News from Hudson Valley Auctioneers

Hudson Valley Auctioneers, located at 432 Main Street, Beacon, New York will present an early spring absentee, phone bid and online antique and estate auction offered through liveauctioneers.com on Monday March 29th at 5:00 PM EST.

A gallery preview will be held Sunday 3/28 from 1-5 and Monday beginning at 2pm and ending at 4:30. The  unreserved 400 lot sale combines items from several local estates and collections including the New York apartment of former Michigan State Senator Jack Faxon, furniture from the estate of former antiques dealer Joan White, Monroe NY and a Poughkeepsie NY antiquarian and dealer as well as gallery and other additions.

The Faxon estate offered up an excellent collection Persian and other carpets, several lots of antique leaded and beveled glass as well as several interesting pieces of architectural iron artifacts and period brutalist sculpture. Lots of good 19th century country and period furniture is well represented with a tiger maple slant desk, a tall cherry chest of drawers and a rare set of six early 19th century chairs from the White estate. Artwork scattered through the evening includes several fine lithos including two  Rene Magritte portfolios and T. Benton among others as well as artworks by Althea Platt, Arnold Plancer, Harry Stoner, Chester B. Price and A. Leydenfrost to name a few.

A collection of studio pottery mainly from the estate of Herbert Sargeant includes several groups of his pieces as well as works by Marion Vlosky, Warren Mackenzie, Kylikki Salmanharra, Bethel Pike, and others. A final wrap up of the Westchester estate that has been featured in the last several sales provided a nice selection of period Art Deco furniture, a classic Noguchi coffee table,  a pair of Selig Milo Baughman chairs and several other lots from the middle of last century.

Items from a former Poughkeepsie retired book dealer include several early machines; roller organs, traveling victrolas, early maps and books, Asian items such as a fine bronze Budhha, Japanese mixed metal, porcelains and textiles. 

Other highlights bound to attract attention include several hundred ounces of sterling silver flatware and hollowware and a large collection of fine estate jewelry,  another offering of original John Floyd Yewell architectural renderings, several classical antique bronzes, a Herman Koenig violin, several carriage clocks and a remarkable early 19th century iron vault door mounted as sculpture. 

Pickup of all items is by safety protocol Tuesday March 30th from 10am to 3pm and daily thereafter 9-3:30 or by appointment. Shipping is by third party vendors only.

Hudson Valley Auctioneers, located at 432 Main Street, Beacon, New York will present an unreserved absentee, phone bid and online antique and estate auction through Liveauctioneers.com on Friday January 1st at 1:00 PM.

The sale features the estate of a longtime Westchester County NY decorator and collector whose love and appreciation for Arts and Crafts, modern and Art Deco items is reflected in the 400 lots offered. Leading the sale will be a rare eggshell polychrome lacquer low table signed Jean Dunand. 

A large collection of American and continental art pottery, art glass, table clocks, and burl Art Deco and Mid Century furniture will be scattered throughout the day. 

A fine Edmund Spence silver mounted dining room set for Industria Mueblera Mexico, an early Bruno Mathsson 'Pernilla' lounge, and Eames rosewood lounge chair and ottoman, an extensive set of rare Salterini 'El Prado' line iron in original condition offered in four lots and a fine Gustav Stickley miter mullioned double door bookcase are some of the 20th century furniture offerings. A selection of bronze items from fancy gilt 19th century pieces, Tiffany dore, several early figurines and erotic bronzes by Kauba and Bergman as well as other Vienna castings.

Jewelry, and silver feature prominently with hundreds of ounces of flatware and hollowware and a diverse collection of vintage estate jewelry including Mexican and Chinese. 40 lots of Chinese and Japanese porcelains, silks and jade begin the midday sale. 

A group of outsider artist Louise Abrams works, several New York City scenes led by a Hugh Ferris graphite, two Albert Smith oils,, several William MacDonough's, two large Susan Kahn's in Heydenryk frames and an excellent Mark Dixon Dodd oil of an interesting scene are among the many artworks.

Period American and Continental furniture, a collection samplers and needleworks, a Steinway grand and a fine selection estate carpets will round what promises to be an excellent auction to start the new year. 

A gallery preview will be held Sunday prior 1-5 pm, Wednesday and and Thursday 1-5:00 pm and 10:00 am to 12:30 day of sale.

