Monday, November 24, 2014

ISABEL BISHOP, MABEL DWIGHT, WANDA GAG at Auction

ISABEL BISHOP

Skinner





Sold for:
$215



Sold for:
$360



Sold for:
$1,126




Sold for:
$264



Sold for:
$764




Sold for:
$1,998



Sold for:
$82



Sold for:
$235



Bonhams



Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988) 
Nude 
36 x 30in
Sold for US$ 4,200 



Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988); 
Ice Cream Cones No. 1; 


Christie’s 2004


    
                        ISABEL BISHOP (1902-1988)
                        TOURNAMENT

                        PR.$31,070

Christie’s 2001







Christie’s 2000





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Walking in the Subway Station (recto); study of figures (verso
PRICE REALIZED
$5,000

MABEL DWIGHT 


Biography

Mabel Dwight was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her formal art education at the Hopkins School of Art in San Francisco. Although initially trained as a painter, she learned lithography while in Paris in 1927, and the balance of her career was devoted to printmaking. During the late 1930s, Dwight participated in the Federal Arts Project in New York City. Throughout her career she exhibited regularly, and her prints were actively collected by public art museums and private collectors.

Commonplace activities or views of daily life often provide the subject matter for Dwight's prints. A characteristic example is the lithograph Farm Yard, which dates from 1947, late in her career. It is a modest scene, showing a woman feeding ducks, geese, and chickens in the farmyard. The buildings have the quality of doll houses; tightly packed, they provide a backdrop for the woman and her flock. This quiet domestic scene is rendered with soft strokes of the lithographic crayon, in a style similar to that of regionalist artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry. Dwight's other works often display a humorous or satirical approach, about which she wrote an essay, "Satire in Art," published in 1936.


Swann 2005




  • MABEL DWIGHT 
    Houston Street Burlesque.
    Estimate $1,500 - $2,500
    Price Realized (with Buyer's Premium) $1,725

  • MABEL DWIGHT 

    Three lithographs: The Ocean, Coney Island, 1928. Edition of 50; In the Subway (Subway; Woman with a Fox Fur), 1927. Edition of 30 * Aquarium (Alligators), 1927. Printer's proof, aside from the edition of 50 * 
    Estimate $1,200 - $1,800
    Price Realized (with Buyer's Premium) $1,380

Skinner


Mabel Dwight (American, 1876-1955) 
Farmyard (Feeding the Geese), 1939, edition of 250, published by Associated American Artists in 1947 (AAA/Czestochowski, 1947.038).

Doyle



Mabel Dwight
QUEER FISH (ROBINSON/PIROG 80)
Estimate$1,000 – $1,500
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WANDA GAG 

Swann 2005





  • The Forge.
    Estimate $1,000 - $1,500
    Price Realized (with Buyer's Premium) $1,725


  • WANDA GAG 
    Ploughed Fields.
    Estimate $500 - $750
    Price Realized (with Buyer's Premium) $1,150

Skinner