Dallas, TX – A major, sophisticated collector of comic book art paid $200,000 for the original cover art of a 1952 horror/science fiction comic in a transaction brokered by Heritage Auction Galleries, the Dallas-based firm announced today. Wally Wood’s cover art for Weird Science #16 (EC Comics, 1952) had been the property [Read More]
Daily Archives: May 23, 2008
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The future of two important pieces of South Australian history was secured following an auction by Bonhams and Goodman in Sydney on 20 May 2008, when a Victoria Cross medal group awarded to Vietnam War hero Major Peter Badcoe VC, along with a breastplate related to the Burke and Wills expedition, was [Read More]
On Thursday night at the Vancouver Convention Centre’s Parkview Terrace, Heffel Fine Art Auction House held the one of the top Canadian fine art auctions in history. The auction was the first of Canada’s major spring auctions, featuring 164 lots, one which sold for just over a million dollars. The $11.5 million [Read More]
NEW YORK, NY – Sotheby’s, spring sale of American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture brought a total of $87,006,200 (est. $52,615,000), the second highest total ever for a sale of American Paintings. Seventeen works sold for over $1 million, three of which sold for over $5 million. Fourteen artist records at Auction were [Read More]
LONDON – Hot on the heels of The Orientalist Sale at Sotheby’s New York in April – which realised $8.7 million and saw Jean- Léon Gérôme’s Rüstem Pasha Mosque, Istanbul sell for $1.9 million – Sotheby’s London is now delighted to announce that it will present an impressive range of Turkish, North [Read More]
(Flat Rock, N.C.) – A pair of scarce Confederate Civil War buttons soared to $8,000, and an image of Georgia Confederate Sgt. Nathaniel Gardner hammered for $7,000 at a three-day Antiques, Coins and Art Auction held May 1-3 by Richard D. Hatch & Associates. They were the top two lots in a [Read More]