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THIS DECEMBER Heritage auctions will host two of its most anticipated sales starting with the next “Fine European Art Signature Auction” on December 8. The auction will have a full range of categories hitting the block including Renaissance period works, Baroque items from Dutch and Flemish painters, Fauvism and 20th-century pieces from the School of Paris.
One of the contemporary pieces in the sale is Jean-Pierre Cassigneul’s 2015 painting Sur le Lac, depicting a woman in a festive floral hat posing in front of a lake. The work is estimated to sell between $60,000 and $80,000. A German work of note is Franz Richard Unterberger’s View across the Grand Canal to San Giorgio Mag-giore, circa 1898. The painting, a view down into the city of Venice, has an estimate of $30,000 to $50,000.
In the December 8 sale there are three special features including the first installment of Nordic landscape paintings from a private American collector based in Colorado. The artwork will showcase the beauty of the region from artists in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Another special feature of the auction is a 19th-century academic paintings from the collection of actor Eugene Iglesias.
The third featured s e g m e nt i s 19th-century Nazarene and Dusseldorf School religious paintings from a Chicago Private Collection. Among the highlights is the Dusseldorf School painter Ernst Deger’s Regina Coeli: Virgin and Christ Child enthroned in the clouds (est. $3,000-$5,000) that is a small devotional work that relates to his altarpiece for the Church of St. Andreas in Dusseldorf.
The following day, December 9, Heritage will host its fine furniture and decorative arts sale, with joyful segment titles of “The Holiday Table” and “The Holiday Gift” to celebrate the season. In the this sale property from collections and estates across the country come to market including Early American furniture, French Rococo pieces, a collection of French Empire Figural Clocks, and silver miniatures.
One of the standouts is a pair of Italian marble busts from the 18 century. The works, thought to be by Antonio Canova, sit atop wooden pedestals. They are expected to fetch between
