Sotheby's to offer Property from the Hascoe Family Collection in 2011
Sotheby’s is pleased to announce that they will offer property from the Hascoe Family Collection, assembled by Norman and Suzanne Hascoe over years of passionate collecting, in a series of sales throughout the first half of 2011. The Collection is highlighted by its important American furniture and Czech modernist art, which will anchor dedicated sales in New York and London, respectively. In addition, the Hascoes’ spectacular residence on the waterfront in Greenwich, Connecticut is currently being offered by Sotheby’s International Realty.
Property from the Hascoe Family Collection:
Important American and English Furniture, Fine & Decorative Arts – New York 23 January 2011
The Hascoe Family Collection boasts supreme examples from each of the major furniture-making centers of Colonial and Federal America. Highlights include an assemblage of 24 New York Chippendale Tassel-Back Dining Chairs, one of the Hascoes’ most remarkable collecting achievements in Americana, as well as the Colonel Guy Walker Queen Anne Companion High Chest and Dressing Table, a rare matching pair with exceptional provenance that epitomizes mid-18th century Boston Baroque (est. $200/500,000).
Property from the Hascoe Family Collection:
Important Czech Art – London 13 June 2011
The second dedicated auction of the Hascoe Family Collection will be devoted to what is unquestionably the finest and most important collection of Czech modernist paintings, sculpture and works on paper outside the Czech Republic. Highlights will be shown in New York, Paris, Moscow, Vienna and Prague throughout the spring of 2011 in anticipation of the sale. Important works include Emil Filla’s enigmatic cubist masterpiece Still Life with Pipe of 1912 (est. £100/150,000), which counts among the artist’s earliest Cubist compositions, and František Kupka’s Movement, a tour de force of early abstraction painted between 19l3 and 1919 (est. £500/700,000).
Select Old Master Paintings, American Indian works of art, and other fine and decorative arts from the Collection will be offered in nine additional sales throughout the first half of 2011.
