Blue Waters Rancho Santa Fe Fine Art & Jewelry Estate Sale Presales!

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We presell up until the day before the estate sale at 5pm - so the listing is accurate.  

Please be aware that all jewelry is removed every night.  

ART 

Jan Franek 

20th Century Czech artist $500- $750

Had a big gallery show in San Diego in 1991.

• “Czech contemporary artist included in the Linhart Foundation art collection and exhibited among Czech introspective artists in the early 1990s.”

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Toueville painting based on Peter Paul Rubens,  The Holy Family $250

A major Czech modernist sculptor known for:

• Abstracted human forms
   

• Small bronzes
   

• Post-Cubist and stylized figures
   

• Often mounted on marble or stone bases
   

$300 each

Alicja Bryk (A. Bryk / Bryka)

Polish modernist / folk-expressionist printmaker

$150 per piece 

Sergio Nardoni - dog window Florence Interno $850

Rodolpho Meli framed and numbered lithographs $250

Rodolfo Meli (1948 - ) was born on the threshold of the fifties in Rignano sull'Arno, in the heart of Tuscany which will be a recurring motif, from the most remote history, to the calm and remote landscapes, to the artists who have made it eternal, of his copious production of a cultured artist, and therefore simple and shy. After graduating from the Art Institute of Florence, the dense sequence of experiences, personal and collective exhibitions began, which led him from the Tuscan capital to Amsterdam, and in the 1980s, New York.

John Bailey John Bailey was born in 1926. He has been featured in various exhibitions, including at Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY (2019) and Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne, Uk (2019).

Bio updated as of 2023.

Impressionist painter $500-700

Lazzaro Donati (1926 - 1977) $1200-1000 

was active/lived in Italy.  Lazzaro Donati is known for Abstract female figure and cityscape painting, lithography and sculpture.

Lazzaro Donati (1926-1977) was born in Florence in 1926 and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence. Within three years eleven exhibitions followed in Italy, and as his reputation grew he was invited to give major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. He is considered one of the foremost contemporary Italian painters and his paintings hang in museums and private collections throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Mr. Donati lived and worked at 24 Piazza Donatello in Florence, the square where generations of artists have created works worthy of the great Florentine tradition. As you entered the narrow hallway to his studio, a gilded life-size Venetian angel beckoned you to his door. Once inside, the present faded away and you found yourself in an atelier where early masters might have worked during the Renaissance. Within, luxurious Persian ru   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9185 characters.] 

Leopard hat $50

Paolo Staccioli 2 Large Vessels - $1000 each horses 

Painting by Ludovico Tommasi $1800

The artistic career of Ludovico Tommasi, the youngest in the Tommasi family, is completely different from that of his elder brother Angiolo.  Ludovico did not receive any formal training. However, from a tender age he showed such a real passion for music, that his parents, who had moved to la Casaccia in Bellariva, enrolled him in the Florence Conservatory of Music, where he graduated with a degree in violin in the 1880's.  At the same time, the presence of painter Silvestro Lega in the Tommasi home as Angiolo's teacher and coach persuaded Ludovico, aged 16 in 1882, to study painting with the great teacher.

Ludovico was a self-taught painter; he never had any formal classes and approached plein- air painting* under Lega, without ever having done any drawing.  His debut as a painter occurred in 1884 in Florence with a Studio dal vero (Study from real life).  At the end of the 1880's he was drafted into the military and stationed in Milan, where he spent his free time drawing, refining his own drawing technique which would become his favourite one.  Once he completed his military service, he moved back to Florence.  In these years Tommasi's drawing achieved technical maturity as is clear from his work entitled La chiesina di S. Prugnano (The small church in S. Prugnano).

