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A new exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery presents nearly 40 photographs from Brassaï’s…
RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Presidents sale ontinues the company’s 50th…
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Cincinnati, OH – On November 15, Hindman Auctions sold one of the earliest photographic portraits taken in America as part of a collection of photographs that realized an impressive $300,000. The archive was purchased by a midwestern museum. Offered in The Henry Fitz Jr. Archive of Photographic…
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Leyburn, North Yorkshire, England — An intriguing signature written by legendary escape artist Harry Houdini when he performed in the Huddersfield Hippodrome is coming up for sale in Tennants Auctioneers’ Toys, Models and Collectables Sale on 15th December.  
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Chicago — Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce this 450 lot sale to be held on Saturday, December 11th starting at 10am CDT. The event will be held online and live streamed, with a limited number of bidders physically allowed in the gallery as determined by current Illinois public…
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Boston — The Boston Athenæum is pleased to announce that curator and scholar Lauren Graves has been appointed Polly Thayer Starr Fellow in American Art and Culture for a two-year period.
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New York — The International Center of Photography (ICP) is excited to announce a recent major gift from The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation to name The Bern and Ronny Schwartz Special Collections Room, adjacent to ICP’s William Randolph Hearst Library at 79 Essex Street on the Lower East Side of…
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Chicago – Hindman Auctions set a house record on November 9 and 10 when its Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana auction achieved a sales total of $1.5 million, the most ever for a various owner Fine Books & Manuscript auction in the company’s 39 year history. The 686 lot…
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Connecticut -- A new departure for AntiquarianAuctions.com in the US: their next sale is being offered exclusively on the LiveAuctioneers.com platform (https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/218924_rare-books-documents-photos-and-artwork/). The sale of just over 300 lots includes selections from…
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Boston — Lee Harvey Oswald's U. S. Marine Corps Score Book sold for $75,000 according to Boston-based RR Auction. The 80-page softcover workbook issued on December 3, 1956, was filled out by Oswald. The first few pages of the workbook contain instructions for shooting and scoring, with Oswald's…
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Dallas — More than 900 bidders were on the case at Heritage Auctions' Nov. 6 Historical Manuscripts Signature® Auction. But the day's biggest mystery was solved when the final price for a handwritten page from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original manuscript of his beloved Sherlock Holmes book The…
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New York – The Morgan Library & Museum announces the appointment of Elizabeth Abbarno as Director of Exhibition and Collection Management. In this critical role, Abbarno will oversee the implementation of the Morgan’s ambitious exhibition program and take a lead role in stewarding a collection…