Auction Update Review
Was there a vacation? It's difficult to remember.
It was a quiet week. No reported sales reached a million dollars and only a single sale saw total proceeds exceed 100% of the total of the high estimates. What's interesting is that the sales relentlessly continue. Not so long ago there were long periods of quiet. In this era an open date on the auction calander is an opportunity.
1 auction saw total sales exceed 100% of the high estimates of all lots offered in the sale:
Bruun Rasmussen. Modern and Contemporary Prints on January 7th: 105.22%
3 sales saw at least 80% of their lots sell:
Heritage Auctions. Comics - Internet bidstart 12/29 on January 5th: 99.81%
Heritage Auctions. Movie Posters - Internet Bidstart 12/29 on January 5th: 94.35%
Bruun Rasmussen. Modern and Contemporary Prints on January 7th: 93.75%
For the week ahead 11 sales are scheduled:
Tue. Jan. 14th
Paige Auction. Portland. Prints. 63 lots
Bruun Rasmussen. Copenhagen. Modern and Contemporary Prints. 63 lots
Wed. Jan. 15th
Lyon and Turnbull. Edinburgh. Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts. 408 lots
RR Auction. Amherst. Rare Manuscript, Document & Autograph - bidstart 12/19. 1773 lots
Doyle New York. New York. The Yale R. Burge Collection: Prints and Books. 35 lots
Thu. Jan. 16th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Rare Books - Internet bidstart 1/9. 283 lots
PBA Galleries. San Francisco. Fine Americana - African-American History - Travel - Maps and Views. 559 lots
Sun. Jan. 19th
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Comics - Internet bidstart 1/12.
Heritage Auctions. Dallas. Movie Posters - Internet Bidstart 1/12.
Artcurial. Paris. Aeronautics. 100 lots
OSENAT. FONTAINEBLEAU. Archeology: Gantner Museum Collection - Antiquarian Books. 11 lots
This year the weekly auction updates will be sponsored and this first week the Arader Galleries are highlighting their sale of Audubon pirnts and other printed collectibles on January 25th. Guernsey is conducting the sale at the Arader Gallery's 1016 Madison Avenue location.
1016 Madison Avenue
New York, New York
Telephone: 212.626-7825
Bruce McKinney
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