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Modern Art - Including the Estate of David Pease - Dean Yale School of Art

Wed, Sep 16, 2026 10:00AM EDT
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Lot 30

Portfolio of Student Works from the Collection of David Pease, Yale School of Art, 1998-2001

Estimate: $600 - $1,200
Starting Bid
$200

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A group of approximately thirty-four works on paper, various media including etching, watercolor, graphite, lithograph, mixed media, and collage, by students and colleagues of David Pease at the Yale School of Art, circa 1998–2001; including confirmed Yale MFA alumni Vera Iliatova (Russian/American, b. 1975, Yale MFA, Painting/Printmaking; NYFA Fellow, represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, and teaching faculty at RISD), Adam Henry (American, b. 1974; represented by Perrotin, New York), Nicholas Paul Santore (American, b. 1973, Yale MFA 2000; winner of the Eli Harwood Schless Award), Linnéa Gabriella Spransy (American, b. 1976, Yale MFA 2001; represented by Various Small Fires, Los Angeles), Lisa Beth Magni-Rubenstein (Yale MFA, Painting/Printmaking), Erin Marie Weckerle (Yale MFA, Painting/Printmaking), and Joshua Aaron Weiss (Yale MFA, Painting/Printmaking); together with works by Sarah Hirzel, Spreiss, Jeran Kim, Suzanne Varni, Jessica Rohers, Roland B., Samuel C. Bar, Sean McCarthy, Kari Gatzbe, Brandon Jones, David Miko, Amy Pryor, and others; subjects including studio nudes, portraiture, landscape, abstraction, and architectural study; with personal inscriptions and dedications to David Pease throughout, among them a lithograph inscribed "made in Ruth Laver's Class at Yale," a mixed media work on cardboard by Iliatova, a puzzle piece assemblage by Henry, and a bundle of subway notecard drawings by David Miko and Ted McGurn. Housed in original black folio.
Largest: H 20-1/2 x W 16-1/2 in.
Black portfolio: H 22 in. W 17 in.
Provenance: Estate of David and Julie Pease.
To Note: The Kehinde Wiley print originally included in this portfolio has been removed and is offered separately as its own lot in this auction (Lot # XX).

Condition

Overall excellent preserved condition to most works, with minor imperfections commensurate with age varying per work.

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