and memorabilia when he was 14 years old, born in 1940 he amassed an extensive collection of material included in the auction in addition to thousands of items available through direct sale prior to and during the preview. 

The general sale begins at 5:00 pm with Asian items highlighted by two exceptional wood carved gilt Japanese figures, Chinese coins, various porcelains and four stone archer rings.

Hudson Valley Auctioneers, located at 432 Main Street, Beacon, New York will present an unreserved antique and estate auction with absentee, phone and online bidding through Liveauctioneers.com on Monday May 6th at 5:00 PM EST. in house previews are Sunday 5/5 from 1pm-5pm and Monday from 2PM- 4:30pm or by appointment beginning 4/20. The sale includes select items from estates in Woodstock, Cold Spring, Mahopac, Rhinebeck, Carmel and other locales.

Furniture selections from early to recent feature a fine early Phyfe style sideboard, several old cupboards, two Welsh cupboards, a rare double 19th century architects drafting desk,a selection of oak Gothic Revival pieces, a bronze mounted gilded marble top pier table, a pair signed Westport chairs from the same Maine coastal estate our past offering came from and some good 19th century garden. Mid Century highlights include a pair of BoConcept swan chairs, a rare Baker sideboard, a pair of Schumacher Furnishings mirrored cabinets, LeCorbusier lounges and sofa, a pair ofJohannes Anderson for Moreddi teak chairs, a large Omni wall unit, a complete Harvey Probber bedroom suite sold separately, a fine Harvey Probber desk, a FLW for Henredon single headboard and a Wittman authorized Joseph Hoffman settee.

Hudson Valley Auctioneers, located at 432 Main Street, Beacon, New York announces two upcoming auctions in February on consecutive dates with absentee, phone and online bidding through Liveauctioneers.com. The first sale is part two of, and the final offering of, the recently discovered cache of artworks executed by Marzette Watts. 

Following the success of our October 9th 2023 sale featuring 150 pieces, the remaining watercolors, woodblocks and charcoals of the enigmatic social activist, musician and artist will be sold. A color catalog of the offering is available along with a comprehensive catalog of the October sale including his biography is available for $20.00 plus postage from the gallery or during the preview. 

The sale will be held Sunday afternoon, February 25th at 4:00 PM with an in house preview Sunday 1pm-3:30 pm.                                                                           

On Sunday the 25th an additional preview of items included in the next day's auction, scheduled for Monday February 26th at 5:00 PM, will be available for viewing.                                                                                                   Monday's sale features three sales in one. 

The first 75 lots consist of a one owner estate collection of Southern face jugs by various makers including W.T. McLennan, Dwayne and Brandon Crocker, M. Pittman, Bob Shields, Bob Armfied, Mike Hanning, Kenneth George, Frank Van Dorsten and many others.