Takesada Matsutani Charcoal

OAKLAND – On Sept. 15-16 Clars Auction Gallery conducted a major Fine Art, Decorative Art, Furniture, Jewelry and Asian Art Auction, which Redge Martin, company president, described as their strongest sale of the year. The highlight was an original charcoal on paper by Norman Rockwell that sold for $242,000. Absentee and Internet live bidding was […]

BERLIN – Bassenge’s June 2 Modern Art Spring Auction 99, with Internet live bidding available through LiveAuctioneers.com, includes two paintings and three charcoal drawings by Berlin artist and charitable benefactor Isabella Gabriel Niang. The charcoal drawings are from a suite created over several years. Bassenge describes the artworks as representing “existential, emotional states in powerful […]

‘Psycho’ One-sheet Featuring Hitchcock, $15,830 VALENCIA, Calif. – Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) was a larger-than-life figure in Hollywood, taking delight in making cameo appearances in the films he produced and directed. In 1960, his biggest projected film to date was Psycho, starring Anthony Perkins as the soon-to-be-notorious innkeeper Norman Bates. Hitchcock’s longtime studio, Universal Pictures, loved […]