NEW YORK — Boasting more than 400 lots, Swann Galleries’ February 24 auction of Vintage Posters will offer a wealth of graphic gems. The works of Alphonse Mucha will be well-represented by decorative panels, portfolios and posters, including previously unseen rarities. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK (AP) – In this winter of hunkering down at home, there’s a trend that’s just right for the times: quilts as decor and as art. An artistic quilt might be displayed prominently on a wall, thrown over a couch, or just folded and hung from the rungs of a ladder. (Or you could cozy up with it.) “Quilts bring warmth, depth and texture to any room,” says Suzy Williams, a quilter and graphic designer in Oak Park, Illinois. She offers tutorials and patterns for quilt-making on her website, Suzy Quilts.
RENO, Nev. – Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC’s first major auction event of 2022 will be a four-day Western Trails & Treasures Premier Auction scheduled for Thursday through Sunday, February 24-27. Nearly 2,500 lots will cross the auction block. Start times on all four days will be 8 am Pacific time. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK (AP) – Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera, whose radiant color and geometric paintings were overlooked for decades before the art world took notice, has died. She was 106.
CINCINNATI – Hindman will offer more than 300 lots detailing the African American experience in the United States from the Antebellum period through the Civil Rights movement to the modern day in its February 23 African Americana auction. The sale brings together property from several important collections and estates, most notably the estate of Ambassador Edward J. Perkins of Washington, DC, who served as US Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, the United Nations and Australia, as well as the collection of Tom Charles Huston, which features 19th and 20th-century political imprints and ephemera. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
BOSTON – An early presidential letter signed in full by Dwight D. Eisenhower, addressed to the graduating class of the United States Military Academy, sold for $41,250 at RR Auction on February 17.
NEW YORK – Second careers are now the norm. Stephanie Case, co-owner and vice president of operations at Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals in Knoxville, Tennessee, and her husband, John Case, are a fitting example of the phenomenon. Each had a different career before launching their auction business in 2005. His was in biomedical and biotechnical engineering, and hers was in retail management. Their auction house has grown to include three satellite offices in Tennessee, and online platforms such as LiveAuctioneers has expanded Case’s reach across the globe.