Tag: James Joyce

8 Press Releases

  • Artists, Auction Industry

    Artist to Know: Berenice Abbott

    Barridoff Galleries Offers Three Vintage Photos of a Changing New York After settling in Paris, pioneering photographer Man Ray started looking for an assistant. He specifically sought a candidate with no previous experience in photography who could learn his distinct style. Ray eventually hired a young journalism dropout who had…

    Artist to Know Berenice Abbott1
  • Auction Industry, Press Release

    Fine Books & Autographs at Auction June 17

    Joan Miró, Autograph Letter Signed, to Ballets Russes director Serge Grigoriev, with two small ink drawings, 1933. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000. New York—Swann Galleries will hold their spring offering of Fine Books & Autographs on Thursday, June 17. The auction will feature a strong showing of autographs by prominent American…

    Fine Books & Autographs at Auction June 17-2
  • Auction Result, Press Release

    Swann Sets Auction Record for Frederick Douglass Autograph at $112K

    Frederick Douglass, Autograph Letter Signed, to Sallie Holley recruiting her for the Frederick Douglass Paper, 1851. Sold for $112,500, a record for an ALS by Douglass. FINE BOOKS & AUTOGRAPHS Sale 2559; February 25, 2021 Sale total: $522,632 Estimates for sale as a whole: $304,400–$456,550 We offered 269 lots; 243…

    Swann Sets Auction Record for Frederick Douglass Autograph at $112K-1
  • Auction Industry, Press Release

    Quinn’s October 29 auction packed with rare signed books, works on paper, documents and Americana

    Featured: JFK-signed baseball, Chuck Close photo of Kate Moss, Letter from Gen. Grant to Abraham Lincoln, Dali-illustrated ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ First U.S. six-volume edition of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, translated from the French and published in 1862 by Carleton (New York), estimate, $700-$900 FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Quinn’s Auction…

    Quinns October 29 auction packed with rare signed books, works on paper, documents and Americana
  • Auction Industry

    Items signed by Washington, Lincoln, JFK and Jackie, Einstein, others are in One of a Kind Collectibles auction Sept. 10

    Buyers can register and bid now, at www.OAKauctions.com. The sale has 282 lots, many signed by history's brightest luminaries. It's a collector's paradise. 1776 letter signed by then-General George Washington, to Abraham Yates Jr., requesting assistance moving wounded troops after the Battle of Long Island (est. $15,000 -$20,000). CORAL GABLES,…

    Items signed by Washington, Lincoln, JFK and Jackie, Einstein, others are in One of a Kind Collectibles auction Sept. 10
  • Auction Industry

    Property From The Estates Of Georgia O'Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz Drive Sotheby's $17.2 Million Auction In New York

    The sale was led by Nature Forms – Gaspé from 1932. Sold for $6.9 Million. Courtesy Sotheby's. NEW YORK, NY.- Public institutions and private collectors zealously vied for works from the estates of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz in today’s auction Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Juan Hamilton: Passage at Sotheby’s New York, driving…

    Gaspé from 1932
  • Auction Industry

    £1.2 Million Irish & International Art To Be Sold On 9 March

    On Monday 9 March 2020 two hundred lots of Irish & International art will be offered for auction at the RDS Dublin. Viewing takes place at the RDS, Saturday to Monday 7-9 March from 10am to 6pm daily. DUBLIN.- When the hammer fell at €1.4 millon for Yeats’ painting Reverie (Ernie…

    On Monday 9 March 2020 two hundred lots of Irish & International art will be offered for auction at the RDS Dublin. Viewing takes place at the RDS, Saturday to Monday 7-9 March from 10am to 6pm daily.
  • Auction Industry

    5 minutes with... Ernest Hemingway’s pocket watch

    Watch specialist Rebecca Ross recounts the remarkable story of the writer’s long association with the Ritz in Paris, and the watch he was presented by the hotel’s owner as a wedding gift For Christie’s specialists, the most incredible discoveries are often the ones that have been hiding in plain sight…

    5 minutes with... Ernest Hemingway’s pocket watch
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