Portrait in Chrysocolla Green by Amaya Gurpide, Co-Artistic Director; Director of Drawing

Drawing in pencil, white chalk, and conte on hand-toned paper mounted on panel.

16" x 16"

Estimated value: $4,875

AMAYA GURPIDE Having learned her love of art from her father, a painter, Amaya attended the School of Fine Arts of Pamplona in her native Spain. In 1999, she moved to New York City to pursue her studies in figure painting and drawing, studying at the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League of New York, and the Grand Central Academy. In 2014, Amaya took part in the creation of the U.S. branch of the Florence Academy of Art in Jersey City, and in 2016 she was recruited as an Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Drawing at the New York Academy of Art. With her turn toward drawing, Amaya’s process has refined – forms emerge on warm-toned papers from built up layers of graphite, chalks, gouache, and charcoal, often with the use of brushes to achieve a softer, more painterly effect. Experimentation allows each narrative to cohere and coalesce, and she is connected to her works by the intimacy of this creative act. In 2020, Amaya was commissioned by Time magazine to create a cover for their “100 Women of the Year” project. She herself has been recognized by the Evelyn Chard Kelley Memorial Scholarship for women painters under 30, the Newington Cropsey Scholarship, and has won numerous notable prizes. Her works are regularly exhibited in both the United States and abroad and have been included in several significant fine arts publications.

Donated by: Amaya Gurpide

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Elhagyott by Chad Fisher, Charlotte Colby Danly Sculpture Chair

"She folds into herself, carrying the weight of absence. The body holds what words cannot, the quiet space left behind when connection disappears."

Cast in bronze

10" x 12" x 8"

Estimated value: $12,000

Chad Fisher is a fine art sculptor who has vertically integrated his process in order to control the quality and the poetry of the final creation. Through his studio/foundry, Fisher Sculpture LLC, which he operates with his father and wife, he has created more than 25 public sculptures, including fine art bronzes for the Chicago Bears Football Club, Philadelphia 76ers, Oklahoma University, Philadelphia Flyers, the NFL Hall of Fame, the Union League of Philadelphia, the Special Forces Charitable Trust, and the Philadelphia Vietnam Memorial.

Fisher studied at Syracuse University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, before receiving his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He has also studied at the New York Academy of Art, the Janus Collaborative, the Schuylkill Academy of Fine Arts, and the Barnstone Studios, among other institutions, and has apprenticed with several notable sculptors, including Stephen Perkins, Stuart Mark Feldman, and, most influentially, Gary Weisman.

Throughout these educational opportunities, Fisher has utilized classical sculptural methods to develop and master his craft.

Donated by: Chad Fisher - Charlotte Colby Danly Sculpture Chair

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Private Portrait Commission by Jordan Sokol, Deane Keller Chair; Artistic Director; Director of Painting

The winning bidder will receive a bespoke oil portrait by Jordan Sokol, an accomplished portrait painter whose commissions include distinguished institutions such as Princeton University and the University of Oxford.

Sokol rarely accepts private portrait commissions, making this a particularly rare opportunity to commission a work by an artist whose practice is devoted primarily to institutional portraiture and gallery work. The winning bidder will receive a lasting, one-of-a-kind work of art while making a meaningful contribution to the education of the next generation of artists at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts.

The portrait will depict one individual and will be painted in oil on stretched linen canvas, up to 18 × 24 inches. The work may be painted from life or developed from photographic reference, in consultation with the artist.

Commission Details

• Medium: Oil on stretched linen canvas
• Subject: One individual
• Size: Up to 18 × 24 inches
• Reference: Painted from life or photographic reference
• Expected completion: 2028

Jordan Sokol is the Deane Keller Chair, Artistic Director, and Director of Painting at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts.

Jordan studied and taught drawing and painting in Italy and Spain for eleven years before returning to the United States in 2014. In 2015 he participated in establishing the U.S. branch of The Florence Academy of Art in Jersey City, New Jersey, serving as its Academic Director for five years before joining the staff of the New York Academy of Art as an adjunct professor.

Jordan’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout Europe and the United States, including London’s National Portrait Gallery, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, and the Ulster Museum in Belfast as part of the 2015 BP Portrait Exhibition, and has been featured in numerous fine arts publications and books. Jordan’s intimate and psychologically-charged portraits conjure the depths and complexities of the human experience, using flesh and the human form as a narrative vehicle to explore themes of life, death, memory, and time. The impact of these meticulously layered paintings has reverberated with critics and collectors, who both look forward to opportunities to encounter and grapple with his work.

