Over the Ditch by Sir Alfred MunningsPut the expertise of the world’s largest Thoroughbred auction house—Keeneland—together with Gregg Ladd’s premier gallery of sporting art—Cross Gate—both located in Lexington, Kentucky, and you get what should turn out to be an exceedingly important auction of sporting art. This inaugural Sporting Art Auction will take place on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 4:00 p.m.
To be sold are 174 lots, both paintings and sculptures. The focus is on sporting art by nineteenth and twentieth century American and British artists—realists and impressionists—such as Sir John Frederick Herring, Sir Alfred Munnings, John Emms, Pierre Jules Mene, John Skeaping, Lionel Edwards, Edward Troye, Franklin Voss, Peter Curling, Peter Biegel, Michael Lyne, three generations of Wyeths (N.C., Andrew, and Jamie), Mary Cassatt, and Andre Pater.
Hounds and a Terrier by John Alfred Wheeler
Point to Point at Wincanton by Peter BiegelSeveral Munnings paintings will be auctioned, including Blue Prince II, expected to fetch in the neighborhood of one million dollars. That painting was commissioned by American Thoroughbred owner and breeder Walter Jeffords.
Click to learn more/see more. The sales catalog may be viewed, along with the history of both distinguished institutions, Keeneland and Cross Gate.
Posted November 12, 2013