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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art
Yarns of a Summer Day by Henry Farny (1847-1916), gouache on paper, 1894, 11¼" x 15¾" (sight), $310,000.
Apache figural tray basket, a central flower radiating light and dark petals, surrounded by ten humans, ten dogs, and five wolves, circa 1900, 19¾" diameter, $22,140.
Navajo Late Classic woman’s dress, black and red, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Triple Portrait Sells for $15,000
This unattributed 29" x 31½" oil on canvas portrait of three children, bearing an American Folk Art Gallery label on the back of the frame, sold in the room for $15,000 (est. $7000/10,000) to collectors Michael and Suzanne Payne. The Paynes recognized it as a work by upstate New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Prints and Drawings: A Green-Haired Muse and Black-and-White Images of Manhattan
Shadow Dance by Martin Lewis (1881-1962) fetched $42,500. The 1930 drypoint and sand-ground print from an edition of 109 is 9¼" x 10¾". This was not the first time that the print has done very well at Swann. The auction house set a still-standing record when it sold a copy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Outsider Art, and Folk Art
The Crowninshield family mahogany bombé chest of drawers, Marblehead, Massachusetts, circa 1770, 33¼" high x 40" wide x 22" deep, appears to retain its original cast brass hardware and sold on the phone for $581,000 (est. $300,000/600,000). Other bombé chests from this group have sold for $2,023,500 at Christie’s in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Auction in Cambridge
The 6¼" x 10¼" unframed moonlit scene of ships under full sail, with one flying an American flag, by James Edward Buttersworth (1817-1894) came from an Arizona estate and sold to a Worcester, Massachusetts, dealer for $11,400.
The 17¼" x 23¼" watercolor on silk mourning picture had gold foil decorations and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Mansions Antique Cane Collection
Defensive canes take many forms. The simplest are either swords or knives housed in the cane shaft. This exceedingly rare French cane, circa 1870, saw short production because of numerous accidental injuries to the owners. With razor barbs, this example was the sale’s highest-selling lot at $8160 (est. $4500/6000).
Dating ... (Read More)
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