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Amy Winehouse dress, Claude Conover vessel, Sam Francis print,
$243,200, Julien’s Auctions $87,500, Wright $31,562, Bonhams
The dress worn by the A chalky, engobe-decorated A print by Sam Francis (1923-
late British singer Amy Oltah vessel by Claude 1994), titled Meteorite, sold for
Winehouse at her final stage Conover sold for $87,500 $31,562 at the sale of a collec-
performance in 2011 sold for at an auction titled Shaping tion of prints by Francis held
$243,200 at a sale of Property Stoneware: The Ceramic November 18th by Bonhams in
from the Life and Career of Forms of Claude Conover Los Angeles. Also, La Primavera
Amy Winehouse held Nov. held October 28th by (Spring) went for $24,063 and
6-7 by Julien’s Auctions in Wright in Chicago. It was Trietto 5 knocked down for
Los Angeles. Also, the the most ever paid for a work by Conover, $25,313 (both are new world
Moschino custom-made red eclipsing the $53,125 realized by a Uilku vessel auction records for those prints); Pioggia d’Oro
leather heart-shaped purse she brought to the at Rago Auctions in 2015. Another piece (Golden Rain) gaveled for $19,063; La
2007 Brit Awards made $204,800; a floral gold shattered that record in the October auction: Primavera Fredda (Cold Spring) fetched
lame D&G stage-worn dress realized $150,000; a Uchben vessel that brought $75,000. Overall, $15,300; and Trietto 1 and Trietto 4 each
and a Temperly London tan and black jumpsuit the auction grossed $1.229 million. changed hands for $14,025.
worn by her in 2008 brought $121,600.
Paul Revere engraving, Norman Rockwell painting,
The Light and Heavy Chest, $429,000, Doyle $4.3 million, Heritage Auctions
$156,000, Potter & Potter
Paul Revere’s iconic, The Norman Rockwell
The Light and Heavy hand-colored engraving painting titled Home
Chest, a magic trick of the famous Boston for Thanksgiving (1945)
owned and used by Jean- Massacre of March 5, sold for just over $4.3
Eugene Robert-Houdin, 1770, titled The Bloody million at an auction
made in France in 1844, Massacre (1770), sold for $429,000 (a new held November 5th by
sold for $156,000 at Part auction record for the print) at an American Heritage Auctions in
1 of The Klosterman Paintings & Prints auction held November Dallas. The seller was the
Collection, held in October by Potter & Potter 2nd by Doyle in New York City. Also, a Massachusetts American Legion Post #193.
Auctions in Chicago. The hardwood box landscape by Fidelia Bridges (1834-1923) titled Also, a painting by Texas native G. Harvey,
became light as a feather or immovable, Small Bird with Flowering Ironweed, rose to titled Cold Leather Cold-Bits (1987), rang up
depending on the magician’s command. $93,750 (a record for the artist); and a marine $325,000; Ashcan School artist Robert Henri’s
Also, Karl Germain’s Blooming Rose Bush painting by William Bradford (1823-1892) also 1926 portrait Sarah Burke rose to $275,000;
illusion (1900) made $132,000; and Harry hit $93,750. and Ernie Barnes’ playful 1974 work Every
Houdini’s Upside Down in the Water Torture Night, All Night earned $250,000.
Cell brought $108,000. Early Apple-1 computer,
$500,000, John Moran Copy of the Constitution,
Hopi Indian pottery bowl, $43.2 million, Sotheby’s
$9,000, Pook & Pook, Inc. A vintage Apple-1
computer, known as A first printing of the
A Hopi Sikyatki revival the Chaffey College U.S. Constitution
pottery bowl, likely made Apple-1 as it was sold for $43.2 million
by the celebrated potter originally purchased in at an auction held
Nampeyo, sold for a little 1977 by an electronics November 18th by
more than $9,000 at a professor at the school (who sold it the following Sotheby’s in New
Native American Indian year to a student for $650) sold for $500,000 at York. It was a record
Sale held October 27th a Postwar & Contemporary Art + Design sale price for a document or book sold at auction.
by Pook & Pook, Inc. in held Nov. 9 by John Moran Auctioneers in It is one of 13 known copies of the first
Downingtown, PA. Also, an authentic Navajo Monrovia, CA. Also, a painting by Ariana printing and one of only two in private
coin silver squash blossom necklace earned Papademetropoulos (Am., b. 1990) earned hands. The buyer was hedge fund manager
$8,064; a group of three Hopi kachinas rang up $162,500; and a color lithograph by Alexander Kenneth Griffin, who plans to loan the historic
$4,221; an Algonquin style miniature birch Calder (1898-1976) brought $8,125. relic to the Crystal Bridges Museum of
bark canoe model with moose and deer designs American Art in Bentonville, AK, founded in
made $3,024; and a child-size Navajo rug Winslow Homer painting, 2011 by Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart
achieved $3,906. founder Sam Walton.
$936,000, Thomaston Place
Chippendale chest, An oil on canvas painting Set of two moutons,
$25,200, Nadeau’s by Winslow Homer $705,600, Freeman’s
(Mass./Me,/U.K., 1836-
A circa 1780 diminutive 1910), titled Coming A suite of playful Moutons
chest from Massachusetts, 30 through the Rye, painted (Sheep) de Pierre by Francois-
inches tall, sold for $25,200 in France and inscribed Xavier Lalanne sold for
at an annual Fall Americana “Homer/Paris 1867,” sold $705,600 at a Modern and
and Chinese Auction held for $936,000 at a Fall Contemporary Art auction
October 30th by Nadeau’s sale held Nov. 12-14 by held November 17th by
Auction Gallery in Windsor, CT. Also, an Thomaston Place Auction Freeman’s in Philadelphia.
elegant blue and white Chinese urn, 22 inches Galleries in Thomaston, ME. Also, an 18th Also, a bold canvas by Russian Expressionist
tall, changed hands for $20,480; a portrait of a century Chinese flambé glazed moon flask with Chaim Soutine, titled Le Viaduc Rouge Près de
nobleman, done in the manner of Jean de Court Qianlong seal mark and collection label of Vence, achieved $302,400; an Untitled (Study for
(French, 1530-1584) finished at $15,600; and a Mary Millicent Abigail Rogers (1902-1953) Fiery Circle) sculpture by Harry Bertoia hit
pair of cylindrical polychromed Majolica vessels, made $180,000; and a Tiffany Dragonfly table $107,100; and Vietnamese artist Vu Cao Dam’s
12 1/2 inches tall, commanded $12,500. lamp brought $99,450. painting titled Divinité rose to $40,950.

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