Edmund Osthaus On Point

The Sporting Sale 2008

Copley’s Sporting Sale 2008 achieved $3.2 million in sales. Copley set a new record for a standing Crowell decorative duck with a Life-Size Reaching Black Duck that sold for $214,000. Notable painting sales included a watercolor by Frank Benson, Wigeon, that sold for $132,250, and Pointer With Quail, an oil painting by Edmund Osthaus, that nearly quadrupled the high estimate, and established a new world record for the artist at $225,500 (see image at right). 

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Life-Size Reaching Black Duck

A. Elmer Crowell (1862-1952)

East Harwich, MA, c. 1912

Sold for $214,000

Tucked-Head and Sentinel Geese

John Tax (1894-1967)

Osakis, MN, c. 1917

Sold for $103,500

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Ogden M. Pleissner

(1905-1983)

Waiting For the Rise, 1952

watercolor, 16 1/2 by 26 1/2 in.

Sold for $94,875

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