NEW YORK – Two campaign flags from the 1900 presidential election, one picturing William Jennings Bryan and running mate Adlai Stevenson, the other promoting William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, are among the top lots in an Americana and folk art auction to be conducted on Tuesday, July 10, by Jasper52. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Five centuries worth of art and the estate of a founding father’s descendant, including several lots of presidential and historical material, command the spotlight at the July 14 Case Antiques Auction. The event will take place at the company’s new, expanded gallery headquarters in Knoxville. The growing 12-year-old company also has offices in Nashville and Kingsport, Tennessee. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
SAN FRANCISCO – Vidi Vici Gallery will conduct an auction of curated estate items on Tuesday, July 10. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.Continue reading
EL CAJON, Calif. – Helms Auction Inc.’s Tribal & Native American Summer Shindig planned for Saturday, July 7, is packed with over 460 lots of Navajo weavings and Pueblo pottery; pre-Columbian artifacts; prehistoric arrowheads and other stone tools; Oceanic, African and Chinese tribal artifacts; 20th-century Native American and Mexican jewelry items and more. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Michael Jackson’s first recording contract, Rosa Parks’ family home and Alex Haley’s manuscript for the Malcolm X biography are among the hundreds of extraordinary items being offered in Guernsey’s African American Historic & Cultural Treasures auction on July 25 and 26. Largely focusing on the Civil Rights Movement, African American movies and music, this auction will include items that are of huge cultural and historical importance. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
SAN FRANCISCO – On Thursday, July 12, PBA Galleries will host an auction of Fine Americana – Travel & Exploration – World History – Cartography with over 700 lots of rare and interesting material, ranging from Colonial America and the Revolution through to heady days of the Gold Rush, the tragedy of the Civil War, and the settling of the plains and mountain west, culminating in civil rights movements of the 20th century. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
BOULDER, Colo. – Artemis Gallery hosted a June 20-21 Connoisseurs Auction of exquisite antiquities, Asian and ethnographic art that set a new house record while attracting a legion of new collectors. The fully vetted 481-lot selection, with provenance from some of the world’s finest collections, followed a timeline that started in Ancient Egypt and proceeded through the centuries to the colonial settlements of the New World. In all, the sale surpassed the company’s previous auction record by a remarkable 77 percent. Absentee and live online bidding was facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.
MONROVIA, Calif. – John Moran Auctioneers hosted their biannual Art of the American West and Turn of the Century Design auctions on Tuesday, June 19, and the buyers came out in force. Each auction opened to a standing room only crowd, with plenty of additional interest coming in via LiveAuctioneers and phone bidders.
CLEVELAND – The art and design of classic, vintage, original movie posters will take center stage at Gray’s Auctioneers & Appraisers on Wednesday, July 11, as over 100 original movie posters and banners will come up for bid online and in Gray’s showrooms at 10717 Detroit Avenue in Cleveland. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – The current Jasper52 auction titled Premium Tribal Art offers more than 200 lots of figures and masks integral to traditional ceremonies of cultures from around the globe. Many of the top objects in the July 5 auction are pottery that originated in the pre-Columbian cultures of Central and South America where societies flourished before the arrival of Spanish explorers. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.