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November Art + Design Discovery Auction

Tue, Nov 17, 2026 11:00AM EST
  2026-11-17 11:00:00 2026-11-17 11:00:00 America/New_York Sheafer + King Modern Sheafer + King Modern : November Art + Design Discovery Auction https://auctions.sheaferking.com/auctions/sheafer-king-modern/november-art-design-discovery-auction-24519
The November Art + Design Discovery Auction auction features original drawings by Andy Warhol from the collection of John and Gloria Griffin.  From the same collection, we will be selling an important photograph of JFK by Mark Shaw, and two paintings by important illustrator Dorothy Monet.  These are the first Dorothy Monet paintings that we are aware of that have ever come to auction. The auction also includes works by Gerald Nees, Lois Main Templeton, George Jo Mess, Ruthven Byrum, and James Bruch, Romero Britto, Yuri Yuroz, Pablo Milan, Yacov Agam, Abiola Akintola, and others.
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Lot 24

George Jo Mess "Enchanted Pool" Aquatint Etching

Estimate: $300 - $500
Starting Bid
$300

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Aquatint etching of a nude female figure standing in a pool of water by Indiana artist George Jo Mess (American; 1898-1962). Signed in pencil, titled Enchanted Pool, and numbered 17/100 lower edge.

 

Measurements: 9.25" W x 10.5" H (sheet); 6.75" W x 7.75" H (plate).

 

In house shipping available.

 

From Sheafer + King:

Born in Cincinnati, Mess studied at Columbia University, the John Herron Art School in Indianapolis, the Modern School of Design in Chicago, as well as at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Along with his brother, Gordon Mess, and his wife, Evelynne Bernloehr Mess, he founded Circle Art Academy in Indianapolis. In the late 1930s, Mess lived in Chicago where he worked as a commercial artist for both Esquire and Coronet magazines. He moved back to Indianapolis in 1940 and began teaching at the John Herron Art School and the Indianapolis Art League. Later in the 1940s he began teaching at Indiana University. 

Some areas of discoloration to paper to margins and verso.

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