Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present Fine Art & Works on Paper on Saturday, November 4, 2023. Featuring over 85 lots from several collectors and estates, the sale offers diverse media -- engraving, watercolor, gouache, lithograph, pastel, woodblock, woodcut, pencil, drypoint, and more -- by American and European artists from the 16th through the 21st centuries. A large portion of the auction is devoted to the four-color lithographs of Albert Genick (1836-1906) from his acclaimed work on Greek pottery, Griechische Keramik, printed by Ernst Wasmuth in Berlin in 1883. Artists showcased in the sale from the late 1800s to present day include Millard Sheets, Bruce Conner, Russell Chatham, Winthrop Turney, Armin Hansen, Stephanie Sanchez, August LeRoux, Julien Weir, and Leonard Foujita.
A number of works date from the 16th-19th centuries, with offerings from Rembrandt Van Rijn, Samuel Dirksz, and architectural drawings of Paris and London. There is also a wide array of engravings from those times – by Giovanni Piranesi, Antoine Melling, William Williams, Paolo Fidanza, Christoph Weigel, Emanuel Sweert, and Sébastian Leclerc, plus a group of classical architecture illustration plates by Andrea Palladio and Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi. Completing the auction are maps of French Polynesia, French political pamphlets, Napolean memorabilia, a large collection of Netherlands royal family postcards/ephemera, several oil paintings, and a small sculpture by Chaim Gross.
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