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 $209,000. 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).
Life-Size Reaching Black Duck
A. Elmer Crowell (1862-1952)
East Harwich, MA, c. 1912
Sold for $209,000
Tucked-Head and Sentinel Geese
John Tax (1894-1967)
Osakis, MN, c. 1917
Sold for $103,500
Ogden M. Pleissner
(1905-1983)
Waiting For the Rise, 1952
watercolor, 16 1/2 by 26 1/2 in.
Sold for $94,875