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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, December 8, 2010

News Briefs: Audubon fetches $11.5 million; Getty loses goddess
ArtfixDaily Staff - December 7th, 2010 20:11

A rare first edition copy of John James Audubon’s masterpiece “Birds of America,” which includes 435 hand-colored illustrations, sold at Sotheby's in London Tuesday night for 7.3 million pounds ($11.5 million), a record for any printed work. Paying well above the previous record of $8.8 million for another copy, the buyer was London-based art dealer Michael Tollemache, according to Businessweek. While Audubon has the spotlight, his contemporary Alexander Wilson, considered the father of ...

Pictured at the Nov. 29 auction in New York City are, from left, Farnsworth Chief Curator Michael K. Komanecky, Nicholas Wyeth, James Wyeth and Farnsworth Director Christopher J. Brownawell.

NYC Auction for Farnsworth Art Museum's Andrew Wyeth Memorial Endowment Campaign a Resounding Success

On Monday, November 29 at the Adelson Galleries in New York City, well wishers and bidders packed the East 82nd Street gallery for an auction of museum- quality art works to benefit the ...

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