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Modern & Contemporary Fine Art & Design - November 20, 2025

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Focusing on the fine arts and design practices of artists working in the 20th and 21st centuries, our November Modern & Contemporary Fine Art & Design sale includes paintings, sculpture, photography, and works on paper along with three-dimensional objects and furniture created by artists and designers.
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  • Sold to benefit the Artists' Fellowship
Lot 559

Aaron Shikler (1922-2015): Portrait of Spiro Tsilimparis

Estimate: $2,000 - $5,000
Starting Bid
$1,000

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Oil on canvas, 1977, signed 'Aaron Ar?ni Shikler' and dated lower right. 

32 x 22 in., unframed. 

 

Note: This portrait by American artist Aaron Shikler is being sold to benefit the Artists' Fellowship in New York City. The Artists' Fellowship is a private charitable foundation whose mission is to financially assist professional visual artists and their families in times of emergency, disability or bereavement. In 1859, a group of compassionate artists and business leaders joined forces to help working artists and their families in times of need. The group was known as the 'Helpful Society', later renamed the 'Artists' Mutual Aid Society'. In 1925, the group was incorporated and renamed the Artists' Fellowship.  

Condition

In very good condition. 

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The artist.

Collection of Adonis Tsilimparis.

Collection of Blanca Millan.

Sold to Benefit the Artists' Fellowship.