Whistler painting makes $1 million plus
Published July 9th, 2006
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A painting by American artist Joseph A. McNeill Whistler that was owned for decades by a Geneseo, Livingston County, family sold for a total of just over $1 million at auction tonight.
The price paid by a Connecticut buyer was $910,000 plus $91,000 buyer’s fee.
“It was pretty exciting for upstate New York,” said Sam Cottone, auctioneer for Cottone Auctions of Mount Morris, Livingston County.
Completed in 1893, the painting had come into the possession of Geneseo’s Wadsworth family in the early 20th century.
It had been hanging in The Homestead, a Wadsworth mansion in the village of Geneseo.
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