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Four Unique Works by Charles White Debut at Auction
The highlight of our October 5 auction of African-American Fine Art is a series of unique works by Charles White that have never before appeared at auction. We spoke to our Director of African-American...
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Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings
We opened our fall season with a marathon sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, breaking multiple records and earning more than $2.6M. The September 19 auction offered 635 examples of...
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Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana
Hoards of history-lovers came out to attend the preview for our auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana on September 28. The sale featured a trove of unique material, much of which had never...
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Do You Speak Photography?
This post was written by our Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks, Daile Kaplan. Photography is ubiquitous in visual culture. Whether you prefer contemporary works by Alec Soth...
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The First Accounts of Captain Cook’s Fateful Voyage
A transportive highlight in our October 17 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books is the rare complete set of first editions detailing Captain James Cook’s voyages around the...
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Magnum Photographs: 70th Anniversary
The following post was written by Keavy Handley-Byrne of our Photographs & Photobooks department: Magnum Photos, founded as a cooperative agency in 1947, is perhaps the most well-known photographic...
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Marvel at Early Aviation Posters from 1910
The development of manned flight from hot air balloon to heavier-than-air machines was recorded and disseminated to the public via promotional posters. Some of the most influential works from this...
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Records & Results: African-American Fine Art
Four works exceeded $100,000 at our sale of African-American Fine Art on Thursday, October 5. A wealth of unique paintings, drawings and monotypes distinguished the sale of approximately 150 lots,...
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Works from Will Barnet’s Estate at Auction
American artist Will Barnet is known for his intimate, foreshortened views of women with cats, but his oeuvre, spanning nearly a century, reveals a diverse and multifaceted artist who transcended...
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The Jimmy Van Heusen Collection of Musical Autographs
Our November 7 auction of Autographs is especially noteworthy for a collection of musical autographs from the estate of Jimmy Van Heusen. Jimmy Van Heusen with Frank Sinatra. Courtesy of NPR. Jimmy...
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Children’s Literature for Adults
Children’s literature is a perennially popular genre. We were all children once, and the antics of Willy Wonka and imagination of Max shaped our early lives in a way that few things did. Our November...
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Arthur Luiz Piza
Arthur Luiz Piza, a Brazilian mixed media artist trained in Paris, leads an ever-growing section of Latin American art in our biannual auctions of Contemporary Art. An especially unusual piece by the...
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Schedel’s Map: The Last View of the Old World
A historic map shows us where we’ve been, not only geographically but also in terms of the extent of our knowledge, our beliefs and even our technology. Two works coming up for auction in our December...
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Daffydils: A Cartoon Festschrift
Festschrifts, usually academic in nature, can also be jovial. An exceptional example, coming to auction in our December 14 sale of Illustration Art, features contributions from some of the greatest...
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Ingeborg Willy & the Making of Snow White
A scrapbook, presumably kept by an inker at Walt Disney Studios, reveals much about the production of Snow White. The album is a highlight in our December 14 auction of Illustration Art. In this video,...
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Records & Results: Early Printed Books
Our October 17 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books garnered eager interest from bibliophiles, exceeding the sale’s high estimate and earning more than half a million...
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Records & Results: Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks
On October 19 our sale of Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks combined works spanning the lifetime of the medium into an auction intended to “highlight the interrelationships between...
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Records & Results: Rare & Important Travel Posters
Our annual auctions of Rare & Important Travel Posters are destinations in and of themselves. On October 26, we offered more spectacular examples that embodied a century’s worth of technological...
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Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints
A new auction record for any print by American master Edward Hopper was established at our auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints on November 2. The extremely rare etching The Lonely House, 1923,...
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Records & Results: Autographs
Our auction on November 7 saw fine results for Autographs by important historical figures in a variety of fields, from government to science to music. The total of $662K exceeded the estimate for the...
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