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While the larger sales categories continue their summer break, there’s still some great art available at attractive prices. Here are some highlights, available for around $10,000

Emmanual Mané-Katz, Two Horses

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000

Christie’s New York, Interiors, August 22nd

Mané-Katz was a Jewish Ukranian painter known for his depictions of the shtetl settlements across eastern Europe. He spent time in Paris, where he met Picasso, and has been noted by art historians as one of the Jewish School of Paris from the mid-twentieth century. He’s an important figure in the complex history of European and Jewish art of the modern age, and this fluid depiction of two horses is a valuable example of his aesthetic temperament and artistic development.

Max Weber, Three Heads (1955)

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000

Christie’s New York, Interiors, August 22nd

Though of course a smaller-scale affair than Christie’s NY’s usual contemporary and modern auctions, Interiors does represent opportunities to snatch up important art by key figures from the twentieth centuries. An early proponent of American cubism, Weber made important advances in perspective, figuration, and color. Done late in his life, this triple-head marks a significant turn in his work from abstract composition to the figurative art and religious-symbolism.

Anne Estelle Rice, Summer Landscape (1924)

Estimate $10,000 - $15,000

Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Maine & Beyond: Day 3, August 25th

Best known for her portrait of the writer Katherine Mansfield, and for her illustrations and editorship at the arts magazine, Rhythm, Estelle Rice is an important early-20th century figure in British and American art. Done in 1924, after the painter had already achieved a certain fame, this colorful landscape moves toward a fuzzy, abstract geometry that might even cross-pollinate with Bomberg.

Tadeusz Kantor, Untitled Abstract (1957)

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000

Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Maine & Beyond, August 25th

Polish artist Tadeusz Kantor is best known as a revolutionary dramatist. His art focuses on ‘happenings,’ the pregnant potentials of each moment. A legend of the performing arts and the Edinburgh Festival, he was as intellectual as he was rebellious, exploring various faiths and the fundamental idea of the human gesture. His paintings, too, call attention to the action of a moment. This abstract piece dates from 1957, a time when he was making waves with his avant-garde set design for stagings of Shakespeare and others in Krakow, and gives a keen insight into his processes and activity.

Winslow Homer, Portrait of John Murray Brown

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000

Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Maine & Beyond, August 25th

The much-loved landscape painter Winslow Homer is about as fundamental to America’s idea of its own flora and fauna as Thoreau or Emerson. Part of the mainstream of American painters at the turn of the century, Homer is no trend-setter. Instead he represents a kind of wholesome heartland vibe, a valuable intersection with self and history. This graphite portrait of the publisher, John Murray Brown, shows the intimate human relationships which were at the core of America’s turn-of-the-century self, as the vast young nation came to terms with modernity in is own various ways.

Albert Lebourg, Les bords de l’allier à pont du châteaux

Estimate: $9,970 - $11,078

Besch Cannes, From Impressionism to Contemporary Art, August 15th

Less celebrated than his contemporaries and compatriots, Lebourg is nevertheless a bona-fide first generation Impressionist of great skill. He exhibited alongside Monet, Sisley, Renoir and the rest, and displays the group’s characteristic eye for light and space. His daubs here are more impasto than pointillist, and his vision perhaps a little domesticated in comparison to his peers, but this painting represents an attractive way in to the ever-booming Impressionist market, and a chance to own an original by a primary member of the school.

Prabhakar Kolte, Untitled (1994)

Estimate: $9,831 - $12,639

Pundole’s, The Fine Art Sale, August 29th

At 73, Kolte is an influential figure in contemporary Indian art, his paintings and writings maintaining an authoritative position in Mumbai, where he works and teaches. His gestural colorscapes draw on European influences such as Paul Klee.

István 厂锄艖苍测颈, In Conversation

Estimate: $9,505

Pintér Auction House, Balaton, summer, love, August 17th

The Hungarian 厂锄艖苍测颈 family have gained fame for their rescuing of persecuted Jews during the Holocaust. István was also a talented painter and member of the Nagybánya group, a quietly celebrated group of artists who would meet at the Gresham coffee house in the town to discuss Hungarian art. 厂锄艖苍测颈 was perhaps the most gifted, and this evocative pair of figures shows his feel for space and emotion.

Keith Haring, Untitled (c.1980-95)

Estimate: $8,916 - $13,373

Tradart Deauville, Art Moderne Contemporain, August 20th

2019 looks set to be a boom-year for Haring, as the legendary street artist and campaigner for LGBTQ rights is being afforded his first large UK retrospective at the Tate Liverpool. This small untitled piece demonstrates Haring’s eye for the symbolic, his effervescent compositional energy, and his apocalyptic wit. His small pieces are sure to appreciate in value through the year, and he’s also a timeless modern master.

Jean Cocteau, Le Baisir (1953)

Estimate: $8,862 - $9,970

Besch Cannes, From Impressionism to Contemporary Art, August 15th

Bohemian Renaissance man Jean Cocteau was the original enfant terrible, and leaves behind a legacy of free sexual expression and artistic risk-taking that was strides ahead of its time. This sensual painting has all of the wildness and abandon of his own personality and his films. An experimental genius of his own peculiar kind, Cocteau is as immortal as the epitaph on his grave suggests. It reads, “Je reste avec vous” (“I stay with you”), and this picture offers collectors the chance to make this literally true.

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