COPAKE, N.Y. — Copake Auction’s 42nd Annual New Year’s Day auction of 745 lots, which was held online, was led by a nighttime landscape with a lake and figures that had been attributed to Albert Nemethy, Sr (American/Hungarian, 1920-1998). The oil on canvas landscape, which measured 40 by 68 inches, excluding its giltwood frame, had been estimated at $500/700, but bidder interest pushed it to close at $17,700.

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