Sotheby's in London are to sell a painting by Adam Styka as part of the 19th Century European Paintings sale on May 18th.
Porter near the island of Philae, oil on canvas 28¾"x36¼"
Estimate £25,000-£35,000
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Saturday, 7 May 2011
Adam Styka painting to be sold at Sotheby's London May 18th
I've another Adam Styka post elsewhere on here to which this one will be added after the sale. Is it the most expensive painting in the sale? No. I just like a lot of his works.
Sotheby's in London are to sell a painting by Adam Styka as part of the 19th Century European Paintings sale on May 18th.
Sotheby's in London are to sell a painting by Adam Styka as part of the 19th Century European Paintings sale on May 18th.
Friday, 10 September 2010
New York Prints, Drawings & Paintings 1900-2000 - Swann 16/09/10
Martin Lewis - Quarter of Nine Saturday's Children, 1929, etching.Est. USD$ 12,000-$18,000
Scenes of the City: Prints, Drawings & Paintings of New York 1900-2000 at Swann Auction Galleries in New York on 16th September.
From the website: 'The top lot is Edward Hopper’s Night Shadows, etching, 1921 (estimate: US$30,000-50,000), an important print depicting the same location near the Hudson River as his 1913 painting, New York Corner, in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Etchings from the turn of the century, like Childe Hassam’s Fifth Avenue, Noon, 1916 (US$10,000-$15,000), and Washington’s Birthday, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street, 1916 (US$8,000-$12,000), showcase American Impressionism and a divergence from the European tradition. John Sloan’s etchings, Sculpture in Washington Square, 1925 (US$2,500-$3,500), Fourteenth Street, The Wigwam, 1928 (US$2,500-$3,500), which illustrates the last physical address of Tammany Hall, and George Bellows’s lithograph, Solitude, 1917 (US$1,500-$2,500), exemplify the Ash Can School, where the gritty realism of Manhattan took center stage.
A run of works by Martin Lewis portrays Manhattan as both dark and elegant. His rare drypoints include Corner Shadows, 1930 (US$7,000-$10,000), Little Penthouse, 1931 (US$15,000-$20,000), Chance Meeting, 1940-41 (US$10,000-$15,000), Stoops in Snow, 1930 (US$20,000-$30,000), Shadow Dance, 1930 (US$20,000-$30,000), Spring Night, Greenwich Village, 1930 (US$15,000-$20,000), and Winter on White Street, 1934 (US$18,000-$22,000).
Lithographs by Raphael Soyer and Louis Lozowick represent the men and architecture of Depression-era Manhattan. Lozowick’s Mural Study: Lower Manhattan, 1936 (US$7,000-$10,000), and Mural Study: Triborough Bridge, 1936 (US$4,000-$6,000), relate to the artist’s commission from the Treasury Relief Art Project for two large oil paintings to adorn the walls of the Midtown Manhattan Post office at 33rd Street and 8th Avenue—they are still there. Soyer’s rare lithographs of people in the Lower East Side, The Mission, 1933 (US$12,000-$18,000), and Bowery Nocturne, 1933 (US$10,000-$15,000), each have hand colouring in watercolour.
A watercolour by George Grosz, Brownstone Houses, New York, circa 1937 (US$8,000-$12,000), stems from the time he emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1937. Additional watercolours include Reginald Marsh’s Tugboats Near the Brooklyn Bridge, 1938 (US$12,000-$18,000), and James Heseldin’s Fulton Street and Brooklyn Bridge, circa 1925 (US$1,000-$1,500).
Rounding out the sale are a selection of choice paintings, including Arthur Ernest Becher’s Drydock, New York, oil on canvas, 1912 (US$2,500-$3,500), Lydia Cooley’s oil on board Ringling Brothers, circa 1935 (US$1,500-$2,500), Don Freeman’s Meat Market, oil on wood panel, circa 1935 (US$1,200-$1,800), and Harry Gottlieb’s Winter Park Scene, New York, oil on canvas, circa 1930s (US$2,000-$3,000).'
