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Auction result
Digging Clams
Cecil Crosley Bell (American, 1906–1970)
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Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate $1,000 – $1,500 (≈ £617 – £926) (≈ €728 – €1,091)
Offered at James D. Julia and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
Auction history of this work: offered 2 times ↓
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “Oil on masonite shoreline scene shows a man digging clams in a tidal flat with point of land beyond with house”
- Support
- Board
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed bottom right
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 12" x 16"
- Auction house
- James D. Julia
- Sale
- 2 (2-day-winter-antique-fine-art-auction/?session=1)
- Date
- February 3, 2011
- Location
- Fairfield, Maine
- Lot
- 1321
- Estimate
- $1,000 – $1,500 (≈ £617 – £926) (≈ €728 – €1,091)
- Source
- Auction house jamesdjulia.com ↗Retrieved Sep 28, 2026
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Provenance trail: auction history of this work
Offered twice between 2010 and 2011 · sold 0 · bought in / unsold 2
Aug 25, 2010 · James D. Julia
End of Summer Spectacular Maine Auction <br> Totals Nearly $3 Million!!!, lot 1137
Bought in / unsold · est. $2,000 – $2,500
As catalogued
Cecil Crosley Bell, “Digging Clams”
Oil on masonite shoreline scene shows a man digging clams in a tidal flat with point of land beyond with house
12" x 16"
Feb 3, 2011 · James D. Julia this result
2, lot 1321
Bought in / unsold · est. $1,000 – $1,500
As catalogued
Cecil Crosley Bell, “Digging Clams”
Oil on masonite shoreline scene shows a man digging clams in a tidal flat with point of land beyond with house
12" x 16"
Appearances are linked when the photographs match and the size, medium and title agree (match confidence 88%). Casts and prints are linked only when the cast or impression number also matches. Price changes compare each sold price with the previous one (in USD at each sale’s exchange rate when the currencies differ). Details are shown as each house published them.
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