The Winter Sale 2016
On Friday, February 12, Copley Fine Art Auctions, the nation’s premier decoy and sporting art auction house, will offer over 480 lots of the finest antique and contemporary decoys and American sporting art at the American Theater in Charleston, South Carolina. Copley’s sporting sales have led the field with first-rate offerings and results for the past decade. Highlights include a Carl Rungius painting of a Bull Moose ($150/250,000), Andrew Wyeth’s watercolor Pot Buoys ($70/80,000), a Willard Metcalf oil of Dory and Lobster Traps ($80/120,000) and a J.F. Herring, Sr. oil of famed thoroughbred Foigh-A-Ballagh ($10/20,000), a Canada goose carved and painted by the Ward Brothers of Maryland ($60/80,000), a sleeping mallard hen ($60/80,000) with Charles Perdew’s best paint, and the William B. Webster III Collection of sporting and wildlife art, including Aiden Lassell Ripley’s oil Woodcock by the Brook ($60/90,000).
Online bidding will be available through bidsquare.com, and absentee and telephone bidding will be offered. A full color catalog will be available three weeks before the sale. The auction will take place at the American Theater in Charleston, SC, with a preview on Friday, February 12th from 8:30 to 10:30 AM, with bidding to commence at 11 AM. For more information, a full schedule of events, or to order a catalog please send an email to info@copleyart.com, call 617.536.0030, or visit www.copleyart.com.
- Contact:
- Copley
- info@copleyart.com
- 6175360030
_-Closing-the-Distance_100x100_c.jpg "Lot 204: Bob Kuhn (1920–2007),Closing the Distance, 1977, acrylic on masonite, 24 x 48 in, Sold: $409,500")
![A 19th century Seven Piece "Chrysanthemum" Pattern Sterling Silver Coffee & Tea Service, which was exhibited in the Tiffany & Co. booth at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago](/images/c/78/96/Tiffany___Co__Makers_Seven_Piece_"Chrysanthem100x100_c.jpg "A 19th century Seven Piece \"Chrysanthemum\" Pattern Sterling Silver Coffee & Tea Service, which was exhibited in the Tiffany & Co. booth at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago")
