Past Auction Thomas Girtin Rural genre scene of a boy descending the stairs of a cottage to feed chickens in the courtyard while a woman looks on from a window, an apiary to the right 6.5 x 8 in.

Review: In ‘The Apiary,’ the Bees Have a Troubling Tale to Tell Worldwide colony collapse is the subject of a bright, strange, upbeat thought experiment about insect hives, and our own.