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Centennial Auction
Highlights:
(all prices include 15% buyers premium)
Lot 100: ANDREW WYETH
Buoys brought the highest price
of the auction, selling for $115,000
Lot 55: FRANK BENSON
Geese in Flight Over Marsh
brought $103,500
Lot 282: Rare Gothic Chest
brought $35,650.
Lot 187: Set of Twelve English
Victorian Silver Gilt Plates,
brought $7,187.50
Lot 169: Pair of Italian Carved Giltwood Wall Mirrors, circa 1800
brought $8,625.
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100TH AUCTION A
HUGE SUCCESS!
Dedham
- On Sunday, April 10th, a standing room only crowd packed into
our Dedham Gallery to help celebrate Grogan & Company's 100th
sale. The Centennial Auction
included over 450 lots of Fine Art, 18th and 19th
century Furniture and Decorations, Silver and Jewelry and Oriental Rugs
and Carpets. To commemorate
the milestone, Michael and Nancy Grogan hosted a Friday evening Champagne
Reception and Viewing for clients, colleagues and friends with over 100
guests attending.
The highlight of the 100th sale, was
ironically lot 100, a watercolor by venerated American artist Andrew Wyeth.
Buoys, expected to fetch $80,000-100,000, realized it’s
potential when it sold to a Boston collector for $100,000 ($115,000
including the 15% buyers premium). The sale, which netted over 1.2 million in sales, also
included a Frank Benson watercolor, Swans and Geese in Flight over
Marsh, which exceeded it’s $30,000-50,000 pre-sale estimate to sell
to a Boston dealer for $103,500.
“I was pleased to see both pictures stay in the Boston area and I
appreciated our local buyers coming out and making our 100th
sale an auction to remember,” commented
Michael Grogan, President and Chief Auctioneer, “The fact that it was
our 100th auction and lot 100 sold for 100,000 was an
interesting twist.”
The furniture highlight was a Rare Gothic Carved Oak
and Metal Mounted Chest from the 15th/ 16th century.
The chest, on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts European Department
since it’s home, Tanglewood, became Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer
home in 1941. Estimated at
$3,000-5,000, the chest sold for $35,650.00 to an overseas collector.
Gallery Located:
22 Harris Street, Dedham, Massachusetts 02026
Telephone: 781-461-9500 Toll Free: 1-800-823-1020
Fax: 781-461-9625
contact us at: Grogans@Groganco.com
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