Scottsdale Art Auction’s mid-season online sale is not meant to rival its big annual sale in April, and yet auction partner Brad Richardson has been continuously impressed at the material he’s been seeing. “This is going to be a strong sale,” he says, adding the auction will include more than 400 lots. “We’re seeing some really great artwork coming to us, so there will be a lot here for bidders.”
Gerard Curtis Delano (1890-1972), Footprints at the Pool, oil, 20½ x 40½ in. Estimate: $60/90,000The August Online Sale, which will take place August 3, will include all of the classic categories that the April sale features: scenes with cowboys and cattle, Western bronze, landscape and wildlife images, Taos Society of Artists and other works from Northern New Mexico, Western still life, contemporary works from living artists and works from some of the superstars, such as Frederic Remington.
The sale will take place entirely online with a live auctioneer who will accept bids through Scottsdale Art Auction’s online bid platform. Richardson notes that many of the first bids placed will surpass reserves, triggering the definite sale of those works. “We have more than 90 percent of the sale that will sell after the opening bid,” he says, adding that reserves set low or at zero incentivize early bidding, which could lead to some collectors getting great deals.
Frederic Remington (1861-1909), Indian Territory Apaches Playing Monte, black-and-white watercolor heightened with white, 11 x 17¾ in. Estimate: $25/45,000
Fremont Ellis (1897-1985), Chapel of Loretto, oil, 30 x 25 in. Estimate: $8/12,000One of the stand-out lots that will entice bidders is Gerard Curtis Delano’s Footprints at the Pool, a captivating scene with two Native American subjects in a desert setting. The piece has Delano’s heightened color and vibrancy, which makes the yellows, oranges and greens glow within the painting. The piece is estimated at $60,000 to $90,000.
Other pieces with Native American subjects include Martin Grelle’s Autumn Reverie (est. $12/18,000), Logan Maxwell Hagege’s By the Orange Cliffs (est. $15/25,000) and Bert Geer Phillips’ watercolor Indian Encampment (est. $10/15,000). The auction will include four black-and-white Remington pieces—two oils, two works in water solubles—including Indian Territory Apaches Playing Monte,estimated at $25,000 to $45,000.
Martin Grelle, Autumn Reverie, oil, 12 x 16 in. Estimate: $12/18,000
John Nieto (1936-2018), Holds his Enemy, oil, 60 x 48 in. Estimate: $30/50,000
Bill Owen (1942-2013), Cowboss of the Diamond A, oil, 28 x 30 in. Estimate: $15/25,000
In the category of cowboys is Olaf Wieghorst’s Mountain Trail, a moody nocturne showing a rider and a pair of horses riding across a ridgetop. The auction house routinely acquires fantastic examples by the artist, including some that sell for six figures. Another cowboy image is Bill Owen’s Cowboss of the Diamond A, estimated at $15,000 to $25,000.
Olaf Wieghorst (1899-1988), Mountain Trail, oil, 20 x 24 in. Estimate: $20/30,000Several artists will have multiple works in the sale, including Dave McGary, whose bronzes have been seeing higher prices at auctions in recent years, and modern painter John Nieto, whose prices are not only high but soaring. For Nieto, the sale will feature Holds His Enemy (est. $30/50,000) and The Prayer(est. $15/25,000). Both images show Native American figures painted in his stained glass-like style with bright panes of color and hard lines.
Logan Maxwell Hagege, By the Orange Cliffs, oil, 16 x 20 in. Estimate: $15/25,000
Harry Jackson will be represented in the sale with his 40-inch-high John Wayne bronze, which was his first unfinished model for the John Wayne monument, one of which resides on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California. The bronze is estimated at $15,000 to $25,000.
R. Tom Gilleon will have several works in the sale, including Diaspora Desperation,one of his modern teepee works, which is estimated at $40,000 to $60,000. Four G. Harvey’s will be available to bidders, including two snowy Western scenes, one of the Kremlin made during the artist’s trip to Moscow and one of his famous city scenes, this one set in Harvard, Massachusetts.
Harry Jackson (1924-2011), John Wayne, First Unfinished Model for the Monument, bronze, 40½ in. Estimate: $15/25,000
Other artists represented in the sale include Ken Riley, Melvin Warren, Ray Swanson, Joseph Henry Sharp, James Reynolds, George Phippen, John Moyers, Frank McCarthy, Bruce Greene, Phil Epp, John Coleman, Joe Beeler and Fremont Ellis.
While the entirety of the auction is online, there will be an in-person preview in Scottsdale, Arizona, starting on July 15. For information about registering and the bidding platform, visit the auction website at www.scottsdaleartauction.com. —
Scottsdale Art Auction’s August Online Sale
August 3, 2024, 9 a.m.
Online sale; preview will be held at 7176 Main Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85251
(480) 945-0225, www.scottsdaleartauction.com
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