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Ward Brothers pintail decoy,                Flanagan sculpture,                          English tall case clock,
            $120,000, Guyette & Deeter                  $119,700, Doyle                              $93,750, Fontaine’s

                                   An exceptional pin-                  A 1993 bronze sculpture by               A lavishly carved English tall case
                                   tail decoy by the                    Welsh artist Barry Flanagan,             clock in oak, 11 feet 10 inches
                                   Ward Brothers sold                   titled  Hare on Globe Form,              tall, sold for $93,750 at a Fine &
                                   for $120,000 at a                    sold for $119,700 at the sale            Decorative Arts auction held
                                   Fine and Sporting                    of the estate of Donald                  Sept. 23-24 by Fontaine’s
            Art auction held Aug. 8-9 by Guyette & Deeter               MacDermid held September                 Auction Gallery in Pittsfield,
            (based in St. Michaels, MD) in Portsmouth,                  13th by Doyle in New York                MA. Also, a Tiffany Studios
            NH. Also, an oil on canvas painting by Mary                 City. Also, a painting by                “Curtain Border” floor lamp,
            Cassatt brought $480,000; a pair of red-breasted            British artist Henry Scott               circa 1910, attained $81,250; an
            mergansers by Elmer Crowell flew away for                   Tuke, titled Boy on a Beach,             oil on canvas painting titled
            $108,000; a walking stick by Henry Gudgell   went for $69,300; a figural sculpture after   Between Showers by Birger Sandzen commanded
            achieved $144,000; and another artwork by   Charles Sargeant Jagger climbed to $47,250; a   $62,500; and a circa 1905 Tiffany Studios
            Mary Cassatt, this one a drypoint study, rose   painting by Augustus Edwin John earned   “Banded Dogwood” table lamp brought
            to $46,800.                                 $34,650; and a 1986 photograph by Annie      $56,250. The sale grossed over $2.5 million.
                                                        Leibovitz of Keith Haring hit $20,160.
            George Inness painting,                                                                  Rufino Tamayo painting,
            $72,000, Thomaston Place                    Roycroft table lamp,                         $1.623 million, Christie’s
                                                        $18,340, Toomey & Co.
                                   A    painting  by                                                                      An oil and sand on
                                   George Inness titled                  A circa 1905 model 905                           canvas painting by
                                   Banks of Tin Brook,                   Roycroft table lamp sold for                     Rufino      Tamayo
                                   depicting a stream                    $18,340 at an August 23rd                        (1899-1991), titled
                                   near Walden, New                      auction titled Roycroft: Life                    Los tres amigos, sold
                                   York,   sold   for                    in Abundance, held by                            for $1.623 million at
                                   $72,000    at    a                    Toomey & Co. in Chicago.                         a Latin American Art
            Grandeur sale held Aug. 25-27 by Thomaston                   Also, a circa 1905 model    auction held September 28th by Christie’s in
            Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, ME.                    084 variant bookcase from   New York City. Also, an oil on canvas by
            Also, an oil on linen work depicting a reclining             the collection of Elbert    Fernando Botero (b. 1932), titled En la plaza,
            nude by Pierre August Renoir settled at     Hubbard changed hands for $17,030; a circa   achieved $1.333 million; another work by
            $69,000; an oil on panel impressionist painting   1910 oak and iron sign that read, “A Deer   Botero, an oil on canvas titled  Man Eating,
            by Childe Frederick Hassam titled  New      Hunter is a Miserable Thing,” topped out at   realized $1.071 million; and an oil on canvas
            York City hammered for $68,750; and a       $13,100; and a 1905 book titled  An          by Diego Rivera (1886-1957), titled Retrato de
            Robert Indiana portfolio of ten serigraphs   Appreciation of Thomas W. Lawson, for the   Anita Antunes, hit $693,000.
            brought $18,000.                            Citizens of Albert Lea, brought $39,300.
                                                                                                     George Rodrigue work,
            Raimonds Staprans work,                     Copy of Action Comics No. 1,                 $89,600, Neal Auction
            $237,500, John Moran                        $408,000, Heritage Auctions
                                                                                                                        A blue dog painting
                              A painting by Raimonds                   A copy of Action Comics No. 1                    by George Rodrigue
                              Staprans (b. 1926), titled               (1938), featuring the debut of                   (American, 1944-2013),
                              A Study of Down-Rolling                  Superman, graded CGC PR                          titled  Big Stop Sign
                              Oranges with a Staid                     0.5, sold for $408,000—a                         (2002), sold for $89,600
                              Neon Apple (1995), sold                  record for the grade—at a                        at a Premier Collections
                              for  $237,500 at an Art +                Comics & Comic Art                               auction held Sept. 7-8
                              Design sale held August                  Signature Auction held Sept.                     by    Neal    Auction
            29th by John Moran Auctioneers in Los                      14-17 by Heritage Auctions in  Company in New Orleans. Also, another
            Angeles. Also, Henrietta Berk’s (1919-1990)   Dallas. Also, a copy of  Punch Comics No. 12   painting by Rodrigue—an earlier work titled
            Piper Island Ferry changed hands for $25,000;   (1945) achieved $204,000; Alex Raymond’s   Doc Moses, Jajun Traiteur  (1974)—went for
            pop art icon Peter Max’s (b. 1937) Right Now   original  Flash Gordon Sunday strip with the   $44,800; an oil on canvas painting by Ida
            (1970) gaveled for $62,500; and Alice Baber’s   Jungle Jim topper from June 1939 earned   Rittenberg Kohlmeyer titled Ships at Sea (1956)
            (1928-1982) The Door to the Gate to the Bridge   $312,000; and cover art for  Detective Comics   attained $44,800; and Henri Hecht Maik’s
            (1975) hammered for $143,000.               No. 58 (Dec. 1941) made $270,000.            Dans Les Nuages (1974) garnered $28,160.

