Stan Lee’s Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Earliest Painting of Bronte Sisters, and More Fresh News

Screen capture of Stan Lee as Willie Lumpkin in  2005 film Fantastic Four. Fair use of low-res image. All Marvel haracters and the distinctive likeness(es) thereof are trademarks & copyrights © 2005 Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved

News and updates from around the arts and auction community:

  • Marvel Comics legend and cameo king Stan Lee has added yet another honor to his long list of achievements. The co-creator of the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, X-Men and many others is now immortalized on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. [Read more from comicbook.com]
  • A painting acquired “by mistake” after an auction house mix-up has sold for $65,000 after being identified as the earliest known portrait of the Bronte sisters. The watercolor is believed to be the work of Sir Edwin Landseer. [Read more from The Telegraph]
  • Two of O.J. Simpson’s California driver’s licenses will be auctioned in October, including one that was issued in 1995, while Simpson was on trial in the murder case of his ex-wife and her friend. The licenses were consigned to auction by a former Simpson bodyguard. [Read more from USA Today]
  • Photographs that capture the wit, warmth and energy of Merseybeat group, Gerry and the Pacemakers on their rapid rise to fame, are on display through January at the Museum of Liverpool. The exhibition includes images by local photographers Graham Spencer and Peter Kaye. [Read more from the Museum of Liverpool]

 

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Jasper 52 Asian arts auction July 29 steeped in Japanese tradition

Late Meiji Japanese pottery Oribe ware chaire, a tea caddy for storing powdered green tea used in tea ceremony. Height with cover: 3 1/16in. Estimate: $165-$185. Jasper52 image

 

NEW YORK – On Saturday, July 29, Jasper52 will conduct an online auction of Asian decorative art and antiques in which nearly half of the catalog is devoted to fine Japanese items. The auction will also feature several beautiful thangkas, which are Tibetan paintings on cotton, or silk appliqué, usually depicting a Buddhist deity, scene, or mandala. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.

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‘Kiss of Life’ news photo still stops people in their tracks

Rocco Morabito’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo ‘Kiss of Life,’ 1967, Jacksonville Journal.

 

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) – Rocco Morabito’s daughters remember how you could smell the newsprint on him when he came home from working at his old Jacksonville Journal. Perhaps it was in his blood, he loved the newspaper game so much.

Just one thing interrupted his long career at the now-gone afternoon paper: World War II.

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