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Miriam Tucker                           

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mtucker@ragoarts.com                                                                                                                   For Immediate Release

TOP LOTS FROM FRANCIS BACON, MARY ELIZABETH PRICE AND FERN COPPEDGE IN RAGO’S $1.5 MILLION FINE ART AUCTION ON MAY 7. 

Lambertville, NJ: Rago Arts and Auction Center’s 19th-20th C. American and European Art and Post-War and Contemporary Art auctions on May 7 brought $1.5 million in sales.  

Post-War and Contemporary Art

1. 566 Francis Bacon, Study for Bullfight No. 1    $ 40,625
2. 549 Andy Warhol, Mao    $ 40,000
3. 533 Michael Goldberg, Still Life with Tiffany Lamp    $ 32,500
4. 617 Saliba Douaihy, Untitled    $ 32,500
5. 624 Roy Lichtenstein, The Couple    $ 30,000
6. 625 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pure At Heart    $ 28,750
7. 661 Georg Baselitz, Untitled    $ 25,000
8. 521 Stephen S. Pace, Untitled    $ 25,000
9. 512 Esteban Vicente, Untitled    $ 23,750
10. 583 Louise Nevelson, End of Day, No. 27    $ 21,250

19th/20th C. American and European Art

1. 80   Mary Elizabeth Price, The Well Digger from Titusville    $ 50,000
2. 73 Fern Isabel Kuns Coppedge, Spring on the Delaware    $ 46,875
3. 26 Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled    $ 32,500
4. 128 C. Escher, Ascending and Descending    $ 22,500
5. 83 William Langson Lathrop, Untitled    $ 21,250
6. 64 Alexander Proctor, Head of a Cowboy    $ 11,875
7. 94 Richard Alan Schmid, Gaylordsville, Connecticut    $ 10,625
8. 101 Robert Gwathmey, Still Life    $ 10,625
9. 2 Abraham Walkowitz, Bathers (two works)    $ 9,375
10. 138 Claude Venard, Untitled    $ 8,750

Both Sessions

• Hammer: $ 1,217,000
• Hammer + bp: $ 1,521,375
• Low Estimate: $ 1,497,900
• High Estimate: $ 2,310,700
• Number of Lots: 419
• In-House: 80
• Internet Bidders: 600 from the USA, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Croatia, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Poland, Lithuania, Slovenia, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Austria, China, Japan, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia and Australia.
• Phone Bidders: 278
• Absentee Bidders: 77

Post-War and Contemporary Art

• Hammer: $ 797,400
• Hammer + 25% bp = $ 996,750
• Low estimate $ 1,028,600
• High estimate: $ 1,607,200

19th/20th C. American and European Art

• Hammer: $ 419,700
• Hammer + 25% bp = $ 524,625
• Low estimate: $ 469,300
• High estimate: $ 703,500

Consignments are now being accepted for Rago’s November 2016 Fine Art auctions and all of Rago’s Fall 2016 auctions: 609.397.9374 or info@ragoarts.com. 

TO THE EDITOR

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About Rago Arts and Auction Center

Rago is a leading U.S. auction house with $33 million in annual sales. It serves thousands of sellers and buyers yearly with a singular blend of global reach, personal service and competitive commissions for single pieces, collections and estates. Rago holds auctions of 20th/21st c. design, fine art, decorative arts, furnishings, jewelry, Asian, militaria, coins and currency, silver, historic ephemera, and ethnographic property. Rago also provides a range of appraisal services conducted by USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) compliant appraisers, performed to the highest standards set by the IRS, insurers and the Appraisers Association of America. Rago is located in New Jersey, midway between New York City and Philadelphia.

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