MUNICH – Hermann Historica enjoyed strong results for sales it held on January 31 and February 1. Highlights included jewelry, precious stones and an extensive poster collection acquired by commercial designer Willi Engelhardt, which proved to be a once in a lifetime opportunity.
NEW YORK – Doyle is pleased to present the auction Color & Light: The Collection of Dr. Thomas Chua on Wednesday, March 2, starting at 10 am Eastern time. Property from the collection will be presented as a featured section of the Doyle at Home sale. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Affiliated Auctions and Realty, LLC landed “the historical object of a lifetime” when the bell of the Santa Maria arrived at their auction house last month. The naval bell reportedly was aboard the largest of Christopher Columbus’ fleet of ships used during his first voyage of discovery and new lands in 1492. The auction house will offer the bell for public sale on Wednesday, March 2. Its estimate is $2.5 million-$5 million. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK (AP) – Designer Tory Burch says she’s noticed women don’t want to have rules about what they can wear and when they can wear it. They want to dress on their own terms and she’s helping them do it with her new collection. The first look on the runway set the tone of her Fall/Winter show at New York Fashion Week on Monday, February 14, with a dark, tech-knit track jacket with sporty yellow stripe, paired with wool boucle pants.
CARROLTON, Texas – Quickly establishing itself as top-rated auction house on LiveAuctioneers, Dalshire International is proud to introduce a next-level suite of listings with its Monthly Platinum Memorabilia Event Auction series starting March 2, 2022.
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NEW YORK — The nude in the canon of Western art has a complicated and interesting history. Paleolithic fertility sculptures embodied the essence of physicality and ancient Greek sculptures highlighted the virility and power of the male figure. Moving up to the Renaissance era, nude paintings of women were typically inspired by antiquity but often took on allegorical or symbolic meanings. Cultural traditions and philosophies are just some of the factors affecting how nude figures in art were viewed and depicted.
DALLAS — Dallas Auction Gallery will hold its spring Fine and Decorative Arts, Jewelry and Fashion Auction on Wednesday, March 2. It will feature personal items from the estate of Betty Gertz, the longtime proprietor of the East & Orient Company of Dallas, including several items acquired from Axel Vervoordt, the famous Belgian interior designer. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK — Dorothy Lichtenstein, widow of Roy Lichtenstein, and Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, have announced that the Lichtenstein family has promised to donate the late artist’s studio building to the museum. The Whitney, which since moving downtown in 2015 has been a neighbor of the studio, operating four blocks north on Gansevoort Street, will adapt the space to serve as the first permanent home of its widely influential Independent Study Program, which was founded in 1968.
CHICAGO – An extraordinary surreal Gertrude Abercrombie painting set a new world auction record for the artist at Hindman Auctions on February 17 when it sold for $387,500. The 1964 oil on panel, entitled The Dinosaur, was the highlight of Hindman’s Somewhere Out There auction, which featured incredible one-of-a-kind artworks from the more “out there” regions of the imagination. Led by the Abercrombie piece, the auction achieved a total of $970,656, nearly tripling its presale estimate.
MONROVIA, Calif. – John Moran’s Winter Modern & Contemporary auction will take place on Tuesday, March 1. It features fewer than 50 lots, but in this case, less is more. The lineup includes solid names such as Lita Albuquerque, Charles Arnoldi and Channa Horwitz, and also a selection of prints and multiples from artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Vija Celmins. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.