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 wood reclining nude, signed lower right Burliuk. 3 3/4" x 5 3/4" (overall with frame 7 3/4" x 9 1/2").From the collection of Long Island, New York art dealer and collector Ella Jaffe Freidus, who was a close personal friend of David Burliuk.