Oil paintings by Avercamp (an attribution) and Bordone will headline ACES Gallery's Sept. 29 auction

STAMFORD, Conn. - Sept. 10, 2024 - PRLog -- An oil painting attributed to Dutch landscape artist Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634), an oil painting by Italian artist Paris Bordone (1500-1571), and a Wedderien, Inc. (N.Y.) finely carved obsidian jeweled bear are a few of the many featured lots in a Fall Estates Auction planned for Sunday, September 29^th, by ACES Gallery, starting at 1 pm Eastern time.

The catalog features nearly 400 items sourced from local estates and private collections, none of which are dealer merchandise. Lots include fine art, jewelry, silver, studio design and antique furniture, Asian art and collectibles, including dollhouse miniatures and an extensive collection of bear figurines. This is an online auction, but phone and absentee bids will be also be accepted.

The oil on board winter village scene attributed to Hendrick Avercamp is 18 inches by 30 ½ inches and is housed in a 38 inch by 25 inch frame. The work, an attribution, has an estimate of $5,000-$10,000. Avercamp worked during the Dutch Golden Age of painting. He was one of the early landscape painters of the Dutch school, specializing in scenes of the Netherlands in winter.

The oil on canvas by Paris Bordone is titled L'Automne (Venus, Bacchus and Diana). It's 42 ½ inches by 63 inches on the stretcher and 78 inches by 57 ½ inches as framed. It is expected to change hands for $15,000-$25,000 and was identified in a 1913 Sedelmeyer Gallery (Paris) catalog of 100 paintings. Paris Bordone was an Italian painter of the Venetian Renaissance who, despite training with Titian, maintained a strand of Mannerist complexity and provincial vigor.

The finely carved Wedderien, Inc. obsidian jeweled bear is depicted in the standing position, and has a Wedderien label on one foot and is signed with cojoined initials ("WD") on the opposite foot. It's accompanied by a newspaper clipping showing a picture of the identical carving with the caption "Obsidian bear worth $500". The 5¼-inch-tall bear should gavel for $500-$1,000.

Internet bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Druout.com. Previews will be held by appointment only, on Friday September 27^th (12pm-5pm), and Saturday September 28^th (10am-5pm) in ACES Gallery's gallery and offices located at 85 Old Long Ridge Road (#A4) in Stamford, Conn. For an appointment, call (475) 500-7118; or send an email to gallery@ACES.net. All items will be on display prior to auction day, Sunday, September 29^th.

To learn more visit www.aces.net.