Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ May fine art sales featured highlights from numerous estates, which included three of the top selling lots by Rosemarie Trockel, Henri Le Sidaner and Thomas Hart Benton. The May 23 and 24 Post War and Contemporary Art, Fine Prints and American and European Art auctions realized over 4.6 million with nearly 25% of lots sold selling above high estimates.
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On May 20 & 21, 2017, Clars Auction Gallery hosted an important sale that featured exceptional works in fine art from prominent artists around the world. The art world took note of this sale and competed vigorously for several of these works driving prices well over high estimates. The sale offered important property from several major museums, collections and estates. Overall, this two-day sale realized $2.5 million.
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates will hold a catalogued auction of antiques, fine and decorative arts, and 20th century design on April 29 beginning at 9:30 am ET. The large auction consists of institutional and private consignments, highlighted by the collection of the late Winslow Anderson (1917-2007) of Milton, WV, being sold to benefit the Huntington Museum of Art. Anderson was an important designer at Blenko Glass (1947-1953) and Lenox China (1953-1980). He also studied painting and drawing with Hans Hofmann and other influential American artists.
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates’ annual spring auction of 18th & 19th century glass and lighting was held on May 20, 2017. The 1000-lot sale featured the collection of glass author and scholar Joan E. Kaiser of East Sandwich, MA.
The Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates June 16 & 17, 2017 Americana and Fine Antiques Auction was a successful event and generated strong prices in multiple categories. The two-day format consisted of 1,110 lots of high-quality material, much of which was fresh to the market, and, in many cases, had descended directly in the families of the original owners. In addition, the sale included property deaccessioned by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, VA, all proceeds to benefit the Collections Acquisition Fund.
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates will conduct a two-day auction of 19th & 20th century glass and lighting on July 28 and 29 beginning at 9:30am each day. The sale will contain over 1,350 lots featuring a prominent Connecticut estate collection, the Gerard Linschoten collection of Ridgefield, WA, part five of the Ed Kleppinger collection of New Orleans, LA, deaccessioned material from a Pennsylvania museum, plus additional private collections from Oregon, New York, and Pennsylvania.
Sotheby’s is honoured to announce the sale of fine furniture, paintings and works of art from the collection of Prince Marc de Beauvau-Craon, to be held at Sotheby’s on 15 September. This autumn event will inaugurate the new Sotheby's auction room in Paris, named after Laure de Beauvau-Craon.
An Egyptian limestone talatat relief fragment, circa 1351-1334B.C., leads Bonhams Antiquities Sale, 6 July at Bonhams New Bond Street. Carved in sunken relief with royal cartouches naming Pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife Queen Nefertiti, the piece is estimated at £60,000-90,000.
David Jagger's piercing Self-portrait set a new world record for the artist at Bonhams Modern British and Irish Sale today (Wednesday 14 June), achieving an exceptional £221,000 against an estimate of £20,000-30,000.
Matthew Bradbury, Bonhams Director of Modern British and Irish Art said, "Today's sale reflects the market's growing interest in and demand for works by home-grown artists. To once again set a world record for a work by David Jagger, particularly with a such a striking portrait of exceptional quality, is a wonderful result."
Red Brick School Building, Willesden, Spring, by Leon Kossoff is among the leading works in Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary Sale on 29 June 2017. A vibrant and highly textured rendering of a London city junction, the painting is estimated at £520,000-720,000.
Islington-born Kossoff (b. 1926) has spent most of his life London. His work has developed from his deeply personal attachment to the people and places of London. Red Brick School Building, Willesden, Spring describes Willesden Junction, where the artist set up a studio in 1961.
