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Pembroke, MA 02359
United States
Founded in 2005, Copley Fine Art Auctions is a boutique auction house specializing in antique decoys and American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Over the course of the last two decades, the firm has set auction records for not only individual decoy makers, but also entire carving regions. Copley...Read more
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Jul 25, 2015 - Jul 26, 2015
One of the finest Valero decoys to have surfaced, this decoy displays Edna Perdew's (1882-1974) best combed-paint detail and original rigging. Valero loved carving decoys, but paid some of the Illinois River's finest decoy artists to paint his birds. In this sale we have three Valero mallard drakes, each by a different painter including Edna Perdew, Henry Holmes, and Jack Franks.
Provenance: Dr. E. C. Burhans Collection
Betsey Burhans Fowler Collection
Literature: Stephen O'Brien and Julie Carlson, "Masterworks of the Illinois River," Boston, MA, 2005, p. 135, decoys with Perdew paint illustrated.
Paul W. Parmalee and Forrest D. Loomis, "Decoys and Decoy Carvers of Illinois," DeKalb, IL, 1969, p. 247.
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