Hugh Steers, In the Paper, oil on canvas, 1989. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000.
This summer’s LGBTQ+ auction is a testament to the growing interest in the newly defined area of collecting. As in previous auctions the material represents a broad and exciting swath of nineteenth and twentieth century political, social and sexual culture.
Keith Haring, Silence = Death, color screenprint, 1989. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000.
On offer are a number of original works of art by Tom of Finland and other artists associated with or influenced by him: including Sadao Hasegawa and Jim French. We are also delighted to be able to offer a rare, original illustration by Rex,“Leather Boy.”
Left: REX, Leather Boy, pen & ink, circa 1970s. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000. right: Tom of Finland, Untitled (preparatory drawing of two men in the woods), graphite, 1973. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000.
Left: Colt, Mock Up for Colt Men, Issue #25, wove paper booklet with 21 pencil drawings, circa 1995. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000; right: Sadao Hasegawa, Gon Gu Edo II (Joyfully Seeking the Impure Land II), 1981. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000.
Photographs, a perennial favorite in this auction, are well represented by highly regarded artists such as, David Wojnarowicz, Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter Hujar.
Diane Arbus & Neil Selkirk, Two men dancing at a drag ball, silver print, 1970; printed 1972. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (Buffaloes), platinum print, 1988; printed 1994. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000.
Books, Material & Historical Ephemera
On offer will be scarce material from the early years of the gay liberation movement in the United States and the AIDs activism era of the 1980s. A Manhattan Gay Scene Guide from 1970, as well as material and booklets from the Mattachine Society, including a long run of the Mattachine Review.
Left: Hal Call, The Mattachine Review & Newsletter, an Archive of Approximately 80 Issues, 1955-65. Estimate $2,500 to $3,500; right: Mattachine Book Service, Manhattan Gay Scene Guide, Spring 1970 edition, printed phamplet, 1970.
Other notable artists include Paul Cadmus, Robert Bliss, Mark Beard, Jean Cocteau, Leonor Fini, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Marcus Leatherdale, Rene Ricard, Joan E. Biren (JEB), Shelby Sharie Cohen and Yiannis Nomikos,
Left: Harvey Milk Has Something for Everybody, lithograph poster, 1973. Estimate $400 to $600; right: Gran Fury, The Government has Blood on its Hands, offset lithograph poster, 1988. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000.
