The American art auctions held in the aftermath of the May marquee sales in New York posted some decent numbers this week. That comes after a massive $106m spent on American art during the Rockefeller auctions. We’ll try to put together a global analysis of the American art sales including Rockefeller lots along with Christie’s and Sotheby’s American sales for AMMpro subscribers. In the meantime, the two sales together were $76.1m in total with 77% of the 193 lots sold. About a quarter of the lots sold for prices above the high estimate. The lot most competed over was a Daniel Chester French painting of George Washington originally estimated at $40-60k that sold for $187,500.
