Swann Galleries will offer an outstanding selection of Printed & Manuscript African Americana, at auction, on March 1. Swann is the only major auction house to devote sales to this important historical material dealing with the African experience in the Americas. This year’s sale contains material related to slavery and abolition, Africa, [Read More]
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Waverly’s March 1 Fine and Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction offers an 1840 first edition of John James Audubon’s The Birds of America. It comes with provenance from the Washington, DC-area collection of Charles Truitt and is estimated at $40,000-$60,000. White-headed sea eagle or bald eagle,’ one of 500 illustrations contained [Read More]
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction realised the exceptional total of £50,688,450/ $79,672,106/ €60,719,674, surpassing presale high expectations (estimate: £35.8-49.7 million*). The auction established extremely strong sellthrough rates of 90.5% by lot and 94.6% by value and saw two artist records at auction set for A. R. Penck and Albert Oehlen. Buyers from [Read More]