An Auctioneer's Dream
October 19 2011
Picture: Clarke NY
An important work by the American post-impressionist painter Maurice Prendergast (1858 – 1924) has recently been discovered in a box of dusty oil paintings consigned to Clarke Auctioneers in New York.
After being confirmed by the experts it has been given pride of place in the artist's catalogue raisonne and will be auctioned 'as seen' on 23rd October with an estimate of $40,000- $60,000.
I reckon it will triple that, everyone loves a lost'n found.
More details here.
By LH
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