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  Also see Rubens at Auction Peter Paul Rubens and Workshop, (Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp) The Holy Family with Saint Anne, Saint John and a Dove, oil on panel, 66 x 51 cm, framed (EUR 350,000.- to EUR 500,000.- Finally, a newly confirmed addition to the oeuvre of Peter Paul Rubens, arguably the greatest and most well-travelled of Flemish artists, The Holy Family with Saint Anne, Saint John and a dove, is one of the first works painted by the master and his Antwerp workshop following his return from Rome. The work is a showpiece of Rubens’s vibrant painting technique, with bold colours, plucked feathers, brilliant musculature, and compositional ingenuity. It shows Rubens working out elements of the picture directly on the panel, along with a high degree of iconographic sophistication. As court painter to the Duke of Mantua, and emissary to the Spanish court at Valladolid, Rubens imbibed the genius of the Italian masters of the renaissance, before returning triumphantly to transfo...

 See also  Guy Wiggins at Auction I Guy Wiggins at Auction II John Marin at Auction              The sale also includes a run of works by New York artist Guy C. Wiggins. Known for his paintings depicting snowy street scenes in New York, the Wiggins works in this auction include    Chicago Blizzard,  oil on canvas, 1920s ($40,000 to $60,000);    Fifth Avenue Storm,  oil on canvas board ($30,000 to $50,000); and  Winter Along Central Park,  oil on canvas, 1930s ($30,000 to $50,000); among others. Other paintings in the sale featuring the city that never sleeps include two works by John Marin: City Movement, New York,  watercolor, 1925 ($15,000 to $20,000); and  Sunset, Manhattan,  colored pencil and pencil ($8,000 to $12,000). John Marin (1870-1953),  My-Hell Raising Sea , painted in 1941 . 25 x 30 in (63.5 x 76.2 cm). Esti...

 See also Georgia O'Keefe at Auction PROPERTY FROM THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON GEORGIA O’KEEFFE (1887-1986) A Sunflower from Maggie oil on canvas 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.) Painted in 1937. $6,000,000-8,000,000 Christie's has announced Georgia O’Keeffe’s  A Sunflower from Maggie  (1937), will be a featured highlight in the 20 th  Century Art Evening Sale taking place this May in New York. The painting was deaccessioned from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA); it will be sold to benefit acquisitions for the Museum (estimate: $6 million - $8 million). Emily Kaplan, Christie’s Specialist and Co-Head of 20th Century Evening Sale,  remarks, “It is an honor to partner with the MFA on the sale of Georgia O’Keeffe’s  A Sunflower from Maggie  to benefit acquisitions for the Museum. A truly iconic image from one of the finest 20th century American modernists, this work is a leading example of American painting of the ...

  Also see Arthur Dove at Auction Marsden Hartley at Auction George Bellows at Auction Stuart Davis at Auction Arthur G. Dove’s  River Bottom, Silver, Ochre, Carmine, Green ,  circa  1923 (estimate: $3,000,000-5,000,000), is among the most important works by the artist to come to the market and reflects Dove’s deep connection to the American landscape and his fascination with water. In this view looking down onto a riverbed, Dove creates an amorphous exploration of color, line and form, pushing representation of nature to the edge of abstraction. Marsden Hartley’s  Abstraction  (estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000) was created in 1912-13 during a pivotal period of his career in Europe and embodies one of the artist’s most experimental and boldest abstract statements of his  oeuvre . Building upon his musical ‘intuitive’ works of late 1912, and anticipating the politically and personally entrenched wartime German Officer paintings,  A...

Also see Norman Rockwell at Auction The top lot of the American Art sale is  Norman Rockwell’s  famed Saturday Evening Post cover  The Homecoming , which was printed for the May 26, 1945 issue, just eighteen days after the end of World War II (estimate: $4,500,000–6,500,000). The timely and emotional image tells the story of a young soldier arriving home, where family, neighbors and even a love interest rush to greet him with ecstatic joy. The work was described by Post editor Ben Hibbs as “the finest cover Norman has done; in fact, I have always felt that it is the greatest magazine cover ever published.”  Sotheby’s spring auction of American Art will be held in New York on 23 May 2018. Led by 13worksby Norman Rockwell from all periods of the artist’s decades-long career, the sale features 120+ lots that are together estimated at more than $40million. The auction also includes exceptional example by Frederic Edwin Church, N.C. Wyeth, Milton Avery, Albert...