Washington, D.C. — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be among the featured speakers at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival, along with dozens of best-selling authors, novelists, historians, poets and children’s writers, the Library announced today. This year’s festival will be held Saturday, Aug. 31, from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

New York and San Jose, CA – LiveAuctioneers and eBay have jointly announced a new partnership that will expand selling opportunities for auction houses in a way that is unprecedented in the art and collectibles sector. The combined force of eBay’s incomparable presence in the online retail marketplace with LiveAuctioneers’ peerless technology and client database of more than 5,000 premier auction houses will form the infrastructure for a “Buy It Now” after-sale venue set to launch this spring.

Chadds Ford, PA—This summer the Brandywine River Museum of Art will present N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives, the first exhibition in almost 50 years to examine in depth the entirety of Wyeth’s multifaceted oeuvre. A formidable yet often overlooked figure in the history of American art, N.C. Wyeth was the foremost illustrator of his generation, and the patriarch of an extraordinary family of artists. By repositioning Wyeth as a distinguished painter who worked across the perceived divisions of visual culture in painting, illustration, murals and advertising, the exhibition offers new insights on Wyeth’s place within the broad spectrum of early 20th-century visual arts.

Co-organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art and the Portland Museum of Art (PMA), this landmark exhibition, which will include approximately 70 paintings and drawings selected from major museums and private collections, will be on view at the Brandywine River Museum of Art from June 22 through September 15, 2019.

Well known during the 20th century for his bold, imaginative illustrations that brought new characterizations to classic stories such as Treasure Island, The Boy’s King Arthur and The Last of the Mohicans, N. C. Wyeth was a prolific artist who vigorously pursued parallel interests in painting landscapes, seascapes, portraits, still lifes and murals throughout his career. A master of many styles and a brilliant colorist, Wyeth employed the skills honed in the work he produced for publishers to explore and address various thematic and stylistic currents running through the first five decades of the 20th century. Wyeth’s nuanced grasp of how to create emotional power through composition and light effects was not only influential, but also established a certain visual standard for dramatic imagery.

The exhibition will feature the iconic paintings Wyeth created to illustrate books and magazine stories, as well as the remarkable landscapes and figurative works of art that have, up until now, garnered less attention. They include examples of his experimentation with Impressionism during the 1910s and 20s, as well as his shift towards American Regionalism and his adoption of elements of Modernism from the late 1920s through the mid-1930s. Among the exhibition highlights on view, Island Funeral, 1939, one of Wyeth’s most seminal and complex narrative paintings, represents the culmination of a protracted period of artistic experiment and invention.

The Brandywine is the first of three national venues for this exhibition, and visitors coming to Chadds Ford have a unique opportunity to further immerse themselves in both Wyeth’s work and life. N.C. Wyeth’s own home and studio—a National Historic Landmark and the locus of roots which have nourished a family of extraordinary creativity for more than a century—are owned by Brandywine and open for public tours daily. Wyeth’s majestic studio, with its spectacular Palladian-style north window, is much as the artist left it at his untimely death in 1945.

Accompanying Exhibition Catalogue:

The catalogue accompanying N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives—co-published by Yale University Press, the Brandywine River Museum of Art and the Portland Museum of Art—includes scholarly essays which examine multiple aspects of Wyeth’s life and work, providing a long overdue reassessment of the remarkable breadth of this complex, and often misunderstood artist. The authors include D. B. Dowd, Professor of Design and American Culture Studies at Washington University, St. Louis; David M. Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University; Kristine Ronan and Karen Zukowski, both independent scholars.The exhibition’s co-curators, Christine Podmaniczky, Curator of N. C. Wyeth Collections and Historic Properties at the Brandywine River Museum of Art, and Jessica May, Deputy Director and Robert and Elizabeth Nanovic Chief Curator at the Portland Museum of Art, are also contributors.

Exhibition Travel Dates:

The exhibition will travel to the Portland Museum of Art in Maine (October 4, 2019–January 12, 2020) and the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio (February 8, 2020–May 3, 2020) following its presentation at the Brandywine.

