Mark Rothko, ‘A Last Supper,’ $1.45 million. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions
DALLAS – The art market showed no signs of slowing during Heritage Auctions’ American Art November 4 sale featuring choice works by Mark Rothko, Joseph Leyendecker and Thomas Moran. The event, which realized $6,895,750, broke auction records for a number of beloved American artists who have shaped the art of the last century.
1976 Maurice Sendak illustration for a Rolling Stone cover, estimated at $120,000-$180,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions
DALLAS – Works by Maurice Sendak, Mark Rothko, Maynard Dixon, Thomas Moran and the self-taught artist Howard Finster all appear in Heritage Auctions‘ much-anticipated American Art Signature® Auction, scheduled for Friday, November 4. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Thomas Moran chromolithograph of the Grand Canyon, signed and dated 1912, est. $4,000-$6,000
RENO, Nev. – A four-day Rush to the Rockies auction, packed with more than 2,000 lots, will be held from Thursday, August 25 through Sunday, August 28 by Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC. Sessions on all four days will begin at 8 am Pacific time. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Thomas Moran (England, 1837–1926), ‘Hot Springs of Gardiner’s River, Yellowstone Park,’ 1871. Watercolor and graphite on paper. 9 7/8 by 13in. On loan from the Yellowstone Heritage and Research Center.
JACKSON, Wyo. – On May 14, the National Museum of Wildlife Art (NMWA) will open Scenes of Transcendent Beauty: Thomas Moran’s Yellowstone, an exhibition celebrating Yellowstone National Park’s 150th anniversary this year. The exhibition will be on view through August 23.
Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius, ‘Mountain Caribou,’ est. $200,000-$300,000
DENVER – On November 4, Hindman Auctions will present a Western and Contemporary Native American Art auction featuring nearly 300 lots of historic and contemporary Western and wildlife paintings and bronzes. The selection also includes an outstanding offering of contemporary Native American art, pottery and jewelry. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
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.
‘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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