Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present The Estate of Marian Hymel on Saturday morning, October 21. Offering over 150 lots, the auction features the personal collection of Mrs. Hymel, who was a popular antiques dealer in Los Gatos, California, whose focus was Early America. Her high-quality antiques were sourced throughout the United States over more than 35 years. The collection in this sale includes furniture, fine art, decorative arts, rugs, jewelry, and silver.
Highlights include a Queen Anne Maple Wing Armchair, a Serapi rug, a Queen Anne carved maple flat-top high chest, a set of Regency carved fruitwood chairs, a Chippendale mahogany inlaid oxbow-front desk, and several antique gold bangle bracelets. Among the noteworthy artworks are an oil portrait of a young woman attributed to William Matthew Prior/Hamblin School, an early 19th-century oil painting from the American School, and a watercolor by Gerrard R. Hurdenberg.
Turner Auctions + Appraisals begins its online auction on Saturday morning, October 21, 2023, at 10:30 am PDT; sale items are available for preview and bidding now.
About Marian Hymel & Her Collection
Marian Hymel (1932-2023) was born and raised in New York. She studied nursing at Bellevue Hospital’s Training School for Nurses, the first U.S. school to be run according to Florence Nightingale's nursing principles. After her marriage, she and her family moved to Los Gatos, California, where she lived much of the rest of her life.
Marian Hymel’s interest in collecting began in California with pewter pieces. Over time, her interests expanded to collections of other “smalls” (that is, not large furniture), including bentwood boxes, shell work, brass candlesticks, and hooked rugs. As years passed, Mrs. Hymel’s home reflected her creativity and pleasure in decorating, in which she took particular pride, as the modern furniture of the 20th-century began to be replaced by special Early American items.
As her interest and expertise in antiques grew, she joined an antique collective in Los Gatos, then launched her own shop, which was open for several years. Coupled with a good eye, a love of beauty, and knowledge and proficiency in Early American antiques, she insisted on offering authentic, high-quality pieces that she carefully curated. An Early American purist, her items were sourced over three decades from all over the U.S., including antique shows and shops, private collectors, and industry friends with whom she traded.
Now, with Marian Hymel’s passing, her family is sending her personal collection out into the world, in hopes that others will appreciate and find pleasure as she did in these distinctive Early American items.
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