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Vincent Van Gogh’s Piles de romans parisiens et roses dans une verre (Romans parisiens) has been sold at Sotheby's for $62.7m which is the second highest price for a still life by the artist.It appeared at the auction of The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection and had an estimate in the…
The highest-ever-graded copy of Superman No. 1 from 1939 which was found by a Northern California family in the attic of their late mother's home now holds the record as the world's most expensive comic book.It sold for $9.12m at Heritage Auction's Comic Books auction."What a momentous day," said…
A new exhibition opening next month at The Grolier Club will mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen.
Opening November 28 at The New York Historical is a new exhibition exploring themes of memory, identity, and community.Stirring the Melting Pot: Photographs from The New York Historical Collections examines the immigrant experience in New York City through March 29, 2026.
A number of civil war maps go under the hammer at Swann Galleries tomorrow in its Printed & Manuscript Americana sale.Leading the lots is a Union-drawn manuscript map of the Virginia countryside southwest of Alexandria very early in the war, around September 1861, shortly after the July 1861…
William Blake's The Tyger comes from his rare first issue of Songs of Experience and will be offered at Christie's next month as a single, unbound work, the only impression from the earliest colour printed edition that is in private hands.
Highlights of Peter Harrington's latest catalogue Ruinous Wrath: The Literature of War include:
The latest Freeman’s Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts auction featured selections from Richard Flaherty’s Shakespeare library, including a previously unrecorded copy of the rare Third Folio which was the hightest selling lot at $121,150, more than triple its low estimate.
Here are the sales I'll be watching through the rest of November:
A variety of lots at Bonhams' current Books, Atlases, and Manuscripts online auction ending November 19 include unique materials relating to novelist Anthony Powell best known for his A Dance to the Music of Time novel series.
