Shannon’s offers rare Winslow Homer watercolor

On Oct 29th Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers will offer what promises to be one of their best auction in recent years.

The auction is highlighted by rare estate artworks and fine paintings and sculpture from private collections.

The sale features a small, colorful watercolor of Ten Pound Island in Gloucester Harbor by Winslow Homer from a Massachusetts estate ($200,000/$300,000). The watercolor was given by Homer to his friend Samuel T. Preston and period photographs show it hanging in Preston’s rooms in New York in 1880. Other fine works from the estate are by Leon Kroll, Anthony Thieme, Frederick Mulhaupt, and William Morris Hunt.

A monumental painting of a flowering patio at the Samarkand Persian Hotel, in Santa Barbara, California by Colin Campbell Cooper ($200,000/$300,000) emerged
from a private collection. This recently rediscovered work was widely exhibited and reviewed from 1927 to 1934, is offered for sale for the first time in modern history.

The auction offers in-depth quality by famous American artists, also from private and corporate collections. Ernest Lawson $120,000/$180,000, Eastman Johnson (Boyhood of Lincoln) $40,000/$60,000, William Merritt Chase $40,000/$60,000, Alfred Thompson Bricher ($70,000/$100,000) and Jasper F. Cropsey ($200,000/$300,000) Other notable works include Chas. C. Curran, Levis Wells Prentice, Hermann Herzog, Robert Salmon,
Walter Launt Palmer and Gari Melchers among others. The sculpture offerings include two rare works by Paul Manship, two Western bronzes by Cyrus Dallin and a large Edward McCartan.

Rounding out the sale are European offerings including an 86 inch view of the Piazza San Marco by Vincenzo Caprile, a children’s parade by Charles Frere, an important genre scene by Luigi Chialiva and an 1872 landscape by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot.

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