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Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall
All prices include the buyer’s premium

Clementine Hunter oil, Blown-molded cream jug, Alfons Walde painting,
$8,750, Crescent City $7,605, Jeffrey S. Evans $612,500, Skinner, Inc.

An oil on board paint- A cobalt blue blown cream A painting
ing by Clementine jug molded in a baroque capturing the
Hunter (LA, 1886- pattern designated as GV- beauty and
1988), titled Wash 14 by George and Helen grandeur of
Day (circa 1966), McKearin, circa 1830, sold skiing in the
signed and framed, for $7,605 in a Glass & Alps by Alfons
sold for $8,750 at an Lighting Auction held May Walde, titled
Important Summer Estates Auction held June 19-20 by Jeffrey S. Evans Aufstieg der
13-14 by Crescent City Auction Gallery in New & Associates in Mt. Schifahrer (1937/38) sold for $612,500 at an
Orleans, LA. Also, a platinum engagement ring Crawford, VA. Also, a New England Glass auction of American & European Works of Art
with a 3.83-carat emerald cut diamond brought Company Caryatid figural-stem candlestick in a held May 31 by Skinner, Inc. in Boston. Also,
$37,500; and an oil on canvas by Thomas H. unique sapphire blue, 9 ¾ inches tall, gaveled Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski’s A Daring Escape
Willis (British, 1850-1925), titled Ship’s for $7,020; and a brilliant medium green vase in / A Coaching Scene reached $504,500; Hans
Diorama of the Robin Hood, titled and signed in the Loop/Leaf pattern, just over 9 inches tall, Hofmann’s Image in Blue finished at $125,000;
monogram,fetched $3,750. rose to $5,850. and Leon Bonvin’s watercolor titled Wildflowers
on a Wooded Path knocked down for $118,750.
Frye “Mae West” gas pump, Bob Thompson work,
CA$7,800, Miller & Miller $212,500, Hindman Stankiewicz sculpture,
$162,500, Doyle
A Fry visible “Mae West” gas A 1961 allegorical
pump made in America in the painting by Bob A sculpture from the
1920s sold for CA$7,800 in an Thompson, titled mid-1950s by Richard
Advertising, Toys & Historic The Sack (The Stankiewicz (1922-1983)
Objects auction held June 20 Snook), sold for titled Tribal Diagram, made
by Miller & Miller Auctions, $212,500 at a from found objects welded
Ltd., in New Hamburg, Ont., Spring Fine Art together, sold for $162,500 at
Canada. Also, a Kuntz tin Sale held May 20- an auction held May 20 by
lithographed beer tray, made 21 by Hindman in Doyle in New York City.
in Canada, with a St. Bernard Chicago. Also, Also, a large-scale painting
dog graphic, brought Miyoko Ito’s Irrigation went for $112,500; by Cecil Skotnes (1926-
CA$7,500; a Coca-Cola school Roger Brown’s Dancing Houses, The Earthquake 2009), a circa 1980 painted
policeman sign, 60 inches tall, of 1994 brought $100,000; Theodore Clement and incised wood panel
realized CA$3,900; and a Steele’s Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monuments of measuring 49 1/2 inches by
J.M. Fortier Cigar framed Indianapolis from 1917 fetched $131,250; and 97 1/2 inches, brought $106,250; and a
lithograph, went for CA$3,000. Prices are in Roy Lichtenstein’s prints Crying Girl and Blonde floral still life from 1954 by Abstract
Canadian dollars. made $32,500 and $35,000, respectively. Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan (1922-
2008) went for $187,500.
Presentation pipe tomahawk, Heath Ledger autograph,

$664,200, Morphy Auctions $10,236, RR Auction Redmond oil painting,
$225,000, John Moran
A color satin-
finish signed An oil on canvas
photo of the wildflower land-
late actor Heath scape with poppies
Ledger, in his and lupine by
Oscar-winning Granville Redmond
A silver-mounted and inlaid presentation pipe role as the (Los Angeles,
tomahawk signed “R. (Richard) Butler” and Joker in the 1871-1935) sold
inscribed to “Lt. John Maclellan (sic)” sold for 2008 film The Dark Knight, sold for $10,236 in for $225,000 at a
$664,200 at a sale of Extraordinary, Sporting & an online auction held May 13 by RR Auction, California & American Fine Art auction held
Collector Firearms held May 22-29 by Morphy based in Boston. Also, a Mahatma Gandhi letter May 17 by John Moran Auctioneers in
Auctions in Denver, PA. Also, Annie Oakley’s from 1932, discussing raising funds for the Monrovia, CA. Also, an oil and gold leaf on
“Little Miss Sure Shot” rifle engraved with her Anti Untouchability Association, commanded canvas board depicting white cockatoos in an
name and the town where she resided, gaveled $17,045; a Raoul Wallenberg Schutz-Pass avocado tree by Jessie Arms Botke (CA, 1883-
for $528,900; and a pipe tomahawk dated 1760, associated document rose to $11,251; and 1971) realized $87,500; and an oil painting by
gifted by King Louis XV to Indian chief allies, a Sun Yat-Sen handwritten letter changed hands Edgar Alwin Payne (CA, 1883-1947), titled
went for $168,000. for $112,542. Adriatic Harbor, brought $43,750.

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