Around 1895 he often visited his brother Angiolo in Torre del Lago, where he attended the meetings of the "Bohème Club" and became a close friend of composer Giacomo Puccini. At the turn of the century Ludovico's style combined the drawing techniques he had perfected and Nomellini's divisionist* motifs.  In 1904 he exhibited his works at the Palazzo Corsini in Florence with the "Secessionists" group, and in 1905 he adorned the rooms of the Tuscan Art Exhibit in Florence, together with Galileo Chini, Costetti, Ghiglia and De Carolis. In 1906 he joined the group called "Young Etruria" and participated in the National Exhibition of Art in Milan.

In the 1920's he travelled to Romania. Once back in Florence, he focused mainly on his drawing and in 1912, with his friend Carlo Raffaelli, he established the Free School of Etching at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts*.

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  Franco Lastraioli $300 each 

Born:  1931 - Firenze

Known for:  Painting

Anthropomorphic surrealist 

2 pears on a walk and clock face

M Milosevic 1964 Yugoslav/serbian Emigre Painter working in Florence - Scuola Fiorentina $400

JAN DE RUTH $1000

Listed "Who was Who in American Art"

Born Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia

Studied: Rotter Art School, Prague; Ruskin Art School, Oxford University, England; ASL New York; New School, NY; also with Frederic Taubes.

Exhibited: 38 National Juried Exhibitions, 14 Museum Solo Shows and 51 Gallery Solo Exhibitions.

Author: Portrait Painting, 1964; Painting the Nude, 1968.

It's a long way from sketching in leftover coffee to painting a portrait of Ethel Kennedy for the cover of Time Magazine, twenty-five years in fact; and during that period, Jan De Ruth's personal experiences have been enough to fill two ordinary lifetimes. Through them all, art has sustained him and been his primary interest.

To begin with, De Ruth, a native of Czechoslovakia and now an American citizen, spent the years of World War II being shunted through five different concentration camps, including the infamous Auschwitz.  He made four escape attempts and finally made good on his fifth try.

De Ruth constantly sought materials with which to draw, but "The only things we had were the few pieces of cloth we wore," he recalls.  By chance, he was transferred to Germany as part of a labor detail and managed to sneak a pencil away from the camp supervisor. "I became a perfect thief during those years," he says. De Ruth drew a mother and child on a scrap of paper he scrounged from the factory where he worked and filled it in with shadings of coffee in various strengths-his finger was his brush.  He exchanged the sketch for a piece of bread from a camp guard, and in effect, sold his first painting.

In March of 1945, after being transferred to his native Czechoslovakia, he made his successful escape "knowing every step of the way."  After the war, De Ruth became the commissar in a small Czech town and remained in the post for one year, just long enough to forge some documents that allowed him to flee to England.  He took up residence in London and enrolled at the Ruskin Art School in Oxford University.  He arrived in the USA in 1948.

There are times in the life of a painter when his dedication to his art is overshadowed by the immediate requirements of self-preservation.  This was one of those times! From '48 to 1955 he supported himself by working at night, earning his way painting designs on neckties and bathroom cups; as a fashion designer, illustrator, vacuum cleaner salesman, theatre manager, and actor.  In '55 Jan De Ruth made his professional debut as a full-time artist and two years later his first one-man show established him as a serious painter.

His work has been acclaimed for combining the technique of the Old Masters with a modern manner, and has been exhibited in more than 40 one-man shows in galleries and museums across the United States.  He has been judged positively by juries in 28 national exhibitions, and his numerous awards include the Purchase Prize of the Butler Institute of American Art, and the Gold Medal of the National Arts Club.

De Ruth, author of the books Portrait Painting and Painting the Nude, has devoted his entire life to painting the female face and form.  He enjoys special popularity as a portraitist, and has become one of the best known painters of the nude female in the world today.  Often asked why he concentrates on this most demanding of all art subjects, he replies: . . . "Each painting of the nude becomes a new experience . . . It (the human figure) is nature's most perfect and most imperfect creation, communicating, even in silence and immobility, the physical and spiritual power-and frailty-of humanity."

