Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Catalog Photos Courtesy Clars Auction Gallery OAKLAND, CALIF. – Only 13 percent of Clars Auction Gallery’s March 20-21 sale was jewelry but it accounted for approximately...
When Josh Leland Evans passed away in 2020, the torch of the auction house that bore his name passed to his longest business partner, Michael Heffner, who started with Lelands right out of college more...
Notable sales in our April 9, 2021 issue include everything from sought-after art to brilliant mechanical devices. To start, a panel painting by graffiti artist Hebru Brantley sold for $28,290 at Kensington...
LAS VEGAS – The finest known 1822 half eagle sold for $8.4 million in the Stack’s Bowers Galleries March 2021 Las Vegas Auction, setting a new world record in the process. Graded AU-50 by PCGS,...
DALLAS – A 1937 Edward VIII five-pound pattern coin – one of only a small number of commemorative British gold coins produced for the would-be coronation of Edward VIII – set a world...
ATLANTA, GA. – Leading Ahler’s & Ogletree’s two day sale March 27-28 was Arnaldo Pomodoro’s “Sfera,” a Death Star-looking bronze sculpture that came from a Gainsville,...
HUDSON, N.Y. – A mixed-media painting by Jamie Wyeth that depicted deflated jack-o-lanterns lit up Stair Galleries’ March 23 sale of the Ligonier, Penn., estate of Richard P. Mellon. According...
POTSDAM, N.Y. – The focus was on early manuscript maps, town-founding documents, business and personal papers and the library amassed by Col. Elisha Camp and his wife of Sacket’s Harbor, N.Y.,...
GENESEO, N.Y. – There were 210 lots that crossed the block at Cottone’s fine art and antiques sale on March 27. Leading the parade was a rare Tiffany Studios New York Pond Lily table lamp that...
CRANSTON, R.I. – An ink and watercolor original artwork by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brought $13,800 at Bruneau & Co’s March 27 sale. The work was featured...
DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. – A Northwest Coast Indian carved and painted whale transformation totem pole sold for $17,136 at Pook & Pook’s March 24 Native American Indian auction. The pole had been...
NEW YORK CITY – An early draft of Martin Luther King’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail” sold far above the high estimate at Swann Galleries’ annual African American sale on March...