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And Now for Something Completely Different

by | Sep 6, 2022 | Art, Guns and Culture, Collecting the West

From butterflies to classic Western scenes, sales at the annual Coeur d’Alene Art Auction stunned and surprised collectors. All Images Courtesy the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction Butterfly, a very small oil painting created by Albert Bierstadt later in his life, brought $12,000. A rather radical departure from his usual sweeping landscapes, it not only moves from the macro to the micro but also has abstracted characteristics.[/c


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