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  Victor Arnautoff, The Felt Hat, Oil on Canvas c. 1930

  VICTOR ARNAUTOFF (1896-1979) USA

  The Felt Hat c. 1930

  Oil on canvas, white gold frame

  Signed: V. Arnautoff, lower right

  Exhibited: Art Center San Francisco, 1931 (see image of the review in the San Francisco Examiner, July 12th, 1931)

  For more information see: The New Deal for Artists, Richard D. McKinzie (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973), Coit Tower, San Francisco : Its History and Art

  Painting: H: 26” x W: 21”
  Framed: H: 32 ½” x 27 ½”

  Price: $60,000

  Victor Arnautoff created paintings and watercolors, focusing on portraits, still lifes and rural landscapes in his early years, and moved to more socially conscious themes later in his career. Arnautoff was a native of Russia, to which he returned during the 1960s after thirty years in the United States. He came to San Francisco from Russia via China, bringing his wife and children with him, and studied at the California School of Fine Arts studying with Ralph Stackpole and Edgar Walter before going to Mexico. There he worked as an assistant to the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. During the 1930s, Arnautoff worked as project director and one of the artists selected to create the famed Coit Tower murals, he played a key role in determining the political and social content of the frescoes painted in the San Francisco landmark. His own contribution, City Life, appears to be a lively, non-political melding of downtown San Francisco scenes; however, closer study reveals two leftist newspapers on the newsstand, while the city’s most mainstream daily, the San Francisco Chronicle, is strangely missing. Arnautoff also painted frescoes in the Military Chapel at San Francisco’s Presidio, in the Anne Bremer Library of the San Francisco Art Institute, and in high schools and other buildings in the Bay Area. He was a professor of art at Stanford University from 1939 until his retirement in 1963.

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  Pierre d’Avesn / Verlys / French Art Deco “Egyptian Fan”, satin crystal vase c. 1934

  PIERRE D’AVESN (1901-1984)

  VERLYS   Rouen, France

  “Egyptian Fan” vase c. 1934

  Satin crystal, hand finished in the form of a “winged” vase with “Egyptian Fan” motif

  Model illustrated: Verlys catalogue of c. 1934, Pierre d’Avesn Catalogue raisonné, 1920 to 1930 (by Philippe Decelle)

  H: 8 ½” x W: 11”

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  Georges Serré / Art Deco Warm ivory /sand colored glazed stoneware vase c. 1925

  GEORGES SERRÉ (1889-1956) France

  Vase c. 1925

  Warm ivory /sand colored glazed stoneware with hand incised stylized leaf and floral motif with a top collar and lower half in a softened geometric repeat pattern all in a light brown tonality.

  Marks: G Serre (hand incised signature)

  For more information see: La Céramique Art Déco, Edgar Pelichet (Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, 1988), p. 47.

  For more information on Serré see: Georges Serré, exhib. cat. (Paris: Galerie Landrot, 1992).

  H: 11″ x Dia: 10″

   

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