Pater Painting Tops Sporting Art Auction
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Andre Pater's Red Arrow, 2016 sold for $276,000
Andre Pater's Red Arrow, 2016 was sold for $276,000, including buyer premium, to top the fourth annual Sporting Art Auction at Keeneland on Nov. 21.
Pater was on hand to watch the competition for his Red Arrow, 2016, a 36" x 24" pastel signed by the artist. The painting depicts a Lakota warrior, approximately 1870, wearing a buckskin war-shirt decorated in locks of horsehair and scalps along his arm, and draped in a buffalo robe.
With 75%, or 131 pieces offered in the auction, sold at the Sporting Art Auction, which is a collaboration between Keeneland and Cross Gate Gallery of Lexington, the complete revenue totaled $2,478,710.
The 2016 collection featured 175 high-quality lots representing fine sporting art, American paintings, and sculpture by world-renowned artists. Paintings by LeRoy Neiman brought the evening's second-highest prices, with his works Seattle Slew and Epsom selling for $115,000 each, including buyer premium.
Neiman's Seattle Slew is a 45 3/4" x 68 1/4" acrylic signed by the artist. Neiman sketched champion Seattle Slew outside his barn at Belmont Park in 1977, the year the colt won the Triple Crown. In his book "Horses," Neiman wrote that he had Seattle Slew "affix his signature to the drawing. His hoofprint is in the lower right corner just over my signature."
Also selling for $115,000 was Neiman's Epsom, a 23 1/2" x 36" acrylic on board, also signed by the artist, dated '63 and inscribed "Epsom."