Installation view of Hirschl & Adler Galleries at The Winter Show in Spring, April 1–10, 2022 in the former Barneys New York flagship store at 660 Madison Avenue.
Installation view of Hirschl & Adler Galleries at The Winter Show in Spring, April 1–10, 2022 in the former Barneys New York flagship store at 660 Madison Avenue.
Installation view of Hirschl & Adler Galleries at The Winter Show in Spring, April 1–10, 2022 in the former Barneys New York flagship store at 660 Madison Avenue.
Installation view of Hirschl & Adler Galleries at The Winter Show in Spring, April 1–10, 2022 in the former Barneys New York flagship store at 660 Madison Avenue.
Installation view of Hirschl & Adler Galleries at The Winter Show in Spring, April 1–10, 2022 in the former Barneys New York flagship store at 660 Madison Avenue.
Installation view of Hirschl & Adler Galleries at The Winter Show in Spring, April 1–10, 2022 in the former Barneys New York flagship store at 660 Madison Avenue.
Installation view of Hirschl & Adler Galleries at The Winter Show in Spring, April 1–10, 2022 in the former Barneys New York flagship store at 660 Madison Avenue.
Neo-Classical Work Table with Lyre Ends, about 1815
Attributed to Thomas Seymour (1771–1848), Boston
Rosewood (secondary woods: mahogany), with brass line inlay and brass-over-wood baguette moldings, gilt-brass and gilt-bronze and ormolu mounts, toe caps, and castors, and fabric work bag, 29 3/4 in. high, 20 5/16 in. wide, 16 3/4 in. deep (in the case), 17 5/8 in. deep (at the feet)
This small and delicate work table displays an ultimate refinement of design and workmanship that establishes it as a masterpiece of its time and place. It is one of five tables of the same form, with other examples in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan; and Edgewater, Barrytown, New York; and a New York private collection.
CHILDE HASSAM (1859–1935)
Rainy Day, New York, 1892
Watercolor, gouache, and charcoal on paper, 15 x 10 1/4 in.
Signed and dated (at lower right): Childe Hassam 1892
Hassam was drawn to the bustling streets around his neighborhood in Union Square, New York City’s busiest shopping district in the Gay Nineties. Hassam conceived Broadway as a slanting diagonal that leads the viewer’s gaze from the carriages in the lower right to the cluster of buildings in the upper left quadrant of the composition––its tight cropping imbuing the scene with a vital sense of spontaneity. Rain-slicked surfaces were part and parcel of Hassam’s urban iconography, his penchant for this motif prompting one commentator to suggest that he was “much happier with a wet sidewalk than with a mass of flowers.”
Hexagonal Gothic Revival Center Table, about 1845–50
New York
Design attributed to Alexander Jackson Davis (1803–1892)
Rosewood, with white marble top and brass castors, 28 1/2 x 36 3/4 in. diameter (side to side), 42 1/2 in. diameter (point to point)
One of the signature furniture forms of the Gothic Revival in the United States is a group of 13 hexagonal center tables with marble tops, which use a vocabulary that includes ogee arches, trefoils, clustered columns, ripple-cut moldings and, sometimes, Gothic tracery. This exceptional example table features elaborate and delicate Gothic tracery suspended between the tops of each pair of columns.
GEORGE WESLEY BELLOWS (1882–1925)
Grammy Ames’ House, No. 1, 1916
Oil on panel, 18 x 22 in.
Inscribed (by the artist’s wife, at lower left): Geo Bellows / ESB; (on the back): GRAMMY AMES’ HOUSE / Mrs GEO BELLOWS / 146 E 19st / NY
Grammy Ames’ House, No. 1 was painted on Bellow’s final trip to Maine in 1916. In September he decided to venture offshore, spending a month painting on Matinicus––a 700-acre island located about twenty-two miles from the mainland––which he had first visited with the painter Leon Kroll in 1913. Bellows painted about 30 paintings on Matinicus during this trip, which he proudly characterized to his friend Robert Henri as “extra fine work.”
Clock in the Empire Taste with a Bust of Benjamin Franklin, about 1805–15
Case: Claude Galle (1759–1815), Paris
Works: Jean-Baptiste Dubuc (1743–1819), Paris
Ormolu and patinated bronze, with clockworks, 19 3/4 in. high, 7 5/8 in. wide, 5 5/8 in. deep
This clock appears to be a unique example featuring a bust of Benjamin Franklin. The works are signed by clockmaker Claude Galle, and the bronze bust is after the famous rendition of Franklin by Jean-Jacques Caffieri (1725–1792). Caffieri was a celebrated artist and sculptor to the King of France at the time, so Franklin was eager to sit for him when he received Caffieri’s invitation to sit for him in 1777.
The Winter Show 2022 makes its return to a live event this spring with one New York icon meeting up with another.
From April 1–10, The Winter Show will transform the former Barneys New York flagship store at 660 Madison Avenue into a sensory delight with the finest offerings of antiques and fine art in North America. For more information about The Winter Show 2022 in Spring, click here.
