EAST DENNIS, Mass. – If you were late to Saturday’s session of Eldred’s two-day Spring Sale April 5-6, you missed a few of the day’s most exciting lots, notably a portrait of a Mongolian man attributed to Russian artist Alexandre Yakovlev, just the ninth lot to cross the block that day, which sparked a flurry of bidding and soared past its $4,000-$6,000 estimate to sell for $72,000. The diverse sale, held at the firm’s headquarters in East Dennis, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, also included historic and political ephemera, Sporting Art and important sculpture.
The auction session kicked off with four Albrecht Durer (Germany, 1471-1528) etchings, all of which also sailed past their combined $9,100-$12,800 presale estimate to sell for a $40,040 total.
Also coming in the day’s first twelve lots…
