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Lots To Discover in Clarke Auction's June 25 Storage Sale

Clarke Auction
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June 19, 2018

Clarke Auction is holding its fifth, online-only, no reserve, storage sale on Monday, June 25, 2018. The sale features approximately two hundred lots of fine art pulled from the ...

Charles Sorlier limited edition color lithograph (#69/75) on Arches paper of an artwork after Marc Chagall (1887-1985), titled Roses et Mimosas (est. $10,000-$20,000).

Signed prints after Chagall, Picasso and other artists are just part of Ahlers & Ogletree's June 24th auction

Ahlers & Ogletree
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June 15, 2018

ATLANTA, Ga. – An important one-day auction featuring 583 lots of period antiques, fine art, modern art and furniture, Chinese decorative arts, rugs, lighting and more is planned for Sunday, June ...

St. Demetrius at Mt. Athos_Courtesy Museum of Russian Icons

Museum of Russian Icons presents Icons from the Hellenic World: The Tiliakos Collection

Museum of Russian Icons
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June 12, 2018

Icons of the Hellenic World will be the first major exhibition exclusively focusing on Greek and Byzantine iconography to be held at the Museum of Russian Icons. On view June 22 – October 21, 2018, ...

Babe Ruth, Lefty O'Doul, Lefty Grove and others Signed Baseball (1927-1930)

A Signed Babe Ruth Baseball Featured in Witherell’s  Mantuary Online Auction Just Before Father’s Day

Witherells
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May 30, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Lilly Wyatt 925.408.2737 http://lilly@lillywyattpr.com A Signed Babe Ruth Baseball Featured in Witherell’s Mantuary Online Auction Just ...

Lot 337: John James Audubon, Fish Hawk, Plate 81, hand-colored aquatint and engraved plate from Birds of America, London, 1830. Estimate $30,000 to $50,000.

From the Shoreline of Manhattan to the Island of California: Maps & Atlases at Swann Galleries June 7

Swann Galleries
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May 22, 2018

Swann Galleries’ June 7 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books offers nearly 400 groundbreaking maps, atlases, manuscript travelogues, naturalist plates and ephemera ...

Lot 183: Charles Schulz, Do you like Beethoven?, ink and graphite, signed and inscribed, for Peanuts, 1970. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Galleries’ Illustration Sensation Features Addams, Schulz

Swann Galleries
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May 17, 2018

Swann Galleries will offer an auction of Illustration Art on Tuesday, June 5, with more than 250 original works of art including comics, pin-ups and covers for books and magazines. Setting the ...

Lot 19: Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, Parts I & II, first separate edition, first state, Philadelphia, 1776-77. Sold April 12, 2018 for $50,000.

Swann’s $1M Americana Auction Continues Upward Trend

Swann Galleries
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April 17, 2018

Swann Galleries’ auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana on April 12 was the department’s highest-grossing sale in four years, continuing an upward trajectory as each offering of Americana ...

Lot 19: Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, Parts I & II, first separate edition, first state, Philadelphia, 1776-77. Estimate $50,000 to $75,000.

Paine’s American Crisis Leads Swann Americana Auction

Swann Galleries
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March 21, 2018

Swann Galleries’ Thursday, April 12, auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana illustrates the many facets of American history, from the records of a sixteenth-century Mexican silver mine, to ...

Contemporary Art Gallery Online Announces an International Call for Artists to Participate in the Sixth Annual “Water/Seascapes” Competition & Exhibition.

May 25, 2018

Contemporary Art Gallery Online announces their 6th Annual International 2018 “Water/Seascapes” Online Art Competition to be held from May 21st, 2018 to June 17th, 2018. Contemporary Art Gallery ...

Back in 1966-67, the “Souper” dress, inspired by the famous Soup Can art series by Andy Warhol, married art and advertising when paper dresses were in vogue. If one mailed in two labels from Campbell’s soup cans to the company along with $1, this dress was their reward.

Benefit Shop Foundation Auction Goes From Soup (Can) To Nuts May 16

Benefit Shop Foundation, Inc.
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May 07, 2018

The Benefit Shop Foundation, Inc., usually has merchandise that runs the gamut from soup to nuts in its monthly Red Carpet auctions. This is especially true for its next auction on Wednesday, May ...

A trapunto white work so-called 'bridal' quilt of extraordinary workmanship

Still Need a Gift for Harry and Meghan?

May 07, 2018

There's still time to send something personal to the British American couple soon to marry (in addition to a charitable contribution they suggest). How about an antique quilt, a jacquard coverlet, ...

Witherell’s American West at Auction has a newly discovered Thomas Hill painting of Yosemite Valley, a Grace Hudson and an Horatio Nelson Poole live and online.

Witherell's
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May 03, 2018

A newly discovered painting by Thomas Hill, “Silver Strand Falls,” that shows Yosemite Valley in its untouched beauty, a Grace Hudson of a Pomo child and a Horatio Nelson Poole Hawaiian landscape ...

Oil on Masonite painting by Rhoda Brady Stokes (La., 1901-1988), titled Cotton Wagon Going Into the Barn, signed and dated (est. $1,500-$2,500).

Artworks by Rhoda Stokes, Pal Fried, Marietta Berman, others in Crescent City's May 19-20 Estates Auction

Crescent City Auction Gallery
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May 03, 2018

NEW ORLEANS, La. – A gorgeous 19th century American Classical carved mahogany full tester bed and an exceptional French bronze and black marble figural mantel clock from around 1880 are expected ...

A rare early folky oil on canvas, signed Charles Fazzino, 1983, set an auction record price for the artist at $5,715.

Benefit Shop Auction Sets A High For A Folky Fazzino

Benefit Shop Foundation, Inc.
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May 01, 2018

Auction records for artists are routinely set — and broken — at large auction houses in New York City so it’s not often when a smaller auction house in the suburbs is able to achieve record prices ...

Thornton Dial (American, 1928-2016). History Refused to Die, 2004. Okra stalks and roots, clothing, collaged drawings, tin, wire, steel, Masonite, steel chain, enamel, spray paint, 8 ft. 6 in. x 87 in. x 23 in. (259.1 x 221 x 58.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection, 2014. © Thornton Dial

History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift to the Met

April 26, 2018

Opening May 22 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift will present 30 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and quilts by ...

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