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Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall
All prices include the buyer’s premium
Maud Lewis oil painting Art Deco style jardiniere, Painting by Banksy,
CA$91,450, Miller & Miller $26,620, Ahlers & Ogletree $2.032 million, Julien’s

An oil on board paint- An Art Deco style bronze A large-scale
ing by Canadian folk jardiniere, after a vase by painting of a
artist Maud Lewis Pierre Lenoir (French grim reaper fig-
(1903-1970), titled 1879-1953) and Marcel ure riding in a
Traffic Jam, sold for Guillard (French 1896- carnival bumper
$91,450 in an online- 1932), for Etling, Paris, car titled Brace
only Canadiana & sold for $26,620 at an Yourself! by the
Decorative Arts auc- Estates & Collections graffiti artist
tion held March 25th auction held April 20-22 Banksy sold for
by Miller & Miller by Ahlers & Ogletree in $2.032 million at a Modern and Contemporary
Auctions, Ltd., in New Hamburg, Ontario, Atlanta, GA. Also, an oil Art auction held March 29th by Julien’s
Canada. Also, a circa 1820s Georgian period on canvas Study of a Auctions in Beverly Hills, CA. Also, Banksy’s
Canadian breakfast table in mahogany attrib- Brown Bay Horse by Rosa Girl with Balloon artwork rose to $195,000; an
uted to Thomas Nisbet rose to $16,520; and a Bonheur (French, 1822- impressionist school antique landscape painting
circa 1820s Montreal “keyhole” wall clock by 1899) brought $15,730; and a Modern Head by an unknown artist finished at $117,000; and
Martin Cheney (1778-1855) hit $20,060. Relief (1970) by Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) a painting by Bob Ross titled Make a Happy
hit $14,520. Buck finished at $11,700.
Alphonse Mucha’s The Stars,

$114,000, Poster Auctions Int’l Wasatch Gasoline sign, Negro Motorist Green Book,
$324,000, Morphy’s $50,000, Swann Galleries
An Alphonse
Mucha’s decora- A rare Wasatch A copy of the Negro
tive panels poster Gasoline 48-inch Motorist Green Book
from 1902 titled diameter porcelain (1949) sold for
The Stars sold for service station sign $50,000, breaking
$114,000 at Rare sold for $324,000 at the previous record
Posters Auction an Automobilia, of $27,500, in a
#89 held March 26th by Poster Auctions Petroliana & Railroad- Printed & Manu-
International in New York City. Also, Geo iana Auction held script African
Ham’s Monaco Grand Prix 1933 changed hands March 21-23 by Americana auction
for $20,400; Leonetto Cappiello’s Absinthe Morphy’s in Denver, held March 30th by
Gempp Pernod (1903) finished at $26,400; PA. Also, a Polly Gasoline porcelain neon serv- Swann Galleries in
Ludwig Hohlwein’s Besuchet den Tiergarten ice station sign with its parrot mascot rose to New York. Also, an
(1912) earned $13,200; and Charles Loupot’s $78,000; a Mohawk Gasoline porcelain service inscribed carte de
Café Preccia: Maquette (1929) went for $18,000. station sign with a Native American “down visite by the early photographer James Presley
feather” graphic earned $312,000; and an Idaho Ball achieved $125,000; a Civil War-era
1859 Comstock Lode Chief Gasoline service station sign, 72 inches in photograph of Black Union recruits at Camp
diameter, made $138,000. William Penn fetched $52,500; and a copy of
mining document, the Harlem Renaissance-era literary magazine
$16,875, Holabird Lunar beads necklace, Fire! brought $32,500.

Western Americana $201,600, Christie’s Tiffany & Co. bird brooch,
A historic A single-strand necklace of $17,500, John Moran Auctions
document perfectly matched lunar
from 1859, beads sold for $201,600 at A Tiffany & Co. mother-
dating to the a Deep Impact: Lunar, of-pearl, diamond, yellow
very begin- Martian, and Other Rare sapphire, and onyx bird
ning of the Meteorites auction held brooch sold for $17,500 at
Comstock March 28th by Christie’s a Jewelry from the Estate
Lode silver in New York. Also, a piece of Lady Leslie Ridley-
rush in the of the moon—Agator el Tree auction held March
U.S., sold for $16,875 at a Big Bonanza auction Feroua 001, the second- 29th by John Moran
held March 30-April 2 by Holabird Western largest lunar mare mete- Auctioneers in Los Angeles.
Americana Collections in Reno, NV. Also, a orite on Earth—brought $189,000; NWA 7034 Also, a pear-shaped 26-carat diamond ring and
U.S. $10,000 gold certificate, canceled and not from Mars, the renowned water-rich specimen pair of diamond stud earrings realized
redeemable, printed in Washington, D.C. and dubbed “Black Beauty”, achieved $44,100; and $979,000; a Zambian emerald and diamond
dated May 3, 1917, rang up $2,875; and a an anthropomorphic Australian meteorite, the ring gaveled for $21,250; and a David Webb
collection of six antique Oklahoma I. T. (Indian Henbury meteorite, hit $40,320. 18kt yellow gold rock crystal and lapis lazuli
Territory) crown top bottles gaveled for $3,000. bracelet changed hands for $28,125.

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