Litchfield County Auctions, Inc. will hold the premier Auction on an exciting new website: iGavel.com

July 6-20, 2003 Litchfield Connecticut

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With the end of first Sothebys.com and then the partnership between eBay & Sothebys.com, Litchfield County Auctions, Inc. has begun searching for a similarly exclusive, top-quality web-site on which to present Estate Property. They are pleased to have found such a site in iGavel.com. This new site is a fine art, antique, and collectible online auction network of regional auction houses, offering guaranteed, exhibited property. iGavel fills the void left by the closing of Sothebys.com, and promises to be a great resource for auctioneers who are interested in an inexpensive and professional alternative to eBay.

Litchfield County Auctions, Inc. is excited to work with iGavel.com, and is also excited to be bringing a quality, well rounded and interesting collection of items to auction. It will be their “English & Continental Fine Art, Furniture and Decorations Sale,” and will be viewable online from July 6 – July 20. There will also be a “Live” Preview at their regular exhibition space, the Firehouse in Litchfield, CT: 258, Rte 202. The Preview will take place Thursday, July 17, Friday, July18 & and Saturday, July 19^th.

The focus of the sale is on great 16-18 C. European Furniture, both old master & modern masters fine art, and good groupings of European, English and Asian silver, pottery, porcelain, glass etc. There is also a nice variety of smaller collections: collector’s rugs, 40 American quilts, Eskimo carvings, pewter, enamels, hardstone carvings, dolls, duck decoys, old bird cages, entertainment memorabilia, and a number of interesting miscellaneous items.

Some of the fine art highlights include a Picasso terracotta vase, “Large vase w/ veiled women” # 18/25, 26” h., one of only a few items which did not sell in a February Auction of the Melitta Loew Blin collection. It will be offered with a lowered estimate and reserve. There will also be another Picasso ceramic, a pottery pitcher, from an East 72^nd Street Collection in New York City. Other fine art includes paintings by Girod D’Ain, Emilio Grau-Sala, William Conor, Maxwell Mays (?), Fausto Pirandello, David Ligare, a painting after Eugene Boudin, and two large works, one of a mother & child, after Virgee Lebrun and one Attr. Chas Alexander Roslin; there are also watercolors by Wallasse Ting and a book of 18^th C. water color, ink & pencil sketches as well as signed drawings by Bertha Morrisot and Marc Chagall. Two other items from the Blin collection are a Bronze by Auguste Rodin, which was being sent to the Muse Rodin for inspection at the time of the last sale, and a small bronze after Aristide Maillol. Prints include: Ben Shahn, Dali, Pierre Bonnard, Picasso, Carol Sumner, Saito, Japanese wood blocks and a Group of Paris review posters: incl. Willem De Kooning, Marisol and others.

The furniture in the sale is also an impressive group, with pieces ranging from 16/17^th C. English, Italian Renaissance and Spanish Renaissance to some very good Louis XV & Louis XVI French, Italian & Dutch inlaid furniture with makers that include Claude Louis Burgat, Nicolas Alexandre Lapie & Jean Baptiste Fromageau. Also of note are a set of 8 Yorkshire country dining chairs, a Directoire 3-tier stand and a Louis XIII walnut Fauetuil as well as an Iberian hanging corner cupboard dated 1784.

All items will be available for view by July 6 at either www.litchfield-auctions.com or on iGavel.com. Meanwhile, Litchfield County Auctions, Inc. is holding an enormous Priced Estate Sale in a 3000 sq. ft. barn in Litchfield on the weekend of June 27, 28 & 29. For more information please visit their website or call 860-567-4661.