Both auction houses racked up sales of approximately $55 million last week with Sotheby’s edging out Christie’s by $300,000. At Sotheby’s, Norman Rockwell’s Home on Leave (Sailor in Hammock) (1945) was the second highest lot sold at $4,520,000, well beyond it’s $3 million estimate.
At Christie’s, Mary Cassatt’s Children Playing with a Dog (1907) sold for $6.2 million. (Estimate was for $3 – 5 million.) Read more exciting auction news at Artnet.
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