This Discovery Art Auction features paintings, prints, lithographs, etchings, watercolors, mixed media, drawings, posters, and contemporary abstract works, with material ranging from regional American art and Bucks County artists to European scenes, modernism, psychedelia, and large artist-estate collections.

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A substantial portion of the catalog is devoted to Benton Spruance, with numerous works offered across consecutive lots. Other established names represented include Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, Peter Max, Ben Shahn, Morris Atkinson Blackburn, Harold Altman, Joseph Hirsch, Earl Horter, Ranulph Bye, Antoine Blanchard, Itzchak Tarkay, Linda Le Kinff, Zamy Steynovitz, Ronau Woiceske, and Ursula von Rydingsvard. Works include signed and numbered editions, lithographs, engravings, watercolors, oils, and other media.

The auction also contains a group of 1960s psychedelic and music-related posters. Examples include Victor Moscoso's Peacock Ball poster, a Wes Wilson poster advertising the Grateful Dead, James Cotton Blues Band, and Lothar & the Hand People at the Fillmore Auditorium, and an Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse Grateful Dead and Quicksilver poster for the Avalon Ballroom.

A major collection comes from the estate of New Jersey artist Lewis Lanza Rudolph (1949–2012). His paintings and collage include The Orator, Camp, The Dance, Culture Clash, Three Ships Down, Fear in the Sky, That Unforgettable Dawn, Stone Idols, and several untitled abstract compositions.

The catalog also contains an extensive selection by Vince/Vincent Ceglia (1923–2012), encompassing acrylic, charcoal, ink, watercolor, and drawings, with Italian landscapes and locations including Lake Como, Lake Garda, Lake Maggiore, Venice, Positano, and the Amalfi Coast. Another concentrated group features Louis Tavelli (1914–2010), with mixed-media and oil-on-paper works from his Faces, Bulls, Warriors, Abstract Landscapes, and other series.

Additional artists include Shelley Picker, Ricardo Benaim, Charles Winston Haberer, Helen Malta, Merle Citron, Bertha N. Riley, Viola Foulke, George Luttrell II, Mildred Sands Katz, Julie Longacre, Denver Lindley, Bob Reinhardt, Harriet Ermentrout, and Thomas Manning Moore. Subjects range from landscapes, cityscapes, interiors and still lifes to figurative works, geometric abstraction, and modernist compositions.

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