Donated by: Jordan Sokol

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Untitled (Standing Female Nude) by Michael Grimaldi, Visiting Faculty and Lyme Academy Trustee

Mixed Media (acrylic, oil and chalk on paper applied to panel)

30" x 12"

Estimated value: $12,000

Michael Grimaldi is a Hudson Valley-based visual artist whose work primarily focuses on monochrome paintings and drawings of the real and imagined. He has exhibited extensively throughout the US and abroad and has taught drawing, painting and anatomy for over twenty years at various institutions including the School of Visual Arts, National Academy, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Art Students League of New York. Currently, Grimaldi is the Director of the Departments of Drawing and Anatomy at the New York Academy of Art.

Michael Grimaldi studied painting and drawing at the New York Studio School, the National Academy, the Art Students League of New York, and performed independent studies in anatomy and dissection at the Facultad Medicina in Buenos Aires and Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia.

Since 2009, he has designed and taught an advanced anatomy course that is hosted by Drexel University College of Medicine in partnership with the New York Academy of Art where art students are given the opportunity to directly study from human cadavers alongside medical students in Drexel’s Gross Anatomy Labs. He has lectured on the relationship of art and science and his own work at numerous institutions including the Leon and Norma Hess Center for Science and Medicine, The Morgan Library & Museum, the Lyme Academy of Fine Art, Studio Incamminati, Drexel University College of Medicine, and the Institute of Classical Architecture.

He has received numerous awards, including the Alma Schapiro Prize/Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, Montello Foundation Residency, the Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant, two Stacey Foundation Grants, and two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants.

Donated by: Michael Grimaldi

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Visiteurs divins à l'Atelier (Heavenly Visitors to the Studio), 1955, signed and numbered 3/50 in pencil.

19.5" x 25.5"

Estimated value: $20,000

A celebrated 1955 sugar-lift aquatint and scraper by Pablo Picasso, Visiteurs divins à l'atelier explores the artist's studio through Picasso's ongoing engagement with the theme of Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas. The work is part of Picasso's mid-century variations on the celebrated painting and reflects his fascination with the studio as a setting for artists, models, and the creative process. Aquatint on Arches paper. Printed in an edition of 50. Catalogued as Bloch 770; Baer 920.

Donated by: Allen and Missy Rosenshine

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Alexandra by Bo Bartlett, Visiting Mentor

Graphite on paper

22.5" x 30"

Estimated value: $18,000

Bo Bartlett is an American realist with a modernist vision. His paintings are well within the tradition of American realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. Like these artists, Bartlett looks at America’s heart—its land and its people—and describes the beauty he finds in everyday life. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary.

– Tom Butler, excerpt from the book Bo Bartlett, Heartland

Donated by: Bo Bartlett

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Two nights for up to five (5) guests and valid between November 1 and April 30th, expiring Dec 30, 2027, subject to availability, excluding holidays, holiday weekends, and blackout dates.

Includes dinner for five(5) at Coast at Ocean House, private tour of the Ocean House Art Collection, and a private tour for up to five (5) people of the newly opened Westerly Museum of American Impressionism designed by Centerbrook Architects. The tour will be led by Catherine Shotick, the inaugural Director of the Museum.

Estimated value: $7,200

Ocean House is a Forbes Five Star and AAA Five Diamond resort on the Atlantic Ocean in Watch Hill, Rhode Island.

The Tower Suite

The exclusive LAFA 50 Year Gala Auction experience includes a two-night stay in the signature 2,400 sf, two-story Tower Suite situated on the fourth and fifth floors of the hotel with views of the Atlantic, Napatree Point, Stonington, and Watch Hill.

Sleeps up to 5 guests; can entertain up to 20 people.

First level: Gracious foyer, primary bedroom with king bed, standing shower with beach stone floor, tea for two tub, and powder room.

Second level: Living area with floor to ceiling fir paneling, slate fireplace, built in bookshelves, and window seats; adjoining dining area with custom banquette and access to a roof deck.

Kitchen: State of the art appliances, granite countertops. Crow’s Nest: Cozy den with daybed and full bath.

