Event Calendar
| Date(s) Sort descending | Event | Event Type | Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 21, 2024 | Turner Auctions & Appraisals - Online Auction
A Secret Vault The online auction features a selection of intriguing items recently discovered, or rediscovered, by the owners, a couple from Northern California. The 95 lots include autographed letters from famous people, postage stamps from Great Britain, and an assortment of gold coins from the 19th-20th centuries. Auction highlights include signed correspondence by the late Princess Diana from 1994; by abolitionist leader John Brown; and by biologist Charles Darwin, known as the father of evolution. Also of note is the Great Britain 30 pence Comedians Error Stamp from 1998 that featured English entertainer Joyce Grenfell. The owners are unsure of the exact provenance of the items in the vault, but many come from overseas and/or were passed down from late family members. In fact, most of the stamps and autographed items were acquired some years ago from Stanley Gibbons in London, England, the world’s oldest rare stamp seller and one of the foremost purveyors of such collectibles. (However, despite its prominence and 167-year history, the company has had a recent change of fortune. After its ill-fated purchase in December 2023 of the world’s most expensive stamp, the British Guiana 1c Magenta, Stanley Gibbons has now become part of the Strand Collectibles Group.) Eventually, the owners’ items were shipped from Europe and were sent to a storage vault in Wyoming. There other items accumulated over time, and they rested for some years -- only to be rediscovered recently when the owners moved to California. And what a marvelous surprise it must have been to revisit the vault! Now the couple has moved the rediscovered items to auction, in hopes that others will enjoy and appreciate in the light of day what has been hidden away for years. 10:30am - 1:30pm Turner Auctions + Appraisals So. San Francisco, CA More info |
Auctions | Virtual |
| April 25, 2024 | Freeman's | Hindman Auctions
Prints & Multiples The auction features strong sessions of artworks by Contemporary, and Modern Masters as well as a curated session of Photographs from Muybridge to Salgado. Pop Art is firmly highlighted by the exceedingly rare unique screenprint Action Picture by Andy Warhol, however you will also find works by Roy Lichtenstein, Alex Katz, Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Frank Stella, Patrick Caulfield and others. Not to be missed, the Modern session features a strong selection of etchings, linocuts and ceramics by Pablo Picasso with other impressive works by Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, and Alexander Calder. The session of American master printmakers is aptly highlighted by Edward Hopper's mysterious and intriguing Night Shadows from 1921. Spanning across over 500 years of art history, there is certainly something for everyone within this Spring's marquee Prints and Multiples auction. Preview by appointment Freeman’s | Hindman Auctions Chicago, IL More info |
Auctions | Midwest |
| April 25, 2024 | PBA Galleries
EC, Mad, Pre-Code Horror & R. Crumb The auction features over 400 lots of comic books, original art, signed books and limited edition prints. Our focus is on the scandalous horror comics of the 1950s; the early MAD comics of Harvey Kurtzman; and R. Crumb and the Underground comix revolution. A handful of treasures from other categories rounds out the sale. Comics sold referencing a third-party grading service are sold "as is" without PBA's grading opinion and without any express or implied warranty. No returns of CGC-certified material will be accepted for any reason. Even with careful shipping, CGC holders occasionally incur minor chipping and cracking during shipment; therefore, PBA cannot guarantee the condition of these holders. If they are damaged during transit, PBA will have them reholdered on the buyer's behalf, but will not accept returns due to holder damage that does not affect the grade or condition of the item itself. 11am PBA Galleries Berkeley, CA More info |
Auctions | West |
| May 1, 2024 | Doyle - New York
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps The selection of Americana features important autograph letter from Thomas Jefferson on the arrest of Toussant Louverture and a prisoner discharge signed by Abraham Lincoln. Among the maps are a rare example of Matthew Dripps’ Map of the City of New-York, Moses Greenleaf’s Map of the State of Maine, and Joseph Bouchette’s monumental ten sheet Topographical map of the Province of Lower Canada. Literature includes a fine collection of books by F. Scott Fitzgerald, including a rare signed copy of his novel of the French Riviera, Tender is the Night. William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Mosquitoes are offered in dust jacket and a great rarity is Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, one of 250 signed deluxe copies. In children’s literature, signed first limited editions in dust jacket of A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard’s Winnie-the-Pooh and House at Pooh Corner are included as is an inscribed 1869 edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Fine printing includes the magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner and early books include Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. 10am EXHIBITION SPECIAL PREVIEW Doyle - New York New York, NY More info |
Auctions | Mid-Atlantic |
| May 2, 2024 | Swann Auction Galleries
Modern & Post-War Art Our May Second auction of Modern and Post War Art has a strong contingent of Surrealist work. A Max Ernst collage as well as drawings by André Masson and Francis Picabia start off the section, followed by several works by American surrealist artists from the collection of Philip J. and Suzanne Schiller. The Schiller collection focuses on Social Commentary by American artists. In 1995 an exhibition and accompanying catalog of the collection titled, “In the Eye of the Storm: An Art of Conscience 1930 – 1970: Selections from the Collection of Philip J. & Suzanne Schiller,” opened at the Terra Museum Of Art in Chicago then travelled to several other venues. The majority of the Schiller collection was acquired by the Columbus Museum of Art in 2005. Gallerists Dorothy and Eugene J. Prakapas opened their New York Photography gallery in 1976. Their interests extended well beyond photography. Swann is pleased to offer works from their collection by Japanese sculptors, Minoru Niizuma and Tomihisa Handa, and painter Yoshio Sekine as well as works by German artists Walter Dexel and Karl Peter Röhl, and American modernist artists Paul Kelpe and John Sennhauser. One example of a particularly influential American painter is Janice Biala. Our museums and galleries have begun focusing on so many important artists that were overlooked along racial or gender discriminatory lines. Biala is now celebrated with a Retrospective in 2013 held at Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, NY, followed by shows at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY, 2018, McCormick, Chicago, 2020, and at Berry Campbell Gallery, NY closing this month, April 2024. A few other women artists in this auction are Irene Rice Pereira, Judith Rothschild, Sonia Sekula, and Edith Schloss. 12pm EXHIBITION HOURS: Swann Auction Galleries New York, NY More info |
Auctions | Mid-Atlantic |
