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(Auction)American Indian Art
There was good competition for this Classic Navajo pictorial man’s wearing blanket, Four Corners region, made of handspun wool in natural ivory, dark brown, and indigo blue and raveled bayeta in lac and cochineal red, 76" x 53". It sold on the phone for $250,000 (est. $60,000/100,000), underbid in the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Eaton Collection of Native American Art and Western Paintings
Indians Riding through the Canyon of Chelly (A Turn in the Canyon de Chelly) by Edgar Alwin Payne (1882-1947) is a 30" x 34" oil on canvas, signed (lower left) and inscribed on the back “Canyon de Chelly.” It sold to a bidder standing at the back of the salesroom ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art and Visions of the West
Above: The Cliffs of Green River, Wyoming, painted in 1896 by Thomas Moran, sold in the salesroom to dealer Mike Frost of J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York City, who bought it for a client. The 20" x 30" oil painting, as well as Green River (below), had been acquired by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sentences Handed Down in Rhino and Ivory Smuggling Case
On May 20 Christopher Hayes, president and owner of the Elite Estate Buyers Inc. auction house in Boynton Beach, Florida, was sentenced in federal court in Florida to 36 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his role in the illegal wildlife smuggling conspiracy in which ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Benton Brings $1,052,500
Discussion by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) sold for $1,052,000. Photo courtesy Leslie Hindman Auctioneers.
When the hammer came down May 20 at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago on Thomas Hart Benton’s 1967 Discussion, the 16" x 20" painting became the tenth Benton painting to sell for over $1 million. The final ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art Sale
The cover lot of the sale was this Newell Convers (N.C.) Wyeth (1882-1945) illustration from James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Deerslayer. The 40" x 32" oil on canvas sold for $1.325 million (est. $400,000/600,000) to a phone bidder. It was the fifth-highest auction price for the artist. Wyeth was commissioned ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art at Auction
The Bookworm (Man with Nose in Book) by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), signed lower left, oil on canvas, 32" x 26", painted for the August 14, 1926, cover of the Saturday Evening Post, $3,834,000 (est. $1.5/2.5 million) as an anonymous gift to the Grohmann Museum at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Warshawsky Collection
The top lot of the sale was this circa 1910 Oriental Poppy floor lamp, bought by dealer Sandy van den Broek for a client. She paid $1,066,000 for the lamp. It was estimated at $400,000/ 600,000. She fought off bids from two phone bidders and one in the salesroom. The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Spencer Gordon and Mark McHugh, Spencer Marks, Ltd., Southampton, Massachusetts
Mark McHugh (left) and Spencer Gordon.
A portion of the Spencer Marks research library and office. There’s even a section of books devoted exclusively to heraldry for deciphering the coats of arms that often appear on silver. Mark McHugh said, “When we built this, we used library specs so the floors ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lincoln Portrait Banner Sets Record at Heritage Auctions
Photo courtesy Heritage Auctions.
A political banner for Abraham Lincoln’s 1864 presidential reelection campaign set a new record when it sold for $106,250 (includes buyer’s premium) during the Heritage Auctions Americana and political auction on May 18 in Dallas, Texas.
Small in size at 9" x 18½", this record-setting flag features the ... (Read More)
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