Bonhams held a $2.27m sale of California and Western art on August 1st which followed the annual Coeur d’Alene Auction which made $16.08m in sales when 95% of the 323 lots found buyers. The top lot in Idaho was William Leigh’s A Close Call which sold for $1.15m.
Other top lots were works by Carl Rungius, Thomas Moran, Charles M. Russell and Howard Terpning.
Bonhams led with a $223k painting of the Jungfrau in Switzerland by Edgar Payne.
