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Joseph Christian Leyendecker s Beat-up Boy, Football Hero, which appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on Nov. 21, 1914, sold Friday for ....
J.C. Leyendecker Saturday Evening Post Cover Hits Record $4.1 Million Posted on The Saturday Evening Post and other magazine covers, Leyendecker s expansive influence on the field of commercial illustration has even extended to comic book artists. I know more than a few artists in the field who consider him an influence in the modern day. His cover for the November 21, 1914 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, titled Beat-up Boy, Football Hero has just hammered at Heritage Auctions for an eye-popping $4.1 million. J.C. Leyendecker November 21, 1914 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, titled Beat-up Boy, Football Hero The pre-auction estimate for Beat-up Boy, Football Hero was $150,000-$250,000. The previous record for a J.C. Leyendecker original was set in December 2020 at Sotheby s, who sold his cover for the September 6, 1930 ....
A history book s worth of legendary American artists comes to Heritage Auctions May 7 Joseph Christian Leyendecker (American, 1874-1951), Easter Promenade, The Saturday Evening Post cover study, 1932. Oil on canvas, 20-1/2 x 27-1/4 inches. Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000. DALLAS, TX .-Heritage Auctions announced one of the most thoughtful, comprehensive and bountiful American art events in recent memory. The catalog for the May 7 American Art Signature Auction reads like a syllabus, a history and a love letter to the men and women who have defined and defied the American landscape for centuries, among them such names as Norman Rockwell, Albert Bierstadt, Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Moran, Thomas Hart Benton, Grandma Moses. ....
Norman Rockwell s first cover for Judge Magazine comes to auction after more than a century Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978), Excuse Me! (Soldier Escorting Woman), Judge Magazine Cover, July 1917. Oil on canvas, 28 x 25 inches. Estimate: $400,000 - $600,000. DALLAS, TX .- Judge, one of the great American magazines of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was renowned for many things: its wit, its politics, its immense circulation and its role as a launching pad for once-editor Harold Ross The New Yorker. But the satirical publication is perhaps best known for its stable of pioneering illustrators among them Buster Brown creator Richard Outcault and James Montgomery Flagg, designer of the Uncle Sam I Want YOU for U.S. Army recruitment poster and as one of Norman Rockwell s earliest canvases. Indeed, Judge was high on the list of publications to which the illustrator would take his works during his ascendancy as one of America s most cherished artists. ....
The best and brightest urban artists from around the globe hit the streets at Heritage Auctions RETNA (b. 1979), Untitled, diptych, early 21st century Acrylic on aluminum 92-1/2 x 44 inches. DALLAS, TX .- Fresh off a record-setting Banksy sale, a KAWS retrospective event and the groundbreaking DKE Toys Archive auction, Heritage Auctions goes big in the Urban art world by getting small. The Dallas-based house s March 11 Urban Art event features only 43 lots. Yet the upcoming auction is a best-of-the-best sale highlighting some of the finest works by many of the biggest and brightest names on the global contemporary-art landscape. Heritage Auctions in recent months has met the increased demand of contemporary-art collectors by expanding its offerings to include retrospective auctions and sales spotlighting single artists. As a result, Heritage has been able clear the canvas for these significant pieces by such singular futurists. ....