RESULTS: Christie’s American Art Sales Total $24,132,875

AMERICAN ART: $21,895,250 . AMERICAN ART ONLINE AUCTION: $2,237,625.

New York – Christie’s American Art sale on November 20 realized $21,895,250, and the American Art Online Auction totaled $2,237,625. The top lot of the sale was Andrew Wyeth’s Oliver’s Cap from the Collection of Ron and Diane Disney Miller which sold for $2,415,000. Other top works include N.C. Wyeth’s painting of the infamous pirate Blackbeard titled “Oh, Morgan’s men are out for you; and Blackbeard—buccaneer!...”, which sold for $2,295,000; Georgia O’Keeffe's Pink Spotted Lillies from The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, which totaled $1,935,000; and Winslow Homer’s Sounding Reveille which achieved $1,815,000.

A grouping of the 19th century landscapes from the Ron and Disney Miller Collection performed strongly, bringing the Collection total to $13,017,670, including the Diebenkorn and Thiebaud sold during 20^th Century Sales Week.

The American Art Online sale saw strong prices of Illustration Art including new world auction records for George Hughes’s Writing Thank You Notes, which sold for $200,000, and Kurt Ard’s Child at Photographer, which totaled $137,500, soaring past its estimate of $5,000-7,000.

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