65. Auguste Amant Constant Fidele Edouart (French, 1789-1861)

Silhouettes of Sgt. Elmer Hackett & Polly Hackett.
Cut-outs and ink on paper, signed lower right, dated 1840, Boston, MA, framed.
Names inscribed below each figure.
12" x 9-3/4".

Note: This silhouette is unusual as it is a double portrait with identified subjects and in very good condition.

Edouart, who was born in Dunkirk and died at Guisnes near Calais, was a premier silhouettist. He established himself in London in 1813, initially as an animal painter, and subsequently as a silhouettist to the British royal family. He also worked in Scotland, Ireland and America where he enjoyed a large audience of collectors. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the National Gallery of Ireland possess several of his works.

2,000/4,000     SOLD: $4,830.00

66. American Primitive (18th Century)

River Scene with Viaduct.
Pencil and watercolor on paper, unsigned, framed.
8-1/2" x 10-1/2.

1,000/2,000     SOLD: $345.00

67. Francois Antoine Bossuet (Belgian, 1800-1889)

European Street Scene.
sepia ink and wash, signed lower right, matted and framed.
14" x 9-1/2".

Bossuet was born in Ypres and died in Brussels. He specialized in architectural scenes as well as cityscapes. After training at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, Bossuet traveled in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain and North Africa on an artistic Grand Tour. His journeys resulted in numerous works recording the city views, chateaux and ruins he saw along his route. Most of his works are intimate in scale, as is the present work. He wrote a manual on perspective, published in 1833 entitled "Cours de Perspective pittoresque."

1,000/2,000     SOLD: $920.00

68. Irving Ramsey Wiles (American, 1861-1941)

"Bric-A-Brac Dealer, Algiers".
Ink on paper, signed left edge near center, matted and framed.
18" X 12".

Note: This was used as an illustration published by Century Company.

Irving Wiles was active as a portraitist, genre painter, landscapist, figure painter and illustrator. He studied initially with his father, L. M. Wiles, then with Chase and Beckwith in New York, and finally with Carolus Duran in Paris. He exhibited with the Associated American Artists in New York, and belonged to the American Federation of the Arts.

2,000/4,000     SOLD: $1,380.00

69. American School (19th Century)

Boy and Girl Fishing in a Forest.
Oil on paper, unsigned, matted ad framed.
17" x 11".

200/400     SOLD: $212.75

70. American, circa 1880

Portraits of a man and of a woman.
Charcoal over photographic prints.
Woman inscribed lower left "Liebich Photo", each framed in different frames,
30" x 26".

100/200     SOLD: $80.50

71. William Alastair MacDonald (British, 1861-1948)

"Tahiti".
Watercolor, signed lower left, titled "Tahiti 1931", matted and framed.
9" x 13-7/8" image size.

300/500     SOLD: $442.75

72. Arthur Bowen Davies (American, 1862-1928)

"Femme".
Pastel on grey paper, signed in pencil lower right, matted and framed. Tag on reverse from ACA American Masters Gallery.
9-1/2" x 11-1/2".

Provenance: Originally from the Estate of Mildred Davies.

Arthur Bowen Davies was a key figure in the history of early American Modernism, for together with Walter Pach he was one of the primary organizers of the Armory Show of 1913 which brought European modern art (Cubism, Fauvism) to the United States for the first time. He worked in a wide variety of genres including portraiture, figure painting and drawing, allegorical subjects, and landscapes, and also acquired facility with a wide variety of media (etching and engraving, watercolor, pastel, oil). Davies was a member of The Eight (also known as the Ashcan School on account of the urban realism they often portrayed). The Eight were based in New York and depicted the city with an unvarnished directness that separated their efforts from the prevailing academic style of the early 20th Century.

This drawing by Davies is rendered in pastel, a medium he often employed for his more intimate figure sketches. The colored paper characterizing this lot is also typical of his figure studies.

1,000/2,000     SOLD: $1,437.50

73. Lilian Stannard (British, 1877-1944)

Country House Garden.
Watercolor on paper, signed lower left, framed.
9-1/2" x 14".

The British watercolorist Lilian Stannard belonged to a dynasty of late 19th- and early 20th-century painters. An artist who specialized in garden views, she participated regularly in the annual exhibitions at the Royal Academy in London between the years 1905 and 1930. Her style is firmly rooted in the careful English watercolor tradition. She was the sister of Henry Sylvester Stannard, and the daughter of John Stannard, all of Woburn.

2,000/4,000     SOLD: $1,495.00

74. A. Leach (Continental School, 19th Century)

Mountain Lake with Cows.
Watercolor, arched top, signed lower right, matted and framed.
11" x 7-1/2".

200/400     SOLD: $195.50