ART MARKET WATCH
May 22, 2009AMERICAN ART IN NYCA year ago, both
Sotheby’s and
Christie’s held New York sales of American art, which like many auction categories had been riding pretty high. Totals were about $55 million for both houses, coincidentally, with a rather dry
Andrew Wyeth painting of a pensive old man going for a record $10.3 million, a
Mary Cassatt mother-and-child pulling down $6.2 million and an
Albert Bierstadt sunset bringing in almost $4.9 million.
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