Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack, Catalog Photos Courtesy James D. Julia Inc. FAIRFIELD, MAINE – Jim Julia’s three-day firearms sale, October 31 to November 2, offered close to 2,000...
Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack, Additional Photos Courtesy Grogan & Co. BOSTON – Grogan & Company’s 30th anniversary sale, November 5, grossed $2,525,000 as a John Singer...
DALLAS — One of just two surviving movie posters for the 1931 horror classic Dracula set a world record for the most valuable movie poster ever sold at auction when it brought $525,800 Saturday, November...
NEW ORLEANS, LA. — A Chinese/Tibetan “gem”-embellished parcel‑gilt bronze figure of Amitayus set a record price for a bronze Amitayus sold outside of China at Neal Auction Company’s Louisiana...
THOMASTON, ME. – Cataloged as the work of Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), an unsigned oil on canvas portrait of a gentleman, handsome and elegantly attired, turned heads at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries...
REPAUPO, N.J. — A pair of Émile Picault bronzes and their pedestals found the top of the block at S&S Auction’s November 19 sale. The 37-inch high bronzes, featuring a male and female Egyptian...
PHILADELPHIA, PENN. — Freeman’s American furniture, folk and decorative arts auction on November 15 was led by an American School Nineteenth Century double portrait: “Granville and Ella Jane Parks...
NEW YORK CITY — Leonardo da Vinci’s 500-year old mystical masterpiece “Salvator Mundi” claimed a place in auction history on November 15, selling for $450,312,500 and setting a new auction record...
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — A 163-carat diamond, the largest of its kind to go under the hammer, realized $33.7 million at Christie’s auction at Geneva’s Four Seasons Hotel on November 14. The colorless...
VINELAND, N.J. — The Marklin Battleship Sankt Georg has every feature imaginable, including cannons in various sizes, detailed flag masts, multistory decks, two exhaust stacks and two detailed deck cranes,...
NEW YORK CITY — Celebrating the 400th anniversary of his birth, The Frick Collection has mounted “Murillo, the Self-Portraits,” a reunification of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s only...
By Karla Klein Albertson WILLIAMSBURG, VA. – Before wedding albums, baby photos and selfies, Americans captured their appearance at a moment in time through the medium of portraiture. “Artists...