The Sporting Sale 2010
Copley’s fifth annual summer auction was a huge success realizing over $4.2 million in sales. The much-anticipated collection of five oil paintings by Carl Rungius (1869-1959) out of the collection of H. Wendell Endicott headlined the record-breaking sale. These museum-quality works saw active participation in the room and on the overflowing phone banks, which brought outstanding results. Humpback Grizzly led the charge, realizing an auction-high sale price of $460,000 on an estimate of $300,000/500,000 (see image on right). The top decoy in the sale was a Preening Black Duck by Gus Wilson (1864-1950) of South Portland, Maine, circa 1895, that sold for $105,000.
Preening Black Duck
Augustus Wilson (1864-1950)
South Portland, ME, c. 1895
Sold for $105,000
Ogden M. Pleissner
(1905-1983)
The Rapids, 1938
oil on canvas, 30 by 40 in.
Sold for $345,000
Frank W. Benson
(1862-1951)
Two Duck Hunters, 1926
watercolor, 24 1/4 by 17 1/2 in.
Sold for $92,000
Hudsonian Curlew
A. Elmer Crowell (1862-1952)
East Harwich, MA, c. 1927 (
Sold for $57,500