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AP - MONTANA ART SELLS AT MUSEUM AUCTION
Published: Mar 18, 2008 12:00 am
AP â MONTANA ART SELLS AT MUSEUM AUCTION
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MISSOULA, MONT. (AP) â Two pieces of art by longtime Montana artists who died within the past year drew strong bids at the Missoula Art Museum auction February 2.
A large ceramic plate by Rudy Autio, and donated by his widow, Lela, sold for $27,000.
Autio died of leukemia in June. He was 80.
The auction also featured a 6-foot-wide painting by Gennie DeWeese, who died in November at the age of 86. The painting sold for $6,750.
The pieces by Autio and DeWeese were among several auctioned that raised a record $135,000 for the museum.