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Featuring 136 Haitian lots from the collections of:
Dr. Halvor & Astrid Jaeger
Leon & Evelyn Chalom
Fahimie Marks
Heloise & Martin Ruskin
The Clayton Willis Estate
This special Holiday Sale is a no reserve auction.
Our auction has a wide variety of 20th Century Haitian art, from early Centre d'Art, Cap-Haitien, Recycled Cut-Metal Sculptures, Drapeau, St.Soleil to the Moderns.
12.08.16 CHESS SET AUCTION
Collection of Important Museum Exhibited 19th and 20th Century Chess Sets
Thursday, December 8th at 3pm EST
Saturday, December 10th at 12:00pm EST
Telephone, Absentee, & Live Internet Bidding Available
ZQ ART Gallery 348 West 57th Street, Ste. 110, New York, NY 10019| (203) 921-5234 | info@zqartgallery.com
As its first Invaluable auction, ZQ Art is pleased to present a sale of select sets from a single-owner collection. This private collection of chess sets was exhibited in 1988 at the Staatliches Museum fur Volkerunde (established in 1862, now Munich's Museum Funf Kontinente - Five Conitinets Museum) and traveled to Albania. Museum catalog Chess: Art History and Culture published in German with a forward by the museum director illustartes many of the sets, explaining their cultural relevance and importance. Traveling exhibition catalog with essays and detailed descriptions by Jean-Loup Rousselot published in German and Albanian by the Staatliches Museum. Curated from more than 6400 chess pieces, the exhibition highlights the history of the game while featuring many of the most historically significant chess sets, many of which are one of a kind.
CHESS SET AUCTION
Thursday, December 8th at 3pm EST
Telephone, Absentee, & Live Internet Bidding Available
12.10.16 HAITIAN ART AUCTION
Haitian Art, Paintings & Ethnographic Arts
Saturday, December 10th at 12:00pm EST