KNOXVILLE, TENN. — “It was a very strong sale overall!” shared Sarah Campbell Dury, vice president of fine and decorative arts at Case Auctions, of the firm’s Winter Fine Art and Antiques Auction, conducted on January 25-26. The sale offered more than 1,200 lots from multiple prominent Southern estates, as well as objects deaccessioned by the Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Leading the sale was a carved limestone sculpture of a lady in a dress with a bustle by William Edmondson (American, 1874-1951), which sold on the first day to an anonymous phone buyer, who pushed the work to $268,400, including buyer’s premium. For the past 40 years, the sculpture remained in a Middle Tennessee family collection that also included Edmondson’s “The Preacher,” which was auctioned by Case in 2020. Additional highlights from this sale will be featured in an upcoming issue.