A FINE TSUISHU FOUR-CASE LACQUER INRO WITH DRAGONS CHASING A FLAMING PEARL Unsigned Japan, 19th century Of upright form and oval section, lacquered in tsuishu (carved red lacquer) and finely worked in relief to depict sinuous dragons amid scrolling clouds in pursuit of the flaming pearl, all enclosed within a lobed cartouche surrounded by densely incised karakusa vines. The eyes of the dragon inlaid in dark horn. The interior compartments in ginji. With an agate ojime. The two-part hako (box) netsuke with an overhanging cover bearing peaches borne on verdant foliage and blossoms, the central himotoshi to the back, the cord attachment within. HEIGHT 7.1 cm, LENGTH 5.7 cm Condition: Good condition with cracks and repairs to the first case. Few tiny nicks to the underside of the netsuke. Provenance: From a private collection in Rhineland Palatinate, acquired in the German art trade during the 1970s and 1980s.
Approx. 44cm long, approx. 26.8g, 18K white gold, middle part set with 25 fine and slightly graduated set brilliant-cut diamonds totalling approx. 1.25ct, colour in the top Wesselton range, purity in the VS range, also a very beautiful cultured pearl of approx. Ø9mm, safety clasp, high-quality vintage goldsmith work.
Perle Fine 1905 - 1988 An Accordment #3 signed with the artist’s initials PF and dated ‘73 (lower right); signed three times, titled and variously inscribed (on the stretcher) acrylic on linen 66 by 68 in. 167.6 by 172.7 cm. Executed in 1973.
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Switzerland Perle Fine 1905 - 1988 Whisper of Running Streams signed and dated 59 (lower right) gouache, ink and paper collage on paper 17 by 30 in. 43.2 by 76.2 cm. Executed in 1959.
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Switzerland Perle Fine 1905 - 1988 Autumn in the Air signed and dated ’58 (lower right); signed and titled (on the stretcher) oil and foil collage on canvas 25 by 50 ¼ in. 63.5 by 127.6 cm. Executed in 1958.
Pendant with fine briolet-cut aquamarine, small half pearls (1x missing) and 1 red imitation stone, 14K yellow gold, L: 5.5 cm, 1st third of 20th century, nice workmanship, hanging in necklace from later times, 14K yellow gold, L: 60 cm, 13.2 g, good condition.
FINE, Perle, (American, 1905-1988): Untitled abstract composition, Watercolor/Gouache on paper, signed and dated 1945 center right, sight size 18.5" x 24.5", framed 28.5" x 35". Hinged mounted to board at top corners.
A unusual fine binding done in two tone mother of pearl. A beautiful white contrasted with a opal-essence green and brown. Centre piece is carved in the shape of a Mosque. Text in Arabic. Religious book. Likely a Torah. Spine is leather and binding is becoming loose on cover. Some pages stuck together. This is a unique binding falling somewhere between a jewelled binding a leather inlay binding.
Ring with fine South Sea cultured pearl ca. 13.8 mm and 2 brilliant-cut diamonds totalling ca. 0.25 ct, ca. RW (G)/SI, 18K GG/RSG, 34 gr, ring size 55, 21st century, mint condition, maker's mark Christina Rasmussen.
PERLE FINE (1905-1988) An Accordment #80 1974 signed, titled and variously inscribed on the reverse; signed, titled and dated 1974 on the stretcher oil on canvas 38 by 40 in. 96.5 by 101.6 cm.
