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A sporting scene by Percival Rosseau took the top lot at Shannon’s October sale

One of four auctions held each year, the fall 2019 rendition of Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers’ Fine American and European Drawings, Prints & Sculpture sale saw another successful run. The sale, which was held October 24, kicked off at 6 p.m. with a full room of bidders, a bank of 20 telephone bidders and participation from online bidding platforms, resulting in $2.4 million in sales with over 77 percent of the lots sold. Percival Rosseau (1859-1937), Pointers on the Hunt, 1927. Oil on canvas, 23 x 32¼ in., signed and dated. Estimate: $80/120,000 SOLD $100,000

A rare hunting scene, Pointers on the Hunt, by Percival Rosseau snatched the top lot for the sale when it sold for $100,000 (est. $80/120,000). Painted in 1927, the work depicts four sporting dogs that have caught the scent of the hunt. Grandma (Anna Robertson) Moses (1860-1961), Over the Bridge, 1968. Oil on Masonite, 16 x 24 in., signed and dated. Estimate: $90/120,000 SOLD $80,000

“We see it again and again, clients are still buying 19th-century landscapes and Hudson River School paintings if the works are by leading artists, of good subjects, in good condition and with provenance,” says Shannon’s managing partner, Sandra Germain. Alfred T. Bricher’s Grand Manan, Maine sold for $68,750; Hugh Bolton Jones’ Early Spring, Near Sheffield, Massachusetts sold for $32,500; Edmund Coates’ View Along the Hudson sold for $17,500; Ferdinand Richard’s American Falls at Niagara sold for $15,000; and Edward Moran’s Clam Diggers sold for $20,000 among other notable results in this category. John George Brown (1831-1913), The Flower Girl, 1878. Oil on canvas, 30 x 22 in., signed and dated. Estimate: $70/100,000
SOLD $87,500

All four lots by John George Brown sold well, including The Flower Girl, an 1878 oil that realized $87,500 to break its low estimate of $70,000. Other highlights for the fine art sale include Fern Isabel Coppedge’s Winter in Bucks County at $81,250 (est. $40/60,000) and Grandma (Anna Robertson) Moses’ Over the Bridge, which sold for $80,000. —