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Spotlight on Highlights: Chiaroscuro Woodcuts
Some of the most intriguing examples in November 3’s Old Master Through Modern Prints auction are sixteenth-century chiaroscuro woodcuts. We asked Specialist Diana Flatto to explain the term: In both...
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A Louise Bourgeois Rediscovery
This post was written by Contemporary Art Specialist Diana Flatto, about our November 15 sale. Lot 33: Louise Bourgeois, Escalier de 63, lithograph, 1939.Estimate $3,000 to $5,000. It’s not often...
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Records & Results: Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks
Our Tuesday, October 25 sale of Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks earned nearly $2 million. Lot 38: Julia Margaret Cameron, Portrait of Kate Keown, albumen print, 1866. Sold for...
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Records & Results: Rare & Important Travel Posters
Our October 27 sale of Rare & Important Travel Posters set at least ten auction records. The selection reflected the rapidly changing technology and styles that epitomized the beginning of the...
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Notes From the Catalogue: Roy Lichtenstein’s “Sunrise”
Pop art master Roy Lichtenstein is known for creating works in a number of mediums, including paintings, prints and sculpture. Our upcoming auction of Contemporary Art features multiple works by...
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Signed First Edition of The Prophet at Auction
One of the highlights in our November 10 sale of 19th & 20th Century Literature is a scarce first edition of The Prophet, signed by its author, Kahlil Gibran, in the year of publication. Lot 133:...
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Records & Results: Autographs
On November 1, a mere nine days before the American Presidential election, we offered an autograph album signed by 18 presidents, starting with Abraham Lincoln and ending with Barack Obama. Fourteen...
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“Scattered, Knew Not Where To Go:” Civil War Correspondence
Coming to auction November 17, 2016: Printed & Manuscript Americana Charles L. Taylor married his sweetheart Harriet Tuttle in August, 1862 and days later went to join the 16th Connecticut...
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Le Corbusier’s Color Theory Sample Book
Before the holidays drive you up a wall, let an unusual piece in our December 1 sale of Art, Press & Illustrated Books soothe you with harmonious colors. Famed architect, designer and artist Le...
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Records & Results: Old Master Though Modern Prints, Featuring Camille...
At least a dozen auction records were set at our three-part sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints, Featuring Camille Pissarro: Impressionist Icon, on November 3. Lot 29: Albrecht Dürer,...
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Records & Results: Contemporary Art
Works from the post-war period to today found new homes at our biannual auction of Contemporary Art on November 15. The sale reflected the great diversity of materials and philosophies espoused in the...
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Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Literature
Signed first editions dominated the scene at our sale of 19th & 20th Century Literature on Thursday, November 10, and broke several auction records. Lot 288: H.G. Wells, Tales of Space and Time,...
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Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana
The top lot of our November 17 sale of Printed & Manuscript Americana was an 1830 first edition of The Book of Mormon, which sold to a private collector for $67,500. What makes this edition unusual...
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A Bright Light at a Dark Time: The WPA Handicraft Project
One unusual piece in our December 1 of Art, Press & Illustrated Books is a six-volume folio of textiles designed and produced by the WPA Handicraft Project in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Lot 184:...
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The Cubies’ ABC: Advice or Satire?
In the wake of the 1913 Armory Show, art lovers were reeling from their first encounter with modern art. It was the first time Americans were exposed to the radical artistic seachange happening in...
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On A Previously Unknown First State of de Wit’s Map of the Netherlands
This post was written by Maps & Atlases Specialist Caleb Kiffer in advance of our December 8 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books. The six-foot-tall PVC pipe...
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London As It Was: Boys’s Book Is A Glimpse Into History
Coming in our December 8 sale of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books is Thomas Shotter Boys’s magnum opus, Original Views of London As It Is. The folio of 26 hand-colored...
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Audubon’s Birds Have a History of Their Own
Some historical artifacts are so familiar we forget they haven’t always been the way we think of them. Such is the case with two prints in our December 8 sale of Maps & Atlases, Natural History...
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Records & Results: Art, Press & Illustrated Books
Works by and about twentieth century artists performed especially well at our sale of Art, Press & Illustrated Books on Thursday, December 1. Of the top 20 lots in the sale, only two were published...
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Records & Results: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
Our December 8 sale of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books wrapped up the 2016 auction season with strong numbers, selling 88% of the lots offered. Lot 70: Petrus Plancius,...
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