Concurrent Exhibition: N. C. Wyeth: A Personal Perspective

Organized by the Brandywine and on view at the Museum from May 25 through September 8, 2019, N. C. Wyeth: A Personal Perspective, will highlight a special collection owned by artist and author Douglas Allen. Since his childhood, Allen has spent seven decades assembling one of the most comprehensive compilations of printed material documenting N. C. Wyeth’s career. Allen’s remarkable assemblage includes first and/or signed editions of Wyeth illustrated books; posters and rare boxed sets of prints; advertisements; hard-to-find old magazines; letters; and archival photographs—even objects such as dinnerware and lamps decorated with Wyeth’s designs. This exhibition reveals the scope of Wyeth’s impact on the popular culture of his time, but it also demonstrates, with a selection of Allen’s own wildlife paintings, the inspiration one artist can find in a respectful study of another artist’s oeuvre.

N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives is generously made possible by Ms. Linda L. Bean, The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, Wyeth Foundation for American Art, George Lucas Family Foundation, Sotheby’s and Freeman's. Additional support has been provided by donors to the Brandywine River Museum of Art Exhibition Fund including the Davenport Family Foundation, William C. and Laura Buck, Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Duprey/Hamilton Family Charitable Trust, Morris &Boo Stroud, Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Matz, Dr. and Mrs. John Fawcett, Mr. and Mrs. Christopher F. Buccini, and Mr. Alan P. Slack.Support for the exhibition’s catalogue is provided by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.Support of the exhibition’s educational programs is provided by Somerville Manning Gallery.The Art of Stories programs are generously sponsored by PNC Arts Alive.

Paris — On 22 May, Sotheby’s, in association with Binoche & Giquello, will auction off the eighth sale of the Library of R. & B. L. It will mark the end of the dispersal, begun in 2011, of this substantial literary collection built over more than sixty years. It was assembled on the same principle, intermingling books and autograph letters of French literature, music and the arts from the 16th century to the present day.
 
The last part of the collection is dedicated to 19th- and 20th-century writers, musicians and painters. This remarkable ensemble puts correspondence together with literary texts, musical scores alongside original drawings.
 
Writers
 
Guillaume Apollinaire
 
The part devoted to writers begins with seven superb letters from Guillaume Apollinaire to Louise de Coligny Chatillon, known as Lou. On 28 April 1915, Apollinaire, who had just reached the front, wrote her a long autograph poem (Lot 7 – estimate: €20,000-€25,000). In it, he pays homage to each of Lou’s five senses and refers to his lover’s physical charms, the memory of which consumed him. In another autograph letter (Lot 8 – estimate: €20,000-€25,000) dated 11 May, he wrote her a new poem, Rêverie, in which he associates love and war.
 
Jean Cocteau
 
A major and unpublished group of letters signed by Jean Cocteau to Valentine Hugo, dating from 1915 to 1922 (Lot 17 – estimate: €25,000-€35,000) is illustrated with eight original drawings. In May 1914, Cocteau met Valentine Gross, the woman who married the painter Jean Hugo, great-grandson of Victor Hugo, in 1919. At the time, the poet was writing The Cape of Good Hope and creating the ballet Parade with Erik Satie and Pablo Picasso. Their friendship would be particularly fruitful between 1917 and 1924: in 1917, Valentine would serve as an essential intermediary for Parade’s collaborators, then, with Jean Hugo, she would craft the costumes for the 1921 ballet The Wedding Party on the Eiffel Tower.

Over the course of this copious correspondence, Cocteau recounts this very busy time in his life of creative and worldly activities. From day to day for nearly five years, we follow the development of Parade and read about the writer’s fears and joys, encounters and travels.
 
Blaise Cendrars
 
Finally, an extraordinary set of autograph manuscripts follows the genesis of the writing of Panama, from the very first draft to the corrected proofs (Lot 15 – estimate: €30,000-€40,000). This poem – begun in October 1912, at the same time as Prose on the Trans-Siberian Railway and of Little Jehanne of France, and completed in July 1914 – marked a decisive turning point in the poet’s life. On 28 September 1915, while a volunteer in the French army, Cendrars lost his right arm and it was by using his “main amie” (“hand friend”), as he liked to call it, that he finished this text. 
 
Musicians
 
The tremendously rich part devoted to musicians underscores the importance of the exchanges between France and Germany. The letters from Wagner to Berlioz, from Liszt to Berlioz, from Debussy to Chausson make evident fruitful friendships and trace the genesis of great works and their challenging beginnings.
 
Richard Wagner
 
A magnificent autograph letter in French from Richard Wagner to Hector Berlioz (Lot 108 – estimate: €10,000 -15,000) clearly expresses the great admiration Wagner had for the French composer. Exiled in Switzerland after taking part in the 1849 May Uprising in Dresden, Wagner then worked alone on his Tetralogy. Feeling confident and hopeful, he wrote to Berlioz, whom he met during his long stay in Paris, addressing him as an elder and a master.
 