Articulate, sophisticated, outspoken and well informed, De Ruth has also been a welcome guest on radio and television shows.  But, it is painting that gives a purpose to Jan De Ruth's existence: "It is an unending challenge-there is no end, no final result-to be found in painting the human body.  I have never seen two gestures that are alike, but so are the possibilities of expression.  There will always be painters who will find one more way of saying: "See! This is what I feel about humans." . . . So until a greater challenge and a more profound symbol comes along, it is the human figure I wish to paint."

ONE MAN MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

B'nai B'rith Museum - Washington D.C.

Florida Gulf Coast Art Center - Clearwater, Fla.

Mint Museum of Art - Charlotte, N.C.

Neville Public Museum - Green bay, Wisconson

Lauren Rogers Museum - Laurel, Miss.

Theodore Wright Art Center - Beloit, Wis.

Bowling Green State College - Bowling Green Ohio

Catawba College - Salisbury, N.C.

East Central State College - Ada, Oklahoma

Fairleigh Dickinson University - New Jersey

Rochester Public Library - Rochester, N.Y.

NATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

Allied Artists of America

American Artists Professional League

Audubon Artists

Berkshire Art Association, Berkshre Museum

Boston Society of Independent Artists

Connecticut Academy

Knickerbocker Artists

National Academy of Design

National Arts Club

New York City Center

New York State Exposition

Ogunquit Art Center

Painters and Sculptors Society of New Jersey

Princeton Art Association

Springfield Museum Eastern States Exposition

M H Faraher Watercolor - Last Supper $150

Maurice Jay Stein - children on the beach $150

Unsigned sailboat painting - likely Lee Reynold Burr $150

Rafael Dussan Abstract $300

Rafael Dussan  studied philosophy, theology, and psychology at the Major Seminary of Bogotá  and the Pontifical Javeriana University (1977-1987). His full name is Rafael Alfonso Dussan Mejia.

From 1987 to 1995, he worked in different workshops such as Cooperartes and took free courses at the National University where his interest in drawing led him to train with teachers such as Manuel Hernandez, Nelly Rojas, Gloria Caicedo, Maria Cristina Cortez, Justiniano Duran among others. 

His drive of exploration and learning led him to Europe on two occasions  1993-1995 and 2001-2010, where he took courses in printmaking and drawing, alternating with a teaching job in the field of drawing (Paris and Milan). He lives in Cartagena de Indias.

Several Works by Zuzuk Roman Expressionistic figures  $550 each 

Luigi Galligani drawing $400

Luigi Galligani sculpture $800

Jewelry 

Barbara Bixby rings $200 each 

Barbara bixby ring  $200, third ring - teardrop 

Jewelry brass collar modernist -maybe Vickery or Art Smith -need to see signature maybe $200

18k coral drop earrings $600

Le petit prince watch $20

Russian pin Palek school $45

Dominique Aurientis new wave brooches $120

18k coin ring $600 (if 6g) 

Maltese cross Faux Chanel $150 

Hargo Mythica beast Lion Head Earrings $200

JEWELRY
by Dotty Stringfield
©2008

Jewelry marked "HAR" has long been a mystery to collectors and dealers. What company used the mark, and who was behind the company? Thanks to the independent research efforts of Roberto Brunialti and Sue Klein, the mystery has been solved.

HAR Dragon Set

Roberto, while researching in the U.S.A Copyright Office in the Washington Library of Congress, found that the "HAR" mark was owned by Hargo Creations in New York. He also learned that Joseph Heibronner and Edith Levitt founded Hargo in 1955.

Sue Klein discovered more information on Heibronner and Levitt. Heibronner was born in 1893 in Munich, Germany, became a U.S. citizen in 1948 and married Edith Levitt in 1952. Their address at that time was on Grove St. in New York City. Joseph died in August of 1968, so that is probably why Roberto found nothing on Hargo past 1967.

