Eskimo masks bring $4.6 million at Winter Antiques Show
- January 26, 2011 14:51
Two highly expressive ceremonial masks, created by Yup'ik Eskimos in Alaska over a century ago, sold for $4.6 million at the Winter Antiques Show, which continues through Jan. 30 at Manhattan's Park Avenue Armory.
Exhibitor Donald Ellis believes the masks garnered a record price for Native American art.
Other highlights at the show include a rare Martin Johnson Heade genre scene at Alexander Gallery, priced about $2 million, and a suite of soft portraits by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, fresh from an Ohio estate, which Gerald Peters Gallery is offering at $1.8 million and down.
