SOTHEBYS HIGHLY IMPORTANT AMERICANA SAX COLLECTION
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USD 39.99 |
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 |
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
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SOTHEBY'S HIGHLY IMPORTANT AMERICANA FROM THE STANLEY PAUL SAX COLLECTION NY JANUARY 16TH AND 17TH 1998 ((( HARDBACK ))) THIS LARGE OVERSIZED HARDBACK CATALOG CONTAINS 200 + PAGES AND 579 LOTS Stan Sax was a collector first, everything else second. He started by collecting steeple clocks but ultimately added outstanding collections of furniture, silver, paintings, decorative arts, and mechanical banks. ]'m a collector too, but mostly people. That's how we happened to meet. In 1972, at the sale of the Gershenson cstatc, he made his first serious and important furniture purchases. I was curious about who this collector was. We had friends and mentors in common, Jess and Grace Pavcy. They introduced us. Being in the residential real estatc business, I confess I had an ulterior motive. I wanted to find him a more appropriate home than the rather plain contemporary that thcn housed his supcrior American antique objects. Jess said, "You two have a lot in common and ought to know each other but you'llncver sell him a house". Not only did [ come to know he and his wife, Pat, quite personally but I did what Jess Pavey said was impossible. I found a house for them. I can't say I sold it to him, I showed him lots of wonderful houses but nonc, in his opinion, worthy of his collector's eye. Then, one day I went to a broker's open house, walked into the residence and knew, Stan Sax would like to put his collection in this showcase. It was there that he added the Apthorp Chairs, a chest-onchest made for Elias Haskett Derby, two Classical sofas and much more. Hc researched and catalogued each piece. He continued collecting to thc very end of his life. In fact, that activity may well havc sustained him in his final days, as he bid on and bought a silver coffec pot from the Keene sale and one month before his death bid on a Classical table from his hospital bed. Stan Sax kncw many people, but not many people knew Stan. He only allowed a very few inside. I am pleased to say I was allowed to entcr his domain. I learned from him and perhaps he even learned from me. I-Ic left behind an impressive collection and a strong imprcssion on his fellow collector, David Gutow. STANLEY PAUL SAX (1925-1997) Modest, unpretentious, and studious, Stan Sax was good company. To the collecting of American antiques he brought an insatiable curiosity, a pursuit of thoroughness and excellence, and an unquenchable thirst for new intellectual adventures. A manufacturing executive, he was the owner and founder of a company that produced polishing compounds for metal products manufacturers. Stan Sax was as many-sided as a cut diamond, and he radiated an internal glow of excitement that reflected from each of his continuously growing facets of specialization. He was the paragon of a collector - a self of unlimited dimensions; a hugely talented, searching, contemplative, daring, visionary, understanding connoisseur -a gentle personality that inspired friendship and a character that justified confidence. He was taken from us at seventy-one, in the prime of his seniority; it hurts to think of what he would have done with more time, but it also helps to remember how fully he used the time he had. Always a voice of reason and humility, Stan was never afflicted with pomposity. His passing reminds one of the following lines by Robert Louis Stevenson: "That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men, and the love of children; who has filled his niche, and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it-whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation for earth's beauty, or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others, and gave the best he had." Stan Sax set high standards for his professional work and private enthusiasms with museums and organizations and lived up to them. He was a man of unalterable honesty and absolute integrity. Cincinnati-born and University of Wisconsin-trained, Stan was a man with a capacity for making his prodigious works and the fruits of it seem to be the results of a constantly pleasurable way of life that enriched all who were fortunate enough to know him. He was at once the most efficient of men and the easiest. Indeed, in this sense one is reminded of Hamlet's praise of his father-"He was a man, take him for all in all," by which meant, of course, that exuberant Renaissance realization of man as an all-around phenomenon that could cope with every aspect of life. Stan gave us that particular sense, that if need be there was nothing he could not do. He was an expert authority and passionate collector of high-style American furniture and silver - as well as assembling a first -class collection of mechanical banks, - who valued things of beauty with which he surrounded himself, whether books, paintings, or other decorative arts. In his carefully selected purchases he brought to bear not only his extensive knowledge but his sense of fitness and beauty. He had that primary personal attribute for the connoisseur of decorative arts which Charles EMontgomery termed "a good visual memory stored with an infinite number of images of ordinary, fine, and sllperior objects mentally pigeonholed as to desirability." Stan was a generous benefactor of gifts to the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the United States Department of State and the Detroit Institute of Arts, and was active in the affairs of the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Henry Ford Museum, and the Friends of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "My collecting passion will die with me;' he was quoted as saying just last year; "I don't expect to stop any time soon:' He treasured books and read widely and deeply, amassing a library of over 10,000 volumes on Americana, in his lifelong pursuit of high purpose and practicality. Stan was ebullient, dynamic, and articulate; his joie de vivre was apparent in everything he did. His contagious charm and imaginative humor brought him a large number of lifelong friends. And his courage, especially at the end of his life, blessed all who knew him. The memory of this consummate gentleman of cultivation and style brings to mind a fitting quotation from Virgil's Aeneid: "So long as the rivers rush down to their banks, so long as the clouds shadow the hollow hills and stars pasture in the night sky, so long will this hOllse honor and praise your name." Memory is his monument. SALE 7087 Created by eBay Blackthorne ver. 3.2.31.0
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