Bonhams & Butterfields California & American Paintings & Sculpture Auction Nov 24
Published October 31st, 2008
Bonhams & Butterfields, has announced its November 24, 2008 sale of California and American Paintings and Sculpture. On offer are Barbizon and early 19th century landscapes; Western scenes; Impressionist and Modernist compositions including plein air paintings; genre scenes; and cityscapes by established California and American artists.
Highlighting the sale is a rare impressionist work entitled Carmel Shore (est. $500/700,000) by Guy Rose. Rose is considered the most important California Impressionist painter. A native Californian, he studied at the California School of Design before traveling to France to study in 1888. After a time in New York, he returned to France in 1899 settling in Giverny and working closely with master painter Claude Monet.
Upon his return to the United States, Rose became a major figure of the California Impressionist movement influencing artists such as Granville Redmond, John Marshall Gamble, Maurice Braun and William Wendt. It is from this period that the oil on canvas Carmel Shore comes.
Featured artists also include, Granville Redmond, Armin Hansen John Marshall Gamble, Edgar Payne, Selden Connor Gile, William Alexander Coulter, William Wendt, and Maurice Braun, among others.
The illustrated auction catalog for the August sale will be online at www.bonhams.com/us in the weeks preceding the sale and its previews open in San Francisco on November 14-16 and in Los Angeles on November 21-23, 2008. For more information on the specialty department, visit: www.bonhams.com/uscalampictures.
