{"id":19071,"date":"2020-08-21T08:24:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T12:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=19071"},"modified":"2020-08-21T08:24:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T12:24:54","slug":"auction-shake-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/auction-shake-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Auction Shake-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe allowfullscreen allow=\"fullscreen\" style=\"border:none;width:100%;height:450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&#038;d=sept20issuu&#038;hideIssuuLogo=true&#038;pageNumber=21&#038;u=portlandmagazine\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>This year\u2019s surprising highs and breathtaking buys!<\/h2>\n<p><em>From\u00a0Staff &amp; Wire Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There has been too much upheaval in the art world to just say \u201cwhat a year.\u201d Consider this pre-COVID\u00a0auction of <strong>John Marin\u2019s<\/strong> <em>Stonington Wharf, No. 1 (Red and Blue, Maine)<\/em>. Pre-auction\u00a0estimates were $150,000 to $250,000. It realized <strong>$596,000<\/strong> at Sotheby\u2019s New York.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the fascinating case of <strong>Louise Nevelson<\/strong>. Who would have guessed a Nevelson sculpture could have been bought in the last year for as high <strong>$399,000<\/strong> (for <em>Moon-Star <\/em><em>II<\/em>) or as low as <strong>$75<\/strong> (this is not a misprint!) for her <em>Wall Hanging Sculpture<\/em>. This has prompted us to examine other Maine artists at extremes in the market\u2014the highs, the lows. Grab your auction paddle. Get ready to open your eyes and start whispering.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>See the full story\u00a0in the digital magazine above.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprising highs and lows at this year&#8217;s art auctions.<br \/>\nFrom Staff &#038; Wire Reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[382,1116,1115],"class_list":["post-19071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-art","tag-auction","tag-maine-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19324,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071\/revisions\/19324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}