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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