Helmuth Stone Gallery

10/23/2025

Upcoming Nov 2nd Auction Highlight- Lot 16

Hermann Ottomar Herzog (Pennsylvania, California / Germany, 1832 - 1932)
Picking Flowers by the Fountain, possibly an Italian courtyard scene. Conserved by Chelsea Restoration Associates Inc (New York). Condition report available upon request.
Oil on Canvas. Signed lower right.

Sight Size: 30 x 40 in.
Overall Framed Size: 40 x 50 in.

09/24/2025

Upcoming Sept 28th Auction Highlight - Lot 88

William Aiken Walker (South Carolina, Maryland, 1838 - 1921)
Painting depicting a family of 3, picking cotton in a field with a house in the distance.
Oil on Artist Board. Signed lower left.
William Rodman & Co label verso.

Sight Size: 6.25 x 12 in.
Overall Framed Size: 10 x 16 in.

William Aiken Walker was an American artist best known for genre paintings of black sharecroppers. He also documented the American civil ware era during his service in the confederate army. William Aiken Walker was born to an Irish Protestant father and a mother of South Carolina background in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1861, during the American Civil War, Walker was conscripted into the Confederate Army and was sent to Morris Island as part of the Palmetto Guard. Almost immediately, Walker was sent on to Richmond and Camp Davis. He was medically discharged from the army four months later. For the remainder of the war, he served as a civilian draftsman to the Confederate Engineers Corps and made maps and drawings of Charleston?s defenses. After the Civil War, Walker moved to Baltimore, where he produced small paintings of the ?Old South? to sell as tourist souvenirs. He is best known for his paintings depicting the lives of poor black emancipated slaves, especially sharecroppers in the post-reconstruction American South.

09/19/2025

Upcoming Sept 28th Auction Highlight - Lot 1

Richard Hayley Lever (New York, Massachusetts / England, Australia, 1876 - 1958)
Bathers in Bass Rocks- Gloucester, Massachusetts
Oil on Canvas. Signed lower right.
Inscribed and dated 1935 verso.

Sight Size: 9 x 6 in.
Overall Framed Size: 11.5 x 15 in.

09/18/2025

08/16/2025

August 17th Auction Highlight - Lot 69

Davide Salvadore (Italian, b. 1953)
Blown glass, murrine, partial battuto surface. Signed on base.

Dimensions: 20.5 x 6.25 in.

Consignor's note: Davide Salvadore was a great friend, and neighbor, during the years I lived in Murano. He made these pieces for me in 2000.

Davide Salvadore was born in Murano, Italy, into a family with a rich history in glassmaking and is the 11th generation of this Murano tradition.
He began learning the craft at a very young age, following his grandfather, Antonio Mantoan, into the furnaces.
He apprenticed with renowned glass masters like Alfredo Barbini and Loredano Rosin, further developing his skills.
He also collaborated with prestigious glasshouses like Venini and Barovier & Toso, gaining experience in various techniques.

08/13/2025

August 17th Auction Highlight - Lot 7

Andre Kertesz (Hungarian, 1894 - 1985)
Meudon, France - 1928
Silver Gelatin Print. Signed, and dated in pencil verso. Acquired directly from the artist.
Provenance:
- From a private New York collector.

Image Size: 13.5 x 9.25 in.
Overall Framed Size: 21.5 x 17.5 in.
Framed behind glass.

08/12/2025

August 17th Auction Highlight - Lot 1

Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881 - 1973)
"Tete de lion" (A.R. 575)
Partially glazed and engraved terracotta plaque.
Stamped, marked and numbered 'Madoura Plein Feu / Empreinte Originale de Picasso / J 118A / 24/50' (on the reverse).
Conceived in December 1968 - January 1969 and executed in a numbered edition of 50.

Size: 12 3/8 x 12 3/8 in.

08/10/2025

August 17th Auction Highlight - Lot 22

Pierre-Eugene Montezin (French, 1874 - 1946)
"Cavaliers Au Bois"
Oil on Panel. Signed lower right.
Waterhouse & Dodd label verso.

Sight Size: 12.75 x 16 in.
Overall Framed Size: 21 x 24.5 in.

08/09/2025

Upcoming August 17th Auction Highlight - Lot 21

Achille Emile-Othon Friesz (French, 1879 - 1949)
"Femmes a La Fontaine" - circa 1932
Oil on Canvas. Signed lower right.
The authenticity of the work has been confirmed by Odile Aitouarres who will include it in volume II of the catalog raisonne.

Sight Size: 19.5 x 24 in.
Overall Framed Size: 27 x 31 in.

08/08/2025

August 17th Auction Highlight - Lot 17

Theresa Ferber Bernstein (New York, Massachusetts, 1890 - 2002)
"Toscanini at NBC" - 1940
Oil on Canvas. Signed lower right.
Joan Whalen Fine Art (New York City) gallery label verso.

Exhibited:
- Albuquerque Museum (2010-2011),
- Burchfield-Penney Art Center (2011),
- Cape Ann Historical Museum (Gloucester, MA 2006).

Provenance:
- Martin and Edith Stein Collection
- Gifted from above

Sight Size: 30 x 40 in.
Overall Framed Size: 39 x 49 in.

08/07/2025

Upcoming August 17 Auction Highlight - Lot 12

Maximilien Luce (French 1858 - 1941)
"Constructeurs" - 1905 (est)
Oil on Canvas. Signed lower left.
LewAllen Galleries (Santa Fe, New Mexico) label verso.

Sight Size: 32 x 25.75 in.
Overall Framed Size: 40 x 34.5 in.