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(Fragment)New Auction Record for Movie Poster: $478,000
$478,000. Photo courtesy Heritage Auctions.
The only known copy of the United States release one-sheet from the 1927 lost cinema classic London After Midnight (MGM) sold for $478,000 (includes buyer's premium) in Heritage Auctions' November 22, 2014, vintage movie posters auction in Dallas. That price establishes a new record for a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)E. Howard & Company Wall-Hanging No. 47 Astronomical Regulator Brings $356,950
This clock sold for $356,950. Photo courtesy Fontaine's Auction Gallery.
One of three known E. Howard & Company No. 47 wall-hanging astronomical regulator clocks sold for $356,950 (includes buyer's premium) at a clock and watch auction held November 22 and 23, 2014, by Fontaine's Auction Gallery in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Christian Icon Tops Hap Moore Auction
Paul Philippe bronze sculpture of a Turkish Dancer with Parrot, $6555. Hap Moore photo.
Enamel and bronze Christian table icon, $7590.
Surf fishing scene by Emile Albert Gruppe, $4140.
Five-drawer country Chippendale tall chest in a nice grungy red paint, with at least two replaced wooden knobs and an extended bracket base with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Neal's Louisiana Purchase Auction: The Main Event
Cover lot, top of the chart, and undisputed star of the sale, the 1791 portrait of English physician Dr. Robert Dow by Jose Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza (c. 1750-1802) was purchased for a nice round $250,000 by a local collector after spirited bidding. New Orleans was a sophisticated ... (Read More)
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(Auction)U.S. History Auction
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, two volumes having a total of 100 albumen photographs by Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) and others, first edition, scuffing to the covers, minor problems with the endpapers, light wear and foxing to the pages, $144,000.
Revolutionary War naval document, the official record of a May ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bunny Mellon's Americana
A pair of 7" long Chelsea asparagus tureens and covers, circa 1755, sold for $118,750 (est. $20,000/30,000). Each is realistically modeled as a bundle of asparagus tied at either end. They have a red anchor mark and the number 17 on the base of one and 15 on the other. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Brenner Estate Collection Marks End of John Russell's Material Legacy
A photograph of one room of the Russell-Brenner residence.
This Dehua porcelain 34" high standing figure of the bodhisattva Guanyin from 17th-century China, bearing the "fisherman" mark to the upper middle back, sold for $7425. It was a gift to John L. Russell from Mrs. Beardmore, sister of Lady Allen, Montreal.
D. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings
Georgia O'Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, oil on canvas, 48" x 40", painted in 1932, sold on the phone for $44,405,000 (est. $10,000,000/ 15,000,000) to benefit the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum's acquisition fund. This iconic painting is a closeup of a delicate flower made monumental, filling the canvas, and is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rare Bellows Tops the Bonhams American Art Auction
Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927), The Red Bonnet, oil on canvas, 20" x 15", sold on the phone for $149,000 (est. $100,000/150,000). The catalog notes reveal that "aside from a few self portraits and portraits of friends, solitary figures are not common in Potthast's oeuvre."
Several phone bidders competed for this untitled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings at Christie's
Study for Dinner for Threshers by Grant Wood (1891-1942), charcoal, pencil, and chalk on brown paper laid down on paper, 18" x 72", executed in 1934, was sold for $1,565,000 (est. $1.5/2.5 million), a record for a work on paper by the artist. It's a study for the finished painting ... (Read More)
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