‘Beat-Up Boy, Football Hero’ scores huge win
DALLAS – Joseph Christian Leyendecker’s Beat-up Boy, Football Hero became an auction hero at Heritage on May 7 when it shattered a previous world record by the artist after a bidding war.
The painting, which appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on Nov. 21, 1914, sold for $4.12 million, shattering the previous record for a Leyendecker original set in December, when Sotheby’s sold his 1930 work for $516,100.
