Skinner to host fine paintings auction

Skinner, Inc today announced thatits quarterly American & EuropeanPaintings & Prints sale will take place on Friday, January 28^th atnoon in the Boston gallery.  Many of the key highlights are fresh tothe market, some not seen for decades, and one not previously know.  OliveTrees, Cagnes by Frederick Carl Frieseke is being included in The FrederickCarl Frieseke Catalogue Raisonné and was recently purchased at a NewHampshire yard sale.  The workfrom this leading American Impressionist is estimated at $50,000 to $70,000.

European works thatare expected to draw significant interest include several coming from localprivate collections.  These includea John Morgan, entitled Kinder at Play,estimated at $35,000 to $55,000; LesendeFrau by Mihály Munkácsy, estimated at $70,000 to $90,000; Christ Disputing with the Doctors: A Sketchby Rembrandt van Rijn, estimated at $3,500 to $5,500; Gustav Klimt’s Brustbild eines Mädchens im Profil nachlinks/A Study for Musiksalon des Palais Dumba, alternatively entitled Backfisch, Bild, estimated at $50,000 to$70,000; and Tanger by VictorEeckhout, a painter of Orientalist subject matter and genre scenes whosepaintings were inspired by Tangier, where the painting at hand was probablycreated.  Tanger is estimated at $70,000 to $90,000.

Two Italian works arealso being featured and come from private New England collections. Torre de Leandro/A View of Salacak and KizKulesi [Leander’s Tower], Istanbul, Turkey by Fausto Zonaro was a gift toGeorg Ruckmann of Lübeck, Germany, from a doctor that fled to Turkey beforeWorld War I.  Ruckmann was anadministrator of a hospital in Lübeck. The painting then descended in the family. The piece is estimated at$20,000 to $40,000.  Senza Titolo by Tancredi Parmeggiani, apatron of Guggenheim who provided him with studio space and exhibited his workin her palazzo.  The work isestimated at $10,000 to $15,000.