NEW YORK – More than 200 handmade rugs—antique, vintage and modern—will be offered in a Jasper52 online auction Tuesday, Nov. 13. Sizes range from prayer rugs and runners to palace-size carpets. Estimates start at $800 and rise to nearly $100,000. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW MARKET, Tenn. – Paintings with provenance from a legendary collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterworks amassed by the former president and later chairman of the board of Eastman Kodak will be auctioned online by John Coker Ltd. on Nov. 17. All lots in the auction will be offered without reserve, and absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
CHICAGO – A love of photography and dedication to camera collecting—especially the Leica—is what drives Tamarkin Camera and Tamarkin Rare Camera Auctions to seek out the world’s rare and intriguing photographic collectibles. Tamarkin’s 37th Rare Camera Auction taking place in New Haven, Connecticut, on Saturday, Nov. 17, offers some of the most desirable Leica and other fine collectible cameras ever assembled under one roof. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of an Indonesian cave.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Likenesses of British officers who served in the Revolutionary War are rare. Therefore, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s recent acquisition of the first bust-length, British military portrait for its collection is significant especially given the connection of this oil-on-canvas to events that happened nearby. The subject, Major Patrick Campbell, was a Scottish officer who served in the British lines at the Siege of Yorktown. Until the last few decades, the portrait descended through the family of Major Campbell’s sister.
NEW ORLEANS – A 1956 oil painting by Japanese artist Kumi Sugai (1919-1996), an early 20th-century Gustav Stickley American Mission oak double costumer rack and a 1980 color relief multiple from Israeli artist Yaacov Agam (b. 1928) are a few expected highlights in Crescent City Auction Gallery’s Major Fall Estates Auction, slated for the weekend of Nov. 16, 17 and 18. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.Continue reading