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Pax Americana

May 22, 2008 by Marion Maneker

Edward Hicks’s Peacable Kingdom leads Sotheby’s big sale

With 214 lots offered and 176 sold, Sotheby’s American Paintings sale totaled $86,006,200. That’s 82% of the lots sold. Among them were not only this Edward Hicks painting but 13 other record-setting works and 17 paintings that sold for more than $1 million. Carrying a high estimate of $77 million, the sale nailed the high estimate without the buyer’s premium.

Here are the top ten lots from the sale:

EDWARD HICKS, The Peaceable Kingdom . . . . ($6,000,000 – 8,000,000) $9,673,000

WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE, I Think I Am Ready Now ($1,500,000 – 2,500,000) $6,649,000

FREDERIC REMINGTON, The Wounded Bunkie ($3,000,000 – 5,000,000) $5,641,000

CHILDE HASSAM, Paris, Winter Day ($2,500,000 – 3,500,000) $3,961,000

FREDERIC REMINGTON, The Outlaw ($2,000,000 – 3,000,000) $3,401,000

MAXFIELD PARRISH, The Canyon ($2,500,000 – 3,500,000) $2,841,000

STUART DAVIS, The Music Hall ($500,000 – 700,000) $2,841,000

CHILDE HASSAM, Flower Garden, Isles of Shoals ($1,000,000 – 1,500,000) $2,505,000

WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT, The Ramblers ($2,000,000 – 3,000,000) $2,281,000

CHARLES C. COLEMAN, Azaleas and Apple Blossoms ($500,000 – 700,000) $2,281,000

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