{"id":55949,"date":"2025-01-29T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=55949"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:48:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:48:51","slug":"sothebys-art-of-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/01\/sothebys-art-of-the-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotheby&#8217;s Art Of The Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_55950\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HeadeHummingbird-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55950\" class=\"wp-image-55950 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HeadeHummingbird-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of orchids and hummingbirds against a jungle background.\" width=\"231\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HeadeHummingbird-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HeadeHummingbird-1024x642.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HeadeHummingbird-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HeadeHummingbird-1536x962.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HeadeHummingbird-2048x1283.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Hummingbirds and Gold and Purple Orchids<\/em> by Martin Johnson Heade<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The New York auction houses recently concluded a week of American art sales, including <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/01\/the-american-sublime-at-christie-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the American Sublime sale at Christie\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Sotheby\u2019s also had its own auction the following day called Art of the Americas. The star of the sale, used by Sotheby\u2019s in their promotional material, was <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Hummingbirds and Gold and Purple Orchids<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> by Martin Johnson Heade. After returning from South America in 1870, Heade embarked on a painting series combining elements of landscape and still life, as well as pulling from illustrations common in natural history books. He tried to depict various examples of native flowers and animals against the lush backdrop of a rainforest. Heade originally intended to create a book of lithographs on Brazilian hummingbirds. However, when this fell, he opted for the series of paintings instead. The titular orchids are cattleya dowiana, considered one of the most prized<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> cultivars of the flower<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in the nineteenth century. Heade only created three paintings with this specific orchid variety. The painting had been in the same private collection for nearly thirty years before its sale at Sotheby\u2019s &#8212; first time it ever crossed the block at auction. With a high pre-sale estimate of $1.8 million, Sotheby\u2019s expected the orchids and hummingbirds to become one of the most valuable Heade paintings ever sold. The results exceeded their expectations, as bidders drove the hammer price beyond the estimate, hammering at $2 million (or $2.08 million w\/p). This made it the fourth most valuable work by the artist sold at that auction.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55951\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BierstadtYosemite.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55951\" class=\"wp-image-55951\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BierstadtYosemite-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"A landscape painting of Yosemite Valley\" width=\"266\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BierstadtYosemite-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BierstadtYosemite.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Yosemite<\/em> by Albert Bierstadt<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Next up was Albert Bierstadt\u2019s <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Yosemite<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, one of the German-born American artist\u2019s famous Western landscapes. Bierstadt frequently accompanied surveyors and other exploration parties into the West. He would make studies and sketches there, which he would later use as the basis for large landscapes. In 1863, Bierstadt spent seven weeks in the Yosemite Valley, resulting in many paintings, including the one offered at Christie\u2019s on Friday. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">also<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> likely the same trip that resulted in his monumental 1868 landscape <\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/5c\/Albert_Bierstadt_-_Among_the_Sierra_Nevada%2C_California_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\/1920px-Albert_Bierstadt_-_Among_the_Sierra_Nevada%2C_California_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Among the Sierra Nevada<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Yosemite painting is a more manageable size, about 20 by 30 inches, and is likely one of the earlier paintings finished after returning from the West. Predicted to sell for between $700K and $1 million, <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Yosemite<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> by Albert Bierstadt sold slightly below estimate at $650K (or $780K w\/p). Also selling for the same hammer price was Henry Fran\u00e7ois Farny\u2019s <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Happy Days of Long Ago<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. The 1912 painting shows an indigenous settlement in the West: a collection of teepees clustered <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">together<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> beside a riverbank in the background while a mother, father, and child seem to be packing up and moving out. It\u2019s meant to be somewhat of an allegory about a balanced relationship between nature and humanity. The painting <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was originally owned<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> by a family in Cincinnati before donating it to the Cincinnati Art Museum in 1955. Later, in the 1980s, it found its way into the collection of renowned test pilot Darryl Greenamyer, who decided to loan it to the White House between 1981 and 1986. Though the Farny sold for the same as the Bierstadt, unlike <em>Yosemite<\/em>, it sold within its pre-sale estimate range, which was $500K to $700K.