Knoxville (865) 558-3033 • Nashville (615) 812-6096 • info@caseantiques.com

Case Auctions
Live Auction

2025 Summer Fine Art & Antiques (Day 1)

Sat, Jul 12, 2025 09:00AM EDT
  2025-07-12 09:00:00 2025-07-12 09:00:00 America/New_York Case Antiques Case Antiques : 2025 Summer Fine Art & Antiques (Day 1) https://auction.caseantiques.com/auctions/case-antiques/2025-summer-fine-art-antiques-day-1-16589
Live Auction at our Knoxville Gallery featuring 1,175 lots from fine Southern estates and private and museum collections. Sale begins Sat. July 12 at 9 AM with lots #1-753 and continues Sun. July 13 at 1 PM with lots #754-1175 (scroll down for separate catalog). Estates represented include Ervin and Jane Entrekin, Nashville; Walter and Dr. Mary Schatz, Nashville; Dr. Lawrence Wolfe, Nashville; John Z. C. Thomas, Knoxville; Florence F. Johnston, Knoxville; plus deaccessioned objects from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Arkansas Museum of Art, and the Hunter Museum of Art.
Case Auctions bid@caseantiques.com
Lot 473

Pr. Philip Campbell Curtis Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,200
Current Bid
$500

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $10
$100 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$3,000 $200
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

Two (2) Philip Campbell Curtis (Arizona/Michigan, 1907-2000) surrealist oil on panel ovoid bust-length pendant paintings of a woman with dark brown hair in Victorian dress. Both signed with initials "PCC," lower center, and with old labels with numbering affixed to backing (nos. 929 and 930). Item 1: A woman depicted in three-quarters profile looks to the viewer's left. She wears a brown dress with a high collar and red brooch. Item 2: The same woman, shown from behind, looks away from the viewer and toward a red hot-air balloon that floats in the blue sky at upper right. Both housed in pierced giltwood frames with brown velvet liners and gilt fillets. Both measure 2 5/8 in H x 1 7/8 in  (sight dimensions). Both frames: 6 in H x 5 1/4 in W. Biographical note: "Philip C. Curtis was born in 1907 in Jackson, Michigan. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Albion College and studied law at University of Michigan before enrolling in the School of Fine Arts at Yale University. After his training, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a program created as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, hired him as the assistant supervisor for mural paintings in New York. In 1937, he was sent by the WPA’s Federal Art Project to Phoenix to establish Arizona’s first art center. At the Phoenix Art Center, which in 1959 would become Phoenix Art Museum, Curtis created traveling exhibitions, and artist Lew Davis taught art classes. In 1939, Curtis left Arizona to help start the Des Moines Art Center, only to return in 1947 to establish his permanent home and studio in Scottsdale, where he remained until his death in 2000. Curtis, who was also a museum administrator and arts advocate, is one of Arizona’s most historically significant artists. Drawing inspiration from the Arizona desert and through the lens of magic realism, he created landscapes and figural compositions that often included Victorian-style subjects to complete his surrealist fantasies about human life and relationships." (Source: Phoenix Art Museum)

Condition

Overall very good condition. 

Available payment options

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Amex
  • Diners
  • Discover
  • JCB
  • Union Pay

Payment must be received no later than five (5) days after the sale.


If paying with a credit card, a 3.5% credit card processing fee will be applied to the final sales price (i.e. hammer price + buyer's premium + applicable taxes). If you have a credit card on file with Case, any winning bids will be automatically charged (up to $3000) along with applicable fees 72 hours after you receive your invoice unless other arrangements have been made.


If paying with wire transfer, please use the following information:
Bank: Pinnacle Bank
150 Third Avenue South, Suite 900
Nashville, TN 37201
Phone # (865) 766-3000
Swift Code: PNFPUS44
Routing, Transit, ABA: 064008637
Beneficiary: Case Antiques, Inc.
4310 Papermill Drive
Knoxville, TN 37909
Account #: NOT DISCLOSED (please refer to your invoice email for the Deposit Account Number or contact us )

The UPS Store of Bearden

Contact – Joe 865-584-0081 (press 5)

fax 865-584-0094

store2630@theupsstore.com

Click here to get a quote

 

The UPS Store of Northshore Knoxville

Contact – Eve 865-951-2499

store6461@theupsstore.com

 

John & Max Express LLC

NOTE: large items & white glove delivery services only (driving range limitations may apply)

Contact – Yev 865-230-1567

johnmaxexpress@gmail.com

 

Package Manager

(FedEx, USPS, DHL) Offers crate & large freight services

Contact – Burak 865-584-3000

Email: info@PackageManager.net