Carl Pugliese illustration art collection drew amazing results at Bruneau & Co.

J. C. Leyendecker Saturday Evening Post cover illustration, which sold for $11,000 ($13,750 with buyer’s premium) at Bruneau & Co.

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CRANSTON, R.I. — The illustration art collection of painter, illustrator, sculptor, and historian Carl Pugliese (1916-1982) took 40 years to come to market, but when it did, at Bruneau & Co. on October 14, the wait proved profitably worthwhile, with many lots skyrocketing past their estimates. Complete results are available at LiveAuctioneers.

Pugliese was an ardent fan of illustration-based art, often seen in vintage advertising, on book covers and the like. He befriended many of the artists he admired, and in doing so acquired many works signed and inscribed to him by those artists.

The top lot of the sale was just one of five Howard Pyle (1853-1911) paintings to cross the block. Death of Montcalm depicts the French general on horseback riding into Quebec bloodied and injured. Estimated at $5,000-$8,000, it hammered for an astounding $77,000 and sold for $96,250 with buyer’s premium, shattering all presale expectations.

Another Pugliese favorite was Tom Lovell (1909-1997), whose long career in commercial art produced hundreds of magazine and pulp covers, military art and landscapes of the American West. Carl owned 13 Lovell originals, all of which performed solidly. The near-photographic depiction of Mongols being greeted by locals was originally a commission for True Magazine (1937-1974), at one time America’s largest-circulation publication for men. The work hammered for $12,000 and sold for $15,000 with buyer’s premium, far ahead of its $1,000-$2,000 estimate.

A Saturday Evening Post cover illustration by a titan of commercial illustration, J. C. Leyendecker (1874-1951), was another top seller. Leyendecker produced an astounding 322 works for the Post over his career, and this one, of a matron peeling apples, appeared on the 1925 Thanksgiving issue. It hammered for $11,000 and sold for $13,750 with buyer’s premium, soaring above its estimate of $800-$1,200.
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Howard Pyle, ‘Death of Montcalm,’ which sold for $77,000 ($96,250 with buyer’s premium) at Bruneau & Co.
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Tom Lovell, ‘Mongols being greeted by locals,’ which sold for $12,000 ($15,000 with buyer’s premium) at Bruneau & Co.
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J. C. Leyendecker Saturday Evening Post cover illustration, which sold for $11,000 ($13,750 with buyer’s premium) at Bruneau & Co.
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Matt Clark, ‘Fishermen in a Canoe,’ which sold for $3,250 ($4,062 with buyer’s premium) at Bruneau & Co.
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Tom Lovell True Magazine cover illustration, which sold for $7,000 ($8,750 with buyer’s premium) at Bruneau & Co.
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Millea Bros presents strong lineup of art, design and more, May 17-19

Large street art fragment of the Berlin Wall, estimated at $1,000-$1,500. Image courtesy of Millea Bros.
Large street art fragment of the Berlin Wall, estimated at $1,000-$1,500. Image courtesy of Millea Bros.
Large street art fragment of the Berlin Wall, estimated at $1,000-$1,500. Image courtesy of Millea Bros.

BOONTON, N.J. – Millea Bros will hold its Spring ‘Select’ auction on Wednesday, May 17, Thursday, May 18, and Friday, May 19. The event features a dazzling collection of art, design and antiques fresh to market from prominent New York area estates – including two blue-chip Contemporary art collections, period Chippendale antiques and Persian rugs sold to benefit the Rosenbach Library and Museum, and the contents of a Manhattan home custom-furnished with early Vladimir Kagan designs. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Sendak romps, Peale’s Washington saluted at Heritage American art sale

Maurice Sendak, ‘Let the Wild Rumpus Start! (Happy Birthday Wild Things!),’ $212,500. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions
Left: Maurice Sendak, ‘Let the Wild Rumpus Start! (Happy Birthday Wild Things!),’ $212,500; Right: Rembrandt Peale portrait of George Washington, $591,000. Images courtesy of Heritage Auctions

Left: Maurice Sendak, ‘Let the Wild Rumpus Start! (Happy Birthday Wild Things!),’ $212,500; Right: Rembrandt Peale portrait of George Washington, $591,000. Images courtesy of Heritage Auctions

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.

