Bonhams & Butterfields Auction of California and Western Paintings
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields
held
its Spring auction of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture on
April
20, 2010. The Los Angeles-based sale featured a wide variety of
important
California, Western, Society of Six, Hawaiian scenes and Plein Air works
by
established American artists including Joseph Kleitsch, Franz Bischoff,
Edgar
Payne, Granville Redmond and William Wendt as well as an early, rare to
market
work by Thomas Hill. Undoubtedly, the highlight of the $2.9-million sale
was a
selection of works from the Estate of Los Angeles philanthropist, Nancy
M.
Daly.