Perle Fine (American, 1905-1988) Painting. Title - Accordment Series #33 A Blue. Mixed media painting on paper. Signed Perle Fine, lower right. Gallery and Museum loan labels on reverse with title. Measures 14 inches high, 16 inches wide. Frame measures 14.5 inches high, 16.5 inches wide. Acquired from the Long Island estate of an Amagansett, NY collector who purchased it directly from the artist Perle Fine, a longtime friend. Included is a Perle Fine catalog. In good condition. Originally stapled in the frame along the outer edge. Nine staple holes retouched along the edge. Laid down on an acid free board and attached with archival double sided clear tape to the frame. From Wikipedia: Perle Fine (born Poule Feine) 1905-1988 was an American Abstract expressionist painter. Fine's work was most known by its combination of fluid and brushy rendering of the materials and the use of biomorphic forms encased and intertwined with irregular geometric shapes One of six children, Fine was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1905, to parents who had recently immigrated from Russia. She became interested in art at a young age. Starting almost immediately in grammar school at the time of the First World War... I did posters and started winning little prizes and getting encouragement that way. So that by the time I graduated from high school I knew very well I wanted to be an artist." Fine briefly went to the School of Practical Art in Boston, where she took classes in illustration and graphic design and learned to design newspaper advertisements. She paid for her studies by working in the school's bursar's office. Subsequently, she moved to New York City to pursue training in fine art and began attending the Grand Central School of Art. It was at the Grand Central School of Art where Fine met Maurice Berezov, whom she married in 1930.While in New York, she also studied at the Art Students League with Kimon Nicolades. In the late 1930s she began to study with Hans Hofmann in New York City as well as in Provincetown. In 1943 she received a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation and was able to participate in exhibitions at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of this Century Gallery and the Museum of Nonobjective Painting; these shows brought her significant press attention. In 1945, Fine joined American Abstract Artists, where she found community and support for her artistic ideas. By the mid 1940s, Fine had work in the collections of Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Crowninshield... her art was also owned by Alfred Barr, director of the Museum of Modern Art, and Emily Hall and Burton Tremaine, the modern art collectors from Connecticut. Emily Hall Tremaine would later commission Fine to create two interpretations of Piet Mondrian's unfinished painting Victory Boogie Woogie. Fine ran the East River Gallery on East 57th Street from 1936 to 1938, and opened her own gallery in 1940. In 1945, she had her first solo exhibit at the Willard Gallery on East 57th Street. In 1946, Fine accepted an offer to work for Karl Nienrendorf, whose gallery was across the street from the Willard Gallery; it was at this gallery that Fine received a subsidy that enabled her to paint full-time. During a show at the Nienrendorf Gallery, art critic Edward Alden Jewell, who had previously dismissed abstraction when it first came out in the 1930s by calling it decorative and imitative of European avant-garde, praised Fine's aplomb and native resourcefulness. In 1947, Fine was featured in an issue of The New Iconograph which showcased nonobjective art and theory. It was written that, even though she was a member of American Abstract Artists, her work was different in spirit than that of fellow-members Ralston Crawford and Robert Motherwell. In 1950 she was admitted to the 8th Street - Artists Club, having been nominated by Willem de Kooning. Beginning in the mid-1950s, Fine's expressionist style began to loosen. She produced thick, heavily painted abstractions using harsh, jagged strokes with a loaded brush. Her focus was the two-dimensional plane: surface, texture and medium. Fine's palette in these often large-scale pieces was one of much more somber tones. Fine was chosen by her fellow artists to participate in the Ninth Street Show held from May 21-June 10, 1951. The show was located at 60 East 9th Street on the first floor and in the basement of a building which was about to be demolished. According to Bruce Altshuler - The artists celebrated not only the appearance of the dealers, collectors and museum people on the 9th Street, and the consequent exposure of their work, but they celebrated the creation and the strength of a living community of significant dimensions. Starting with the Ninth Street Show, Fine participated in each of the invitational New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals from 1951 to 1957. She was one of just 24 out of a total 256 New York School artists who was included in all the Annuals. These Annuals were important because the participants were chosen by the artists themselves. Other women artists who took part in all the shows were Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, and Joan Mitchell. In the 1950s, Fine moved to the Springs section of East Hampton on the eastern end of Long Island, where Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning, Conrad Marca-Relli, and other members of the New York School found permanent residence. At a 1958 exhibition, her paintings offered abstract intimations of nature... This perception was reinforced by Fine's inclusion in Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art. The 1960s marked her re-entry into a profoundly changed New York art scene, in which she encountered more galleries and new art styles. Fine had 4 solo shows at the Graham Gallery with a major shift in her style, with a reintroduction of horizontals and verticals, announced Fine's intention to convey... an emotion about color. Fine began to teach in 1961, as a visiting critic and lecturer at Cornell University. Soon after, Hofstra University approached her with an offer; she taught there privately from 1962 to 1973. Fine stated the following: I never thought of myself as a student or teacher, but as a painter. When I paint something I am very much aware of the future. If I feel something will not stand up 40 years from now, I am not interested in doing that kind of thing. After several years' struggle with Alzheimer's disease, Fine died of pneumonia on May 31, 1988, at the age of 83 in East Hampton, New York.
Perle Fine Untitled 1958 mixed media collage on board 19 h x 22.75 w in (48 x 58 cm) Signed to lower right 'Perle Fine'. Signed and dated to verso 'Perle Fine 1958'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.
Perle Fine Untitled 1958 mixed media collage on board 18.625 h x 22.625 w in (47 x 57 cm) Signed to lower right 'Perle Fine'. Signed and dated to verso 'Perle Fine 1956'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.
Perle Fine LAST LAP #1 (Fold Over Drawing #7) 1959 mixed media collage 22 h x 28 w in (56 x 71 cm) Signed to lower left 'Perle Fine'. Provenance: Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York | Private Collection This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.
PERLE FINE (AMERICAN,1905-1988) OIL ON CANVAS, TITLED- COOL SERIES #51 "DEEP DEEP", CIRCA 1963-4. MEASURES 15" BY 13". ABSTRACT PAINTING ON CANVAS IN RED. SOTHEBY'S CONFIRMED PAINTING WAS BY THE ARTIST.
