Modern & Post-War Art: Featuring Alma Thomas & the Washington Scene — December 1, 2022 Auction Highlights View Lots Browse Catalogue Lot 87: Ernest Briggs, Untitled, (#220), oil on canvas, 1959. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000. The Modern & Post-War Art auction has works beginning with early modernism through post-war abstraction, as well as Latin-American and Latinx art. Modern works by John Piper, William Zorach, and Maximilian Luce will begin the sale, followed by works of Post-War artists, Giorgio Cavallon, John Little, Sally Michel Avery and many more. Our Latin-American art section features a collagraph by Cuban artist Belkis Ayón, Intolerancia, 1998. Latinx contemporary artists include Alexis Duque, Lina Puerta and Scherezade García. At Auction December 1: left: Lot 85: Esteban Vincente, Blue, oil on canvas, 1970. Estimate $50,000 to $70,000; right: Lot 82: David Smith, Untitled, oil, watercolor & India ink, 1957. Estimate $7,000 to $9,000. Lot 9: Marlow Moss, Untitled, ink, pencil & tempera, 1950. Estimate $3,000 to $5,000. Related Reading Introducing Latinx Art: Carlos Osorio, Nitza Tufiño & More Latin-American Modernists Alma Thomas & the Washington Scene A special section is devoted to the artwork of Alma Thomas and her Washington, DC contemporaries. The centerpiece, Reflections, was recently featured in the traveling retrospective Alma Thomas: Everything is Beautiful. In addition to works by Thomas, fellow Washington artists feature such as Richard Dempsey, Sam Gilliam, Loïs Mailou Jones and Delilah Pierce. Lot 73: Alma Thomas, Reflections, oil on cotton canvas, 1960. Estimate $450,000 to $650,000. At Auction December 1: left: Lot 107: O. Louis Guglielmi, Composition: Ave, oil on canvas, 1953. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000; right: Lot 58: John Opper, Untitled, oil on canvas, 1955. Estimate $7,000 to $9,000. Lot 116: Sidney Gordin, Untitled, oil & wood relief on masonite, 1964. Estimate $3,000 to $5,000. Get Notifications For Auction Day Sign-Up For Email Updates Download the Swann Galleries App Share Facebook Twitter November 8, 2022Author: Harold PorcherCategory: Modern & Post-War Art Tags: Alma Thomas David Smith Ernest Briggs Esteban Vincente John Opper Louis O. Guglielmi Marlow Moss Modern & Post-War Art Sydney Gordin Previous Collector’s Guide: Aviation & Airline Posters Next Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books: December 8, 2022 Auction Highlights Recommended Posts 13 Auction Records in Spring 2021 Sale of African American Art African American Art April 26, 2021 Alma Thomas’s Journey to Abstraction African American Art September 27, 2017 Art from the Collection of Norman Dolph Contemporary Art May 30, 2023