Robert Schumann
 
Among the scores is a complete manuscript that has remained unknown to this day. It is of the Lied Erstes Grün Op.35 No. 4 by Robert Schumann (Lot 99 – estimate: €25,000-€35,000). The inspiration for this lied, composed in December 1840, was his recent and long-awaited marriage to pianist and composer Clara Wieck. While the original manuscript of this composition is now preserved in the Berlin State Library, this one is the only other autograph source of this song and, compared to the known version, bears some minute differences.
 
Frédéric Chopin & Franz Liszt, love letters
 
On a more romantic note, Liszt’s correspondence with Marie d’Agoult, the letters of Chopin and George Sand, stand as testament to two legendary love stories. 
 
An autograph letter from Frederic Chopin to George Sand (Lot 70 – estimate: €20,000-€30,000) dated 5 December 1844, for example, describes at length the musician’s life in Paris while he is back in that city after a long stay in Nohant. A set of 23 autograph letters from Frantz Liszt to Marie d’Agoult (Lot 81 – estimate: €30,000-€40,000) captures the magnificent correspondence between one of Romanticism’s most legendary couples. In December 1832, Countess Charles d’Agoult, born Marie de Flavigny (1805-1876), met Franz Liszt at the home of the Marquise Le Vayer. It was love at first sight and they swiftly developed a mutual esteem that would come to an end in 1844. 
 
Painters
 
Lastly, in this section, the great names in painting are many: Cézanne, Monet, Signac and Gauguin share their thoughts with Pissarro, referencing the early days of Impressionism, while the era’s great gallery owners demonstrate their unwavering support for the artists of their day.  
 
Several letters from Paul Gauguin to his mentor Camille Pissarro show their almost filial relationship. Around 1882, in an autograph letter (Lot 116 – estimate: €12,000-€15,000) he divulged his financial problems and said that, despite the difficulties, he wanted “to be victorious by virtue of talent.” In an autograph letter of the following year (Lot 117 – estimate: €12,000-€15,000), he even goes so far as to share some reserves he has about two gouaches by Pissarro that he had just seen at the Galerie Durand-Ruel.
 
Some letters are illustrated with original drawings, like an autograph letter that Camille Pissarro wrote to his wife, Julie (Lot 128 – estimate: €3,000-€4,000), dated 1 March 1890, in which, a few days before the second Durand-Ruel peintres-graveur exhibition, he mentions Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas. The letter bears an amusing ink sketch showing him from the back, warmly bundled up and brandishing an umbrella.
 
Finally, there is an autograph letter signed by Félicien Rops to a friend, dated 1887 (Lot 135 – estimate: €4,000-€5,000) that features three erotic drawings reflecting some Rabelaisian prose.

In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage month, the Library of Congress has digitized and made available online 1,000 Chinese rare books produced before 1796. The Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection includes the most valuable titles and editions housed in the Library’s Asian Division, some of which date as far back as the 10th century and are the only extant copies in the world.

This new digital collection brings together printed books, manuscripts, Buddhist sutras, works with hand-painted pictures, local gazetteers and ancient maps, encompassing a wide array of disciplines and subjects in classics, history, geography, philosophy and literature.

The collection can be accessed at loc.gov/collections/chinese-rare-books/about-this-collection/.

“These digitized China rare books represent not only some of the most important works of Chinese scholarship before the 18th century, but they are also fine examples of early printing,” said Qi Qiu, head of Scholarly Services at the Library’s Asian Division. “The free, downloadable high-resolution images offer users across the globe unprecedented access to the study of pre-modern China that would otherwise be off-limits due to physical distance or rarity of the items.”

The collection features a woodblock-printed work in four volumes with paintings vividly colored by hand accompanied by a page of descriptive text. This item, known as “Life and Activities of Shakyamuni Buddha Incarnate,” contains about 400 illustrations that depict the life of Gautama Buddha, his ministry, the spread of Buddhism to China and the reception of Buddhism by Chinese emperors and officials.

Other illustrated works are the “Pictures of Tilling and Weaving,” which feature ink and color paintings on silk by Qing dynasty court painter Jiao Bingzhen (1650-1726), depicting traditional methods for cultivating rice and producing silk.

One of the very rare titles is a complete edition of effective medical remedies tested by generations of physicians. It is considered one of the most influential works of remedies of traditional Chinese medicine, introducing innovative methods like suspension traction treatment for bone fracture repair. It was disseminated to Japan, Korea, and Europe after it was printed in 1343.

