ON FEBRUARY 4–5, Brunk Auctions of Asheville, N.C., will present its first Premier and Emporium auction of 2022. The sale will include fine art, glass, silver, coins, maps, and furniture by artists and designers including Louis Majorelle, Jules Leleu, Alexander Noll, Eugene Gaillard, Loetz, Tiffany, Galle, Dirk van Erp, Emile Muller, Daum, Edgar Brandt, Lalique, and Baccarat.
Among the highlights is Otto Sommer’s The Bear Fight (1864), which captures a duel between a man and a bear atop a rocky outcrop in a raging river. Other works on the block are Édouard Vuillard’s 1908 Bateau à l’ancre (Boat at Anchor), which depicts the gradations of color and light around a still boat. A standout among the silver objects in the sale is an Octopus Bowl by Buccellati, featuring an octopus…