Pickup of all items is by curbside protocol Saturday 1/2 from 10am to 3pm and daily thereafter 9-3:30 or by appointment. Shipping is by third party vendors only.

Auction terms, links to online bidding, Auctionzip and other info available at our interactive website www.hudsonvalleyauctioneers.com, contact sales manager Theo de Haas 845 480 2381 or auctioneer Neil Vaughn 914 489 2399

Hudson Valley Auctioneers, located at 432 Main Street, Beacon, New York will present a 2 session unreserved absentee, phone bid and online antique and estate auction through Liveauctioneers.com on Monday November 16 at 3:00 PM EST.

A gallery preview will be held Sunday 11/15 from 1-5 and Monday day of sale beginning at 1pm and ending at 4:30.

 The sale begins with 200 lots of sculpture and paintings from a newly rediscovered "Outsider" artist of remarkable talent. Louise Abrams born in 1941 and studied in New York at the Art Students League, the New School and in Mexico at the Instituto Allende, she received her BA and has graduate work in the Fine Arts Department at CUNY. 

She had several gallery shows in the mid 1970's including Cloud Gallery June 1975, Auction 393 submissions in June 1975 and Pleiades Gallery exclusive show September 1975, her work has been described as "a microscopic view of life", Native American, Aboriginal, Olmec inspired' and "visionary".  

Abrams' work and study has been interrupted throughout her life with severe mental and emotional challenges and has spent significant periods of her life in various institutions, a number of  themes, possibly visions, dominate the few thousand works comprising the total of Abrams’ work from the 1970’s to the early 2000’s all of which is court ordered to be sold by Hudson Valley Auctioneers. 

This November sale will be the first of several offerings to liquidate the entire block of work from sculpture in stone, ink drawings, oils on board and canvas and numerous sketch pads. 

Session two features 400 fresh estate lots primarily from a long held storage unit owned by an AP journalist who lived and worked in China in the early 1980's and subsequently in other stations. 

There is a large selection of porcelain vases, furniture and other decorative and antique items. African items include wood carvings, bronzes and fabrics and there is a selection of Indian and Middle Eastern items. 

Cultural items include a signed copy of Quaddafi's political treatise and a group of Chinese post Mao era items. 

A Valley Cottage estate consigned a group of religious carvings including a wooden carved life size holy family group, several carvings of saints and Greek and Russian icons and other paintings.  

A visit to Long Island's north shore filled a truck with fancy oak carved furniture, a rare oak dental cabinet, a heavily carved rocker and an impressive Pottier and Stymus ebonized credenza. 

Country furnishings include several cupboards and decorative accessories mixed in with Victorian garden cast iron urns, benches and a fine lead figural fountain with a classical iron base. 

Fancy goods from two Scarsdale estates feature several pounds of fancy sterling, table goods by Royal Worcester, Royal Crown Derby, chintz, Herend, Royal Copenhagen, Waterford, Lalique as well as a large set of India stoneware with a dragonfly motif. 

Artists represented in the sale from the 19th century include Horace Hooper, Jules Cornilliet, Richard Winternitz, E.M. Gray, Guiseppe Aureli and some unknown folk artists and an excellent three panel screen attributed to the Bloomsbury Group school of art. 

20th century artists are Yaaco Agam, Frank Stella, Frederick Prescott, Fanny Holtzman, Herbert Pullinger, B. Weener, Jean de Botton, Antonio Barrera and B. Forster among many others.                   

Additionally expect several estate carpets, a clock collection including a fusee English gallery clock and early banjos, a fine Chickering ebonized baby grand piano, Redmen fraternal items,  various lighting and lots of Mid Century and 19th century furniture.    

In person previews are scheduled for Sunday 11/15 from 1pm-5pm and Monday from 1pm- 3pm and follow Covid protocols. 

Absentee and phone bidding is available. All lots offered through Liveauctioneers.com. 

Pickup of all items is by curbside protocol Tuesday November 17th from 10am to 3pm and daily thereafter 9-3:30 or by appointment. 

Shipping is by third party vendors only, Auction terms, links to online bidding and other info available on our website www.HudsonValleyAuctioneers.com or  contact sales manager Theo de Haas 845 480 2381 or auctioneer Neil Vaughn 914 489 2399.