The majority of the digitized treasures are editions from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and early Qing dynasty (1644-1795), while nearly 30 titles are Song dynasty (960-1279) and Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) editions.

The Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection contains nearly 2,000 titles, out of the more than 5,300 titles of rare Chinese books housed at the Library’s Asian Division. While the initial online presentation includes about 1,000 digitized rare titles, more will be accessible in the future.

The Library of Congress digitized these Chinese rare books in collaboration with the National Central Library of Taiwan in recognition of the collection’s value as a major resource for the study of pre-modern China. This online collection reflects the advancement toward a goal in the Library’s new user-centered strategic plan: to expand access, creating valuable experiences for every user to foster lifelong connections to the Library. Other recently announced strategic initiatives include the digitized Persian Manuscripts Collection and By the People, a digital transcription tool.

The Asian Division, founded in 1928, currently has custody of more than 4 million physical items in over 130 different Asian languages found in seven collections: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Tibetan. The Asian Reading Room, located in the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, room 150, is the public gateway to access the Asian collections on-site.

West Palm Beach, FL – The Norton Museum of Art is thrilled to present the largest ever museum exhibition of classic movie posters from one of the most prominent private collections in the world. Titled Coming Soon: Film Posters from the Dwight M. Cleveland Collection, the exhibition includes more than 200 posters representing comedies, musicals, Westerns, sci-fi thrillers, dramas, and others that date from the turn of the 20th century to the late 1980s. Coming Soon will be on view from July 12 through October 29, 2019.

New York – Swann Galleries’ annual Graphic Design sale on Thursday, May 23 features important designers, such as Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, Charles Loupot and Tadanori Yokoo. On display is the evolution of design in the last century, from exceptional Constructivist images of the 1910s, to Psychedelic Rock-and-Roll posters and corporate propaganda from the 2010s.

A spectacular run of luxury advertisements by Parisian postermaker Charles Loupot leads the sale. Highlights include a 1930 poster for Twining Tea and Lion Noir / Cirage – Crème, 1949, which features a black lion preparing to pounce ($30,000-$40,000 apiece), a dizzying 1926 ad for the French automobile company Peugeot ($40,000-$60,000), and Wanneroil / Huile du bon Chauffeur, 1926 ($20,000-30,000).

A.M. Cassandre is present with his revolutionary 1927 travel poster, Étoile du Nord, offered at $15,000 to $20,000. The advertisement features no landscape, no destination and no train, a startlingly new concept for the time. Additional works by Cassandre include Nederlandsche Nyverheidsten Toonstelling / Rotterdam, 1927, and Triplex, 1931 ($8,000-12,000 and $20,000-30,000, respectively).

Italian Futurist posters include the only “free word” typographic poster from the era, Futurismo, 1932, by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Lamberto Leandri ($12,000-18,000). The poster appeared as a folded insert in issue 29 of the short-lived newspaper of the same name. Also of note is Giacomo Balla’s 1933 notice for an exhibition of Umberto Boccioni’s works presented by the Congresso Futurista Italiano ($3,000-4,000).

Constructivist highlights include Create the “Week of the Red Gift” Everywhere, 1919, by Wladyslaw Strzeminski ($40,000-60,000)–the 13th poster produced by Litizdat, the poster arm of the Political Directorate of the Revolutionary Military Council of Russia, and potentially the inspiration for Lissitzky’s Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge. Strzeminski’s The Organization of Production is Victory Over the Capitalist System, circa 1919, also features at $40,000 to $60,000.

A wave of Japanese artist Tadanori Yokoo’s late-1960s psychedelic posters is set to come across the block with Having Reached a Climax at the Age of 29, I was Dead, 1965, leading the run at $20,000 to $30,000. Other notable lots include Yukio Mishima / The Aesthetics of End, 1966, estimated at $10,000 to $15,000, Laboratory of Play / Tenjo Sajiki Troupe, 1967, and Takarazuka / Grand Revue, 1966, poised to sell for $8,000 to $12,000 each.

Bonnie MacLean, Martin Sharp and Wes Wilson star in a selection of psychedelic Rock-and-Roll posters: a group of seven of MacLean’s designs promoting the likes of Steve Miller Band and Pink Floyd carries an estimate of $1,000 to $1,500; a 1967 poster for Cream by Sharp is present at $800 to $1,200; and Wes Wilson’s The Association / Filmore Auditorum, 1966, is expected to bring $1,500 to $2,000.

