"For a lot of collectors, especially with the 250th anniversary of American independence, this is their vision of American history, of what American life was like," Stefany Morris, senior vice president and head of American art at Sotheby's, tells Observer.
A trio of Frederic Remington masterworks led the sale: ‘Coming to the Call,’ which set a world record at $13,285,000; ‘An Argument with the Town Marshall,’ which sold for $11,847,500; and a bronze, ‘Coming Through the Rye,’ which more than doubled its low estimate to realize $9,950,000.