Art + Design

Just in time to celebrate the holidays, Freeman’s December 12th Art + Design auction brings a bountiful smorgasbord of 177 lots of paintings, drawings, sculptures, furniture and design objects to the table with delicacies for every taste from the well-seasoned familiar to excitingly bold new flavors. Of leading significance in the sale are a jazzy quintet of sublimely spellbinding Gertrude Abercrombie paintings, four of which importantly belonged to writer Wendell Wilcox and his wife Esther, including a most precious sparkling gem the smallest self-portrait the Queen of the Bohemian’s is known to have made, still housed in the intricately ornate...