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(Auction)Steam Locomotive Photography Leads Ephemera Sale
A gargantuan archive of photographs and related material documenting the era of American steam locomotives was the top lot of the sale, selling to a dealer for $40,000. The lot included several thousand vintage photographs of locomotives in various formats, thousands of pages of meticulously detailed and organized typed notes, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Christie's American Art Sale
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), East Wind Over Weehawken, signed “E. Hopper” (lower right), oil on canvas, 34" x 50¼", sold for $40,485,000 (est. $22/28 million). Painted in 1934, it was acquired in 1952 from the Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries in New York by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sacred and the Profane at Books and Manuscripts Sale
An original typescript of Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit sold to a North American private collector for $485,000 (est. $300,000/500,000). A salesroom notice said: “The present typescript does not correspond in completeness to the 1964 limited first edition of Grapefruit. It is, however, a draft of the work, and includes a typed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Records Fall for American Art
Norman Rockwell, Saying Grace, signed “Norman Rockwell” (lower center), oil on canvas, 43" x 41", painted in 1951, $46,085,000. Sotheby’s photo.
Edward Hopper, East Wind over Weehawken, oil on canvas, 34" x 50¼", painted in 1934, $40,485,000. Christie’s photo.
Saying Grace, Norman Rockwell’s illustration for the Thanksgiving issue of the Saturday Evening ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Arts of the American West
Rare Meskwaki bear claw necklace and turban. The necklace is composed of 31 grizzly bear claws on an otter neck ring, each pierced through the center and joined together with a hide strip strung with an alternating series of large white and pale green glass trade beads, a long tapering ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby's American Art Auction
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Saying Grace, oil on canvas, 43" x 41", signed “Norman Rockwell” in his block style, lower center, painted in 1951, sold for $46,085,000 (est. $15/$20 million), a record for Norman Rockwell and for any work of art sold at an American art auction.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Norman Rockwell Visits ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) painted Girl Choosing Hat in 1931. The 38½" x 30" oil on canvas sold in the salesroom to Judy Goffman Cutler, a New York City dealer and cofounder and director of the National Museum of American Illustration, for $1,205,000 (est. $400,000/600,000), underbid on the phone. The painting ... (Read More)
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(Show)The American Art Fair 2013
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York City, asked $600,000 for The Old Checkered House by Grandma Moses, 35½" x 44¾", painted in 1944.
Ralston Crawford, The Sails, oil on canvas, 26" x 40", $375,000 from Menconi & Schoelkopf Fine Art, New York City.
This William Hunt Diederich (1884-1953) fire screen was $115,000 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Annual Thanksgiving Holiday Auction
The ornate Art Nouveau enameled gold pin, set with 2.9 carats of European-cut diamonds and seed pearls, brought $15,400.
Pictured are three separate lots of jewelry. The Art Deco platinum brooch set with pointed rubies and diamonds, plus other diamonds, in a filigree setting sold for $1925. The Art Deco diamond ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction at Garth's
This Federal Pembroke table, attributed to the Goddard family of Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1810, is mahogany with urn and bellflower inlay. It may have been refinished and has some surface wear. It brought $36,000.
Chippendale chest of drawers in cherry, Massachusetts or Connecticut, circa 1780, period brasses and old finish, ... (Read More)
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