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Irving Penn’s exceptionally bold and textural Blast, 1980, printed 1981 ($30,000-45,000) leads Swann Galleries’ winter 2023 sale of Fine Photographs which closes for bidding February 23 at 12pm eastern.
Other works by Penn include the artist’s charming Old Friends: Balkin, Beaton,…
Successful artists’ books blend the craft of its making—paper, binding, scale, and printing method—with a conceptual premise tied to its status as time-based media in which the idea of the book—sequence, repetition, and audience activation—is essential to its meaning.
The original drawing for the cover of the 1942 edition of Tintin in America is the headline item in Artcurial’s three sales which focus on comic strips and bandes dessinées.
The AntiquarianAuctions.com sale includes over 200 lots of selected material on a wide range of subjects, opening with a group of 36 lots from the library of Hungarian-born bibliophile, book collector, and publisher Francis F. Dobo (1908-1998). This includes literary works from William Faulkner,…
At auction this week are 200 lots of books from the library of author/illustrator Maurice Sendak (1928-2012), sold in support of the Rosenbach Museum & Library.
Black authors have had a huge, under-acknowledged, impact on global literature. Here are ten Black American authors whose work may be unfamiliar to many, but deserve to be known and celebrated by all. These journalists, poets, novelists, and civil activists from the 19th and 20th centuries have…
A lauded actor, celebrated sleight-of-hand magician, and noted author, Ricky Jay (1946-2018) was also a passionate historian. During his life, he curated his own 10,000 piece collection of magic, circus, and show business ephemera, impressive and rare enough to be tapped for an exhibit at the…
In 1864 Mary L. Westerman, an officer of the local Soldiers’ Aid Society in Tazewell County, Illinois, wrote a letter to President Abraham Lincoln, urging him to make a donation to support the cause with a donation to a Sanitary Fair that was held October 18 of that year.
Here are the auctions I'll be watching this week:
Bonhams London holds their Connoisseur's Library sale on Tuesday and Wednesday, 7–8 February, in 792 lots of mostly furniture, art, accoutrements, &c.
New England Book Auctions sells 200 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera on Tuesday, February 7.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) presents Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable, the first monographic presentation of the art of Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Lowy, 1882-1966), one of the most important poets of the 20th century.
