Past Auctions - 2006 Catalogued Auctions








December 9, 2006

ASIAN WORKS OF ART including property from the estate of Rosalie M. and Matthew B. Weinstein; 20th century fine art and decorative works of art; Latin American fine art and the Laumann collection of antique toys.

October 14 & 15, 2006

INCLUDING EUROPEAN WORKS OF ART; glass; silver and silver-plate; property from the estate of William M.V. Kingsland; American furniture and folk art from the collection of Arnold and Lois Skromme; property from the collection of Chermayeff & Geismar as well as several New York estates.

September 16, 2006

OVER 500 LOTS including Old Master drawings and paintings; 19th and 20th century paintings and European works of art; bronzes from the 17th through 20th century and Asian works of art.

June 24, 2006

THE COLLECTION OF CHERMAYEFF & GEISMAR
Internationally known designers Chermayeff & Geismar, the team that has revolutionized visual communication, chose Stair Galleries as their venue for selling the art collection they have amassed from around the globe over the past four decades. This single-owner sale fully displays the variety and depth of their collection. Not only are there A-list artists being offered; there are emerging artists represented in the sale and significant artists to be rediscovered.
Chermayeff & Geismar images and icons are burned into our subconscious.

Every day we see the bold graphic logos they created: PBS, NBC, Xerox, Viacom, Screen Gems, Mobil, Chase Manhattan and many more.
The pieces offered at auction were the works that inspired them and the artists they nurtured and encouraged. The collection touched upon nearly every significant art movement of the 20th century, from Bauhaus to Pop, taking us through an international evolution of Modernism and revealing the impact it has had on our lives.

May 20, 2006

ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL FURNITURE, Decoration, Silver and 20th Century Glass along with over 75 lots of Antique Furniture, Statuary and Decoration for the Garden.

April 22, 2006

AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN FINE ART including 19th century works from the Thomas Van Loan Collection.

In 1911 Thomas Van Loan, a prominent spice and coffee merchant, sold his residence in Brooklyn and dispatched a large and valuable collection of paintings and objets d'art to his ancestral home in Athens, New York and in effect created a private museum.*

It is with great pleasure that Stair Galleries presented, for the first time in nearly one hundred years, a group of paintings from the collection originally assembled by Thomas Van Loan. Included in the sale were paintings by, attributed to or after: Joseph Boston, Henry Gasser, Aaron Shattuck, Marcel Dyf, Maria A’Becket, Chaim Gross, Maurice Brun, Frans Kels, Jonh F. Herring, L. Bemelmans, Gilbert Gaul, Filipo Indoni, George M. Bruestle anf many more.
*From “An Elegant Mistake, The Haight-Gantley-Van Loan Place at Athens, New York,” Hope Farm Press,
Cornwall, NY 1973.

March 4, 2006

ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL FURNITURE AND DECORATION