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The month of May ends with our Premier Auction of American furniture, paintings, and decorative arts. Important artists include A.T. Bricher, Worthington Whittredge, Winfred Rembert, Andrew Melrose, Gunnar Widforss, and others. Of Southern interest is a museum exhibited W. A. Walker, a double sided panel by Key West folk artist Mario Sanchez, two works by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Southern pottery from the Ackland Art Museum, and more. A Connecticut Queen Ann bonnet top high chest, Tiffany, Arts & Crafts and mixed metal silver, weathervanes, and many other categories round out the sale.
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Lot 1011

Maxfield Parrish, Whispering Gallery

Estimate: $500 - $700
Starting Bid
$250

Bid Increments

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$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

(American, 1870-1966)

1913, one from a series of eighteen titled Florentine Fete (1910-1916), Curtis Publishing Co., Detroit Publishing Co., publishers, hand painted polychrome on photogravure on board, sight 39-1/2 x 20-3/8 in.; original wood frame, 43-1/2 x 24-3/8 x 1 in. 

Provenance: Private Collection, Asheville, North Carolina

Note: The 18 panels of Parrish's Florentine Fete, painted between 1910 and 1916,  were first displayed in the “Girls Dining Room” at Curtis Publishing in Philadelphia, then-owners of Ladies Home Journal. Parrish put himself into the Fete series, and  nearly every woman depicted is a version of his longtime model and mistress, Susan Lewin who appears 166 times.

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Private Collection, Asheville, North Carolina

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