STANSTED MOUNTFICHET, UK – On April 21, Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers will hold a sale titled Let There be Light – The Christopher Butterworth Collection, featuring 250 lots ranging in price from £250 to £5,000. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
DALLAS — Headlined by some of the most famous and popular artists of all time, Heritage Auctions‘ April 19 Prints & Multiples Signature® Auction presents a who’s who of the Modern and Contemporary art landscape. Featuring a museum’s worth of highlights, the event includes works by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joan Mitchell and Kehinde Wiley. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
MT. CRAWFORD, Va. – The Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Spring Fine & Decorative Arts Auction contains everything from contemporary paperweights and French art glass to antique sewing accoutrements and mid-century Modern material. The sale will take place during four days, from Wednesday, April 20 through Saturday, April 23, and bidding opens at 9 am Eastern standard time on each day. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
CHICAGO – The sale of an archaic bronze food vessel in Hindman Auctions’ March 29 Chinese and Himalayan Works of Art auction capped three successful days of Asian Art sales. The auction achieved more than $2.24 million, doubling its presale estimate. Also headlining the sale was property from the estate of Hisazo Nagatani, an admired collector and connoisseur of Asian works art. Stunning results were seen across all three sales, beginning with Japanese and Korean Works of Art on March 25, followed by Strong Diversions: Property from a Lifetime of Play on March 28, and concluding with Chinese and Himalayan Works of Art on March 29.
NEW YORK – Southern folk pottery was largely a patriarchal tradition, with fathers passing the skill along to their sons. Up until well into the 20th century, Southern women folk potters were few and far between. Marie Gooden Rogers was a notable exception who took face jugs — a form dominated by generations of men in the Meaders family — and made it her own.