6 Press Releases

Tag: James Joyce

  • 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

    £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.