Signed originals, listed or named artists, and hand-signed & numbered limited-edition prints.
Item 20
Priority for review
“Romantic Triple-Decker”
Signed “Kohlmeyer ’73” · 74/75
Color serigraph (silkscreen) on deckle-edge paper, framed
Three stacked color fields — blue-green over olive-gold over aubergine flecked with cobalt — on cream paper. Pencil-titled lower left, numbered 74/75, and signed “Kohlmeyer ’73.” Signature, palette and title are strongly consistent with Ida Kohlmeyer (1912–1997), a listed New Orleans abstractionist with an established auction record.
Item 21
Priority for review
“UNION II”
Signed lower right · 28/100
Color etching / aquatint on paper, gilt frame
Surrealist composition: two biomorphic figures flanking a pink-and-black harlequin band with a blonde female head, a banded serpent and a pierced golden form. Pencil-numbered 28/100, titled “UNION II,” signed lower right (reads approx. “Tom Pass ’85” — to be verified). A well-executed hand-signed, numbered original intaglio print.
Item 15
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“Eight Ball House”
Signed & numbered in pencil
Original black-and-white etching (intaglio) on paper, gilt frame
Densely worked intaglio: a shrouded face within a coffin-like frame, surrounded by lily foliage, insect wings and a billiard 8-ball lower left. Pencil-titled “Eight Ball House,” editioned (reads ~8/30), signed lower right (reads approx. “Christopher B—dell” — to be verified). Original hand-pulled, signed, titled, numbered print.
Item 13
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Trompe-l’oeil still life — apple & knife
Realist oil
Oil on canvas, carved gilt frame
A peeled, sliced red apple beside an antique bone-and-brass folding pocket knife, with convincingly rendered water droplets on a warm monochrome ground. An accomplished, saleable realist work. A mark lower right may be a signature (illegible in these images).
Item 11
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Nude study at a ballet barre
Vintage photograph
Silver-gelatin photograph, gilt frame
Warm-toned silver-gelatin print of a nude figure at a barre against a pegboard wall; mid-20th-century feel. No signature is visible on the face — value depends on identifying the photographer, almost certainly noted on the verso or in the margin under the mat.
Item 12
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Cubist drawing — “for Jeff”
Signed “Petty”
Graphite & colored pencil on paper, reeded gilt frame
An angular, faceted abstract figure composition. Signed lower right “Petty,” inscribed lower left “for Jeff.” An original, signed and dedicated drawing. Condition note: visible foxing (scattered brown spots) on the sheet.
Item 4
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Hard-edge serigraph
Artist’s proof (A.P.), signed
Silkscreen on paper, framed
Four stacked color bars — yellow, blue, green, salmon — over a gray dot-grid field within a dashed red border. Pencil-inscribed upper left (reads approx. “Krebs,” with “A.P.”) and signed lower right (reads approx. “Brayton Burke” — both readings uncertain). A hand-signed artist’s proof outside the numbered edition.
Original works presented for the team to review; detail can be supplied on any piece of interest.
Item 16
Included — worth a look
Tonalist oil — landform against a luminous sky
Signed “J. Seagle” (verify)
Oil, gilt frame
An atmospheric near-abstract landscape: a dark mounded form against a glowing yellow-gold ground. Signed lower left. A confident, moody original oil with contemporary-decorator appeal.
Item 17
Included — worth a look
Abstract on paper — monogram “md”
Contemporary original
Graphite / wash on handmade deckle-edge paper, float frame
A loose gestural chain of graphite loops over a mottled mauve-gray wash on handmade paper. Signed with a lowercase “md” monogram lower right. A sizeable contemporary original work on paper.
Item 18
Included — review if signed
Impasto abstract expressionist oil
Original painting
Oil on canvas, black frame with beaded gilt liner
A thickly built palette-knife oil: a molten red-orange central mass over a dark ground. No signature located in these images (corners and verso should be checked). Strong physical presence.
Item 5
Included — check inscription
Mixed-media abstract in a painted frame
Possible inscription lower right
Mixed media, hand-decorated frame
A vivid neon-yellow ground with red drip lines and an orange/black target wheel, set in a hand-striped rust-and-gold artist-made frame. A text block lower right may carry an artist name/date (not legible in these images).
Item 22
Included — worth a look
Abstract mixed-media / collage
Signed “D. Petluck”
Mixed media & collage on paper, framed
A vertical orange band at left against a dark teal/blue gestural field with collage inclusions and red accents. Signed lower right “D. Petluck.” An original signed mixed-media work.