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THE METRO SHOW AND EDITIONS | ARTISTS’ BOOK FAIR FORM ALLIANCE, RUNNING CONCURRENTLY, JANUARY 23-27
Released: December 14, 2012The Art Fair Company is pleased to announce that the METRO Show has formed an alliance with the Editions | Artists' Book Fair. This new cooperative venture will enable the group to mount the 15th edition of the E|AB Fair which, scheduled to take place November 1-4, was cancelled due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy. Editions | Artists' Books runs concurrently in the Altman Building next door to the Metropolitan Pavilion, where the METRO Show will be held from January 23-27. "Understanding that Susan Inglett's Editions | Artists' Book Fair was a casualty of the devastating effec...
Rare and Storied Objects Unveiled at Peabody Essex Museum
Released: September 12, 2011This fall, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents over 30 rare and storied objects from the museum’s renowned Phillips Library, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, original transcripts from the Salem witchcraft trials, and the first example of paper currency in the Western world. Boasting 400,000 books collected over three centuries, PEM’s Phillips Library is one of the largest and oldest museum libraries in the country. Through a selection of books, manuscripts, sketchbooks, maps and ephemera, Unbound, Highlights from the Phillips Library at PEM offers a glimpse into historical ...
An old book sells for € 264,000 at Ketterer Kunst in Germany
Released: November 28, 2010With an overall result of € 1,9* million, the two day auction of Rare Books at Ketterer Kunst made for the best result in this section for the last twenty years. The evening auction alone realized a stunning 74 percent sold lots and a quota of 128 percent*. The reason for this tremendous success is in “the very innovative catalog concept,“ said Robert Ketterer. The introduction of the evening auction made for a jump start. A catalog was developed just for this particular event, with the objective to make the world of books, a world that usually requires a lot of expert knowledge, accessibl...
Mark Twain Manuscript among Top Lots of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ November 18th Sale
Released: November 19, 2010Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ November 18th Fine Books and Manuscripts auction was an outstanding success with 90% of all lots selling. The highlight of the sale was a hand-written draft chapter from Mark Twain’s A Tramp Abroad, which sold for $79,300 against a presale estimate of $30,000-50,000; an original hand-written high school essay by Ernest Hemingway sold for $7,320. Another item of note was a George Washington document signed as the President of the Potomac Company, which sold for $9,760. Autographed documents from Leo Tolstoy, Boris Pasternak, Auguste Rodin and Henri Matisse also p...
GRAY’S INAUGURAL FINE PRINTED BOOKS AUCTION EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS
Released: May 18, 2010Under the direction of Melanie Halloran, Gray’s new Director of Books and Manuscripts, Gray’s are proud to announce the results of their inaugural Fine Printed Books auction which took place May 6, 2010. Auctioneer & President Deborah J. Gray declares that over 80% of lots sold by value, with several lots selling above their estimates. Among the highlights of the auction were: Lot 44: Diderot's 3 volume Suite de Recueil des Planches from his Encylopedie published circa 1779. A fine series of engraved plates illustrating a variety of topics including surgery and anatomy, arc...
Ketterer Kunst to auction off a rare Florilegium
Released: April 29, 2010They had to be pretty and rare, the flowers that were accepted into the baroque florilegium "Fleurs du Printemps et de L'Este", which will be sold in the auction of Rare Books - Manuscripts - Autographs - Decorative Prints and Maritime and North German Art at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg on 17/18 May. Besides sketches of domestic and exotic flowers, the florilegium also contains 19 illustrations of tulips, which were the most valuable flowers by far in those days. The sense for an esthetic perception of plants and not only the question regarding their mere medical usage was growing in the 17...
LESLIE HINDMAN AUCTIONEERS TO SELL ANTIQUARIAN LIBRARY OF ITALIAN AND LATIN BOOKS SEIZED BY THE FBI FROM A BERWYN RESIDENCE
Released: March 9, 2010Leslie Hindman Auctioneers announces an auction featuring over 75 lots of early Italian and Latin literature from the antiquarian book library of John Sisto of Berwyn, Illinois. The books, maps and engravings comprise what remains of the over 3,500 items seized by the Chicago division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2007, of which 1,600 items were repatriated to Italy after being deemed unlawfully imported. The collection had been brought to the attention of the FBI by Mr. Sisto's heirs, following his death in 2007. After an extensive review of the materials by the FBI Art ...
DR. STEPHEN J. BURY APPOINTED TO THE POST OF ANDREW W. MELLON CHIEF LIBRARIAN AT THE FRICK ART REFERENCE LIBRARY
Released: February 24, 2010The Frick Collection is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Stephen J. Bury to the post of Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian at the Frick Art Reference Library. For the past ten years, he has been at the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom, and one of the world’s greatest research institutions, where he is a Deputy Director and Head of European and American Collections, as well as Maps, Music, and Philatelic Collections. Previously, Dr. Bury was Head of Learning Resources at the Chelsea College of Art & Design, London. Comments Anne L. Poulet, Directo...
Ketterer auctions continue to brave the crisis
Released: December 20, 2009Overall proceeds of € 19,3 million* are the excellent result of Ketterer Kunst’s business year 2009. Thus the company once more reached the same heights as it did for the last four years. The 2009 Top 10 Results € 780.000* calling price: 500.000 Otto Mueller - Artistenpaar € 355.000* calling price: 140.000 Franz Radziwill - Gespräch über einen Paragraphen € 290.000* calling price: 80.000 Emil Nolde - Tänzerin € 240.000* calling price: 70.000 Günther Uecker - Field (Feld) € 220.000* calling price: 140.000 Josef Albers - Study for Homage to the Square... ...
Bonhams to sell sponsorship to the soundtrack of New Year
Released: July 27, 2009Patronage of Robert Burns’s original manuscript and lyrics to Auld Lang Syne go under the hammer at 10th Made in Scotland Sale A bidder at Bonhams annual Made in Scotland Sale, held in conjunction with the National Trust for Scotland (18-21 August), will have the unique opportunity to ‘sponsor’ one of the world’s most popular songs: Auld Lang Syne. The work of Scotland’s favourite son, Robert Burns, the sale is expected to attract the attention of Scots around the world, with the fragment of the manuscript and lyrics expected to reach £50,000. This unusual lot has become available as part o...
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