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22 artworks sold at Sotheby's

The Berkshire Museum Deaccessioning
2017—2018

40 WORKS OF ART SHIPPED
22 WORKS OF ART SOLD

1. NORMAN ROCKWELL– Shuffleton’s Barbershop, 1950

2. NORMAN ROCKWELL – Blacksmith’s Boy–Heel & Toe (Shaftsbury Blacksmith Shop), 1940

3. WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU – Les deux soeurs (La Bourrique), 1884

4. WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU – L’Agneau Nouveau-Né (The Newborn Lamb), 1873

5. ALBERT BIERSTADT – Giant Redwood Trees of California, 1874

6. FREDERIC CHURCH – Valley of Santa Isabel, New Granada, 1875

7. ADRIAEN ISENBRANT – Adam and Eve, Bruges circa 1485-1551

8. ADRIAEN ISENBRANT – The Flight into Egypt, Bruges circa 1485-1551

9. FRANCIS PICABIA – Force Comique, watercolor on paper, 1914

10. LARGE BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ VASE, Qing Dynasty, 18th/Early 19th century

11. THOMAS MORAN – The Last Arrow, 1867

12. CHARLES WILLSON PEALE – Portrait of General David Forman, 1784

13. REMBRANDT PEALE – George Washington, 1795

14. JOHN LA FARGE – Magnolia, 1860

15. GEORGE DURRIE – Hunter in Winter Wood, 1860

16. THOMAS DEWING – The White Dress, 1921

17. CHARLES DAUBIGNY – Paysans allant aux champs (Le Matin) (1817-1878)

18. BENJAMIN WEST – Daniel interpreting to Belshazzar the handwriting on the wall, 1775

19. HENRY MOORE – Three Seated Women, 1942

20. A TEN-PANEL COROMANDEL ‘BIRTHDAY’ SCREEN, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period, dated Jisi Year, 1689

21. ALEXANDER CALDER –Dancing Torpedo Shape, 1932

22. ALEXANDER CALDER – Double Arc and Sphere, 1932

Sotheby’s – May 7, 2018 / ‘Blacksmith’s Boy – Heel and Toe’, sold to benefit the Berkshire Museum, will be offered as a highlight of Sotheby’s American Art Auction on 23 May in New York.
55 Million was the cap put in place by the courts
The 2018 petition to the Supreme Judicial Court ended state opposition and allowed a cap in place of $55 million in art sales. 

Of the 40 works of art removed from the Berkshire Museum collection, 22 were sold, netting $53.25 million. Eighteen objects were returned from Sotheby’s to Pittsfield.
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The Berkshire Museum opened in 1903

Norman Rockwell’s Shuffleton’s Barbershop. Painted in 1950