Max Kuehne Furniture And Fine Art To Be Featured At Kaminski's Estate Auction On June 20
Hard hit during the Depression years, he turned to woodworking, making decorative screens, tables, and picture frames incised with gold and silver leaf and stunning glazes on gessoed surfaces. His furniture creations are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester.
Kaminski's Lot 6,114 is an exquisite Max Kuehne handcrafted library table with a gold leaf flowered surface and signed on the lower center top surface by the artist. It is conservatively valued at $3,000-$5,000.
Fine art in the sale will include a work by the French artist Georges d'Espagnat (1870-1950), titled "Woman on Red Sofa" oil-on-canvas, initialed "GDE." It was purchased at Christie's London: Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Watercolors, and Sculpture sale in November 1994, and will be estimated at $8,000-$12,000.
Other artists represented in the sale include American artists Anthony Thieme and Reynolds Beal, as well as works by Russian artist David Burliuk, and Dutch artists Anton Karssen and Niek van der Plas. There are also two Alexander Calder wall tapestries.
Jewelry offerings will include a pair of 18-carat yellow gold earrings, with cabochon sapphires, diamonds, rubies, and emeralds, valued at $3,000-$6,000, and a signed Russian Fabregé silver and 14-carat gold and enameled cigarette case with diamonds and sapphires valued at $2,200-$2,500.
Decorative items will include a collection of Russian icons, a 19th-century marble bust, and a pair of Chinese Gu vases. Rounding out the top lots in the sale will be a selection of antique and semi-antique Persian rugs to include a Keshan, Sarouk and Heriz.
Kaminski Auctions is located in Beverly, Mass.
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