Pleissner to Paxson please bidders in Montana auctions
- March 21, 2010 21:20
Western Art Week in Great Falls, Montana, featured a trinity of auctions with the highest-grossing one, "The Russell," tallying $1.57 million. Popular lots included Grace Carpenter Hudson's (1865-1937) "Wip-on and the Poppies," which sold for $55,000; Ogden Minton Pleissner's (1905-1983) "Poling Up the York" ($65,000); and an Edgar Samuel Paxson watercolor which brought $4,500.
Living artists brought some of the highest prices. The top lot was an Andy Thomas oil, "Stampede! Stampede!" which went for $80,000.
Total figures for the Russell Museum's new "The Russell" fund-raising auction were closely trailed by March in Montana, and the original fundraising sale, the Ad Club's C.M. Russell Auction
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![Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.](/images/c/e2/2e/Jan20_Rape_of_Europa100x100_c.jpg "Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.")
