A tiny oil painting discovered on a routine valuation day has just totalled over £4K in a Fine Art Auction this week. The 25cm by 19cm oil is by one of Scotland’s most sought after genre artists, Robert Gemmell Hutchison ((1855-1936). Hutchison was born and educated in Edinburgh and gained a love [Read More]
Daily Archives: December 2, 2011
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A first issue of Action Comics, featuring Superman, has set a record $2.16 million for a single comic book. The comic graded at 9.0, was auctioned online at www.comicconnect.com. The starting bid with a reserve price of $900,000. “When we broke the record in 2010 by selling the Action Comics No. 1, [Read More]
A pair of important Fran?ois Linke (French, d. 1846) Kingwood and Tulipwood Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine Cabinets with Wedgwood Jasperware Plaques, made in Paris, circa 1900, may bring $200,000+ as the top lot in Heritage Auctions’ Dec. 7 Decorative Art Signature® Auction, being held at the company’s Dallas Design District Annex, 1518 [Read More]
GunBroker.com, the world’s largest Internet auction site for firearms and accessories, has been named the Official Internet Auction Site of USA Shooting and the USA Shooting Foundation in a partnership that will feature a special edition of firearms that will be available exclusively on the popular auction site. “USA Shooting has benefited [Read More]
On Thursday, December 15 Swann Galleries will offer an unprecedented single-owner sale of The Complete Poster Works of Roger Broders, the celebrated travel poster artist whose name is synonymous with French Art Deco. Not only is this the first time that all of Broders’s work, including previously unknown variants and non-travel images, [Read More]