Invisible Man Appears at Auction, Jackie Kennedy’s Love Letters, and More Fresh News

Poster promoting the 1933 Universal film The Invisible Man, auctioned by Heritage for $274,850. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions

 

News and updates from around the arts and auction community:

  • Last weekend, an eerie and very rare poster promoting the 1933 Universal film The Invisible Man stepped into the auction spotlight and sold for a staggering $284,850. The selling price was four times the pre-sale estimate. [Read more from Antiques & the Arts Weekly]
  • On Wednesday, a series of personal letters between former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and David Ormsby-Gore (Lord Harlech) were sold at a Bonhams auction in London. A private collector purchased the letters for $123,000. [Read more from NBC News]

  • The starship Enterprise has a new five-year mission: to boldly go and raise money to help a quirky museum live long and prosper. The Hollywood Science Fiction Museum recently took possession of life-size wax figures of all seven crew members from the original Star Trek TV series, including Capt. Kirk. [Read more from Associated Press]

  • Bob Dylan’s handwritten lyrics of an unpublished 1961 song about Wisconsin will hit the auction block on March 30. After dropping out of college and before moving to New York, Dylan worked the folk scene in Madison, Wisconsin, without much success. [Read more from Rolling Stone]

 

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Egypt’s famed pyramids get new lab to restore pharaonic boat

The Great Pyramid, which contains the burial chamber of the Pharaoh Cheops. Image by Berthold Werner. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.

 

CAIRO (AP) – Egypt’s famed pyramids at Giza have a newcomer in their midst: the largest on-site antiquities laboratory meant to restore the location’s second pharaonic boat.

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Arts advocates in New Hampshire protest Trump budget plan

Volunteers delivered information packets to senators at the State House in Concord, N.H., on March 29, 2017. Copyrighted photo of State House taken in 2004 by Jared C. Benedict, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license

 

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – Advocates of the state’s creative sector on Wednesday criticized President Donald Trump’s proposal to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, arguing that the arts are key to driving the state’s economy.

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Jeffrey S. Evans resumes auction of colossal glass collection April 7-8

Large collection of ruby-stained Broken Column EAPG. Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates image

 

MT. CRAWFORD, VA. – Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates will continue the dispersal of 20,000-plus pieces of 19th and early 20th century glass collected by the late Edward Kleppinger of New Orleans, La., in a single-owner auction on April 7 and 8 beginning at 9:30 a.m. Eastern each day. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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