After a successful sale in April that realized nearly $14 million in sales, the Scottsdale Art Auction is returning with a summer online-only sale on August 26. It’s the first exclusively online sale the auction house has undertaken.
“We’ve been discussing it for many years, so we decided to go ahead and do it this year and give it a try,” says auction partner Brad Richardson. “Once the material started to come in, we began to get very excited about what we were seeing.”
Roy Andersen (1930-2019), White Wolf, Pawnee, oil, 48 x 32” Estimate: $25/35,000
The auction will take place with a live auctioneer, but bidding will take place entirely on online platforms, including LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable and the Scottsdale Art Auction’s own online bidding platform. “You will be able to hear and see the auctioneer and it will feel very much like a normal sale,” Richardson adds. “It will take place at a nice speed so the auctioneer can accept bids across all the platforms and we can come to the ultimate final bid.”
A preview in Scottsdale, Arizona, opens on August 1, and then bidding registration opens on August 10, about two weeks prior to the August 26 sale.
Howard Post, At the Hitching Post, oil, 52 x 42” Estimate: $12/18,000
Works in the 300-lot sale will include living artists, as well as more historic artists such as Eanger Irving Couse, who will be represented in the sale by Song of the Blue Aspens, a 29-inch-tall oil estimated at $80,000 to $120,000.
Roy Andersen’s White Wolf, Pawnee,showing the artist’s luscious use of abstraction around the classic figure, will be offered with estimates of $25,000 to $35,000.
Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936), Song of the Blue Aspens, oil, 29 x 24” Estimate: $80/120,000
Contemporary artists in the sale include Howard Post, whose painting At the Hitching Post will be available to bidders. The work, showing Post’s modern view of a cowboy scene, is estimated at $12,000 to $18,000. Luke Frazier’s September Morn’, showing an elk calling in a forest, is estimated at $14,000 to $24,000.
Luke Frazier, September Morn’, oil, 36 x 48” Estimate: $14/24,000
A Logan Maxwell Hagege painting will be offered, Pueblo Cowboy, with estimates of $30,000 to $40,000. The work shows a figure and a horse in profile against a stunning blue sky.
Other artists in the sale include Matt Smith, Frank McCarthy and many other Western greats. Many of the lots will be offered with no reserves.
Logan Maxwell Hagege, Pueblo Cowboy, oil, 20 x 30” Estimate: $30/40,000
“Every year we have more and more bidding online, probably because collectors were forced into it during Covid and developed a level of comfort in the process,” Richardson says. “We’ve seen that growth consistently in our April auction and so now we’re excited to bring an online-only sale to our bidders.” —
Live Online Scottsdale Art Auction
August 26, 2023
Preview available at Scottsdale Art Auction, 7178 E. Main Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85251
(480) 945-0225, www.scottsdaleartauction.com
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