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Western Art Sale Brings $36.8 Million

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Published: July 28, 2008
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Courtesy Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
Charles M. Russell's "The Hold Up" (1899) sold for $5.2 million at the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction.

RENO, Nev.—The Coeur d'Alene Art Auction brought in more than 450 bidders for a total of 178 works this Saturday, earning $36.8 million, reports the New York Times.

The highlights of the sale were two iconic pieces by turn-of-the-century Montana artist Charles M. Russell. The Hold Up (1899), a 30-by-48-inch oil painting depicting a stagecoach holdup, fetched $5.2 million; the bronze Meat for Wild Men, completed in 1924 and showing two Native Americans on a buffalo hunt, drew $4.1 million.

The annual auction, started in 1984 and now held in Reno, is billed as the largest Western art sale in the country.
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