Sales at Brunk Auctions totaled over $1.9 million during the course of their three-day catalog sale from September 15-17. Both European and American paintings achieved exceptional results, with strong prices in Chinese as well. The regional auction house achieved these results by reaching a broad international audience.

The Reception, an elaborate interior scene by the Italian artist Arturo Ricci, sold for $96,000, and was the top-selling lot in the auction. The genre painting features eleven figures actively engaging one another and was previously held at Richard Green Gallery in London.

Other successful European paintings include:

- An 18th Century Venetian School painting of the Bacino San Marco on Ascension Day selling for $84,000.

- A 17th Century Italian School painting of St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata sold for $78,000.

- Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Funeral Bier of Julius Caesar, an 1878 work by French Neoclassical artist Lionel Royer, selling for $43,200.

American paintings received exceptional results throughout, and were led by Taos School artist Eanger Irving Couse. His work, entitled The Hunter’s Return, sold for $72,000. The painting was formerly part of the Collection of Valley National Bank in Arizona.

The Cooling Stream, a portrait of four dogs by Percival Rosseau, sold for $59,000. It descended through the family of Samuel G. Allen after being commissioned in 1919.

Other strong American paintings include:

- An Ernest Lawson landscape selling for $16,800
- A 2005 painting of two ballerinas by Stephen Scott Young selling for $21,600

- A Roy Lichtenstein lithograph of a still life with lobster selling for $16,800.

American sculptural art received strong prices, with marble sculpture Mending the Nets by Chauncey Ives selling for $22,800 and an aluminum work of a Satyr and Goat by Anna Hyatt Huntington selling for $14,400.

The following Chinese works also produced strong selling prices:
- A finely carved stone mask of a Quanyin selling for $82,600

- A finely carved shallow jade wedding bowl selling for $15,600

- A pair of 19th Century hardwood low tables selling for $14,400

All prices include 20% buyers premium. Brunk Auctions will host their next catalog auction on the weekend of November 19, but will host several internet-only auctions exclusive to Bidsquare between now and then.