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Fine American paintings, drawings and sculpture at Christie’s New York this September

NEW YORK, NY.- On September 27, Christie’s will offer its mid-season sale of Fine American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, featuring an excellent selection of 19th and 20th century works at prices ranging from $2,000 to $120,000. Highlights include exceptional works by Norman Rockwell, George Inness, John Marin and Samuel Johnson Woolf, as well as a rare group of bronze sculptures from the Labor series by Max Kalish, consigned directly by the artist’s family. All genres of American art are represented, including Hudson River School, Impressionism, Ashcan, Modernism, Naïve, Illustration and Western Art. The total sale of a little over 200 lots is expected to achieve in excess of $3.1 million. Among the lead highlights of the sale is New York Stock Exchange, 1924 (estimate: $70,000-100,000) by John Marin (1870-1953). Created in the boom before the Crash of 1929, the work evokes a dynamic tension with strong, dark