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DALLAS—Norman Rockwell’s masterpiece, full-length portrait The Song of Bernadette realized a stunning $605,000 to lead Heritage Auctions’ $3.7+ million Illustration Art Auction event. Records were set for scores of artists across Classic and Golden Age Art, Science Fiction, and Pulp genres, as sell…
New York—Swann Galleries’ auction of Autographs on Tuesday, November 26 offers an exceptional collection of musician autographs—the likes of which are rarely seen at auction—in addition to a strong section of Americana, letters from Albert Einstein as he worked
New York, NY—Palitz Gallery at Syracuse University’s Lubin House in New York City presents Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985. It is the first major exhibition on the trailblazing American publisher Grove Press.
A cache of very personal and, at times, ill-tempered letters between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his brother George are to be sold at Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs sale in London on 12 November.
Today’s medical professionals face the same problems as 18th Century physician Robert Pitt: should apothecaries be allowed to prescribe medicine? Pitt’s book ‘The Antidote: or, the Preservative of Health and Life’ contributes to the long running dispute and goes up for auction on Thursday…
BEVERLY HILLS—Two rare Disney treasures—a 1940 Walt Disney Pinocchio hand-painted Key Master production cel and background featuring Geppetto, Pinocchio and Figaro and a 1959 masterpiece Sleeping Beauty Pan Production background attributed to legendary animator Eyvind Earle—and the first cartoon…
DALLAS—One of the finest known copies of The Avengers #1, CGC NM 9.4, is expected to bring $80,000+ to highlight the Don/Maggie Thompson Pedigree Collection Nov. 21-23 at Heritage Auctions. The collection, estimated at $1 million, was lovingly amassed over 50 years by the husband and wife team who…
New York, NY, November 5, 2013—The New-York Historical Society has acquired a sketchbook of drawings and watercolors by Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858-1924), the iconic American Post-Impressionist and member of The Eight. The proffered sketchbook dates from the last years of the artist’s life and…
New York—Christie’s is pleased to announce the centerpiece of its Renaissance sale during Old Masters Week in January 2014 will be “The Rothschild Prayerbook,” a magnificent masterpiece of Renaissance art with an illustrious provenance. Returning to the global stage after setting the world auction…
New York—Swann Galleries’ October 10 auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana featured extraordinary material related to the American Revolution, Civil War and whaling.
