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LOS ANGELES- Profiles in History, run by Joe Maddalena, is proud to announce that the personal correspondence and manuscripts from the world’s greatest authors will be included at their December 18 auction, The Property of a Distinguished American Private Collector. Part I of The Property…
(Philadelphia, Pa) — Freeman's next auction of Modern & Contemporary Art takes place on November 4, 2012. We launched the first of our semi-annual sales dedicated to the subject in 2006. Ever since, our commitment to presenting a potent mix of world-class international artists and great local…
New York—The star lot in Swann Galleries’ October 11 auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books was Das Werk von Gustav Klimt, Einleitende Worte: Hermann Bahr, Peter Altenberg, a stunning volume containing 50 plates in the original case designed by Julius Dratva, Vienna and Leipzig, 1918—it is…
London — Christie’s sale of Valuable Manuscripts & Printed Books on 21 November 2012 will feature fine illuminated manuscripts and literary manuscripts by Franz Kafka and Gabriel García Márquez among others. Leading the auction are deluxe catalogues of the collections of one of the most…
Publication AnnouncementTHE ROXBURGHE CLUB: A BICENTENARY HISTORY By Nicolas Barker. The Roxburghe Club, 2012
NEW YORK, October 22, 2012—The Museum of Modern Art will open a special six-month exhibition of Edvard Munch’s iconic The Scream (1895), among the most celebrated and recognized images in art history, on October 24, 2012. The exhibition Edvard Munch: The Scream will also include a small selection…
[October 2012, Amherst] The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA, kicks off its 10th anniversary celebration November 10 and 11 with the Museum’s first major permanent collection exhibition, Iconic Images: 10 Years of Collecting for The Carle. The opening weekend will also feature a…
New York, NY, October 19, 2012—The emergence of Mannerism in Florentine Renaissance art as exemplified by the brilliant painter Rosso Fiorentino is the subject of a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum, opening on November 16, 2012. The show includes the artist’s extraordinary painting…
An important collection of Howard Hughes artifacts will be sold at auction November 7 at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, documenting Hughes’ record-setting Around-the-World flight. The collection was compiled by Hughes’ flight operations manager, Al Lodwick, who was responsible for mapping the route,…
The André Meyer Musical CollectionThe First Sale at Sotheby’s France devoted entirely to Music totals ??3.3 million / $4.3 million Paris, 17 October 2012: This exceptional collection, running to nearly 500 lots, brought a total of ??3,327,655 ($4.335.570) to establish the most important sale of…
