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Forbes
December 2005

Long overlooked on this side of the Mississippi, California impressionism and pictures of cowboy-and-Indian life are causing collector stampedes. The annual market bellwether, the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, has become such a millionaire magnet that it moved to Reno a few years back after the Coeur d'Alene airport couldn't handle all the private jets. The auction has pulled in even-higher sales totals - from $10 million in 2003 to $21 million in 2005. This year 15 new records were set for artists including Maynard Dixon and Charles Russell, whose mythic image of Indians on horseback at sunset, "Piegans," rustled up $5.6 million - more than double his previous auction high point. Good luck grabbing an Indian picture by turn-of-the-20th-century Taos artists like Oscar Berninghaus and Joseph Sharp, most of whose canvases sold in Reno this year for more than double their high estimates. Coeur d'Alene auctioneer Peter Stremmel points to a buyer pool rapidly expanding past "cigar-chomping Texans who know what they like" to include knowledgeable bidders from as far away as Europe.

Excerpt from Forbes 2006 Collector's Guide "Positively Sizzling."