SAN FRANCISCO – On Thursday, April 5, PBA Galleries will kick off their spring auction season with a sale of Fine Literature & Fine Books. Included in the sale are over 450 lots of fine, rare and uncommon books, including early literature, poetry, philosophical works, science and medicine, history and religion. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.Continue reading
THOMASTON, Maine – On Saturday and Sunday, April 7 & 8, Thomaston Place Auction Galleries will conduct a special sale of over 750 lots of great estate finds from families across northern New England. With its mix of fine art, furnishings, decorative items, and collectible objects, the auction will undoubtedly offer “just the thing” to inspire any collector or home decorator. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
FRANKLIN, Mass. – Three artworks attributed to Pop Art icon Andy Warhol—stylized renditions of the products Chanel No. 5 and Absolut Vodka, plus one of Elvis Presley as a gunslinging cowboy—combined for a little more than $50,000 in an online fine art auction titled “Private Art Collections & Estate Discoveries” held March 15 by Woodshed Art Auctions. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
PARIS (AP) – He’s one of French art’s most famous—but least understood—masters.
Now the Louvre in Paris is seeking to reinterpret the work of Eugene Delacroix in a retrospective that goes beyond the brief years in which he painted his most recognizable masterpieces, such as Liberty Leading the People, which has graced postage stamps and banknotes in France as well as a Coldplay album cover.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A nearly decade-long makeover of King Tut’s tomb aimed at preserving one of Egypt’s most important archaeological sites and also one of its most popular tourist attractions is close to complete, the Getty Conservation Institute of Los Angeles said Tuesday.
NEW YORK – “Hey hey, my my, rock ’n’ roll will never die.” Many of the stellar rock bands of the 1960s, including the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix, are represented in an online auction of vintage psychedelic rock concert posters to be conducted by Jasper52 on Tuesday, April 3. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.