Auction Highlights
Ben Affleck’s costume worn in the 2003 film Daredevil was hotly pursued in Profiles-in-History’s July 31-Aug. 2 Hollywood Auction 32. Made of blood-red leather and complete with accessory cowl, gloves, custom holster belt, boots, cane and three “weapons,” it finished online at $60,000, the midpoint of its estimate.
Russian and European art found favor inAberdeen-Auctions’ Aug. 2-3 sale, a Natal’ia Sergeevna Goncharova (Russian, 1881-1962) oil-on-canvas painting titled Theatre Action leading the list of online purchases. Estimated at $15,000-$18,000, the 19 by 14 inch picture settled at $21,500.
In a July 6 sale conducted by Antique Place, this remarkable circa-1850 watercolor painted on two joined, wood-mounted wafers provided an unusual insight on colonial India. The bustling scene depicted on the 19 inch by 12 inch (combined) artwork features horses, carriages and elephants in front of a structure believed to have been built by the last Hindu king of India. After 14 bids, the painting sold via LiveAuctioneers for $11,400 against an estimate of $5,000-$7,000.
This well-detailed 16-inch-tall bronze of a man on horseback in a romantic embrace with a woman was created by Russian artist Evgeni Alexandrovich Lanceray (1848-1886). Offered in Bruce Kodner Galleries’ July 6 auction of antiques, diamonds and estate jewelry, the signed bronze was purchased through LiveAuctioneers for a within-estimate price of $7,200.
An early 16th-century painting depicting the Adoration of the Christ Child, attributed to Tommaso Aleni detto il Fadino, was a highlight of the July 5-6 sale held by Venetian auction company San Marco Casa d’Aste. Measuring 11.6 inches by 12.8 inches, the painting sold to a LiveAuctioneers bidder for $19,600.
Among the many outstanding lots purchased through LiveAuctioneers in Heritage Auction Galleries’ June 30 Signature Civil War sale was a phenomenal 1860s album containing 100 identified cartes de visite of Confederate generals. The collection flew past its $5,000-$8,000 presale estimate to settle online for $29,400.
Offered together as one lot in Opfer Auctions’ June 29 auction, a small polychrome-painted bear and a 5-inch bowl incised with a Native-American design were modestly estimated at $50-$100. Both were identified as Pueblo pottery, and the bowl was signed “DA,” very possibly referring to potters from the Martinez/Da dynasty of the San Ildefonso Indian tribe. After 77 bids, the pottery sold through LiveAuctioneers for an incredible $25,200.