Widow’s walk: Historically replicated access via ladder. Adjoining guest room: King bed, four fixture marble bathroom with large shower and soaking tub

In addition to resort amenities, the Tower Suite includes:

• Complimentary bar with top shelf spirits and mixers
• Dedicated Signature Suite concierge
• Nespresso machine with complimentary pods
• Access to the members only Club Room Restaurant

Dinner at Ocean House

As part of the exclusive LAFA 50 Year Gala Auction experience, this stay includes a dinner for four at Coast, Ocean House’s 5 Star restaurant overlooking the ocean. You can select from its prix-fixe dégustation menu celebrating the finest ingredients of the season. Wine and alcoholic beverages are not included.

The Art at Ocean House

Also included in your stay, is a private tour of the Ocean House’s extensive art collection, led by Resident Art Curator Lisa Szaro, granddaughter of the portrait painter Robert Brackman.

The Bemelman’s Gallery at Ocean House is a curated collection, owned by the historic hotel’s proprietors Charles and Deborah Royce, that includes original works, architectural commissions, illustrations of product campaigns, and illustrations of the beloved Madeline series.

The Permanent Collection at Ocean House – which can be viewed in the Members Club Room, Bistro, Harbor Room, and Ocean & Harvest Spa - has almost 250 original works from the 19th century through the 1990’s adorning the walls. Artists include Howard Chandler Christy, Konstantin Rudakov, and George Goursat, also known as SEM.

Seasonal exhibitions at Ocean House are on view in the Lobby Gallery. Currently on view: “Marine Art Masters” from the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery of Stonington, Conn.

Art Outing in Westerly

The LAFA 50 Year Gala Auction experience also includes a private tour for up to 5 people of the newly opened Westerly Museum of American Impressionism designed by Centerbrook Architects. The tour will be led by Catherine Shotick, the inaugural Director of the Museum.

Established by philanthropists and art collectors Cynthia and Thomas Sculco, the museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting works of American Impressionism from the 1880s-1920s. Through engaging exhibitions and educational initiatives, the museum seeks to inspire and enrich lives by celebrating this vibrant art movement.

The WMAI will work with the winning bidder to arrange the visit and tour in advance, when the museum is open to the public (Thursday- Sunday, 10:00-4:00) at a mutually agreeable time.

Ocean House Package Donated by Charles and Deborah Royce

Museum Tour Donated by Westerly Museum of American Impressionism

Dinner at Ocean House Donated by Jefferson Riley and Mary Wilson

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Private Luncheon at Raffles Hotel & Curator-Led Tour of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Enjoy an exceptional afternoon of art and hospitality in Boston for up to ten (10) guests.

Value: Priceless

Begin with a private luncheon at Raffles Hotel, followed by an exclusive curator-led tour of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Working with the winning bidder, the MFA will arrange a tour tailored to the group’s interests, offering a rare opportunity to explore one of the world’s great collections through the insight and expertise of an MFA curator.

In celebration of the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts’ 50th anniversary, the tour offers an opportunity to explore works and traditions with particular resonance for the Academy and the artistic legacy of Old Lyme—from European academic traditions and American artists abroad to American Impressionism and the enduring traditions of landscape, observation, and the figure. (Please note that the tour content and galleries will be arranged in consultation with the MFA and are subject to availability.)

Scheduling: To be arranged at a mutually agreeable date. The Renoir exhibition is excluded, and the tour is unavailable February 28–June 13, 2027. Scheduling after July 2027 is encouraged. This package is for up to 10 guests.

Curator-led tour generously donated by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Luncheon at Raffles Hotel donated by Ben McGuire & Joshua Janson.

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Go behind the scenes at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts for an exclusive, private tour of the Drawing & Painting Core Program, led by its Directors.

Get an insider’s look at the studios, curriculum, teaching methods, and creative processes that define the Academy’s renowned classical approach. Meet Core Program students and see the spaces where they develop their skills through direct observation, while experiencing the Academy from an entirely new perspective.

This unique opportunity offers a firsthand look at how great draftsmen and painters are trained. The special private tour accommodates a maximum of four guests.

Donated by: Lyme Academy of Fine Arts

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Go behind the scenes at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts for an exclusive, private tour of the Core Sculpture Program, led by its Director.

Explore the studios, tools, techniques, and teaching methods that bring the Academy’s classical approach to life. See where students work directly from observation, learning the craft of figurative sculpture and developing their skills from concept to finished work—all while gaining an insider’s perspective on the artistic process.

This unique opportunity offers a firsthand look inside the studio to discover how sculptors are trained. The special private tour accommodates a maximum of four guests.

