Folk art portrait soars to record $419,000
- December 06, 2009 14:38
A folk art painting of two girls sitting on a sofa with a cat fetched a record $419,000 (with fees) at Cape Cod, Massachusetts-based, Sandwich Auction House on Saturday. The painting, along with two others by itinerant limner Zedekiah Belknap (1781-1858), were put on the block by an anonymous local family. The previous auction record for the Massachusetts artist was $167,500 in 1995, according to Askart.com...