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Art Collection of Heller Ehrman LLP to be Offered at Auction

Hildegard Auer, Lovesong Bittersweet, 1985, signed and dated, oil on canvas. 27 x 39in. Estimate: $300 - 500
Leung Chuan, Footprints, 1986, signed and dated, mixed media and silk on paper.
25 1/2 x 34 1/2in. Estimate: $300 - 500
Mark Klett, Panorama of San Francisco, from California Street Hill, 1990. Includes eight gelatin silver prints (of 13), each flush-mounted, signed by the artist, each in excellent condition, each framed. 19 1/2 x 16in each. Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000
Bonhams & Butterfields will offer artwork from the Heller Ehrman LLP Collection in its San Francisco salesroom on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. More than 340 works of art from the 118-year-old international law firm, founded and headquartered in San Francisco, will be offered to bidders, including paintings, prints, photography and sculpture. Heller Ehrman LLP closed its doors in September of 2008.

The works offered in this sale were collected over many decades. Emanuel Heller, a director at the California School of Fine Arts, had installed paintings from his own collection within the firm's offices. Over the ensuing years, the firm continued to support the arts and worked with noted art consultants, galleries and local artists to expand its collections. Ultimately, the firm amassed more than 600 works displayed in more than a dozen offices worldwide.


In recent decades, Heller Ehrman acquired art that reflected both the firm's heritage and its global presence. Although the firm did not focus on any particular time period or geographic area, its staff instead collected work in a variety of media by leading and emerging international artists. Each of the firm's offices also actively sought out works by artists in the Bay Area, Seattle, New York or Southern California, and supported their local art communities by commissioning art for the firm's public spaces.

Dale Chihuly, Persian, 1992,
signed and dated, handblown glass.
13 3/4 x 22 x 20 1/2in Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000



Nola Ahola, Tulip Pulse, 1986. Monoprint in colors with collage on wove paper, signed and dated in pencil, in excellent condition, framed. 23 1/2 x 50in. Estimate: $500 - 700

The public exhibit and previews for the Heller Ehrman LLP Collection open in San Francisco on Friday, Feb. 5, continuing daily through the weekend. The auction on Monday, Feb. 8 is expected to attract bids from collectors across the globe. Highlights for February's auction include oils, acrylics and watercolors, photography, lithographs, ceramics, hand-blown glass and works in metal and stone.

The illustrated auction catalog for the February sale will be online for review and purchase at www.bonhams.com/us.


Nancy Mee (American, born 1951)
Untitled, 2003 62 x 17 x 15in
Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000







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