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Artfact Live! will offer live online bidding on works by leading American and California artists spanning the mid-19th to mid- 20th centuries at John Moran Auctioneers’ third California and American Art Auction of 2011.  The sale represents a broad survey of the American experience, with 210 oils and watercolors including Impressionist landscapes, still lifes, Westerns, American Scene subjects and California School watercolors, as well as sculptures.  With estimates ranging from under $1000 up ...

SOUTHAMPTON, MA – Boston Rare Maps, one of the country’s premier specialist dealers in rare and unusual antique maps, presents AmericanMapmaking.com, a virtual online exhibition of antique American maps from the late 18th Century.  Originally hosted at the Harvard Map Collection, Toward a National Cartography: American Mapmaking, 1782-1800 traces the evolution of mapmaking during the formative years after the American Revolution, revealing the ways in which Americans sought to transform the ...

(Beverly Hills, CA) Artfact Live! will offer live online bidding at Swann Auction Galleries’ African-American Art Auction on October 6, 2011.  Featured in this exciting auction are rare works of fine art by renowned artists such as Charles White, Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff and many others.  A wide selection of additional paintings, fine prints and sculpture, all by African-American artists, is also included in the sale.  For additional information, or to bid live online from anywhere in the ...

  Online sales at Artfact, the world’s premier live auction platform, remained strong throughout July and August despite recent turmoil in the world’s financial markets.  A canvas by Hughes Claude Pissarro (b. 1935) sold online for €20,000 at Matsart Auctioneers & Appraisers’ International Fine Art Summer Auction on July 5th. Pissarro, who is the grandson of Camille Pissarro (1803 - 1903), first exhibited at the age of fourteen and is probably best known for his Impressionist works known ...

  Artfact Live! will offer live online bidding for Julien’s Auctions’ sale of property from the estate of Tony Curtis, taking place September 17, 2011 and encompassing over 450 items from the life and career of the renowned actor.  Items up for auction include an original work by Andy Warhol, sketches by Balthus, ceramics and prints by Picasso and Chagall, a fine collection of 20th century American and European paintings, as well as works of art by Curtis himself.  A portion of the proceeds ...

  (Thomaston, ME)  A three-footed bronze skillet, with provenance tracking ownership to Paul Revere, sold for $2,500 to the Paul Revere House at the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ 2011 Summer Fine Art, Antiques & Jewelry Auction.  Live online bidding for the sale, which took place August 27, 2011, was offered by Arfact Live.     The skillet is engraved on its underside “Paul Revere’s Skillet, given to John P. Reynolds by his aunt Maria A. Revere.”  Maria A. Revere was the ...

(New York, NY)  On September 13th Doyle New York will auction the estate of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.  A distinguished actor and decorated war hero, Fairbanks starred in films such as “Morning Glory” (1933), “Prisoner of Zenda” (1930) and “Gunga Din” (1939). The 430 lot sale includes memorabilia, bespoke clothing, photographs, books, silver, furniture, artwork and decorations from the actor’s Park Avenue home.  Artfact Live! will provide online bidding for this landmark event.   Highlighting ...