Press Release
Atlanta, GA, USA, June 19, 2025 — A large oil and acrylic on canvas painting by Syd Solomon (American, 1917-2004) sold for $12,100; a glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941) realized $9,075; and a color lithograph on Arches paper by Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893-1983) changed hands for $6,655 in two days of auctions held June 4th and 5th by Ahlers & Ogletree, online and live at the firm’s gallery in Atlanta.
The June 4th event was a Modern & Contemporary Art & Design auction, one in which 420 lots came up for bid and grossed $551,216. The June 5th sale was titled Translucence: Contemporary Studio Art Glass, with 153 lots of studio art glass by noted artists, including many sculptures by Chihuly. In that auction, the gross was $192,511. All prices in this report include a 21 percent buyer’s premium.
The painting by Syd Solomon, titled Naturole (1974), was the top lot of Day 1 and the overall top achiever of the two days, easily breezing past its pre-sale estimate of $5,000-$7,000. The vibrant and colorful abstract work was impressive, at 48 inches by 59 ¾ inches (canvas, minus the frame), and was signed lower left, and signed, titled and dated to verso. Solomon’s work has been exhibited at The Guggenheim, The Whitney, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and The Wadsworth Athenaeum.
Joan Miro’s color lithograph titled Le Belier Fleuri (The Flowery Ram) from 1971 was also a Day 1 hit, topping the high estimate by more than $2,000. The 21 ¼ inch by 30 ¼ inch (sheet, minus the frame) work was from the artist’s Derriere le Miroir series (No. 193-194) and was signed lower right and numbered (3/75) lower left. The publisher was Maeght (Paris). Joan Miro was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist. Two museums in Spain are dedicated entirely to his work.
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