Necklace made of Akoya cultured pearls 8 mm, good lustre with rosé overtone, L: 40 cm, clasp made of 14K white gold with fine small sapphires, 2nd half of 20th century, minor signs of wear.
Abstract Composition "Clearing". Watercolor/gouache and pencil on paperboard. Signed and dated '43 at lower right. Signed again on reverse, titled and inscribed. From a New Jersey collection.
Lot 36 Perle Fine American (1905-1988) Untitled (1970) acrylic on Arches paper mounted on board signed lower right 22 1/4 x 26 1/8 inches frame dimensions: 30 x 34 x 2 inches, wood frame Provenance: From a Private Collection
"Abstract", oil on canvas, signed verso, from her late Cubist period, circa 1945, housed in a handcarved gold frame, OS: 28" x 24", SS: 19 1/2" x 15 1/2", fine condition.
Untitled. Signed and dated '70 lower right. Acrylic on paper mounted to a board. 22 by 26 in. Framed. Separation of paper from board upper left corner. Will need repair.
Perle Fine (American, 1905-1988). Oil on canvas composition made up of striking, thorn-like shapes in muted red, yellow, blue, and black on a cream ground. Signed and dated 1957 along the lower left.
Jewelry set, consisting of bracelet and necklace, fine white cultured pearls in beautiful delicate pink luster, individually knotted, diameter of the pearls around 7.2mm, lobster clasp silver 925, length necklace 45cm and length bracelet 19cm, total weight 45.4g Schmuckset, bestehend aus Armband und Kette, feine weiße Zuchtperlen in schönem zart rosafarbenem Lüster, einzeln geknotet, Durchmesser der Perlen um 7,2mm, Karabinerschließe Silber 925, Länge Kette 45cm und Länge Armband 19cm, Gesamtgewicht 45,4g
Perle Fine American, 1905-1988 Gabun, early 1940s Inscribed PERLE FINE/51 W 8th ST. NY/TITLE - GABUN on the back of the frame Oil on panel 6 x 4 1/2 inches (15.2 x 11.4 cm) Exhibited: New York, Art of this Century Gallery, This Century's Spring Salon of Younger Artists, May 18 - Jun. 26, 1943 C The Collection of Jane and John Gunther
Perle Fine ( American, 1905-1988). Oil on canvas titled on stretcher #45 Striated Yellow. Signed on stretcher and labeled in pencil Dealer: Graham Gallery. Some crazing, drips along bottom edge, small hole near bottom. 59" x 50"
Perle Fine Indicator Working 1965 Fold-Over collage (gouache, folded paper collage) 21.875 h × 27.75 w in (56 × 70 cm) Signed and dated to lower edge 'Perle Fine 65'. Provenance: Private Collection, New York This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey. Condition of the item is not included in this description. Condition reports are available from Rago upon request. Rago strongly recommends that you review a condition report for each item on which you plan to bid. Email condition@ragoarts.com to request a condition report.
Bague En or rose 18k, ornée d''une perle fine épaulée de deux diamants taillés à l''ancienne TDD: 55, Poids brut: 4.20 g Certificat GCS (2019): perle fine d''eau de mer A natural pearl, diamond and 18k pink gold ring, GCS certificate: natural saltwater pearl RAPPORT DE CONDITION: Dim. : env. 8.5 - 8.6 x 6.4 mm Couleur : blanc ; Lustre : très bon Bon état général Certificat du NEL (Nederlands Edelsteen Laboratorium) de 2017 : perle naturelle d''eau de mer Poids de chaque diamant: env. 0.40 ct CONDITION REPORT: Dim. : approx. 8.5 - 8.6 x 6.4 mm Colour : white ; Lustre : very good Good condition NEL certificate (Nederlands Edelsteen Laboratorium) 2017 : natural saltwater pearl Weitght of each diamond: approx. 0.40 ct
Perle Fine (American, 1905-1988) Focus & Reverse Pencil signed bottom right, oil, crayon and pencil on wood assemblage. Executed in 1966. 23 15/16 x 24 x 1 9/16 in. (60.8 x 61 x 4cm) provenance: Graham Gallery, New York, New York. Baltimore Museum of Art Rental Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland. Dorothy Levitt Beskind, New York, New York. The Estate of Dorothy Levitt Beskind, New York, New York.