Donated by: Lyme Academy of Fine Arts

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Ever wondered what it’s like to be a student at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts? Step into the studio and experience a day in the Academy’s renowned Core Program.

Immerse yourself in the artistic process alongside Academy students and faculty, choosing between Drawing & Painting or Sculpture.

Select your focus, join a live class, work in the studio, and experience firsthand the inspiring environment of a classical art education.

This exclusive auction package is for one person. Bring your lunch and your passion to learn and create!

Donated by Lyme Academy of Fine Arts

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Experience the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts after hours with an exclusive opportunity to attend a Friday evening Faculty Demonstration alongside Academy students.

Watch master faculty members demonstrate their artistic process, techniques, and approaches to working from direct observation in an intimate studio setting. Never before open to the public, this special experience offers a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the Academy's teaching and artistic practices.

This is a unique opportunity for up to two guests to learn alongside our students and see the creative process up close.

Donated by: Lyme Academy of Fine Arts

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Summer Allegory by Amaya Gurpide, Co-Artistic Director; Director of Drawing

Artist’s Proof from a limited edition originally released in November 2025. Signed and marked AP by the artist.

Printed with archival pigments on Entrada Cotton Rag, 290 gsm matte smooth paper.

Print size: 16” × 20”

Estimated value: $500

Original work: Mixed media, 2025, 16” × 20”. Private collection.

AMAYA GURPIDE Having learned her love of art from her father, a painter, Amaya attended the School of Fine Arts of Pamplona in her native Spain. In 1999, she moved to New York City to pursue her studies in figure painting and drawing, studying at the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League of New York, and the Grand Central Academy. In 2014, Amaya took part in the creation of the U.S. branch of the Florence Academy of Art in Jersey City, and in 2016 she was recruited as an Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Drawing at the New York Academy of Art. With her turn toward drawing, Amaya’s process has refined – forms emerge on warm-toned papers from built up layers of graphite, chalks, gouache, and charcoal, often with the use of brushes to achieve a softer, more painterly effect. Experimentation allows each narrative to cohere and coalesce, and she is connected to her works by the intimacy of this creative act. In 2020, Amaya was commissioned by Time magazine to create a cover for their “100 Women of the Year” project. She herself has been recognized by the Evelyn Chard Kelley Memorial Scholarship for women painters under 30, the Newington Cropsey Scholarship, and has won numerous notable prizes. Her works are regularly exhibited in both the United States and abroad and have been included in several significant fine arts publications.

Donated by: Amaya Gurpide

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Untitled by Rick Lacey, Director of Continuing Education

72" x 60"

Estimated value: $14,000

Originally from Evergreen, Colorado, Rick has spent most of his life in Lyme, Connecticut. He graduated from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in 2011, with a BFA in painting.

He is a recipient of the American Visions Award as well as the John Stobart Fellowship Award. Rick has been featured in both American Artist and Art of the West magazine. Rick currently works at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, in Old Lyme CT. He teaches classes in drawing, life drawing and portrait painting.

Donated by: Rick Lacey

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Lady Wandering by Gianluca Giarrizzo, Sculpture Instructor

Alabaster

7" x 5" x 4"

Estimated value: $6,000

Gianluca Giarrizzo is a figurative stone sculptor and draughtsman living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Giarrizzo's primary mediums consist of marble, bronze, and ink and graphite drawings. He grew up in Wyoming and went on to receive his BA from Lewis and Clark College where he studied Sculpture and Philosophy, and an MFA in 2019 from the New York Academy of Art in Sculpture and Anatomy.

Giarrizzo was selected by the New York Academy of Art to participate in the ABC Stone-sponsored Stone Carving Residency in Carrara, Italy in 2018 and again in 2019 through the Bill and Sharon Jacob Award for Outstanding Ability in Sculpture. In 2018 and 2019, he was awarded the Sculpture Scholar Award by the New York Academy of Art.

Giarrizzo is an elected member of the National Sculpture Society and an Adjunct Professor at The Fashion Institute of Technology (New York) for drawing and sculpture, Bucks Couty Community College in Pennsylvania for 3D arts, and the New York Academy of Art for stone carving.

He has work in private collections across the U.S. and has been exhibited in shows and auctions nationally.

Donated by: Gianluca Giarrizzo

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Boxwood Still Life by David Baird, Drawing and Painting Instructor

Oil on linen

20" x 30"

Estimated value: $3,600

David Baird is an oil painter and draftsman focused primarily on figurative work. While inspired by subject matter familiar to art history, his work is equally motivated by the translation of perception into painting, a process by which the sensuality of experience is in constant tension with the materiality of paint.

