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Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall
All prices include the buyer’s premium
John F. Kensett landscape, Maqbool Husain painting, Chinese theatrical diorama,
$1.08 million, Cottone Auctions $43,750, Bruneau & Co. $20,400, Michaan’s Auctions

A sublime A dynamic oil on canvas A rare and magnificent
landscape Cubist horse painting by the Chinese monumental
painting Indian artist Maqbool Fida theatrical diorama
by John Husain (1915-2011) sold with kingfisher feather
Frederick for $43,750 in Bruneau embellishment sold for
Kensett & Co. Auctioneers’ online $20,400 at Estates &
(American, Estate Fine Art & Antique Collections Auctions
1816-1872), titled Singing Beach & Eagle Rock, Auction held September held September 17th
Magnolia, Massachusetts, sold for $1.08 million 30th in Cranston, RI. Also, by Michaan’s Auctions
at a Fine Art, Antiques, and Clock auction held a 19th century Chinese in Alameda, CA. Also, a rainy Paris street
September 18th by Cottone Auctions in embroidered silk textile, scene painting by Edouard Leon Cortes, titled
Geneseo, NY. Also, a Tiffany Studios elaborate 68 inches by 32 inches Theatre Gymnastique, earned $30,000; and a
Peony lamp on a telescopic library base with a (less frame) brought $25,000; a Caille Brothers nude rendering by Tom Wesselmann, titled
22-inch shade lit up the room for $390,000; Eclipse 25-cent slot machine (Chicago, circa Monica Lying on a Blanket (1988), using enamel
and an E. Howard & Co. No. 49 astronomical 1904) hit $18,750; and a Tiffany “Bleeding on laser-cut steel, went to a determined bidder
hanging regulator finished at $174,000. Heart” table lamp fetched $12,500. for $24,000.

Alfred J. Casson oil painting, Louis Marx toy motorcycle, The American Atlas,

CA$59,000, Miller & Miller $22,800, Milestone Auctions $69,300, Freeman’s
A 1940 oil on A Louis Marx A second edition of
board landscape & Co. (USA) The American Atlas,
painting by the prototype tin widely considered the
Canadian windup most important 18th
Group of Seven Speedboy 4 century atlas of America,
artist Alfred military toy sold for $69,300 at a
Joseph Casson motorcycle Books and Manuscripts
(1898-1992), with spring- auction held September
titled Outside loaded military cannon and ammo box sold for 23rd by Freeman’s in
Algonquin Park, $22,800 at an Antique Toy auction held Philadelphia. Also, a rare
sold for $59,000 in an online-only Firearms, October 2nd by Milestone Auctions in New Haven printing of
Sporting & Canadiana auction held October Willoughby, OH. Also, a Lehmann (Germany) the first acts of the First Congress of the United
9th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., based tin windup Boxer Rebellion toy, all original, States, printed circa 1789, went for $22,680; a
in New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada. Also, an went for $17,400; and a large and colorful first and limited-edition copy of James Joyce’s
oil on board country scape by Group of German hand-painted composition cat skittles Ulysses achieved $27,720; and a first American
Seven founding member Alexander Young set, the 17-inch-long main cat holding seven cat edition copy of Moby-Dick garnered $16,380.
Jackson (1882-1974), from 1966, signed and skittles, garnered $16,200.
dated, hit $38,350. 1790 tall case clock,
Warhol Moonwalk prints, $92,250, Pook & Pook
Munnings equestrian works, $417,500, Clars Auction

$662,500, Andrew Jones A rare, circa 1790 New York
A suite of Federal mahogany musical
A pair of paintings prints by tall case clock with 8-day
by the acclaimed Andy works signed “Effingham
British equestrian Warhol Embree New York”, sold
artist Sir Alfred (American, for $92,250 at an Americana
James Munnings 1987), & International Sale held
(1878-1959) sold titled Sept. 30-Oct. 1 by Pook &
for a combined Moonwalk (1987), depicting astronaut Edwin Pook, Inc. in Downingtown,
$662,500 in the “Buzz” Aldrin’s famous walk on the moon PA. Also, Mickey Mouse,
online-only auction of the collection of Lady during the Apollo 11 lunar mission in 1969, by Andy Warhol (American,
Victoria White held October 10th by Andrew in both yellow and pink, sold for $417,500 at 1928-1987), from the
Jones Auctions in Los Angeles. The Kilkenny a Modern + Contemporary Art + Design artist’s Myths series (1981),
Horse Fair (1922, shown), soared to $500,000, auction held September 17th by Clars Auction #147/200, hit $196,800; and
while Making a Polo Ground at Princemere Gallery in Oakland, CA. Also, an acrylic on a bronze fountain Crest of the
finished at $162,500. Also, a Chinese blue and canvas painting by Paul Wonner (American, Wave (1926) by Harriett
white porcelain Transitional/Kangxi brush pot 1920-2008), titled Flowers and Boxes of Fruit Frishmuth (American, 1880-
brought $40,000. (1991) made $125,000. 1980), rose to $147,600.

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