NEW YORK – Swann Galleries’ sale of Illustration Art on Thursday, July 16, features a standout offering of works from literary classics, magazine story illustrations, original advertising designs, as well as vintage and contemporary New Yorker art. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
CHICAGO – Hindman’s June 25-26, Asian Works of Arts auction continued the department’s trend in achieving solid results, yet again surpassing presale estimates. Strong presale interest and competitive bidding over multiple telephone lines and online bidding platforms helped push the sale total beyond expectations, ultimately realizing $1.2 million. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
CLINTONDALE, N.Y. – Kensington Estate Auction’s, Monday, July 13, online sale will take bidders from deepest Africa to distant galaxies. Kensington Estate Auctions will offer silver gelatin photograph albums, Hollywood and classical opera memorabilia, 18th–21st century books, art, jewelry, art glass, pottery and sculptures. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
LONDON – Open for bidding now until July 16, Christie’s auction Eureka! is a journey through the scientific and technological breakthroughs that have formed the modern world, and the brilliant minds that lay behind them. From Thomas Edison’s pioneering design for the lightbulb to Crick and Watson’s celebrated discovery of the structure of DNA, from Albert Einstein to Stephen Hawking, this online auction provides collectors with an opportunity to acquire a slice of history that has shaped the world we live in. View the fully illustrated catalog on LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – While many have pigeonholed painter Wayne Thiebaud, lumping him in with Pop Art, which started to take hold just as Thiebaud’s own art career blossomed, this tendency to oversimplify his work belies his far-ranging style and risk-taking as an artist.