NEW YORK – Antique Associates at West Townsend Inc., one of America’s foremost brokers of high-quality antiques, art and antique arms, has gathered a 210-lot online auction that will be conducted by Jasper52 on Friday, Nov. 13. AAAWT’s second such auction features high quality Americana, furniture, antique arms and Civil War items with reserves at a fraction of retail. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers. Continue reading
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A watercolor on paper figural work by Marc Chagall, a life-size marble figure of Pamona by Adelaide Pandiani Maraini, a Chinese imperial-style table clock, and original oil paintings by Montague Dawson and Daniel Ridgway Knight will all come up for bid in A.B. Levy’s online-only auction Thursday, Nov. 19. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
PHILADELPHIA — On Nov. 17, Freeman’s will hold its latest Modern & Contemporary Art auction. The sale includes several notable single-owner sections of important works from prominent collections, all of which are fresh to the market, including the market debut of Clyfford Still’s PH-491. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Founded in 1852 in West Meriden, Conn., Bradley & Hubbard (B&H) metal decorative objects gained and held their popularity throughout the company’s 90-year existence. From brass and bronze goods to cast-iron figures, the firm, originally known as Bradley, Hatch & Co., was well known for its clocks, andirons, sewing birds and other objects before it found a niche in the 1870s with kerosene-burning light fixtures cast-iron doorstops.
MONROVIA, Calif. – Moran’s Fall California & American Fine Art auction on Nov. 17 is filled with a selection of fine and important works from the nation’s most respected artists. From the California coast to the cliffs of the Grand Canyon, inspiring vistas from across the country are sure to impress. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
DALLAS – Heritage Auctions’ Manuscripts event, to be held Thursday, Nov. 12, is rife with correspondence, documents and ephemera signed by men and women about whom libraries’ worth of histories have been written. They range from Mary Queen of Scots to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln to Bugsy Siegel, Steve Jobs to Nelson Mandela. Princes and princesses, presidents and Supreme Court justices, generals and foot soldiers, authors and artists, inventors and dictators – their private missives and public pronouncements available in this sale often helped shape the modern world and our understanding of it. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
DENVER, Pa. – Morphy’s will unleash three centuries of firepower on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 17 and 18, with auction sessions titled “Early Arms & Militaria from the Age of Exploration, Empire & Revolution,” and “Extraordinary, Sporting & Collector Firearms,” respectively. Collectors, military enthusiasts and history buffs are invited to bid absentee or live via the Internet through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – On Thursday, Nov. 12, Jasper52 will present an exciting auction of Americana that features items exclusively from the prestigious New Hampshire Antique Dealers Association. Everything that could be found in a country store a century ago – from weathervanes to the fabric used to stitch a quilt – can be found in the sale’s nearly 400 lots. Bid absentee or live online exclusively through LiveAuctioneers.
OAKLAND, Calif. – Clars Auction Gallery set a new world record on Sept. 13 for Raimonds Staprans’ 1987 painting titled Still Life with Red Piano Stool, which realized $147,600. On Sunday, Nov. 15, Clars will present an earlier Staprans work, Pale Moon, estimated at $30,000-$50,000. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW ORLEANS – A rare New Orleans .900 silver fireman’s speaking trumpet from 1891, plus original paintings by Clementine Hunter, Sarah Ashley Longshore, Hovsep Pushman and Jose Puyet are just a few of the expected top lots in Crescent City Auction Gallery’s Important Fall Estates Auction slated for the weekend of Nov. 14-15. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.