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London — The complete portfolio of Marc Chagall’s Le Cirque was the star of the show at Bonhams’ Prints and Multiples sale today (23 June) at New Bond Street, London. The work sold for £250,250 against an estimate of £100,000-150,000, setting a new world auction record this complete portfolio by…
Berkeley, CA – PBA Galleries announced an auction of Fine Pens & Watches to be held on July 1st, 2021. The sale features 320 lots of fine writing instruments, both modern and vintage. The selection includes numerous Montblanc pens, including favorites from the Writers Series, as well as many…
Los Angeles – On June 30, Bonhams will sell what is believed to be the largest single-owner collection of photography from premier American photographer Edward S. Curtis (1869-1952). Curtis was a skilled photographer and documentarian of the American West and at the height of his career a…
Dallas, TX – Another Comics & Comic Art event has come to an end at Heritage Auctions. And yet another world record has been set: a $22.4-million sale abundant with historic highpoints.
London — To many people the words Pulp Fiction conjure up the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film, regarded not only as the director’s masterpiece but regularly voted by many critics as one of the best movies ever made. The title refers to a style of cheap – they were printed on pulp paper, hence the name…
Boston — The Terra Foundation for American Art has awarded $75,000 from its Re-envisioning Permanent Collections grant program to the Boston Athenæum. The award will support the reinstallation of artworks on the building’s first floor, which is open to the public.
If you thought understanding cryptocurrency was challenging, NFTs might as well be another language. But bookpeople are smart, we can figure this out.
Earlier this year, the William Morris Society in the United States announced an international effort to commemorate the founding of the Kelmscott Press in 1891. Thus International Kelmscott Press Day appeared on our calendar: June 26, 2021, the 125th anniversary of the publication of the Kelmscott…
Dallas, TX – Heritage Auctions made history Friday morning when it began bringing to market The Promise Collection, which consists of high-grade Golden Age comic books that haven't been seen since they were purchased off newsstands in the 1940s.
Northampton, MA — We are pleased to announce the 2021 Northampton Antiquarian Book, Ephemera, and Book Arts Fair, our sixth edition, will be Friday, December 3rd from 5 – 8pm and Saturday, December 4th from 9am to 4pm at the Northampton Community Arts Trust at 33 Hawley Street in downtown…
