Great Estates Live! Art & Antiques Auction

Ripley Auctions is proud to present our Oct. 4 Great Estates Live! Premier Art & Antiques auction! This sale features Global Art, Antiques, and Artifacts from prehistory to the present showcasing museum quality rarities from beginning to end. Highlights include: Two oil paintings by T.C. Steele, a Brown County landscape dated 1916, and a floral still life with zinnias, dated 1913, both from a private Indianapolis collector and art benefactor. A collection of fossils, artifacts, and ancient art and antiquities from around the world, from an Indiana collection. Master drawings and prints. Impressionist to Important 20th Century modernist paintings, prints, and works on paper. Also featuring Sterling & Silver Vertu, Rugs, Studio pottery and glass, and much more. Modern Paintings/Works on Paper by Shirley Jaffe, Blanche Lazzell, Jean Crotti, Raymond Johnson, Beatrice Mandelman, Ida Kohlmeyer, Herman Cherry, Milton Avery, Charlotte Park, Randall Morgan, Emil Bisttram, Paul Kelpe, Eleanor de Laittre, Mercedes Matter, and MANY MORE! A large and striking still life by Russian Federation artist, Nikolai I. Barchenkov. A French Impressionist painting of Poppies in a Field by Louis-Marie Lemaire. A 16th Century detail drawing from The Last Judgement after Michelangelo. Prints by Rembrandt, Renoir, Rouault, Icart, and Thomas Hart Benton. Classical Greek/Roman marble sculpture. Chinese Xiapei embroidered silk women's court waistcoat. Chinese Han Dynasty ceramic duck pond. Tang Dynasty earthenware court lady figure with bird. Tibetan Buddhist Thangka scroll paintings. Samurai Swords. Collection of six Egyptian faience Ushabti. African Art including carved tribal pieces and a Benin Kingdom bronze head of a ruler. A small oil painting depicting a path at Clifty Falls State Park by William McKendree Snyder. Along with contemporary Indiana Art by James Wille Faust, Robert Berkshire, Dick Hay, Rose Cabat, Mae Engron, John Domont, Katy McMurray, and Mary Kathryn Massey. Fossils: Oreodont Skull brule formation Penning Co. South Dakota Oligocene Epoch 30 million years old, Gembone / dinosaur bone fossil carved hunchback figural pestle, Museum quality petrified lychee wood specimen tree trunk, and a Mastodon tooth with roots specimen. Grooved axes, and an Olmec greenstone mask carving.