A very busy week coming up in the salerooms; here are a few of the auctions I'll be watching.
Things kick off with six sales on Tuesday, December 10:
Hat tip to Aaron T. Pratt, Pforzheimer Curator of early books & manuscripts at the Ransom Center, who brought this incredible but easily overlooked painting to our attention.
An exhibition presenting new works by popular illustrator Quentin Blake opens later this week at Shapero Rare Books in London.
Yesterday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a new exhibition called Making Marvels: Science an
After some very busy weeks in the auction rooms, a bit of a respite for the end of the month.
Closing out Walt Whitman’s boisterous bicentennial year — there were exhibitions aplenty, featured here and in our
Were we to read into the jacket art of the first edition of Barbara Taylor Bradford’s first novel, we’d note the focus on jewelry—in this case, emerald and gold earrings and a pearl necklace.
San Francisco-based Jack Stauffacher (1920-2017) was a master of types.
