The top lot in the auction was the cover lot, a large watercolor on two sheets of paper by Charles Burchfield, titled January Sun ($375,000). From the same collection, a Thomas Hart Benton oil Study for Sugar Cane sold for $275,000 MILFORD, Conn. – Lively bidding over the phone and online drove the results at […]
The Jochimsen collection was a bountiful selection of top-quality Wave Crest and French cameo pieces plus other fine items. It was the headliner of the 516-lot auction held in Douglass, Kansas DOUGLASS, Kan. – A 9 ¾-inch-tall blown mold French cameo glass vase signed Galle and a Fenton mosaic art glass pedestal vase each knocked […]
Headlining the sale will be paintings by Indian artists B. Prabha and Maqbool Fida Husain. Both have appeared in Bruneau & Co. auctions before, with successful results. CRANSTON, R.I. – Paintings by the renowned Indian artists Maqbool Fida Husain (1915-2011) and B. Prabha (1933-2001) fared so well in past Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers sales, the […]
Palmira boasted floor-to-ceiling shelving that housed thousands of collectible items ranging from pre-Colombian style pottery to Asian carved jade items and more. The sale will be held in New Orleans by Crescent City Auction Gallery. NEW ORLEANS, La. – A pair of antique Chinese watercolors on silk depicting The Ten Courts of Hell, a rare […]
The Rare Autographs, Photographs & Books auction features historical material from multiple collecting categories. The full catalog showing all 391 lots is up for bidding and viewing now. WILTON, Conn. – A rare and historic Revolutionary War powder horn, an extensive archive of material pertaining to Playboy magazine’s Hugh Hefner, a document signed by John […]
It was the second ‘White Glove’ auction event of the last two weeks for Andrew Jones Auctions in Los Angeles. Both auctions grossed well over $1 million. Part 2 of John Nelson will be held Dec. 12. DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Works in marble achieved marvelous results in Andrew Jones Auctions’ October 24th auction […]
The auction will feature fine art, antiques, jewelry, carpets, furniture and decorative arts, all at attractive price points, starting promptly at 10 am Eastern time. BEACHWOOD, Ohio – An eerily evocative oil painting by the Japanese-American artist Kikuo Saito (1939-2016) and two colorful and vibrant outdoor renderings by Constantin Kluge (French, 1912-2003) are just a […]
The mansion’s beautiful period furnishings may also be purchased at an additional cost. The building and its lovely manicured grounds are on the National Register of Historic Places. ABERDEEN, Miss. – The historic Adams French mansion – a magnificent, 7,000-square-foot antebellum home on the National Register of Historic Places, situated on four bucolic acres atop […]
The fragment, consisting of 13 total pages, will be offered on Day 2 of Holabird Western Americana Collections’ 5-day Autumn Splendor Western Americana Auction, online and live in Reno, Nev. RENO, Nev. – An exceedingly rare First Folio single play “fragment” of William Shakespeare’s The First Part of Henry the Fourth, published in 1623, will […]
