Femme au Collier by Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque, estimated $30,000-50,000 at Showplace in New York.
Although from different estates, both are fresh to the market having been bought in the 1960s.
Femme au Collier depicts a fashionable young black woman in 1920s Paris wearing a blue cloche hat, reddish orange flapper dress and a coral necklace. Listed in the artist’s catalogue raisonné as having last sold at Sotheby’s London in 1969, it has an estimate of $30,000-50,000.
Deux Femmes by Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque, estimated $15,000-25,000 at Showplace in New York.
Deux Femmes showing two women sitting together in an interior scene comes with an original receipt documenting its purchase in 1965 from Hilde Gerst Gallery on Madison Avenue for $3000. It is guided at $15,000-25,000.
