Highlights From The Virginia Zabriskie Collection At Auction September 21, 2021 Featuring a Selection of 20th Century Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Prints & Photographs Browse Catalogue View Lots Lot 98: George L.K. Morris, Composition #9, oil on canvas, 1936. Estimate $30,000 to $50,000. A Pioneering Career & Personal Collection We are honored to offer the collection of Virginia Zabriskie in a special single-owner auction that opens our 2021 fall season. Virginia Zabriskie’s personal collection was built during a pioneering career spanning more than five decades, marked by audacity and innovation in a field that was seldom encouraging to professional women. About the Collection After acquiring her New York gallery in 1954, at the age of 26, Zabriskie inherited a promising roster of young artists. Her connoisseurship and faith in artists’ visions informed her groundbreaking exhibitions which were developed around the juxtaposition of media and historical eras. She is responsible for both launching the careers of artists and bringing forgotten, unappreciated artists to light. Zabriskie’s diverse program—a reflection of her unique curatorial vision and individual aesthetic—brought photography to the forefront at a time when the medium was still considered vanguard, and encompassed a wide range of work, from Surrealist masters to American icons like William Klein and Harry Callahan. Lot 122: Man Ray, Object indestructible, metronome with holographic paper ready-made, 1922-70. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000. Lot 123: Man Ray, Boîte d’allumettes, card stock, wood, and paper tape matchbox with photographs and advertisement collage, and two striking surfaces, with felt, inscribed “Feutre.” Estimate $15,000 to $20,000. Coming to Auction The auction will include a wide array of these artists, including works from the early-to-mid twentieth century by Alexander Archipenko, Ralston Crawford, Elie Nadelman, Joseph Stella and Abraham Walkowitz, to the contemporary artists of her day such as Robert De Niro Sr., Mary Frank, Lester Johnson, Milton Resnick, Lucas Samaras and Richard Stankiewicz. Robert Frank’s Paris (Lovers on a Bench), a diverse selection of Man Ray works, including his most important ready-made objects and photographs, Parisian scenes by Eugène Atget and Brassaï, and Paul Strand’s Lupin are among notable photographs on offer from this personal collection. Lot 113: Eileen Agar, My Muse, ink on paper collage with found objects, 1936. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000. Lot 191: Richard Stankiewicz, Wind Gong, welded steel, circa 1960. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000. American Early Modernism Lots 1 to 53 American Realism, Precisionism & Naîve Art Lots 54 to 83 American & European Cubism, Modernism & Abstraction Lots 84 to 113 Dada, Surrealism and Modern Photography Lots 114 to 142 American and European Modernism Lots 143 to 181 Lot 294: Julian Opie, Off the Shelf, oil painted steel, 1984-85. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000. Lot 143: Alexander Archipenko, Torso, Female Torso, terracotta with black paint, 1948. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000. American and European Abstract Expressionism, Mixed-Media Abstraction and Figural Abstraction Lots 182 to 228 American and European Nouveau Réalisme and Assemblagist Art Lots 229 to 239 Modern Figuratism and Social Landscape Photography Lots 240 to 259 Abstract and Kinetic Sculpture Lots 260 to 266 Modern and Contemporary Photojournalism, Fashion and Portrait Photography, Sculpture and Abstraction Lots 267 to 295 Lot 137: Robert Frank, Paris (Lovers on a Bench), silver print, 1949. Estimate $15,000 to $20,000. Get Notifications For Auction Day Download the Swann App Sign Up for Auction Updates Share Facebook Twitter August 20, 2021Author: Swann CommunicationsCategory: American Art Tags: 19th and 20th century prints and drawings fine photographs Modern & Post-War Art The Virginia Zabriskie Collection Previous Artist Profile: Tom of Finland Next LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History Auction Bests Itself for the Third Year in a Row Recommended Posts Records & Results: LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History — August 17, 2023 LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History August 22, 2023 Artist Profile: Joseph Cornell Prints & Drawings March 20, 2023 Handmade John F. Kennedy Albums Photographs & Photobooks October 13, 2010