Perle Fine (American, 1905-1988) Untitled, 1961 oil and collage on board signed and dated lower left. Biography from the archives of AskArt: A creator of abstract paintings and collages, Perle did work that inspired peace and serenity by using balanced lines and solid shapes on flat surfaces. She was a highly committed art teacher and spent twelve years as a professor of art at Hofstra University in New York. When she ended this career in her late sixties, she did minimalist collages in a series called "Accordment." She was born and raised in the Boston area on a dairy farm, and in her late teens moved to New York City where she took classes at the Art Students League with Kimon Nicolaides. She married fellow student Maurice Berezov, and both became abstract artists but were careful to maintain their own identities with her keeping her own name. She studied with Hans Hofmann, Abstract Expressionist, but disagreed with his ideas and searched for her own less explosive mode of expression. Eventually, she was befriended by Hilla Rebay of the Guggenheim Foundation and with Rebay's influence was the recipient of some of those funds. At the Guggenheim Museum, Fine became a friend of Jackson Pollock, who was working as a guard and whose painting style was then shocking to most viewers. She had her first one-person show in 1945 at the Willard Gallery. In 1954, she became associate professor of art at Hofstra University and moved to an art colony on Long Island called the Springs. She painted until she was in her late seventies and died at age eighty. Source: American Women Artists by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein 7 1/2"H x 10 3/4"W (image), 12"H x 15"W (frame).
Perle Fine Deep of the Night etching with hand-coloring on paper 8 h × 6 w in (20 × 15 cm) Signed, titled and numbered to lower edge '52/100 Deep of the Night Perle Fine'. condition: Work is in overall good condition. Sheet is toned with some minor wear and loss upper corners. Work presents well. Unframed.
Perle FINE (1908-1988) ; Abstract ; c.1940-50s ; oil on canvas / unframed ; dimensions 30 x 40 in. ; signed lower right corner ; Shipping to USA - DHL $250 , National post with tracking service $120 / Shipping to EU, Russia, Middle Assia - DHL $150 , National post with tracking service $65
Perle Fine (New York/Massachusetts, 1905-1988) Abstract Expressionist mixed media collage, colored paper and pencil on graph paper featuring blue and yellow overlaid geometric shapes. Signed and dated "'59" lower right. Double matted and housed under glass in a metallic wooden frame. Sight - 8 3/8" H x 10 7/8" W. Framed - 13 7/8" H x 16 1/4" W. American, mid 20th century. Biography: A creator of abstract paintings and collages, Perle studied at the Grand Central School of Art, the Art Students League, and with Hans Hofmann. In 1949 she became one of the few female members of the Eighth Street or Artists Club, at the invitation of Willem de Kooning. She also spent twelve years as a professor of art at Hofstra University in New York. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (source: Askart and the Hofstra Museum). Provenance: a Nashville, Tennessee estate. (Additional high-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com.)
Perle Fine (New York/Massachusetts, 1905-1988) Abstract Expressionist mixed media collage titled "Encounter" with black, white, and gray paint on shaped and applied wood forms, suggesting human figures intertwining and interacting with geometry and pattern. Signed lower right. Artist's name and title, en verso. Housed in a plexiglass shadow box. 24 1/4" H x 24 1/2" W x 2" D. American, mid 20th century. Biography: A creator of abstract paintings and collages, Perle studied at the Grand Central School of Art, the Art Students League, and with Hans Hofmann. In 1949 she became one of the few female members of the Eighth Street or Artists Club, at the invitation of Willem de Kooning. She also spent twelve years as a professor of art at Hofstra University in New York. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (source: Askart and the Hofstra Museum). Provenance: a Nashville, Tennessee estate. (Additional high-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com.)
Perle Fine (1905-1988), watercolor collage, untitled abstract 1961, signed lower right: Perle Fine, original Arlene Bujese Gallery label, Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center New York label. 6 3/4" x 11"
Perle FINE (1908-1988) ; Prescience #3 ; 1952 ; oil on canvas / framed ; dimensions 48 x 48 in. ; signed and dated lower left corner ; named on verso ; provenance - Betty Parsons gallery trough the current owner ; Shipping to USA - DHL $450 , National post with tracking service $220 / Shipping to EU, Russia, Middle Assia - DHL $320 , National post with tracking service $180
Perle Fine (American, 1905-1988) early watercolor landscape study dated 1936 by Abstract Expressionist Perle Fine. It features a beach alley, an unusual subject for the this artist who later evolved into a prominent female artist in the Abstract Expressionist trends of the mid 20th century. Measures approximately 14.5 by 13.75 inches, 18.75 by 19.75 inches framed. Signed "Perle Fine '36" in the lower central-left. In good condition
A Fine Japanese Black Lacquer Box & Cover & Fitted Tray, Inlaid with Mother of Pearl, Showa Period, a stationery box, the tray inlaid with a double gourd & floating ribbons, the rectangular shape with an intricate central design on the cover within a frame of key fret pattern, the side panels with a scrolling floral motif Provenance: The property of a Gentleman H 11, W 33, D 24 cm
Vintage sterling silver filigree hand made very fine work ORHID shaped brooch with genuine white pearl. Weight 9.9 grams. Hallmarked SILVER. Pearl measured 7 mm in diameter. Brooch measured 2 1/4" x 2". Condition excellent.
