Dusti Bongé (American, 1903-1993)

P-21

Magic Promised, 1955

oil on canvas, signed and dated upper left, titled en verso, 42 x 28 in., unframed.

Condition: A couple of areas of paint loss (one at upper middle and upper left).

Andrew Bucci (American, 1922-2014)

Edge of the Woods

Oil on canvas, signed lower middle, titled en verso, 24 x 40 in., framed.

A Rare Shearwater Pottery Plate, c. 1930-40, decorated by Walter Inglis Anderson (1903-1965) with stylized figures of great blue herons in teal blue and black slip, impressed dime size mark, diam. 8 1/2 in.

Marshall Joseph Smith, Jr. (American/New Orleans, 1854-1923)

Louisiana Landscape with Live Oak and Man Crossing a Footbridge,

oil on canvas, initialed “MJS Jr.” lower right, 16 x 30 in.

In the original period frame bearing partial label from E.T. Blessing en verso, 21 x 35 in.

Provenance: Descended in the family of noted music critic Adolph Pollatsek (Hungary/New Orleans, 1841-1906) and his granddaughter, ballet dancer Constance Reynolds Green (New Orleans, 1916-2012).

Dusti Bongé (American, 1903-1993)

P-34

Untitled (Two Abstract Figures in White, Black and Blue), 1955

Oil on masonite, signed and dated lower right, 48 x 36 in.

Period Frame.

Exhibited: Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, Dusti Bonge Solo Exhibition, April 30-May 19, 1956.

Sold to an Important Southern Institution.