Photo © Michaan's Auctions — view this lot on Michaan's Auctions ↗Harbor, 1929
Oil · Board
Michaan's Auctions · Apr 19, 2024$2,091 ≈ £1,681 ≈ €1,963Sign up free to see price
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Auction result
Drying Sails I
E. Charlton Fortune (American, 1885–1969)
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate $150,000 – $250,000 (≈ £116,523 – £194,205) (≈ €136,265 – €227,108)
Offered at Bonhams 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 canvasboard”
- Support
- Canvas
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 12 1/2 x 16in
- Auction house
- Bonhams
- Sale
- California and Western Art (25298)
- Date
- November 25, 2019
- Location
- Los Angeles, United States
- Lot
- 122
- Estimate
- $150,000 – $250,000 (≈ £116,523 – £194,205) (≈ €136,265 – €227,108)
- Source
- Auction house bonhams.com ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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Provenance trail: auction history of this work
Offered twice between 2011 and 2019 · sold 1 · bought in / unsold 1
Aug 9, 2011 · Bonhams
California and Western Paintings and Sculpture, lot 38
Sold $170,000Sign up to see · est. $120,000 – $160,000
As catalogued
E. Charlton Fortune, “Drying sails I”, 1926
oil on canvas board
12 1/2 x 16in
Nov 25, 2019 · Bonhams this result
California and Western Art, lot 122
Bought in / unsold · est. $150,000 – $250,000
As catalogued
E. Charlton Fortune, “Drying Sails I”
oil on canvasboard
12 1/2 x 16in
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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