Auction Central News

MAY 25, 2024

SUDBURY, MA — An early 19th-century ‘British School’ watercolor painting of a waterfall raced away from an estimate of $200-$300 to bring $18,000 ($22,860 with buyer’s premium) at Tremont Auctions on May 5.

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The Brass Armadillo Antique Mall

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In their advertising for CRN Auctions, Carl Nordblom and Karin Philips described the sale, which included early American furniture, European paintings, Chinese scholar stones, art, and pottery, as eclectic.

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WorthPoint

APRIL 5, 2024

The other is a 1782 painting created by American-French military engineer Pierre Charles L’Enfant depicting a woman serving troops food at American encampments. This watercolor sketch of Revolutionary War soldiers sold for $129.99

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Art Peritus

JULY 3, 2024

If you find yourself traveling through the Denver airport this summer, be sure to check out a special exhibition on Concourse A near the Bridge Walkway that is close to our heartsa benefit show featuring the Colorado 14ers, fourteen major mountain peaks painted by local watercolorist Mike Wilson.

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Art Appraisal Resources

JANUARY 16, 2024

An original Monet painting could sell for over $600,000,000, but a lesser quality, different medium, or scene painting with less than solid provenance could sell for $600,000. Is it the same Albert Bierstadt (Germany/US 1830 - 1902) or a painting with a Bierstadt signature? Is it a copy, a forgery, or a fake?

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Alfie's Antique Market

JUNE 7, 2018

Available from June Victor Flowers in vase painting, signed, 1940s. Available from Gloria Sinclair A watercolor floral painting by Lucy Kemp Welsh, 1930s. Available from June Victor A floral painting, oil on board, 1950s. Available from i Fine & Contemporary Art An enamel flower scent bottle, 1970s.

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Elsinore Gallery

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A multimedia artist, Dee creates artwork in ink, watercolor, pencil and pastel. Dee’s botanical paintings reflect a connection forged through her academic background. Dee’s landscape paintings, created with alcohol ink or pastels, embody an appreciation for the region’s ecological diversity.

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Art Dealers Association of America

APRIL 11, 2018

Artist collective Reena Spaulings further explores the dynamics of the art world and its institutions through new paintings and sculptures at Matthew Marks Gallery. Regen Projects presents Sue Williams’ new paintings and collages, which can be characterized by exposed fields of canvas ground punctuated with explosions of color and form.

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ValuePros Appraisal Services

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Upon presenting his paintings, ‘Philosophy’, ‘Medicine’ and ‘Jurisprudence’, Klimt came under attack for ‘pornography’ and ‘perverted excess’ in the paintings. None of the paintings would go on display in the university.

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Art Services 2000

APRIL 5, 2020

One book, "Audubon in Florida" first published in 1974 from the University of Miami Press was especially helpful in identifying the birds that were the Florida species that he found and rendered life-sized in his original watercolors. The book's author Kathryn Hall Proby ( b. Audubon is shown here in an engraving by H.B.

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Invaluable

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Whether they have immortalized the stage on canvas or shaped it through their design, artists have been influential in challenging convention and continuing to push the boundaries of painting and the performing arts. Painting the Stage Edgar Degas Edgar Degas and the stage were almost inseparable.

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Coronado Appraisal

JANUARY 2, 2024

An artist who creates their own artwork has the ability to control every aspect of how the artwork is created , such as: medium (oil, watercolor, mixed media, metal), what they use to apply the medium (canvas, board, a hanging apparatus), and more. A Vincent van Gogh-inspired Google Deep Dream painting. Image Credits: Artnet News.

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Art Services 2000

APRIL 4, 2020

He was a house guest at several East Florida plantations and he created a number of his original watercolors of the bird species that he found. The Audubon portrait pictured here in an engraving made by Charles Wands after the original oil painting by the Scottish artist John Syme ( b.1795

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Artifactual History Appraisal

JULY 29, 2020

In one design project, we skillfully incorporated the antique curio cabinet, vintage zither, heirloom rocking chair, and watercolor painting collection with contemporary new furnishings and custom accessories to create a welcoming and cohesive living room."

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Michael Rose Fine Art

OCTOBER 20, 2023

John Singleton Copley, Self-Portrait Miniature , watercolor on ivory, 1769, 1 3/8 x 1 1/8 in. New technologies allowed for the manufacture of novel artistic materials and artists broke out of their studios to paint en plein air. In the nineteenth century, forms of art-making shifted and became more democratized.

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Art Services 2000

APRIL 7, 2020

Audubon had hired Kidd to make a number of oil paintings of his Birds of America. In order to understand the work of Audubon it is essential to know that the engravings and lithographs that have been made from his original watercolors have been issued in may forms and a number of editions. but that is another story, entirely.)

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Art Services 2000

APRIL 16, 2020

With the advent of The Audubon Society and the 20th Century's interest in the environment Audubon's name is known throughout the world and his images of birds can be found everywhere, the rarest being his one of a kind watercolors, paintings, and drawings.

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Sarasota Antique Buyers

JULY 18, 2024

Items frequently purchased: Paintings: Ranging from 18th to 19th-century art, encompassing oils, watercolors, drawings, lithographs, etchings, and prints. During our visits to Bradenton, we thoroughly enjoy discovering new antiques and relish learning about their unique histories.

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Elsinore Gallery

JUNE 9, 2020

Groups that regularly feature showings at our gallery include: Artists in Action- Paint the Town, Something Red and the new Spring show- “Spring Regin.” We publish a new show flyer every 2-3 months with updates and have the full schedule available in our online events page.

