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George Lucas's Museum Bought Robert Colescott's Wry Depiction of the American Revolution for $15.3 Million at Sotheby's

The Lucas Museum, which won the painting after a seven-minute bidding war, called the picture "the apex work" in Colescott's career. ....

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Robert Colescott's Caustic Satire of 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Is Poised to Reset the Artist's Market at Sotheby's Next Month

Robert Colescott,
George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook (1975). © 2019 Estate of Robert Colescott / Artist Rights
Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Jean Paul Torno.
The late American painter Robert Colescott’s charged satire of
Washington Crossing the Delaware will hit the auction block next month and it is poised to smash the late artist’s current auction record.
George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook, as the artist’s landmark 1975 canvas is called, is set to highlight Sotheby’s contemporary art evening auction in New York on May 12. It’s estimated to go for $9 million to $12 million that’s roughly 10 times Colescott’s current auction record of $912,500, set in 2018. ....

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