Auction Update Review
A strong week behind, a busy week ahead
For the week ending Saturday
February 2nd 20 auctions were archived to the AED; 11 in US dollars,
5 in British pounds, and 4 in euros.
Total turnover was $9,450,851, 90% of the aggregate high estimate of all
lots offered. Four thousand nine hundred
and eighteen lots were offered and 3,480 sold for a 71% success rate.
One sale and it was a big one,
Christie’s sale of Old Master Prints on January 29th made
$6,002,750. No other sale reached a
million dollars.
Five sales saw their proceeds reach
100% of the total of their high estimates and two other were close enough to
mention them:
Doyle New York. Prints and Books on January 29th: 202%
Sothebys. Property of the Estate of Giancarlo Baroni on
January 29th: 146%
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps and Ephemera on January
20th: 122%
Bruun Rasmussen. Old Prints on January 28th: 119%
Gray’s Auctioneers. Prints on January 20th: 109%
Alexander’s Autographs, Inc. Autographs on January 20th: 99%
Christies. Old Master Prints: 98%
Nine sales saw 80% or more of their
lots offered sell:
Sotheby’s. Property of the Estate of Giancarlo Baroni on
January 29th: 100%
Doyle New York. Prints and Books on January 29th: 100%
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books online bidding ended January 31st: 93%
Skinner, Inc. Fine Prints on January 26th: 91%
Eldred’s. Prints and Books on January 26th: 88%
Bruun Rasmussen. Old Prints on January 28th: 88%
Dominic Winter Book Auctions: Printed Books, Maps and Ephemera on January
30th: 86%
Alexander Autographs, Inc. Autographs on January 30th: 84%
Sotheby’s. Audubon Prints on January 25th: 82%
For the week ahead 13 sales are
scheduled and 1,959 lots for these sales searchable in both the keyword and
advanced searches:
Mon. Feb. 4th Bruun Rasmussen. Old Prints [1306a]. 8 lots
Tues. Feb 5th Bruun Rasmussen. Modern Prints [1306b]. 33 lots
Christies. Prints [2677]. 5 lots
Christies. Prints [8254]. 5 lots
Wed. Feb. 6th Dominic
Winter Book Auctions. Old Master, Modern
and Japanese Prints [20613]. 198 lots
Thurs. Feb. 7th Heritage
Auctions. Rare Book internet auction
ends today [201306]. 253 lots
PBA
Galleries. Angling, Sporting, Natural
History [499]. 228 lots
Sat. Feb. 9th Artcurial
Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan. Comic
Strips [20875]. 111 lots
Neret
– Minet & Tessier. Comic Strips
[15193]. 363 lots
Sun. Feb. 10th Blacksparrow. Rare Village Autographed Books [21013]. 231 lots
Bonhams. Books [21141]. 27 lots
Here is a link to an interactive spreadsheet of all reported auction results this week.
The pattern of sales is uneven but the pace increasing.
Bruce McKinney
AE
Sunday February 3rd, 2013