I like cityscapes and I recommend having a look at the online catalogue.
From the website: 'The top lot is Edward Hopper’s Night Shadows, etching, 1921 (estimate: US$30,000-50,000), an important print depicting the same location near the Hudson River as his 1913 painting, New York Corner, in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Etchings from the turn of the century, like Childe Hassam’s Fifth Avenue, Noon, 1916 (US$10,000-$15,000), and Washington’s Birthday, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street, 1916 (US$8,000-$12,000), showcase American Impressionism and a divergence from the European tradition. John Sloan’s etchings, Sculpture in Washington Square, 1925 (US$2,500-$3,500), Fourteenth Street, The Wigwam, 1928 (US$2,500-$3,500), which illustrates the last physical address of Tammany Hall, and George Bellows’s lithograph, Solitude, 1917 (US$1,500-$2,500), exemplify the Ash Can School, where the gritty realism of Manhattan took center stage.
A run of works by Martin Lewis portrays Manhattan as both dark and elegant. His rare drypoints include Corner Shadows, 1930 (US$7,000-$10,000), Little Penthouse, 1931 (US$15,000-$20,000), Chance Meeting, 1940-41 (US$10,000-$15,000), Stoops in Snow, 1930 (US$20,000-$30,000), Shadow Dance, 1930 (US$20,000-$30,000), Spring Night, Greenwich Village, 1930 (US$15,000-$20,000), and Winter on White Street, 1934 (US$18,000-$22,000).
Lithographs by Raphael Soyer and Louis Lozowick represent the men and architecture of Depression-era Manhattan. Lozowick’s Mural Study: Lower Manhattan, 1936 (US$7,000-$10,000), and Mural Study: Triborough Bridge, 1936 (US$4,000-$6,000), relate to the artist’s commission from the Treasury Relief Art Project for two large oil paintings to adorn the walls of the Midtown Manhattan Post office at 33rd Street and 8th Avenue—they are still there. Soyer’s rare lithographs of people in the Lower East Side, The Mission, 1933 (US$12,000-$18,000), and Bowery Nocturne, 1933 (US$10,000-$15,000), each have hand colouring in watercolour.
A watercolour by George Grosz, Brownstone Houses, New York, circa 1937 (US$8,000-$12,000), stems from the time he emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1937. Additional watercolours include Reginald Marsh’s Tugboats Near the Brooklyn Bridge, 1938 (US$12,000-$18,000), and James Heseldin’s Fulton Street and Brooklyn Bridge, circa 1925 (US$1,000-$1,500).
Rounding out the sale are a selection of choice paintings, including Arthur Ernest Becher’s Drydock, New York, oil on canvas, 1912 (US$2,500-$3,500), Lydia Cooley’s oil on board Ringling Brothers, circa 1935 (US$1,500-$2,500), Don Freeman’s Meat Market, oil on wood panel, circa 1935 (US$1,200-$1,800), and Harry Gottlieb’s Winter Park Scene, New York, oil on canvas, circa 1930s (US$2,000-$3,000).'
I like cityscapes and I recommend having a look at the online catalogue.
Sunday, 22 August 2010
Adam Styka (1890-1959) - Orientalist painter
From the Styka Family website: :
Adam Styka was born in Poland in 1890. He completed his formal education at the French Academy of Fine Arts, Academie de Beau Arts, and painted closely under the tutelage of his father, Jan Styka. Each year he exhibited his paintings in Paris's most prestigious galleries such as Salon de Paris, Champs Des Elysses and others in Europe and countries of both Americas, where he was awarded the highest accolades.
After graduating from the French Military Academy in Fontainebleau, Styka served in the French Artillery during WWI. He was decorated with a Cross of Merit. Also as a reward, he was granted the French "Nationality Citizenship" and a special assistance from the French Government to visit French colonies in Northern Africa. As the result of these annual journeys, Styka developed an entire genre of Middle-Eastern and Oriental themes. His exquisite ability of captivating and conveying to his paintings the vibrating strong colours full of contrast of the hot Sahara Desert of Northern Africa, colours harmoniously blended together, made him a master without compare and earned him the appellation, "The Master of Sunlight".
