EAST DENNIS, Mass. – Almost 350 lots will be offered in Eldred’s Marine Sale, scheduled for Thursday, February 24 at the firm’s headquarters on Cape Cod. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
LARCHMONT, N.Y. — Clarke Auction Gallery dubbed its February 6 sale the “Awesome Estates Auction,” and it lived up to its name. The undisputed top lot was a Fernand Leger (French, 1881-1955) painting that achieved $375,000.
NEW YORK – On Tuesday, February 22, starting at 11 am Eastern time, Jasper52 will present a sale of Gravures and Heliogravures. the auction consists of just 74 lots but includes some of the greatest names and images in photography. Several photographs by Diane Arbus are featured, among them a brooding night shot of Disneyland Castle in California; several by Henri Cartier-Bresson, including a compelling shot of a cell in a model prison in the United States; and photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Tina Modotti, Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, Eadweard Muybridge, Erwin Blumenfeld and Lewis Hine. The Man Ray offerings include his iconic 1924 work Le Violon d’Ingres (The Violin of Ingres); Helmut Newton is represented by his masterpiece Big Nude III, Henrietta, Paris, 1980; and Robert Doisneau’s contribution is his 1950 black-and-white Le Baiser de l’hotel de ville (The Kiss by the Hotel de Ville). Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.