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Hopper’s “Blackwell’s Island” Sells for $19.1 Million
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Blackwell’s Island, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 34½" x 59½", painted in the fall of 1928, sold for $19,163,750 (est. $15/20 million). The subject—the island in the East River now known as Roosevelt Island—embodies the quiet tensions of Hopper’s best work. In 1928 it was the ... (Read More)

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American Art
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962), Chef, watercolor and ink on paper, 13½" x 10", signed lower right and bearing estate stamp (on the reverse), sold for $7500 (est. $3000/5000). Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936), New York Harbor, oil on canvas, 31½" x 44",  signed and dated “T.E. Butler 1917,” sold for $86,500 (est. $40,000/60,000). Paul ... (Read More)

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American Paintings Auction (Sotheby’s)
by Lita Solis-Cohen

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Marionettes: Behind the Curtain, oil on canvas, 29" x 20 7/8", painted in 1903, sold for $5,205,000 (est. $5/7 million) on one bid to a buyer who had placed an irrevocable bid. Max Weber (1888-1961), Soloist at Wanamaker’s, 29¼" x 18½" gouache on paper laid down on ... (Read More)
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