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Records & Results: African-American Fine Art
We held our highest-grossing auction to date on April 5, totaling $4.5M—more than $1M over the high estimate of the sale. The 160 works that made up the highly curated offering of African-American Fine...
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A Walker Evans Print, The Only One of Its Kind
The cover lot of our April 19 auction, The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks is the only known extant print of Walker Evans’s graphic silver print, River Rouge Plant, Detroit, Michigan (with...
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A Look Inside the Catalogue: The Collection of William Wheeler III
At Auction June 21 Revolutionary & Presidential Americana from the Collection of William Wheeler III This collection offers glimpses of American history both manuscript and printed, with a wide...
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Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana
Our auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana on April 12 was the department’s highest-grossing sale in four years, continuing an upward trajectory as each offering of Americana and African...
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Have You Met Breuer? An Architectural Archive
An archive of illuminating material from the office of the great modernist architect and designer Marcel Breuer leads the architecture section of our April 26 auction of Fine Illustrated Books &...
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How Car Posters Drove Graphic Design
In the dawn of the motor car, most automobile purveyors relied on a “keeping up with the Joneses” mentality, touting ever-evolving technology and styles to drive car sales. A selection of car...
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Rembrandt’s Self-Portraiture in Etchings
The self portraits of Rembrandt van Rijn have been the focus of art historical examination since their creation nearly 400 years ago. Scarce examples from our May 8 auction of Old Master Through Modern...
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A Look Inside the Catalogue: American Art
At Auction June 14 This highly curated sale of American Art presents original works in a variety of media, including drawings, watercolors and sculpture. Offerings range from nineteenth-century...
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Ancient Then & Ancient Now: Piranesi’s Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi spent eight years researching the ancient ruins of Rome before completing his magnum opus, Le Antichità Romane. A complete set of the 220 engravings in four volumes is a...
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Specialist Selections from Contemporary Art
We asked the Contemporary Art department to pick their favorite work from their May 22 auction. For people who see dozens–if not hundreds–of works of art each day, it takes a lot to stand out. Lot...
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The Sci-Fi Collection of Stanley Simon
Stanley Simon of New York City was a passionate life-long collector of sci-fi, thriller and fantasy first editions. His paramount collection of almost 100 first editions, nearly all of them signed,...
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Contemporary in 3D
Our May 22 auction of Contemporary Art features a selection of recent sculpture and multiples by some of the world’s most famous living artists. Here are a few of our favorites. Ai Weiwei Lot 385: Ai...
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Records & Results: The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks
Our April 19 auction The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks was led by the only known extant print of River Rouge Plant, Detroit (with Ford signage on freight car), 1947, by Walker Evans. The...
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Records & Results: Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics
Our auction of Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics on April 26 featured highlights by artists of the twentieth century and scarce volumes from fine presses. Lot 169: Gustav Klimt, Das Werk von...
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Records & Results: Graphic Design
Our auction of Graphic Design on May 3 offered vintage posters that defined the styles of the twentieth century. In a highly-curated selection of just over 250 lots, the highlight was Man Ray’s iconic...
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Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints
With highlights spanning six centuries, our auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints on May 8 offered works by the greatest innovators in the field. The sale totaled more than $2M. Lot 424: Henri...
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Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Literature
Science fiction ruled on May 15 at our auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature. Selections from the Estate of Stanley Simon, featuring 84 rare and first editions of cornerstones of the genre,...
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Interview with Rick Meyerowitz: “A Literate, Civilized & Mature Fellow”
Artist and illustrator Rick Meyerowitz was kind enough to talk to us in advance of our June 5 sale of Illustration Art, which will include highlights from his personal collection, coming to auction for...
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Records & Results: Contemporary Art
We offered nearly 400 works by some of the twentieth century’s greatest innovators in our May 22 auction of Contemporary Art. Abstract works ruled the day, with only three of the top 20 lots denoting a...
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The Original Beaver Map & Its Legacy
Tucked into the top left corner of an eighteenth-century map in our June 7 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books is a vignette that at first glance seems more charming...
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