Cool Cuban Movie Posters, 4 Gandhi Stamps Sell for $639K, and More Fresh News

Antonio Reboiro, Moby Dick, 1968. Silkscreen, 29 15/16 x 20 1/16 inches. Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos (ICAIC). Courtesy of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics

 

News and updates from around the arts and auction community:

  • Cuba is justifiably proud of its art heritage, but a Cuban art genre not widely known is its posters produced to promote U.S. films. Later this year, the Pasadena Museum of California Art will mount an exhibition of these types of graphically appealing posters. [Read more from PMCA]
  • A set of four rare stamps featuring portraits of Mahatma Gandhi has sold for a record $639,000 in a London auction. Only 13 of the stamps issued in 1948 are believed to exist. [Read more from The Hindu]
  • A Maud Lewis painting of a pair of fishermen placed in a charity shop donation bin in Canada, will net a big payday for the church group that owns it. It has already surpassed $125,000 in an online auction running through May 19. [Read more from The Herald News]
  • A British librarian was left speechless after a book appraisal on Britain’s Antiques Roadshow. You won’t believe how much his “book of fairy tales” is worth. [Read more from The Express]

 

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PBA Galleries turns to art, illustration, children’s literature at May 4 sale

Baum’s ‘The Emerald City of Oz,’ first edition with rare dust jacket. PBA Galleries image

 

SAN FRANCISCO – On May 4, PBA Galleries will offer over 350 lots of enchanting, intriguing, attractive and visually stimulating illustrated books, prints and materials on the decorative arts, along with significant editions of important children’s literature. In addition, rare works by L. Frank Baum and other authors from the Land of Oz, and a selection of fine books in a variety of fields, including finely bound literary and historical sets round out the sale. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Rare coins up for grabs in Jasper52 online auction April 29

1859 $3 Princess ‘Copper Spot’ gold coin, original, mint AU. $4,125-$8,250. Jasper52 image

 

NEW YORK – “We’re in the money! … We’ve got a lot of what it takes to get along!” The lyrics of The Gold Diggers’ Song from the Warner Bros. film Gold Diggers of 1933 are appropriate in describing the Jasper52 online-auction of 250 vintage rare coins on Saturday, April 29. Collector-quality gold and silver coins – U.S. and foreign – will be rolling to the highest bidders. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Renowned Soviet avant-garde art collection comes to Moscow

Vladimir Lysenko (1903-1950s), ‘Bull,’ oil on canvas. Image courtesy of http://savitskycollection.org/Lysenko.html

 

MOSCOW (AP) – Vladimir Lysenko’s painted bull stares with flat black eyes like a double-barrel shotgun, one of his horns festooned in a mosaic of bright rectangles, the tip of his tail stretched toward a glowing orange globe that may be the sun.

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Frank Lloyd Wright architectural tours planned to mark birthday

Included on the Frank Lloyd Wright tour is the Frederick C. Robie House on Chicago’s South Side. Image by Teemu08. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

 

CHICAGO (AP) – Fans of Frank Lloyd Wright will be getting the chance to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth by walking through some of the most famous buildings he designed in and around Chicago.

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Parchment copy of Declaration of Independence found in England

The signed copy of the Declaration is now badly faded because of poor preserving practices in the 19th century. It is on display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

 

BOSTON (AP) – Harvard University researchers say they’ve discovered a second parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence.

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