September Great Estates Fall Curated Auction

Willow Auction House's September Great Estates auction features over 200 finely curated lots of decorative items, furniture, jewelry and artwork. This sale features a selection of mid-century and Danish modern furniture, including pieces by Jens Risom, Kip Stewart, Paul McCobb and Charles & Ray Eames for Herman Miller. Among the other lots on offer are a Steinway Model D Concert Grand Piano, several shipbuilder's models, silver including Georg Jensen and a Wang Hing & Co. Chinese export box, two Rolex watches, a Franz Bergman cold painted bronze and a large selection of ethnographic and tribal items from the Labelle Prussin Estate, Author of African Nomadic Architecture., including jewelry, masks and statues. Rounding out the sale is a collection of artwork, with paintings from David Burliuk, Perle Fine and Kurt Trampedach, photographs by Bernice Abbott & Gordon Parks, a Norman Rockwell collotype, works from Pedro Friedeberg, Alexander Calder, Robert Indiana, and a mixed media cigar box from Mihail Chemiakin.

David Davidovich Burliuk (Russian/American, 1882-1967). Oil on burlap laid down on board portrait of a fisherman Bonin, Japan 1920. Signed Burliuk and dated lower left and signed in Cryrillic lower right. 23" x 18 1/2" (overall with frame 30" x 25 1/2").With remnants of a gallery label, exhibition label from The Parrish Art Museum circa 1978, partial Japanese label, and David Burlyuck Artist. Poet. Moskow. Yokohama Nakamura-cho. 38 business card with hand written notations all on verso. Crazing throughout, burlap appears to be lifting from board in some sections.From the collection of Long Island, New York art dealer and collector Ella Jaffe Freidus, who was a close personal friend of David Burliuk.