The most eye-catching price at the latest series of Old Master and 19th century art sales in New York came at Sotheby’s separately staged auction of drawings from the collection of the late Howard and Saretta Barnet.
A small but superb pen and ink sketch by Samuel Palmer (1805-81) drew a dramatic competition against a $250,000-350,000 estimate and was the top lot among the 28 works on offer.
Dating from c.1831, A Church With A Boat And Sheep was one of the visionary landscapes Palmer produced during his fabled ‘Shoreham’ period when he lived in the rural Kent village and created some of his most famous pictures.