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Gérard and Jeanne-Yvonne Borg: Art, Circus Memorabilia and a Collection
Rare posters, paintings, Japanese prints, photographs, costumes and objects from the circus world make up the Rouen couple’s unique collection, which has won international recognition. © Marie-Pierre Moinet Your collection is unlike any other: when and how did you start it?We began with modest budgets before we were 20. Passion,…
Auction Industry, Press Release
American Friends of Museums in Israel Fine Art Online Benefit Auction hosted by Artsy May 10-24, 2022
Beatriz Milhazes, Pink Sunshine, 2021 Lithograph on Fabriano Disegno 5 paper 18 3/4 × 23 inches Edition of 100 NEW YORK (May 10, 2022) – The American Friends of Museums in Israel's Fine Art Online Benefit Auction hosted by Artsy is now live and closes on May 24, 2022, at…
Art Fairs
Report: Expo Chicago, a Joyous American Comeback
Banking on diversity, the contemporary art fair made a comeback with ambitions to become more international again. Expo Chicago 2022COURTESY EXPO CHICAGO. PHOTO JUSTIN BARBIN Though not as glamorous as Art Basel Miami Beach or Frieze Los Angeles, and with fewer visitors than the New York fairs, the lower-profile Expo…
Exhibitions
The Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam Revolutionizes Storage
Open to the public since 2021, this new Dutch facility explores original ways to store museum collections. We take a look at a unique space for interaction and discovery. Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.Photo: Ossip Van Duivenbode Its name, "Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen", plays on the French word "dépôt" (in the…
Auction Industry, Press Release
Potter & Potter Auctions' April 2022 Circus, Sideshow, and Oddities Sale to Feature Banners, Ephemera and Images, Lithographs, Carousel Horses, and Rare Shooting Gallery Targets
Also of note is a fine collection of circus, sideshow, and theatrical photographs from the world-class collection of collector and historian Gary Bart. Chicago, Il, April 7, 2022 - Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce this 600+ lot sale to be held on Saturday, April 30th starting at…
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Stieglitz, Arbus, Avedon, Ritts Photographs From Richard Gere’s Collection Available at Christie’s
A scared-looking Andy Warhol portrait, one among a triptych by Duane Michals, will be offered this spring by Christie’s. The other two gelatin silver prints are blurred images of Warhol. They provide a sort of preliminary narrative for the third, which clearly shows Warhol looking frightened and frightening at the…
Auction Industry
Around the Auction World: February 2022
Images from around the auction world this February. Image credit from left to right: Sotheby’s, Stair, and Christie’s. Collage by Heemin Moon (Auction Daily). February is the month of love and, for those in the Northern Hemisphere, the last official month of winter. The auction world responded appropriately. Notable sales…
Auction Industry
What to Expect From Christie’s 20th/21st Century Art Sale Series This March
After a record-breaking year, Christie’s is expanding its spring sales lineup to include a stop in Shanghai. The 20th/21st Century Art auction series is a globetrotting affair that swings from the company’s London headquarters to its new offices at Bund One. Five live auctions will run in early March, plus…
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Rare Ansel Adams Photographs Arrive in Upcoming Sotheby’s Auction
Ansel Adams had a vision of preserving America’s wild and scenic areas. He achieved this as a photographer and an environmentalist. In 1930, Adams met American photographer Paul Strand. After viewing Strand’s work, Adams adopted simplicity in his images. In 1932, after Adams founded the Group f.64 association of West…
Auction Industry
Swann Celebrates 70 Years of Fine Photography Auctions
Swann Auction Galleries held its first fine photography auction, titled The Marshall Sale, in the United States in 1952. Swann now marks 70 years of events supporting photography as an artistic medium. The house will present a total of 251 lots in an upcoming sale to commemorate this anniversary. Swann’s…
Auction Industry, Press Release
Lion And Unicorn Holding Art Auction In Benefit Of The Bass Museum Acquisitions Fund
Lion and Unicorn Holding Art Auction in Benefit of Bass Museum of Arts Acquisitions Fund On Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 1:00 PM EST, Lion and Unicorn Auction House (200 Oakwood Blvd, Hollywood, FL 33020) will be proudly presenting an art auction of over 200 lots from the archives of…
Auction Industry
The Collecting Thrill Is Gone - What's Next?
It is all but inevitable. You've been collecting for years— or perhaps decades— and the spark is gone or greatly diminished. The thrill of the hunt just isn't enough to get you to the next antique show or auction or even to check out eBay for some under-the-radar scores. What…
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Possessions of Golden Era’s Tap Dancing Legend Ann Miller at Julien's Auctions
Ann Miller tap-danced her way onto the global stage and into people's hearts. Part Cherokee, Miller was born Johnnie Lucille Collier in 1923 in Texas. As a kid, Johnnie or Ann was fond of dancing and even received tap-dancing shoes as a gift, which she nicked named Moe and Joe.…
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Tracking the Timeline of NFTs in 2021
The art world gained a few new vocabulary words this year. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) broke the barrier between fringe and mainstream early on. They caused a media flurry and prompted exhaustive tutorials on how to pronounce “fungible.” As 2021 draws to a close, it is clear that NFTs are here…
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Harry Houdini’s Magic Props Star in Upcoming Potter & Potter Auctions Event
Erich Weiss, known as Harry Houdini, was a multi-talented artist famous for escape arts and illusion performances. The upcoming Potter & Potter Auctions event presents multiple pieces of illusion equipment from Harry Houdini’s career. One highlight is a rare 1901 bound Houdini Bible red-letter edition from the World Syndicate Company. Houdini used these…
Auction Industry
Underappreciated Contemporary Artists in the Limelight at Stair’s December Auction
Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith (With Neck Brace), 1978. Image courtesy of Stair. Stair’s early December art auction will put underappreciated contemporary artists on the global map this season. Stair is summing up 2021 with an amalgamation of works spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. The sale offers paintings, works on…
Auction Industry
Surrealist Painting by René Magritte Comes to Auction After 70 Years in Private Hands
A long-hidden René Magritte painting from the 1930s will make its auction debut with Bonhams on December 7th, 2021. The piece, titled Torse nu dans les nuages, comes from the collection of Swiss-American artist and art patron Amalia de Schulthess. It has a presale estimate of USD 6 million to…
Auction Industry
Artcurial Celebrates Historic and Contemporary African Art in November Sale
An upcoming Artcurial auction celebrates exemplary works from contemporary African artists such as Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou (b. 1965). Agbodjélou emerged as a leading photographer of the Republic of Benin in the late 20th century. Born to Joseph Agbodjélou, a renowned photographer, the younger artist learned from his father. Agbodjélou portrays…
Auction Industry
Louis Pierre Ledoux’s Collection of Sepik River Artifacts Comes to Auction
This November, Willow Auction House will offer over 250 items from the anthropological explorations of Louis Pierre Ledoux. The young scholar set off for Papua New Guinea after graduating from Harvard University in the mid-1930s. Ledoux interacted with the Murik people of the eastern Sepik River region. He eventually gathered…
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Around the Auction World: October 2021
Images from around the auction world in October of 2021. Image credit from left to right: Milestone Auctions, Sotheby’s, and Ladenburger Spielzeugauktion GmbH. Collage by Heemin Moon (Auction Daily). The fall auction season started to heat up this October. Several consignments drew headlines as auction houses lined up rare works…
