BOSTON — On May 3, Grogan & Company kicked off the month with its Fine Art auction, which offered 179 lots of paintings, prints, sculpture and drawing. Separated into an additional sale of 104 lots on the same day was A Modern Collection of Works on Paper, a single-owner collection from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century. The winning lot across both sales was a July 18, 1776, issue of The New-England Chronicle (Volume VIII, No. 413), which contained one of the earliest newspaper printings of the Declaration of Independence, and the first time it appeared in a Boston newspaper. Printed by Edward Eveleth Powars and Nathaniel Willis, the newspaper had provenance by descent in a Massachusetts family and surpassed its $80/120,000 estimate to make $150,000 with premium. Additional highlights from both sales will be featured in an upcoming issue.
