Modern & Contemporary Fine Art
online only auction | 19 day sale | sale is over
Location
Monrovia, CA 91016 Dates
Sale Starts
Fri
May 26
10am2023
Sale Ends
Tue
Jun 13
12pm2023
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John Moran Auctioneers
Description & Details
John Moran Auctioneers’ bi-annual sale of Modern & Contemporary Art features works by many important artists of the 20th and 21st Centuries, including paintings, prints and multiples, photography, and sculpture by Alice Baber, Jacques Lipschitz, Karl Benjamin, Joan Miro, Damien Hirst, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Herb Ritts, amongst others.
This sale also features a capsule collection of works from the estate of the esteemed New York gallerist, Howard Wise, including important works by Charmion von Wiegand, Takis, Nam June Paik, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Peter Hujar.









































![42
Joan Miro
1893-1983
"Centennaire De L'Imprimerie Mourlot," 1953
Lithograph in colors on wove paper, watermark Arches
One of 30 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 75
Signed in pencil, lower right: Miro; inscribed in pencil, lower left: e.a. [epreuve d'artiste]; Mourlot, Paris, prntr./pub.
Image/Sheet: 19.875" H x 25.875" W"
Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3676647/143691877/1-t.jpg)

![44
Friedenreich Hundertwasser
1928-2000
"Look At It On A Rainy Day (Regentag Portfolio)," 1970-72
10 Screenprints in colors with metallic embossing on various papers
Edition: 2044/3000
Signed and numbered in blue pencil on the inside lid of the original wooden portfolio case: Hundertwasser; each image signed again with the embossed gold signature, and the ink-stamped edition number 02044[sic], in either the lower or left margin; six of the images with the Schoeller Stern blindstamp, and one with the Schoeller Parole blindstamp, in the lower right margin corner, the three images on colored papers without blindstamps; Dietz Offizin, Lengmoos, Bavaria, in cooperation with Günter Dietz, prntr.; Ars Viva, Zürich, Switzerland, pub.; loose as issued; together with original, hinged, black wooden box with color-embossed cover embellished with miniature images and list of plates
Sheet for nine images: 16" H x 23" W; Sheet for image #5: 18.75" H x 26.25" W
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3676647/143691880/1-t.jpg)





















![66
Rufino Tamayo
1899-1991
"Femme En Mauve," From "Mujer En Lila" [Woman In Lilac] ," 1969
Lithograph in colors on BFK Rives paper
Edition: 91/150
Signed and numbered in pencil in the lower margin: R. Tamayo; Touchstone Publishers, New York, NY, pub.
Image: 27" H x 20.75" W; Sheet: 30" H x 22.5" W
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3676647/143691900/1-t.jpg)





















![88
Eliot Porter
"Portfolio II: Iceland," Twelve Plates, 1972
The set of 12 dye-transfer photographs mounted to mat board, as issued
Edition 62/110, of which only 100 were intended for sale
Each photographs' mat board mount with Porter's "Portfolio II: Iceland" black ink stamp, together with the plate [1-12] and set number [62] hand-written in red ink, verso. Printed in 1972, the series was published by the artist, Santa Fe, NM, in 1975
Image/Sheet: 10.5" H x 8" W (or opposite); Artist board support: 20" H x 15" W (or opposite)
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3676647/143691923/1-t.jpg)





























![118
Frederic Bruly Bouabre
1923-2014
Embracing Figures, 2007
Ink, colored crayon, and pencil on card
Each: Signed and dated verso: 25-6-2007; each inscribed in French in ink along the edges with the same inscription, except on each card one-word changes along the lower edge, at left to represent the nationality of the figures: La Maturite ici, une divine / tache de Peinture figures l'embrassade / d'un charitable couple Jamaicain [interchangeable nationality] / art divin releve sur orange jaunie par
24 pieces
Each Image/Sheet: 7.5" H x 6" W
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/3676647/143691953/1-t.jpg)




























































































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