WESTPORT, Conn. – A signed copy of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first book, authored before he became president, a newly discovered handwritten and signed letter by Alexander Hamilton, and a 1781 letter signed by George Washington, then Commander of the Continental Army, are expected top lots in University Archives’ next online-only auction on Wednesday, Feb. 27. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
BOSTON – A rare Pierre-Auguste Renoir ledger sold for $37,462 by RR Auction on Feb. 6. The 14-page hardcover ledger book containing filled out in Renoir’s hand to record the sales of his paintings, marked “Tableaux” on the front cover. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Turner Auctions + Appraisals will offer fine Asian works of Art on Sunday, Feb. 24, at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time/1:30 p.m. Eastern. The sale features over 145 lots of art, sculpture, porcelain, jade and more. Most are from China and Japan, although Korea, Tibet, Thailand, India and Indonesia are represented as well. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Opening at the Whitney on March 29, Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s focuses on paintings from the 1960s and early 1970s that engage with bold, saturated, and even hallucinatory color to activate perception.
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NEW YORK – A major international loan exhibition focusing on the artistic tradition inspired by Japan’s most celebrated work of literature will go on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning March 5.