Folk Art Painting makes $6.2million at Christies New York

Published January 20th, 2007


An 1849 version of Edward Hicks’s “Peaceable Kingdom'’ painting, one of the iconic works of folk art, now holds the record for folk art sold at auction. It fetched almost $6.2 million at Christie’s International in New York The painting, featuring a languorous leopard, was part of a series of Americana auctions this week in [...]



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