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Estate Sale 10.3.26

The Gaynor Estate

Set within an award-winning East Side adobe home, the Gaynor Estate brings together a remarkably eclectic collection of art, furniture, sculpture, folk art, and decorative objects gathered across cultures.

The house itself feels inseparable from the collection. Hand-hewn wood, deep nichos, vigas, carved architectural elements, and softly plastered walls create a setting where New Mexican folk art sits naturally beside Japanese ceramics, African objects, Latin American devotional art, Native American works, contemporary sculpture, and Southwestern furniture.
Throughout the home are collections within collections: retablos and santos, miniature devotional paintings, Frida Kahlo imagery, carved furniture, textiles, ceramics, silver, folk sculpture, and unusual objects that reward a closer look.

It is the kind of estate where the smalls are every bit as interesting as the major pieces.

An Eclectic East Side Collection

October 3, 2026 at 9:00:00 AM

9am-2pm

TBA Friday 10.2

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What makes the Gaynor Estate especially compelling is the way the collection shifts constantly in scale. Large carved furniture, textiles, sculpture, and architectural elements establish the rooms, while smaller devotional works, ceramics, silver, miniatures, and collected objects fill in the details. That contrast feels central to the home itself. From across a room, the eye lands on a bold cabinet, weaving, or sculptural form. Up close, it becomes a collection of individual discoveries: a tiny retablo, a hand-painted box, a carved figure, a piece of silver, or an unexpected object tucked into a niche. It’s a home assembled through accumulation rather than strict categories, and that layered quality is what gives the sale so much character.
Sale Highlights
Jeremy Morelli Furniture

A substantial group of Southwestern furniture by Jeremy Morelli includes bookcases, a wraparound desk, dining furniture, coffee and side tables, and chairs, many incorporating the carved and architectural vocabulary associated with Southwestern design.

Retablos & New Mexican Devotional Art

The estate includes works by significant contemporary santeros Charlie Carrillo and Nicholas Otero, alongside a broader collection of retablos, santos, nichos, and devotional objects.

Rare & Unusual Collectibles

The sale includes an unusually varied group of distinctive objects, from a New Mexican colcha weaving and South American and Latin American sterling devotional frames to a solid silver Chanukiah, Civil War-era U.S. cavalry box, and a Bill Reid Thundervest. 

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