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- Estimate
- $20,000–$30,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — American Art, New York · 6 October 2017
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4600573
- Record
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Xanthus Russell Smith, Hove to for the Pilot. Sotheby's, 6 Oct 2017, lot 159. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4600573.
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Xanthus Russell Smith, Hove to for the Pilot. Sotheby's, 6 Oct 2017, lot 159. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4600573.
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From the same sale American Art · Oct 2017
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| study for 'sheba' | Walt Kuhn | $20,000–$30,000 | |
| Landscape, South of France | Leon Kroll | $10,000–$15,000 | |
| study for 'the thing to do with life is live it!' (outrigger canoe) | Norman Rockwell | $50,000–$70,000 | |
| the village barefoot | John J. Hammer | $5,000–$7,000 | |
| study for of patricia mernone | Norman Rockwell | $15,000–$20,000 | |
| River Valley Landscape | Albert Bierstadt | $10,000–$15,000 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milton Avery | The Dancer | $13,750 | Heritage Auctions, Nov 2021 | |
| Milton Avery | Three Sails (Sails in Dark Sea) | Phillips, Jul 2025 | ||
| Alfred Thompson Bricher | Lake George | Sotheby's, Jan 2024 | ||
| Alfred Thompson Bricher | The Ashokan Forest in the Catskills, New York State 12 1/4 x | Bonhams, Nov 2024 | ||
| Alfred Thompson Bricher | Landscape with River | Bonhams, Jan 2025 | ||
| Xanthus Russell Smith | hove to for the pilot | Sotheby's, Mar 2019 | ||
| Xanthus Russell Smith | Departure from Portland, Maine | Christie's, Apr 1999 | ||
| Milton Avery | Untitled (Shoals & Rocks) | Rago, May 2025 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.