October 27th, 2011 
UAA Team 
The exhibition “Multiplicity” features contemporary prints from the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum that embrace many styles, techniques and approaches with which artists have worked over the past several decades. “Multiplicity” is on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from Nov. 11 throughMarch 11, 2012. The exhibition is organized by Joann Moser, senior [...]
Posted in Art, Museum, Prints and Posters 
Tags: Brice Marden, Chuck Close, David Hockney, John Baldessari, John Cage, Julie Mehretu, Kara Walker, Kiki Smith, Martin Puryear, Multiplicity, R. Luke DuBois, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Sol LeWitt, Susan Rothenberg, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Vija Celmins 
No Comments » October 13th, 2011 UAA Team 
An 8-foot-long 1906 Rock Island Railroad reverse glass train sign brought $71,500 at an auction held Sept.30-Oct. 2 by Showtime Auction Services, at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Ann Arbor. It was a new auction record for an 8-foot Rock Island sign, more than doubling the previous record of $30,000. It was also the [...]
August 5th, 2011 UAA Team 
A 1942 Academy Award, awarded to Nathan Levinson for his work on the classic musical Yankee Doodle Dandy, brought $89,625 as the top lot in Heritage Auctions’ July 29 Signature® Music & Entertainment Auction. All prices quoted include 19.5% Buyer’s Premium. “A price realized of almost $90,000 shows just how valuable a thing an Oscar [...]
Posted in Auction, Prints and Posters Tags: Barrett, George Harrison, Heritage, John Lennon, Levinson, Oscar, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yankee Doodle Dandy No Comments » July 20th, 2011 UAA Team 
The original 1967 cover art for Amazing Spider-Man #49, by legendary comic book artist John Romita, Sr., featuring Spidey in a seemingly impossible bind between Kraven the Hunter and the Vulture, is expected to bring $100,000+ on Aug. 17-18 in Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Vintage Comics & Comic Art Auction. This is the first time this [...]
Posted in Auction, Prints and Posters Tags: Comic, Comix, Heritage, John Romita, Marvel, Spiderman, Victor Moscoso No Comments » July 13th, 2011 UAA Team 
The Haight-Ashbury Collection of original hand-crafted psychedelic art, original 1960s rock posters, including original work by the biggest names in the genre – artists Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse, David Singer and Victor Moscoso, among the many – will be offered as part of Heritage Auctions’ July 29 Signature Music & Entertainment Memorabilia Auction [...]
Posted in Art, Auction, Collecting, Prints and Posters Tags: Dallas, Fillmore, Grateful Dead, Haight-Ashbury, Heritage, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, Miles Davis, San Francisco, Santana No Comments » May 12th, 2011 UAA Team 
The power and depth of the Charles Martignette Collection of Illustration Art continued to exert its influence on May 4 in the form of Gil Elvgren’s Gay Nymph, 1947, which brought $286,800 – a World’s Record price for the artist – against a $60,000+ pre-auction estimate–in Heritage Auctions’ $3.409+ million Signature New York Illustration Art [...]
February 2nd, 2011 UAA Team 
The original 1939 production proofs for pages 2-6 of Detective Comics #27, otherwise known as the first appearance of “The Bat-Man,” perhaps the closest the world will ever get to the original art for this monumental comic book – long lost, as far as anyone has ever known – will be part of Heritage Auctions [...]
January 19th, 2011 ewmiller 
Map dealer Graham Arader of Arader Galleries tells Tom Keene on Bloomberg News today there’s no middle class left in the U.S. that’s collecting. Moreover, “there’s no upper middle class left, it’s only the wealthy collectors that are moving this market.” The appearance was promoted with the question of whether it’s a good time to [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business, Collecting, Prints and Posters Tags: Arader Galleries, Bloomber, Graham Arader, Maps, Tom Keene No Comments » December 3rd, 2010 UAA Team 
Brisk bidding and strong prices paced Heritage Auctions’ Nov. 12 Vintage Movie Poster Auction, realizing a total of $1.486 million in its impressive debut at the company’s Beverly Hills location. All prices include a 19.5% Buyer’s Premium. “Beverly Hills and vintage movie posters are a perfect fit,” said Grey Smith, Director of Vintage Movie Posters [...]
Posted in Auction, Collecting, Prints and Posters Tags: Dracula, Heritage, King Kong, movie poster, Ocean's 11, Rat Pack 1 Comment » November 18th, 2010 UAA Team 
The Philadelphia Museum of Art today announced that it has acquired, through several gifts and a purchase agreement with the Aperture Foundation, the core collection of photographs by Paul Strand, one of the pre-eminent photographers of the 20th century. Through the generosity of philanthropists Lynne and Harold Honickman, Marjorie and Jeffrey Honickman, and H.F. “Gerry” [...]
