MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – Skinner Auctioneers will conduct a live auction of American Art on Wednesday, May 25, starting at 10 am Eastern time at Skinner’s Marlborough gallery. Ranging across centuries from the early Hudson River School to early American Modernism, the sale features masterworks by some of this country’s greatest painters and sculptors. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
DALLAS – Spanning George Washington to the Wild Things, Heritage Auctions’ latest American Art Signature® Auction set numerous auction records May 10 on its way to a $6 million finish.
NEW YORK – Capsule Auctions presents Vistas: American and European Art, a sale of paintings, drawings and other art from New York and New England estates and collections. Themes of the sale include classical, mythology, portraiture, and landscape art. It will take place Thursday, April 28 at 2 pm Eastern time. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
PHILADELPHIA — Freeman’s is pleased to announce the results of its December 5 American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists auction, which set multiple world records across categories and included the white-glove sale of the distinguished collection of Virginia and Stuart Peltz. The 119-lot auction realized $5.15 million, with an overall sell-through rate of 89%, with 48% of winning bidders using online bidding platforms.
CHICAGO – This month, Hindman will present three days of fine art sales featuring more than 300 works of art. The trio of auctions begin with American and European Art on December 13, followed by Post War and Contemporary Art on December 14 and ending with Prints and Multiples on December 15. Remarkable collections and artworks will be featured, including major works by N.C. Wyeth, Winslow Homer, Orville Bulman, Hans Hofmann, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, Julie Mehretu, Roy Lichtenstein and Jeff Koons. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
PHILADELPHIA — This December, Freeman’s presents American Art Week, a unique collector’s opportunity featuring three back-to-back sales of American painting, prints, sculpture, and works on paper. American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Collection of Virginia and Stuart Peltz begins at 2 pm Eastern time on Sunday, December 5, followed by Simply American: Fine Art from a Private Texas Collection and Collect: American Art begin at 11 am and 1 pm Eastern time, respectively, on Tuesday, December 7. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
DALLAS – Norman Rockwell’s Home for Thanksgiving has a new home, just in time for Thanksgiving, as the beloved painting of a doting mother and her soldier son peeling potatoes sold Friday at Heritage Auctions for more than $4.3 million.
PHILADELPHIA — Freeman’s is pleased to announce the results of its June 6 American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists auction, which far outperformed its overall estimate to achieve an impressive sale result of nearly $3.5 million. The 89-lot auction featured a 91% sell-through rate and multiple standout sales, confirming Freeman’s strength in presenting important American art at auction. Between December 2020 and June 2021, Freeman’s has achieved their best year yet for American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists: with more than $10 million realized for fewer than 200 lots.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Freeman’s is pleased to present six works by Albert York—five oil paintings and one watercolor—in its June 6 American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists auction. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Undoubtedly an auction highlight, this selection features both the pastoral scenes for which York is best known, as well as figurative work, including a bold, exquisite portrait of York’s wife, a rare depiction of the subject. Concise and modest, York’s paintings stand out to the viewer with a disarming rawness and purity that convey sentimentality, qualities that have led him to be called the “Painter of the Ordinary.”
DALLAS – Heritage Auctions’s latest American Art event, held May 7, was its biggest ever, realizing more than $10.75 million in a near-sellout that resulted in myriad records, among them the highest price – by far – ever paid for a painting by legendary illustrator Joseph Christian Leyendecker. His Beat-up Boy, Football Hero, which appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on Nov. 21, 1914, sold Friday for $4.12 million, shattering the previous world record for a work by the influential illustrator.