Benefiting from extensive exposure to some of Europe's greatest works of art, the artist has traveled broadly. He has attended classes throughout the US and Europe, including Ryder Studio School (NM, USA), the Art Students League (NYC, USA), Studio Escalier (FR), and the Jerusalem Studio School (Jerusalem, IL). In 2019, the artist was awarded the Avigdor Arikha Masterclass Scholarship to continue his studies in Italy.

He has participated in numerous exhibitions, including the inaugural exhibition Memento Vivere in 2021, celebrating the reopening of the historic Lyme Academy in Lyme, CT. In 2022, he won first prize in the New York Figurative Show at the prestigious Salmagundi Club in New York, NY, and was subsequently invited to exhibit in the first-ever annual Hartley Invitational at the same institution in 2022 and 2023.

The artist conducts workshops around the US and Europe. Since 2015, he has been visiting faculty at Studio Escalier, a contemporary classical art center based in France. In 2024, he joined the esteemed faculty at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Lyme, CT, where he currently lives and works.

Donated by: David Baird

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Study of Nina at Night by Hollis Dunlap, Drawing and Painting Instructor

18" x 24"

Estimated value: $3,000

Hollis Dunlap is a graduate of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in 1999, Hollis has been drawing and painting the human figure for more than twenty years. His long list of awards and distinctions include First Prize at New York’s National Arts Club (twice), the John Stobart Fellowship, and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (twice).

His work has been exhibited at venues from San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Denver to New York and Miami, garnering extensive critical acclaim across the United States. The foundational skills that Hollis learned at the Lyme Academy, particularly from his teacher Deane G. Keller, have allowed him to become increasingly creative in his work, mixing modern and classical elements, as well as exploring abstract and modern color theories.

His attention to surface and the varying thickness of his paint contribute to the expressiveness and energy of each brushstroke he applies. The success of Hollis’s process is evidenced by the demand for his teaching, both nationally and abroad.

Donated by: Hollis Dunlap

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Portrait of a Young Woman by Sebástian Villada, Sculpture Student Instructor

16" x 20"

Estimated value: $2,000

Donated by: Lyme Academy Student

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Three Spheres, Twilight by Jon deMartin, Workshop Instructor

9.5" x 19"

Estimated value:$2,000

Jon deMartin is among the leading figurative artists working today and has taught life drawing and painting for more than twenty-years at the most prestigious academies and ateliers in the country.  Among them are the Arts Students League, the New York Academy of Art, the Grand Central Academy of Art, the Janus Collaborative School of Art, Studio Incamminati, and the Parsons School of Design. 

He has exhibited at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, the John Pence Gallery, the Arnot Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Florence Griswold Museum, and the Beijing World Art Museum, featured in the exhibit ‘Contemporary American Realism’.

He grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and later moved to New York, where he graduated from Pratt Institute with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Filmmaking.  He subsequently enrolled at the Art Students League and also studied privately with Michael Aviano.  He currently lives in White Plains and teaches in his studio in Port Chester, New York.

Jon’s work has been reproduced in publications such as ‘The Classicist’, Classical Drawing Atelier’, ‘Lessons in Classical Drawing’, Watson-Guptil Publications. ‘Star Wars Art: Visions’, (Abrams Publication), and the ‘Classical Life Studio: Lessons & Teachings in the Art of Figure Drawing’, Sterling Publications.  He has written and illustrated over twenty-five articles on classical figure drawing technique for ‘Drawing Magazine’.

In his paintings, Jon concentrates on the figure placed in outdoor and interior situations, as well as portraits and industrial landscapes. 

Donated by: Jon deMartin

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Avocados by Todd M. Casey, Painting Instructor

Still life painting.

Oil on panel

6" x 9"

Estimated value: $1,800

Todd M. Casey was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. His artistic education includes a BFA in Communication Design from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts. Casey’s work touches on more than simplistic realism. His work is classically styled but progressive in approach.

Every painting has a tale to tell, brewed from a deep well of introspective thought. In the resulting years, Todd has made the transition from painter to author and teacher. He published his first art book The Art of Still Life in 2020 with Monacelli Press. His second book The Oil Painters’ Color Handbook, came out in August of 2022.

Donated by: Todd M. Casey

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