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| Lot 103 Alexander Max Koester Eight Ducks on the Riverbank oil on canvas 21¾ X 32¾ in. |
Early next month, one of my favorite annual art sales, Sotheby's 19th Century European Art Auction, will take place in New York City. Though this particular sale, with 111 lots, seems smaller than past auctions, it still has some great treasures in it. Among the artworks of interest are 3 paintings by John William Godward, 4 maritime paintings by Montague Dawson, 4 works by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 5 equestrian paintings by Sir Alfred James Munnings, 6 works by William Adolphe Bouguereau, and another great duck painting by Alexander Max Koester.
For those able to visit the auction house to preview the artworks, exhibition times are as follows:
Fri, 28 Oct 11 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sat, 29 Oct 11 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sun, 30 Oct 11 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Mon, 31 Oct 11 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tue, 01 Nov 11 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wed, 02 Nov 11 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thu, 03 Nov 11 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
The actual bid session will take place on November 4th at 10:00 AM in New York.
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| Lot 64 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Education of the Children of Clovis (School of Vengeance, Training of Clotilde's Sons) oil on canvas 51 X 70 in. |
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| Lot 67 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema A Spring Festival (On the Road to the Temple of Ceres) oil on canvas 35 X 21 in. |
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| Lot 15 Jehan Georges Vibert La tireuse de cartes (The Fortune Teller) oil on panel 27¼ X 40 in. |
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| Lot 48 William Bouguereau Premières caresses (first reduction) oil on canvas 39¼ X 26¼ in. |
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| Lot 39 William Bouguereau Yvonne sur le pas de la porte oil on canvas 37½ X 24¾ in. |
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| Lot 42 William Bouguereau À la fontaine (At the Fountain) oil on canvas 55 X 34 in. |
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| Lot 46 William Bouguereau Jeanne oil on canvas 23¾ X 18¾ in. |
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| Lot 43 William Bouguereau Portrait of Gabrielle Cot oil on canvas 18 X 15 in. |
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| Sotheby's seems to have made some improvements to their online catalog viewing, but it still needs some tweaking; some images, such as Premières caresses (above), shows much pixel noise when enlarged. |
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| Lot 95 Sir Alfred James Munnings Crossing the Ford oil on canvas 14¼ X 19¼ in. |
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| Lot 98 Sir Alfred James Munnings Behind the Tents oil on canvas 25¾ X 30¼ in. |
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| Lot 58 John William Godward Contemplation oil on canvas 21 in. diameter |
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| Lot 55 John William Godward In the Tepidarium oil on canvas 38½ X 19 in. |
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| Lot 36 Gabriel Boutet La fête de Montrouge oil on canvas 31½ by 23¾ in. |
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| Lot 19 Alfred Stevens Lovelorn oil on canvas 41 X 28⁵⁄₈ in. |
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| Lot 18 Alfred Stevens Un bleuet (The Blue Ribbon) oil on panel 30½ X 21¾ in. |
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| Lot 4 Daniel Ridgway Knight Chrysanthemums oil on canvas 21¾ X 18¼ in. |
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| Lot 108 Montague Dawson The Brilliant Privateer USS Rattlesnake oil on canvas 40 X 50 in. |
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| Lot 11 Frederick Arthur Bridgman A North African Courtyard oil on canvas 20⁷⁄₈ X 33¹⁄₂ in. |
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| Lot 6 Léon-Augustin Lhermitte Glaneuses en avant de vieilles meules oil on canvas 30¾ X 40 in. |
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| Lot 45 Léon Perrault Mother with Child oil on canvas 39½ X 32¼ in. |
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| Lot 70 Thomas Francis Dicksee Miranda oil on canvas 60 X 33¼ in. |
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| Lot 57 Eugen von Blaas In the Water oil on canvas 31⁵⁄₈ X 17³⁄₄ in. |
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| Lot 33 Giovanni Boldini Portrait of Baron de Rothschild oil on canvas 36¼ X 29 in. |
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| Lot 54 Edmund Blair Leighton The Request oil on panel 14 X 10 in. |
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| Lot 73 Benjamin Williams Leader Summertime: Through the Hayfield, Worcestershire oil on canvas 27½ X 47½ in. |
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| Lot 31 Louis Béroud Les joies de l'inondation (dans la Galerie Médicis) oil on canvas 100 X 77⁷⁄₈ in. |
13 comments:
Great Post as usual !
Thanks for listing the schedule to see this work..
Stunningly beautiful paintings. Thank you for sharing. It will be interesting to see the sold prices.
Great works, p.s. did you watch your blog just to add /view
How did you grab the images to be able to post them on your blog? Most auction websites make it fairly easy to download from their website.
@Main Loop - Are you asking how I did it because you don't know how I went about it, or because of my comment on the quality of some of the enlarged images on Sotheby's online catalog for this sale?
I don't know how you went about it, and I wanted to grab some of the other images for myself. I don't see what comment you are talking about...?
@Main Loop I made the comment after the detail image of Bouguereau's Portrait of Gabrielle Cot. The resolutin on some of the images of the lots is low, so when enlarged, the quality isn't there (other auction houses are better about it, but Sotheby's looks like it is headed in the right direction).
Are you on a Mac? Saving images like these are easy on a Mac. Once I get the image full-size, I grab the image using command+shift+4, and dragging a box around what I want a snapshot of. If I want the whole page, I use command+shift+3. PCs must have something similar.
oh i didnt know you were just screen-capping the images
I never thought I would see the Ross's give up their "Gabrielle Cot". I hope it goes for triple the estimate. Some consider it the Mona Lisa of the 19th century. I know I think it is.
@ Morgan The Rosses have put several paintings up for sale in the past that have surprised me. If I am not mistaken, this is the second time in the past 5 years Gabrielle Cot has gone to auction; obviously, it didn't sell last time.
Regarding saving images fm Sotheby’s online catalog :
I understand that you are making a snapshot, either of the wiewer, or of the whole page.
But do you have a tip to save the full picture in high resolution fm the Sotheby’s online catalog? Gabrielle Cot is really great here. We can see every detail of brushstrokes fm Bouguereau (Compared to that found on the website of the ARC, the difference is huge).
It would be really great to be able to save that stuff.
Thank you so much Matt, for your wonderful site, and all your good advice.
@Orkeo Thank you for the compliments.
If I'm not mistaken, I think you have to have paid membership now to even be able to see most of the Bouguereau hi-res images from ARC. Also, ARC's images vary in quality- I've seen several that they offer as prints that I'd not touch unless they paid me!
There might be add-ons in browsers such as Firefox which might enable you to download the zoomable images from Sotheby's; I don't know. When there has been a great image I've wanted before, I've been known to zoom in as close as possible, then do a screen capture. I might do 3 dozen that way, then put them back into a single image in Photoshop (then I share them on the blog).
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