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55952\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55952\" class=\"wp-image-55952\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of an indigenous American settlement near a river.\" width=\"178\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-708x1024.jpg 708w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-768x1111.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-1062x1536.jpg 1062w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-1416x2048.jpg 1416w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-scaled.jpg 1770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Happy Days of Long Ago<\/em> by Henry Fran\u00e7ois Farny<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Sotheby\u2019s Art of the Americas sale contained its fair share of surprises, with five of the ninety-three available lots selling for more than double their high estimates. The most notable of these surprises was a pair of Mexican oil paintings showing scenes of rural life. One is called <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Seis <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">jinetes<\/span> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">lanzando<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> toro<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> (<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Six horsemen pursuing a bull<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">), while the other is titled <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/1545fe7\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2000x1493+0+0\/resize\/4096x3058!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fbe%2F3c%2F5a2f8aa0428f9665f28102907414%2Fn11887-bl5xm-t3-02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">El ganado<\/span><\/em><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> (<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Livestock<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">), showing a cattle drive. Both paintings are by Ernesto Icaza, a Mexican painter and horseman, depicting scenes of ranch life in Mexico in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Sotheby\u2019s only expected the paintings to sell for no more than $15K. However, interest was greater than anticipated, resulting in the duo selling for $65K (or $78K w\/p), about 4.3 times the high estimate. Similarly, there was <a href=\"https:\/\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/ca40a97\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2000x1791+0+0\/resize\/385x345!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fd3%2Ff7%2Fdfbe765c486cb192f6fed53da0c3%2Fn11887-d53g7-t2-02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Still Life with Fish<\/em><\/a> by William Merritt Chase. The jet-black background seems unusual for a nineteenth-century American still-life painting. It looks like someone tried to emulate the chiaroscuro of Caravaggio. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Predicted to sell for $8K at the most<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, the fishy painting hammered at $32K (or $38.4K w\/p), exactly four times the high estimate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Of the ninety-three available lots, twenty-five sold within their estimates, giving Sotheby\u2019s a 27% accuracy rate. An additional thirty-six lots (39%) sold below estimate, while twenty (22%) sold above. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> left twelve lots unsold, resulting in an 87% sell-through rate. Against a total low estimate of $6.8 million, Sotheby\u2019s brought in<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> $<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">7.5 million hammer, or $8.7 million w\/p.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York auction houses recently concluded a week of American art sales, including the American Sublime sale at Christie\u2019s. Sotheby\u2019s also had its own auction the following day called Art of the Americas. The star of the sale, used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/01\/sothebys-art-of-the-americas\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":55950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[213,224,877,265,207,20,15,107,9,606],"class_list":["post-55949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-19th-century-american","tag-20th-century-american-art","tag-20th-century-mexican","tag-american-still-life","tag-auction-news","tag-auction-results","tag-comments-on-the-art-market","tag-landscapes","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-sothebys"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sotheby&#039;s Art Of The Americas - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The New York auction houses recently concluded a week of American art sales, including Art of the Americas at Sotheby&#039;s.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/01\/sothebys-art-of-the-americas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sotheby&#039;s Art Of The Americas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The New York auction houses recently concluded a week of American art sales, including Art of the Americas at Sotheby&#039;s.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/01\/sothebys-art-of-the-americas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-29T14:00:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HeadeHummingbird-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1604\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/sothebys-art-of-the-americas\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/sothebys-art-of-the-americas\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nathan Scheer\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1d33fd182b28afdad8fc3548ffe6bdc4\"},\"headline\":\"Sotheby&#8217;s Art Of The Americas\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-29T14:00:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/sothebys-art-of-the-americas\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":829,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/sothebys-art-of-the-americas\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/HeadeHummingbird-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"19th Century American\",\"20th Century American Art\",\"20th Century Mexican\",\"American Still Life\",\"Auction News\",\"Auction Results\",\"Comments on the Art Market\",\"Landscapes\",\"Rehs Galleries - Art World News\",\"sotheby's\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Rehs 19th &amp; 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