The 100 lots in Christie’s Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture sale on May 16 range from $10,000 to $3 million. Christie’s is expecting the sale to exceed $22 million in total.
At the head of the pack are Fitz Henry Lane, Oscar Bluemner and Norman Rockwell, each with work estimated at $2 million to $3 million.
Rockwell’s Dreams of Long Ago is particularly familiar: it features a forlorn cowboy about to put another record on a phonograph and was painted as the cover for the August 13, 1927, issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