The "HAR" mark was probably used beginning in 1955 to 1957, or so. Some pieces of HAR jewelry are among the most sought after by collectors and often bring fantastic prices for dealers. Included in this are the dragon, cobra and "Chinaman" pieces, with full parures bringing the highest prices.

Roberto even found dates for when many of these favorites were copyrighted:

HAR "Chinaman" Jewelry

• April 1959: Dragon Design bracelet, earrings, necklace and brooch (Roberto believes the "Cobra Set" dates from the same year, as do the non figural pieces using the same translucent stones known as "dragon teeth").

• April 1959: Far Eastern bracelet, necklace, earrings and brooch (Probably refers to the "Genie Set" sorceress, turbaned heads, etc.)

• May 1960: Chinese face and figure pieces

• No more copyrighted designs until September 1967: Insect pin; Roberto believes many cheaper "HAR" pieces belong to the same time period.

Other pieces of "HAR" that are quickly gaining popularity are enameled fruits, vegetables, flowers and whimsical human and animal figurals. Classically styled pieces with unusual stones are also being snapped up by collectors.

Tree of life Persian prayer rug $600.00

Herend fox $250

Nina Ricci Clip on earrings $30

Blue Glass Victorian hair earrings - I need to test the metal - i Gold if faux $150 if gold  $500

Judy Lee Sputnik Brooch $50 

Catherine Noll Paris gold  leaf form articulated Necklace $750

Dominique Aurientis Paris bracelet $50 

Green Maltese Cross Brooch 

Jewelry brass collar modernist -maybe Vickery or Art Smith -need to see signature maybe $200

18k coral drop earrings $600

Le petit prince watch $20

Russian pin Palek school $45

Dominique Aurientis new wave brooches $120

18k coin ring $600 (if 6g) 

Small Precious Things 

Dog head fireplace tools $125

Mid-Century Biedermeier Revival Secretary Desk / Drop-Front Cabinet $900

Beautiful mid-20th-century Biedermeier-style secretary cabinet featuring rounded corners, warm fruitwood veneer, and a classic architectural interior with three arched niches and small drawers below. The drop-front writing surface is supported by steel arms and opens smoothly. Clean brass ring pulls, neoclassical black trim accents, and a spacious upper drawer add both elegance and function. Perfect for a home office, foyer, or bedroom.

Details:

• Circa 1930s–1960s, Biedermeier Revival

• Fruitwood veneer (likely birch or cherry)

• Three arched cubbies with miniature drawers

• Large drop-front writing surface

• Brass ring pulls

• Excellent storage and display piece

• Sturdy, well-built construction

Perfect for: traditional interiors, neoclassical décor, Swedish Revival, designer staging, or anyone wanting a timeless writing cabinet.

Luigi Galligani drawing $400, Michael Aram mantis $150

Little bronzes $300

Monkeys $30 each

Barbara bixby ring  $200, third ring - teardrop - I’m

Not sure

Mz  Austria cup/saucer $20 set

Theodore Alexander campaign Desk Rosewood? Some surface scratching $600

Chaise lounge $250

Royal cauldon Bittersweet orange bowl large $75

Dahl Jensen   Rare figurine 1327, also known as "Children with picture book" $250

Dahl

Jensen Spanish Lady $350

B&g reading children $40

B&G girl on a tray $100

Pink Lalique style Inwald vase Czech glass $60

Vintage Elna sewing machine Supermatic $200

Mid century brass menorah $ 50

Lalique style flower atomizer $25

Porcelain Buddha $60

Exquisite Figurine from Denmark - Bing & Grondahl Dancing School Young Boy Girl $40

Jewelry brass collar modernist -maybe Vickery or Art Smith -need to see signature maybe $200

18k coral drop earrings $600

Le petit prince watch $20

Russian pin Palek school $45

Dominique Aurientis new wave brooches $120

18k coin ring $600 (if 6g)