Tag Archive for: Howard Finster
Slotin delivers fun folk art while raising funds for Paradise Garden, Aug.5-6
Eddy Mumma, ‘Portrait with Red Face,’ estimated at $800-$1,200. Proceeds to benefit the Paradise Garden Foundation. Image courtesy of Slotin Folk Art Auction
BUFORD, Ga. – For 30 years, Slotin Auction has been the premier auction house bringing self-taught art, outsider art and folk art to the market. Its next sale, planned for Saturday, August 5 and Sunday, August 6 and featuring 920 lots, is guaranteed to put a smile on your face and bring fun, affordable, colorful, creative pieces to the auction block. In addition, 50 lots included in this sale will benefit the Paradise Garden Foundation, which preserves Howard Finster’s famous fanciful environment and provides educational opportunities to art enthusiasts of all ages. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
House party: Don Baum creation was among outsider highlights at Potter & Potter sale
Don Baum, untitled art house assembled from multiple pieces, $2,400. Courtesy Potter & Potter Auctions
CHICAGO – Potter & Potter Auctions‘ Outsider, Folk, and Fine Art Sale, which took place on June 28, totaled nearly $271,000. The sale offered 570 category-spanning lots and was the debut auction for Aron Packer, the company’s new director and specialist of its Fine & Outsider Art division. Absentee and Internet live bidding was facilitated through LiveAuctioneers.
Sacred and profane mingle at Potter & Potter’s quirky June 28 sale
Howard Finster, ‘Early Paradise Garden Painting Pre-Numbering,’ estimated at $10,000-$20,000. Image courtesy of Potter & Potter Auctions
CHICAGO – Potter & Potter Auctions will conduct a 570-lot Outsider, Folk, and Fine Art Sale on Wednesday, June 28, starting at 10 am Central time. Among the highlights is a canvas mixed media work by Chicago street artist Lee Goldie. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Everard to auction art, jewelry, furniture from fine Southern estates, June 20-21
Framed view of Sanford Robinson Gifford’s (American, 1823-1880) ‘Hudson River Scenery,’ artist-signed oil on canvas on board. Size: 22in x 31 3/8in framed; 10¾in x 19 15/16in sight. Authenticated by leading Sanford Robinson Gifford scholar Dr. Ila Weiss. Provenance: a Bluffton, S.C. private collection via family descent from a New Jersey art collector who had inherited the work in the mid-1940s. Estimate $60,000-$80,000
SAVANNAH, Ga. – The carefully curated selections featured in Everard Auctions’ June 20-21 Southern Estates and Collections online auction exemplify centuries of excellence and quality across a broad range of fine and decorative art. Highlights include a newly discovered and expertly authenticated waterscape by Sanford Robinson Gifford, John J Audubon’s White Heron, a sizable collection of outsider art, sterling silver, mid-century modern furniture, Asian art, jewelry, watches and autographed sports collectibles. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
Comic books, pop culture, fashion and art join forces in Jan. 28 auction
The ‘Great Wall of Comics’ displayed at Urban Culture Auctions, a division of Palm Beach Modern Auctions. Photo credit: PBMA Staff
LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. – On Saturday, January 28, Urban Culture Auctions, a division of parent company Palm Beach Modern Auctions (PBMA), will offer bidders 90 lots of prized comic books, including many key issues. Key issues – those featuring character debuts and major narrative moments – are especially sought after by collectors and can command significant prices compared to others in the same series.
Haring, Finster and Peter Max were top performers at Potter & Potter sale
Keith Haring Ignorance = Fear, Silence = Death poster, $3,840
CHICAGO – Potter & Potter Auctions‘ first-ever Fine & Outsider Art sale, which took place on December 1 and contained 365 lots, realized $155,000.
Potter & Potter presents its first Fine and Outsider Art sale, Dec. 1
Peter Max vase from 1961, estimated at $1,000-$2,000
CHICAGO – Potter & Potter Auctions will hold its first Fine & Outsider Art Sale on Thursday, December 1, starting at 10 am Central time. The 365-lot sale will feature works by Dali, Picasso, Chagall and their contemporaries, as well as an array of Outsider art by Howard Finster, Mose Tolliver and Purvis Young. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Discoveries await at Slotin’s Self-Taught Art Masterpiece sale, Nov. 12-13
Minnie Evans, ‘Angelic Woman with Pegasus,’ estimated at $15,000-$20,000
BUFORD, Ga. – Slotin Folk Art Auction’s Fall Self-Taught Art Masterpiece Sale presents a wide-ranging exploration of the folk art field from its early days up to today. The 856-lot auction will be held on Saturday, November 12, and Sunday, November 13. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Sendak, Rothko, Finster and other greats appear at Heritage, Nov. 4
1976 Maurice Sendak illustration for a Rolling Stone cover, estimated at $120,000-$180,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions
DALLAS – Works by Maurice Sendak, Mark Rothko, Maynard Dixon, Thomas Moran and the self-taught artist Howard Finster all appear in Heritage Auctions‘ much-anticipated American Art Signature® Auction, scheduled for Friday, November 4. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
