Insights on Auction Sales: Frank Tenney Johnson Painting, Humberto Garavito Painting

Will Seippel, CEO of WorthPoint, enjoys watching the gadgets bought at auctions held by our WorthPoint Trade Companions. We thought it might be an excellent thought for him to pick out a few of his favourite bought gadgets and clarify why these gross sales stood out to him. Gaining insights from Will is a superb technique to find out about shopping for and promoting developments in our business. We need to empower you to purchase and promote with confidence. Check out his ideas on just a few of our companions’ current gross sales.

On November sixteenth, 2025, WorthPoint added 333,598 gadgets to its Value Information, with a complete worth of $23,526,730 and a median lot worth of $70.52.

Grasp of Moonlight

Bradford’s held a powerful Western American sale, highlighted by a 1932 Frank Tenney Johnson portray titled Moonlight Reverie, depicting a Native American Courageous seated on a rock within the woods beneath the moonlight. Measuring 22″ x 18″, this late-career work showcases Johnson’s masterful means to seize moonlit scenes, incomes him the nickname “Grasp of Moonlight.” The portray bought for $75,000, anchoring a sale that included three Ed Mell work among the many prime 5 tons, which collectively introduced in $153,000. In complete, the public sale realized $1,470,987.50 throughout 578 tons. Johnson, born close to Huge Grove, Iowa, spent his later years in Alhambra, California, the place he co-founded the Biltmore Artwork Gallery and have become celebrated for his evocative depictions of Western topics beneath evening skies. The piece stays in glorious situation, with solely minor put on according to its age. This sale highlights each the enduring enchantment of Johnson’s work and the continued power of Western American artwork out there.

Clear Potential

Grogan & Firm held a notable artwork sale on November 9, bringing in $1,508,625 throughout 145 tons. One standout for me was a 14″ x 21″ Hermann Herzog portray of the Florida Everglades, which bought for $46,875. Herzog, a German immigrant, is estimated to have painted over 3,000 Florida-focused works throughout his lengthy profession, with greater than 1,000 remaining in his property when he handed at age 100 in 1932. The portray confirmed appreciable floor grime and discoloration, however its potential was clear, and bigger works by him have fetched $150,000. The heavy hitter of the sale was a Gabrielle Münter mountain scene, 15″ x 21 3/4″, which bought for $262,500. Münter, a central determine within the Der Blaue Reiter motion alongside Kandinsky and Marc, helped form early Twentieth-century German Expressionism and is widely known for her daring use of colour and fusion of abstraction with direct statement. Each works spotlight the depth and number of Grogan’s November sale, from Nineteenth-century American landscapes to trendy German avant-garde.

Culturally Vital Works

Vogt closed out the day with two spectacular works by Guatemalan artist Humberto Garavito, each estimated thus far from the Twenties. The bigger portray, 32″ x 36″, depicted native girls carrying conventional terra-cotta water jugs and bought for $7,670. In distinction, a smaller 21″ x 26″ scene of individuals wading by fishing boats on Lake Atitlán introduced $10,030. Each works have been oil on canvas and got here from a set in San Antonio, Texas. Garavito, who handed in 1970, is more and more acknowledged within the North American market, and his costs replicate a rising demand for robust Latin American artwork. The ladies’s portrait showcases his cautious consideration to conventional costume and every day life, whereas the Lake Atitlán scene captures a serene, observational high quality. These gross sales spotlight Vogt’s function in introducing early Twentieth-century Latin American artwork to a wider viewers of collectors. General, the outcomes underscore each the artist’s enduring enchantment and the public sale home’s robust presentation of those culturally important works.

Will Seippel is the founder, president, and CEO of WorthPoint. Will has been an avid collector since 1974 and vendor of nearly all issues vintage—with an emphasis on ephemera— since 1984. He’s additionally the creator and founding father of HIP, a web site dedicated to recording one of the best of the world’s historical past that has been saved on movie.

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