Auction – Save the Art

Berkshire Museum plans to sell 9 more works, bringing total to 22

June 25, 2018
Auction, Sotheby's

Nine more Berkshire Museum works will be sold in coming months, the institution said Monday, in a drive to reach the full $55 million in proceeds allowed by an April court ruling.

Amid Protests, Berkshire Museum Sales Bring Over $40M, and Trustees Want More

May 31, 2018
Auction

So it has begun. The first 13 of the 40 works marked for deaccession by the Berkshire Museum have been sold. George Lucas has bought Norman Rockwell’s Shuffleton’s Barbershop (1950) for his new museum and a baker’s dozen more were sent to the block...

Rockwell’s ‘Blacksmith’s Boy’ Fetches $7 Million at Auction

May 23, 2018
Auction, Norman Rockwell, Sotheby's

Larry Parnass, The Berkshire EagleMay 23, 2018 Norman Rockwell’s painting of dueling blacksmiths sold Wednesday for $7 million, as the Berkshire Museum cashed out its gift from the artist with the more delicate rap of an auctioneer’s hammer. The...

Two Berkshire Museum Works Fetch Combined $1.16 Million

May 14, 2018
Auction

The first two publicly auctioned Berkshire Museum artworks since the announcement of the institution's "New Vision" project last July have been sold for a combined $1.16 million.

Berkshire Museum Lists 13 Works, Including 2nd Rockwell, for May Auction

April 11, 2018
Auction

The museum Tuesday identified 13 works that will be offered at four May auctions at Sotheby's in New York City. The move came five days after the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County granted the museum's petition to lift any restrictions and allow...

SJC ruling clears Berkshire Museum to sell artworks

April 5, 2018
Auction

36 of the 40 artworks sent to Sotheby’s for auction. Larry Parnass, The Berkshire Eagle PITTSFIELD – The Berkshire Museum can sell works of art and raise up to $55 million to keep its doors open and to pursue a new approach to the...