Cowboys, frontiersmen, Native Americans, wagon trains and vast Western landscapes were some of the subjects that were top sellers at Sotheby’s American art sale November 16 in New York City.
The American art sale, which concluded a week of fine art auctions, realized more than $44 million, the highest total for a various-owner sale by Sotheby’s since 2014, when the auction house sold Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 for, coincidentally, $44 million.
The November sale, which also had an O’Keeffe in the top 10, saw stellar results across many categories, but none more than Western art, which saw six works in the top 10, including Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze’s Western Emigrant Train Bound for California Across the Plains, Alarmed by Approach of Hostile Indians (Indians Attacking a Wagon Train). The…