Litchfield County Auction’s kicked off its Modern Art and Design Auction Wednesday on iGavel.com, the online fine art and antiques auction house. With works by important artists, from Marc Chagall to Paul Jenkins, and art owned by ABC News journalist Diane Sawyer and her husband, film director, Mike Nichols, the auction promises to be one of the year’s most exciting Modernism sales. LCA is hoping to exceed their 2007 April Auction that sold over a million dollars worth of Art, Furniture & Decorations.

The sale includes over 400 lots from East Coast estates and collections, among them the Mar A Lago home of Marjorie Merriweather Post, daughter of General Foods, Inc. founder C.W. Post. And in addition to the artists noted earlier, the auction features works by Asger Jorn, Joan Miro, and a signature piece by Enrico Donati, entitled ‘Etrusque’ 1945 which is estimated at $25,000-35,000. There are two very large and important works by Paul Jenkins from his Phenomena series, each estimated to bring $15,000-25,000 and two equally large and important paintings by Robert Natkins, one inscribed to “Dale” the Palm Beach Gardens collector. Four paintings by Pater Max, whose work Litchfield sold for record prices back in November 2007, are also live. A fun drawing by Marino Marini comes from the estate of John Douglas Hohnsbeen, friend and curator of Peggy Guggenheim’s Venice Art Collection, and long time partner of Architect Philip Johnson, famous for his glass house in New Canaan, CT. And sculpture collectors will not be disappointed. A number of important works are up for bid, including a Hugo Robus bronze sculpture (estimated at $15,000-20,000), sold with its original catalog from The Forum Gallery.

Posted: 03|30|08 at 8:51 am. Filed under: News.