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American art and illustration luminaries grace Heritage May 10 auction

J.C. Leyendecker, ‘First Long Suit,’ est. $300,000-$500,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions
J.C. Leyendecker, ‘First Long Suit,’ est. $300,000-$500,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions

DALLAS – Heritage Auctions will soon hold one of the most comprehensive – and jubilant – American art events in recent memory. In the words of Senior Vice President Aviva Lehmann, the May 10 American Art Signature® Auction, featuring 150 works, is “a museum-quality auction showing off our strength and ability to curate a perfect sale that covers every genre of American art.” Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Heritage sales exceed $1B in 2021 – a first for the Dallas-based auction house

J.C. Leyendecker, ‘Beat-up Boy, Football Hero,’ $4.12 million. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions.
J.C. Leyendecker, ‘Beat-up Boy, Football Hero,’ $4.12 million. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions.

J.C. Leyendecker, ‘Beat-up Boy, Football Hero,’ $4.12 million. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions

DALLAS – Heritage Auctions recorded $1.4 billion in sales in 2021, marking the first time in its 45-year history the Dallas-based auction house has surpassed the billion-dollar mark. Heritage also set numerous auction world records during the past year, including ones for the world’s most valuable comic book, J.C. Leyendecker painting, video game, Michael Jordan jersey, Peanuts artwork, hockey trading card and Harry Potter book. And it did not take a magic wand to reach this extraordinary benchmark.

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Masters of American art dominate Heritage Nov. 5 sale

J.C. Leyendecker, ‘Summer,’ est. $200,000-$300,000
J.C. Leyendecker, ‘Summer,’ est. $200,000-$300,000
J.C. Leyendecker, ‘Summer,’ est. $200,000-$300,000

DALLAS – Heritage Auctions’ Nov. 5 American Art Signature® Auction boasts myriad major works that make up the season’s most significant sale of American masters, ranging from Golden Age illustrators to Hudson River School landscape painters to the makers of beloved children’s stories to the leader of the progressive Ashcan School, Cincinnati-born Robert Henri, whose 1926 portrait Sarah Burke is one of his masterful love letters to Ireland. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Historic May 7 American Art sale at Heritage tops $10M, sets records

Norman Rockwell, ‘Excuse Me! (Soldier Escorting Woman),’ which sold for $543,000
Norman Rockwell, ‘Excuse Me! (Soldier Escorting Woman),’ which sold for $543,000

Norman Rockwell, ‘Excuse Me! (Soldier Escorting Woman),’ which sold for $543,000

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.

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Heritage sets world auction record for Leyendecker art

J.C. Leyendecker’s 1914 cover illustration, ‘Beat-up Boy, Football Hero,’ sold for $4.12 million and a world auction record for the artist.
J.C. Leyendecker’s 1914 cover illustration, ‘Beat-up Boy, Football Hero,’ sold for $4.12 million and a world auction record for the artist.
J.C. Leyendecker’s 1914 cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, ‘Beat-up Boy, Football Hero,’ sold for $4.12 million and a new world auction record for the artist.

DALLAS – Joseph Christian Leyendecker’s 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. The painting was a centerpiece of Heritage Auctions’ May 7 American Art Signature Auction, alongside masterworks by such revered names as Moran, Bierstadt, and Rockwell. Numerous records for several significant artists were set throughout the day, as the total for the nearly sold-out American Art event surpassed the $10.7 million mark – the first American Art event at Heritage to do so.

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Heritage assembles powerful lineup for May 7 American art sale

‘A Mountain of Loadstone-Arabian Nights,’ Thomas Moran, estimated at $150,000-$250,000
‘A Mountain of Loadstone-Arabian Nights,’ Thomas Moran, estimated at $150,000-$250,000

DALLAS – Heritage Auctions is honored to announce one of the most thoughtful, comprehensive and bountiful American art events in recent memory. The catalog for the May 7 American Art Signature Auction reads like a syllabus, a history, and a love letter to the men and women who have defined and defied the American landscape for centuries, among them such names as Norman Rockwell, Albert Bierstadt, Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Moran, Thomas Hart Benton, and Grandma Moses. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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