CHICAGO – On December 7, Hindman Auctions presented a successful Important Jewelry auction that totaled $3,591,406.
Signed Ansel Adams Yosemite photograph stars at Holabird, Dec. 17-19
RENO, Nev. – Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC is famous for its five-day auctions featuring thousands of highly collectible items in a rainbow of categories, but the firm will end 2021 with a tidy, three-day affair, taking place December 17-19 and boasting more than 1,900 lots of rare books, art, mining, numismatics, stock certificates and postcards. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Stars’ photos & contracts featured in RR’s Hollywood sale, Dec. 16
BOSTON – Stars of the silver screen feature in RR Auction‘s December 16 Hollywood sale, which is highlighted by a wealth of outstanding signed photographs of icons like Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Rudolph Valentino, Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn, John Wayne, Grace Kelly, Alfred Hitchcock. View the fully illustrated catalog on LiveAuctioneers.
Artwork of model Jerry Hall charms bidders at Roland NY
GLEN COVE, N.Y. – A stunning Antonio Lopez 1982 mixed media on paper artwork of supermodel Jerry Hall in a pink and black Oscar de la Renta dress earned top lot status at Roland Auctions NY‘s December 4 sale. It featured items from the estate of well-known Manhattan gallerist Eleanor Ettinger, whose eponymous West 57th Street gallery opened in 1975 and became a fixture in the New York art world.
Maine art museum receives $750K gift, renames gallery
OGUNQUIT, Maine (AP) – A Maine art museum has received one of the largest gifts in its history and is renaming a gallery after the donors.
Vintage Buck Rogers collectibles go back to the future
NEW YORK — Space exploration continues to fascinate. Millions watched Neil Armstrong take his first steps on the moon, followed the troubled Apollo 13 mission and viewed launches of civilian astronauts on rockets funded by billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. Closer to home, space toys have provided hours of imaginative play for kids of all ages, and a longtime favorite in this field has been the fictional Buck Rogers.