Styka's Western paintings of the American Wild West were regarded by art critics such as Dick Owens, as the best Western paintings whenever painted by any artist. Later years of his life he spent on creating religious painting such as The Assumption of Virgin Mary and The Ascension of Jesus; all of them are located in the churches of Europe and the United States.
Adam Styka died on 23rd of September 1959 and is buried in the Alley of the Merit in the cemetery if the "New Czestochowa" of the Pauline Fathers in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Marakesh - oil on board 12½" x 15½". Est £15000-20000
Unsold
The Donkey Ride - oil on canvas 21¼" x 25¾". Est £12000-£18000
Sold for £17500 (inc BP)
Les amoureux - oil on canvas 36¼" x 28¾". Est €30000-40000.
Sold fo €43910 (inc BP)
Sold for £6214
Adam Styka was born in Poland in 1890. He completed his formal education at the French Academy of Fine Arts, Academie de Beau Arts, and painted closely under the tutelage of his father, Jan Styka. Each year he exhibited his paintings in Paris's most prestigious galleries such as Salon de Paris, Champs Des Elysses and others in Europe and countries of both Americas, where he was awarded the highest accolades.
After graduating from the French Military Academy in Fontainebleau, Styka served in the French Artillery during WWI. He was decorated with a Cross of Merit. Also as a reward, he was granted the French "Nationality Citizenship" and a special assistance from the French Government to visit French colonies in Northern Africa. As the result of these annual journeys, Styka developed an entire genre of Middle-Eastern and Oriental themes. His exquisite ability of captivating and conveying to his paintings the vibrating strong colours full of contrast of the hot Sahara Desert of Northern Africa, colours harmoniously blended together, made him a master without compare and earned him the appellation, "The Master of Sunlight".
Styka's Western paintings of the American Wild West were regarded by art critics such as Dick Owens, as the best Western paintings whenever painted by any artist. Later years of his life he spent on creating religious painting such as The Assumption of Virgin Mary and The Ascension of Jesus; all of them are located in the churches of Europe and the United States.
Adam Styka died on 23rd of September 1959 and is buried in the Alley of the Merit in the cemetery if the "New Czestochowa" of the Pauline Fathers in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
I quite like his paintings and will add more as and when I come across them.
For now, here are a couple that came up at the Orientalist sale at Sotheby's 12/11/08:
Marakesh - oil on board 12½" x 15½". Est £15000-20000Unsold
The Donkey Ride - oil on canvas 21¼" x 25¾". Est £12000-£18000Sold for £17500 (inc BP)
Another Adam Styka came up at auction at Aguttes in Paris on the 14/06/10:
Les amoureux - oil on canvas 36¼" x 28¾". Est €30000-40000.Sold fo €43910 (inc BP)
From a Christies sale of 19th Cent European Art at Sth Ken 2/12/04:
A donkey watering in a desert landscape - oil on board
14 7/8" x 18". Est £3000-5000.
A donkey watering in a desert landscape - oil on board Sold for £6214
One painting came up in the Sotheby's sale in New York 23/10/08:
Zohra, A Moroccan Dancer - oil on canvas
30¼"x25". Estimate: US$40,000-60,000.
Sold for US$42,500.
Waddington's Auctions in Toronto sold a painting on 13/05/08:
Sold at Hampel Auctions in Munich December 10th 2011:
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| Eastern Beauty - oil on canvas 25½"x 21". Estimate: Can$20,000-25,000 Sold for Can$54,000 |
Young girl with a Bedouin Arab - oil on canvas
32"x25". Sold for €11,000
On December 4th 2011, Christie's Paris offered the following picture:
Couple enlacé - oil on canvas
33"x24". Estimate: €18,000-25,000
Unsold
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