Lynn Bogue Hunt (1878-1960), The ‘Pilar’ Fights a Blue Marlin Off Cuba North Coast, Ernest Hemingway. Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 in. Courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions. Estimate: $25/35,000
Pembroke, MA
Copley Fine Art Auctions
Sporting Sale
July 10-11
This July, Copley Fine Art Auctions will offer historic paintings and decoys during its annual Sporting Sale, this year celebrating a milestone 20th anniversary. The auction will feature more than 600 lots of decoys, bird carvings, paintings, bronzes, prints, fishing tackle and folk art.
Works by preeminent 20th-century sporting artists like Frank W. Benson, Ogden M. Pleissner, Aiden Lassell Ripley, Roy Martell Mason, George Browne, Lynn Bogue Hunt, William Goadby Lawrence and Edmund Henry Osthaus will be on offer during the summer sale. In addition, several exceptional bronzes by Walter Matia, William J. Koelpin and Winston Churchill will also be available.
Collectors should be on the lookout for highlights like Hunt’s oil The ‘Pilar’ Fights a Blue Marlin Off Cuba North Coast, Ernest Hemingway estimated at $25,000 to $35,000; Benson’s 1924 watercolor Flying Grouse estimated at $15,000 to $25,000; and a bronze by Matia titled Deuces Are Wild, with a presale estimate of $18,000 to $24,000.
The live-streamed auction will offer phone, absentee and internet bidding on Copley Live as well as two other online platforms. The auction will begin at 10 a.m. on both Thursday and Friday, and will be accompanied by a 300-page, full-color catalog.
Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936), Turkey Hunter. Oil, 12 x 16 in. Courtesy Scottsdale Art Auction. Estimate: $20/30,000
Scottsdale, AZ
Scottsdale Art Auction
Live Online Sale
August 23
Scottsdale Art Auction’s Live Online sale will take place on Saturday, August 23 at 9 a.m. Arizona time, during which 400 lots of historic and contemporary art will be auctioned in a virtual setting. All artwork will be displayed and open to the public for viewing beginning August 3 in the auction house’s exclusive showroom in Scottsdale, Arizona.
One of the top lots in the sale is an oil by Eanger Irving Couse featuring a Native American man hunting wild fowl with a bow and arrow. The piece is estimated to fetch between $20,000 and $30,000. Other historic highlights include Clark Hulings’ Feeding the Chickens, estimated at $18,000 to $24,000, and a high-octane stagecoach scene by Frank McCarthy with a presale estimate of $50,000 to $75,000.
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