Paul Rand’s transformative designs include his cutting-edge 1982 image for IBM ($2,000-3,000). A group of 13 Facebook propaganda posters, by various artists from 2010-14, broadcast messages like “kick the shit out of option B” and “nothing at Facebook is somebody else’s problem,” bringing the sale into the digital age ($1,500-2,000).

Exhibition opening in New York City May 18. The complete catalogue and bidding information is available at swanngalleries.com and on the Swann Galleries App.

Additional highlights can be found here.

Chicago — Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce its 725 lot Vintage Poster Sale to be held on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 starting at 10am at the company's gallery, located at 3759 N. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago, IL 60613. All lots from this upcoming sale are on display and available for public preview on Monday, May 20th and Tuesday, May 21st from 10:00am to 5:00pm in the Potter & Potter facility.

Premier, finely illustrated domestic midcentury travel posters are a key category in this sale. Selections on offer include examples from some of the most popular and well respected names in 20th century commercial illustration. Lot #321, a c. 1960s David Klein (1918 – 2005) Fly TWA New York poster is estimated at $2,000-2,500. This brilliantly colored poster features an abstract rendering of New York City in quadrilaterals and sparkling lights, with a TWA Lockheed Constellation to its upper right. This is the small version of this iconic image, measuring 25-¼ x 15-½”. Lot #201, a Stan Galli (1912-2009) Los Angeles United Air Lines poster depicting a vibrant portrait of a platinum blonde in sunglasses at the beach is estimated at $1,500-2,000.  This 1960s example, measuring 40-½ x 25",  is an uncommon variant of a poster typically advertising southern California, as opposed to Los Angeles. Lot #300, an Edward Mcknight Kauffer (1890-1954) American Airlines U.S.A modernist travel poster from 1948, is estimated at $1,600-1,800. It measures 40 x 30”.  Its handsome, classic design, showing a man holding a suitcase with his head in the form of a globe, advertises the concept of general travel rather than a specific destination. And lot #180, a Joseph Feher (1909-1987) Hawaii United Airlines poster from the 1950s, is estimated at $1,400-1,800. This snapshot of paradise measures 40 x 25” and is illustrated with a woman wearing a lei of flowers and doing the hula dance, standing on an island with fish and aboriginal Hawaiians decorating its landscape.

This sale offers a first-class selection of posters promoting commercial hotspots and events, with many representing legacy and still popular themes. Lot #208, a 1950s Stanley Walter Galli (1912-2009) United Air Lines Disneyland poster is estimated at $2,600-3,2000. It is charmingly illustrated with a ferry full of families riding through a swamp safari and measures 40 x 24”. In 2018, Potter & Potter sold another example of this important poster for $6,000. It's the best of all worlds with lot #315, a 1955 David Klein (1918-2005) Disneyland Fly TWA poster, estimated at $2,000-3,000. This can't look away piece,  measuring 25-¼ x 15-½”, spotlights a TWA Moonliner rocket in its foreground and Cinderella’s Castle and other Disney landmarks in the distance. Lot #332, a 1961 New York World’s Fair Fly TWA Jets poster - one of the rarest of all New York World's Fair posters - is estimated at $1,400-2,000.  This poster, also by Klein, features the fair’s giant globe on a bright orange background filled with fireworks. It measures 40 x 25". And lot #43, a Frank Stella (American, b. 1936) Lincoln Center Festival ‘67 promotional poster is estimated at $600-800. Produced by the List Art Foundation in New York, this stunning piece measures 44-½ x 29-¾” and was produced as a limited edition.

No passports are required to appreciate this sale's world-class selections of international posters of all sorts. Lot #122, a Roger Broders (French, 1883-1953) St. Pierre de Chartreuse poster is estimated at $1,800-2,400. St. Pierre de Chartreuse is a commune located in southeastern France. This primarily green, pink, and blue poster depict a view of its mountain and forest range and measures 39 x 25". It was produced in 1930 by Vaugirard in Paris. Lot #15, a 1913 French advertising poster for Terrot Bicycles, is estimated at $800-1,000. It measures 62 ½ x 47 ¼”. This fabulously illustrated poster shows a well-attired man on a bike, speeding down a hill hands free, enjoying a cigar, and holding a newspaper. (Please DO NOT try this at home!) Lot #466, a c. 1930s Mont St. Michel travel poster is estimated at $1,000-1,500. It measures 38 ¼ x 24”.  The poster romantically depicts this island and mainland commune in Normandy, France in the still waters of dawn.  And lot #355, a 1957 Maurice Laban (1912-1970) BOAC Qantas Australia New Zealand Great Britain travel poster, is estimated at $800-1,200. This wonder from down under measures 30 x 20”and features a playful kangaroo and koala bear pair as its focal point.

