May 2011 auctions of American art at Sotheby's and Christie's New York

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Frank Duveneck, Portrait of Miss Blood (Woman in a Satin Gown), 1880, bought in, Christie’s New York, May 18, 2011

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DULL AMERICAN?
by Rachel Corbett

While the New York sales of American art at Sotheby’s and Christie’s last week had their epic landscapes, schmaltzy genre scenes and early modernist paintings selling for six- and seven-figures, the overall totals were not what you’d call booming.

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