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Art Dealers Association of America

MAY 7, 2019

She never stopped doing watercolors and drawings, even though it was not easy during the Depression when she was working full-time. I made drawings and paintings with my mother and helped my father develop photographs in our basement. My mother went to the Art Institute of Chicago, and was a practicing artist all her life.

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Art Dealers Association of America

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Ambreen Butt, Mohammad Yaas Khan (16) , 2019, text, watercolor with white gouache, and pen on tea-stained paper. I may not have that first painting I bought permanently installed in my home, but I think of it with great fondness. Like that moment when you bought your first work from the gallery in Paris? One’s eye changes and evolves.

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Harrison Appraisals

MARCH 31, 2023

In fact, his true calling was painting. Genre Painter Brown painted both landscapes and portraits. However, by the mid-1870s, he began focusing almost exclusively on painting the working children of late 19 th century America. Brown’s street urchin paintings include specific themes that contributed to their popularity.

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ValuePros Appraisal Services

MAY 13, 2018

The painting is 95.3 Oudry produced mainly portraits, but devoted his creative life and the still life with fruit and animal painting. His painting “The White Duck” was part of the Walpole collection, which was exhibited at the country house Houghton Hall. Its value is estimated at around eight million dollars.

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ValuePros Appraisal Services

JANUARY 22, 2018

First sold in 1897 by Van Gogh’s sister-in-law for 300 francs, the painting was subsequently bought and sold until being acquired by Siegfried Kramarsky, who fled to Lisbon in November 1939 and arrived January 1940 in New York. Paul Gachet who took care of Van Gogh during the final months of his life. paid US$82.5 paid US$82.5

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Invaluable

APRIL 24, 2024

Some of the most celebrated of the American folk artists include: Shaker Furniture: Simplicity and Functionality Rare Shaker Red-Painted Pine and Figured Maple Two-Drawer Work Table, Probably New Hampshire, c. Set of Seven Round Polychrome Painted Masonite Pennsylvania Dutch-style Hex Signs. Sold for $148 USD via Skinner (July 2010).

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Invaluable

APRIL 24, 2024

Some of the most celebrated of the American folk artists include: Shaker Furniture: Simplicity and Functionality Rare Shaker Red-Painted Pine and Figured Maple Two-Drawer Work Table, Probably New Hampshire, c. Set of Seven Round Polychrome Painted Masonite Pennsylvania Dutch-style Hex Signs. Sold for $148 USD via Skinner (July 2010).

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Art Dealers Association of America

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

They told me they were offered, free of charge, an exhibit of German paintings, watercolors, and prints. A group of international forgers were situated in Ireland and England and they had a traveling German Expressionism art show. I got a phone call from a community college museum one day. I said, “Who’s in it?,” I said, “No.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

A painting created entirely outdoors – encapsulating the light, colors, and splendor of nature first-hand – is something we now take for granted. But the practice of painting en plein air (from the French, literally “in the open air”) has evolved over centuries. The invention of portable oil paints by John G.

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WorthPoint

APRIL 25, 2025

A few standout paintings made their way into the top lots, adding some colorful highlights to the day. Bright Spots This Taku Glacier watercolor by Theodore J. His Taku Glacier watercolor brought in $2,260.81, making it the third-highest price we’ve seen for the artist. Richardson sold for $2,260.81 at 345 Auctions.

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WorthPoint

APRIL 15, 2025

Maine at Its Best This 1938 Andrew Wyeth watercolor titled Port Clyde, Maine sold for $85,400 at Barridoff. Leading the way, and taking more than 10 percent of the total sale on its own, was a 1938 Andrew Wyeth watercolor titled Port Clyde, Maine. Not bad for a sheet of paper under glass. And with that, its time to call it a day!

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WorthPoint

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This Dunhill lighter bears a quintessential and beautiful hand-painted aquarium design. Hand-crafted and hand-painted Dunhill table-top aquarium lighters, which typically depict scenes of tropical or fresh-water fish, combine art, history, and practicality thats hard to match. It sold in December 2024 for $4,000.

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WorthPoint

MARCH 26, 2025

A Surprise Price A watercolor listed as “Framed Multicolored Watercolor Art with Signature” sold for $1,604.80 One item that left me scratching my head was a watercolor painting listed at MaxSold simply as “Framed Multicolored Watercolor Art with Signature.” at MaxSold.

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Art Peritus

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Wilson graciously donated this series of 53 original watercolors as well as the reproduction print-rights to benefit the Cottonwood Institute, an organization that connects underprivileged children with nature through outdoor activities and skill development.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

One of the first to utilize color plates and integrate Orientalism into his paintings, the French British artist illustrated The Snow Queen in 1911, using watercolor, gouache, pen, and ink to create an iconic template for fantasy literature.

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

The Tudor period monarchs reign proved fertilebreeding ground for Shakespearean drama, eloquent poetry, and a rich tradition of miniature paintings. These Elizabethan miniatures exemplified the best of 16th-century British painting while also providing a fascinating lens into court culture and status of such artworks among the nobility.

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APRIL 2, 2025

Dubbed the peoples painter by the British press, Jack Vettrianos nostalgic and sensuous paintings of femme fatales and enigmatic men resonated with an audience smitten with his glamorous sense of romance and lust. Jack Vettriano – In the Heat of the Day. Sold for$170,050 via Lyon & Turnbull (May 2004).

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