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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Friday, December 3, 2010

Edmund Tarbell's 1899 oil painting titled Child and Boat at Sotheby's surpassed its estimate of $2,000,000-3,000,000 to fetch an artist auction record of $4.2 million.

$4.2 million Edmund Tarbell painting tops American art sales
ArtfixDaily Staff - December 3rd, 2010 03:16

Sotheby's netted the most during the week of American paintings auctions in New York with a total of $27,010,125 (prices include buyer's premiums) for 133 lots on Dec. 2. Ruling the day was the cover lot, Boston School artist Edmund Tarbell's idyllic seaside scene of 1899, "Child and Boat," which more than doubled the low estimate to reach an artist auction record of $4,226,500. Tarbell's previous auction record was just $724,500, set in 2002 for "Portrait of Mrs. C. (Mrs. H.M. ...

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