The Sporting Sale 2020
Thank you to everyone who made Copley's first live-streamed auction a success. The sale, consisting of 296 lots, was 94% sold by lot and realized $957,000. The auction achieved several world-record prices, thanks in part to the more than 150 new bidders registered to participate in the scaled-down one-day sale. A new record was set for Charles Coffin when the O'Brien-Nelson Hollow Nantucket Curlew sold for $108,000, making it the top lot of the sale. The top painting lot was a quail hunting watercolor by Ogden M. Pleissner, which landed at $37,200. Thomas Aquinas Daly's Electric Mountain blew past its high estimate to hammer at $16,800, setting a new world record for the artist. For more details of this sale, click on the links below to access the press release and the prices realized.
The O’Brien-Nelson Nantucket Hollow Curlew
Nantucket, MA, c. 1870
SOLD FOR $108,000
Open-Bill Calling Yellowlegs
A. Elmer Crowell (1862–1952)
East Harwich, MA, c. 1915
SOLD FOR $90,000