Posters promoting popular 20th century movies also play a starring role in this can't miss auction. Lot #597, a 1963 three sheet poster for The Great Escape is estimated at $800-1,000.  This WWII POW escape movie starred Steve McQueen and was nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe award, among others, in 1964. It measures 78 x 41”. Lot #592, a 1964 Italian 2-foglio poster for Goldfinger, is estimated at $700-900. This classic entry in the 007 series starred Sean Connery as Agent 007 and won an Academy Award for sound effects and a Grammy Award for best original score in 1965. It measures 39 x 55”. Lot #590, an oversized 1950 poster for the film Gene Autry and the Mounties is estimated at $600-800. This 80 x 40-¾” lithograph advertises the film with scenes from the movie, including Autry featured prominently on his horse. And lot #600, a 1971 promotional poster for the film Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, is estimated at $500-700. It measures 41 x 27” and features key characters and elements of the plot as part of its design. This Paramount Studios production was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe in 1972.

This sale comes full circle with wall to wall selections of fantastic historical, magic, propaganda, and advertising posters. Lot #681, a Byrnes & Helene Crayon Artists & Grotesque Comedians lithograph poster is estimated at $1,000-1,5000. This 1885 example is illustrated with two performers in blackface. The male subject jumps in front of a drawing board and the female subject holds a small fan. This extraordinarily rare poster has never appeared at public auction; the only other known one is located institutionally. It is framed and measures 18 x 14".  Lot #656, an eight-sheet color lithograph The World’s Greatest Psychic Sensation. Samri S. and Miss Baldwin in Oriental Hypnotic Dream Visions is estimated at $4,000-6,000.  This 109 x 81” c. 1895 graphic pictures Miss Baldwin - blindfolded and empowered with second sight by magical forces - sitting and surrounded by red imps rushing to her with questions. Lot #647, a 1944 Russian Liberation Army propaganda poster is estimated at $800-1,200. The 40 x 27” poster is captioned in both Russian and Arabic and depicts a lion laying over a dead man. The Russian Liberation Army (POA) fought under German command during World War II. And this highlight tour crosses the finish line with lot #37, a Corvair Dealer promotional showroom advertising poster. This fantastically illustrated example debuts each new Corvair model for the 1961 year, including the Greenbrier Sports Wagon. It measures 30 x 40” and is estimated at $700-900.

According to Gabe Fajuri, President at Potter & Potter Auctions, "As a poster collector myself, I'm thrilled to offer such a wide range of examples - in so many categories - in this auction. We hit several home runs with our last poster auction just a few months back, and hope to see the same results for this auction. Mid-century posters continue to be highly sought after by collectors, but the entertainment, advertising, and propaganda posters in this sale should not be overlooked. There are quite a few scarce, choice, and even rare images going on the block."

Dallas, TX – One of the most legendary paintings by famed artist Frank Frazetta – and without question the greatest ever to come to auction – is the runaway headline lot in Heritage Auctions’ Comics & Comic Art Auction May 16-18 in Chicago.

Frank Frazetta Egyptian Queen Painting Original Art (1969) (estimate: $5,000,000+) is the painting that, more than any other, helped Frazetta revolutionize fantasy illustration.

The masterpiece has been in the possession of Frazetta’s family ever since it was created 50 years ago, and now is offered to the public for the first time ever.

The popularity of the image has been enduring and expansive. For decades, it appeared on comic books, paperback book covers, posters and album covers. Over the years, other artists have created their own versions of the painting, in honor of the powerful image and the iconic artist who created it.

“Egyptian Queen is quite possibly the most popular painting Frank Frazetta ever did,” Heritage Auctions Vice President Todd Hignite said. “His paintings single-handedly sold hundreds of thousands of books and scores of wildly popular posters, reinventing and massively expanding the entire field of fantasy illustration. It is an iconic image, masterfully painted, and is without a doubt the most desirable work of art by the artist to ever be auctioned.

“The painting is extraordinary and can be the centerpiece of any collection, and having the unquestioned provenance of being in the artist’s family ever since it was created makes this a truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for collectors.”