UAA Team | October 27, 2011
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 [...]
Category: Art, Museum, Prints and Posters |
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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
UAA Team | October 13, 2011
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 [...]
Category: Auction, Prints and Posters |
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Tags: Pullman, Rock Island Railroad, Showtime Auction, Washtenaw Farm Council, Western Sandblasting Company
UAA Team | August 5, 2011
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 [...]
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Tags: Barrett, George Harrison, Heritage, John Lennon, Levinson, Oscar, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yankee Doodle Dandy
UAA Team | July 20, 2011
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 [...]
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Tags: Comic, Comix, Heritage, John Romita, Marvel, Spiderman, Victor Moscoso
UAA Team | July 13, 2011
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 [...]
Category: Art, Auction, Collecting, Prints and Posters |
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Tags: Dallas, Fillmore, Grateful Dead, Haight-Ashbury, Heritage, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, Miles Davis, San Francisco, Santana
UAA Team | May 12, 2011
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 [...]
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Tags: Charles Martignette, Ed Jaster, Gay Nymph, Gil Elvgren, Heritage Auctions, Joseph Christian Leyendecker
UAA Team | February 2, 2011
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 [...]
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Tags: Batman, Bob Kane, Heritage, Queens, trash
ewmiller | January 19, 2011
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 [...]
Category: Antiques, Antiques Business, Collecting, Prints and Posters |
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Tags: Arader Galleries, Bloomber, Graham Arader, Maps, Tom Keene
UAA Team | December 3, 2010
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 [...]
Category: Auction, Collecting, Prints and Posters |
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Tags: Dracula, Heritage, King Kong, movie poster, Ocean's 11, Rat Pack
UAA Team | November 18, 2010
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” [...]
Category: Art, Collecting, Photography, Prints and Posters, Show & Gallery |
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Tags: Aperture Foundation, Celso Gonzalez-Falla, John Marin, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Strand, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rebecca Salsbury, Richard Benson, Thomas Eakins
