Monumental 1938 Canadian Coca-Cola single-sided porcelain sign, CA$14,160
NEW HAMBURG, Canada – A monumental four-by-eight-foot Coca-Cola sign from 1938 achieved $14,160, a single family-owned 1966 Ford Ranger 250 Custom Cab Camper Special pick-up truck with Avion camper sold for $82,600, and a 2006 Harley Davidson Softail Deluxe black cherry motorcycle roared off with $16,520 in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.’s online-only Petroliana & Advertising auction held on October 29. A total of 474 registered bidders placed 9,077 bids in an auction that grossed $534,215. In all, 90 percent of lots were sold and 60 percent of the top 50 lots exceeded their estimate. All prices quoted are in Canadian dollars.
Log cabin show quilt, Geneva Luela Richards Graves (1862-1915), Hampshire County, Massachusetts, circa 1890, silks, metal bangles, wool, silk and metallic fringe and cotton foundation. Gift of Karen W. Cox, 2020.609.5
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Two new textile exhibitions will open at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg on December 3, and are sure to delight museum visitors. Stitched in Time: American Needlework, an exhibition of nearly 60 examples of bedrugs, whitework, embroidered hand towels, quilted petticoats, samplers, mourning and commemorative needlework, crewelwork, needlework with religious and geographical influences as well as sewing accessories, will remain on view through January 2, 2025 at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum. Additionally, an entirely new rotation of objects in the popular exhibition The Art of the Quilter that opened in 2021 will feature 15 pieces, 12 of which are recent acquisitions that have never before been displayed. This configuration of the exhibition, which will remain on view through August 2023 at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, will include 11 large quilts, one woven coverlet and three doll-size quilts that tell stories about people from America’s past and the societies in which they lived.
Ladies’ Vacheron Constantin 18K gold Metiers d’Art Lady Kalla diamond watch, estimated at $150,000-$175,000
ATLANTA – An array of timepieces and jewelry from the collection of philanthropist and entertainment attorney Joel A. Katz, as well as Civil Rights attorneys and law professors Marjorie and Ralph Knowles, will appear in Ahlers & Ogletree’s Important Jewelry & Fine Timepieces online auction on Friday, November 18. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Untitled Gunther Forg acrylic on canvas, estimated at $150,000-$250,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions
DALLAS – Every year, November marks a high season for the modern and contemporary art market, and on Thursday, November 17, Heritage Auctions presents a lavish selection of works that tell the story of the art world’s favorite back-and-forth volley: figuration to abstraction and back again. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Michael Menchaca, ‘Castizo no. 2,’ 2019, from the suite of 16 screen prints, La Raza Cosmica 20XX, 2019. Screen print. Detroit Institute of Arts, museum purchase, Friends of PDP Photographic Fund in honor of Lindsey Buhl, 2021.249.2
DETROIT — The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) presents Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century, an exhibition that celebrates the range and ingenuity of artwork by contemporary printmakers, through April 9, 2023. This exhibition features works using the latest digital tools, techniques used in the 15th century, and a combination of these methods that speaks to our current times. The exhibition also highlights many works acquired recently by the DIA.