            Mark Twain-signed book,                     Le Pho oil painting,                         Tiffany “Poppy” table lamp,
            $62,500, Potter & Potter                    $115,200, Nye & Co.                          $155,000, Cottone Auctions

                                  An early copy of Mark                   An oil on silk painting                   A circa 1910 Tiffany Studios
                                  Twain’s book  The                       by Le Pho (French/                        “Poppy” table lamp, leaded
                                  Innocents Abroad, or                    Vietnamese, 1907-2001)                    glass, patinated bronze, with
                                  The New Pilgrims’                       titled  Mother and Child,                 an organic form six-light base,
                                  Progress    (1870),                     circa 1946-1962, sold for                 sold for $155,000 at a Fine
                                  inscribed  by   the                     $115,200 at a three-day                   Art, Antiques & Silver
                                  author in 1906, sold                    auction event held Sept.                  auction held September 29th
            for $62,500 at the sale of the Robin and    13-15 by Nye & Co. Auctioneers in Bloomfield,               by Cottone Auctions in
            Kathryn Smiley book collection held August   NJ. Also, an oil on canvas still life painting by          Geneseo, NY. Also, a screen
            17th by Potter & Potter Auctions in Chicago.   Severin Roesen (American, 1815-1872) gaveled             print by Andy Warhol
            Also, a first American edition, first state copy of   for $44,800; a silver gilt singing bird box by  (American, 1928-1987) of Rolling Stones
            J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, or There and Back   Charles Bruguier (Geneva 1788-1862), No.  frontman Mick Jagger achieved $137,500; and a
            Again  (1938) brought $25,000; and a first   250, circa 1850, went for $25,600; and classical  pair of George III silver wine coolers, liners, and
            edition copy of Harper Lee’s  To Kill a     rosewood and mahogany grand harmonicon,      stands with the mark of Paul Storr (London,
            Mockingbird (1960) made $15,000.            circa 1830, finished at $10,880.             1819) fetched $52,500.

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