Auction Update Review
The Hills are alive
Note about this week’s issue of the Weekly Auction Update. Effective today updates will be emailed to
all registered AE members each week on Sunday evening.
This report provides perspective on sales archived over the past 7 days
and sales upcoming over the next week. On
an average week 16 sales are archived and 18 sales scheduled and searchable for
the next week.
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For the week ending Saturday
February 23rd 18 auctions were archived to the AED, 8 in US dollars,
3 in British pounds, and 7 in euros. Five
thousand one hundred and twenty-four lots were offered and 4,054 sold for an
overall success rate of 79%. Total sales
in US dollars were $8,029,399. It was a
strong week.
The big number was $4,105,223, the total sales for Heritage’s Comics and Comic Art sale on February 21st. The next largest sale was Heritage’s Animation Art auction ended the same day. It raised $920,709. Attics, basements and garages are being scoured as we speak.
Two sales’ total proceeds exceeded 100%
of the high estimates of all lots offered:
Bonhams. Books on February 19th: 132%
Bonhams. World War II:
The Pacific Theatre on February 22nd: 103%
Eight sales saw 80% or more of
their lots sell:
Heritage Auctions. Animation Art on February 21st: 98%
Heritage Auctions. Comics and Comic Art on February 21st: 96%
Bonhams. Books on February 19th: 93%
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books online bidding ended February 21st: 91%
Clars Auction Gallery. Prints, Ephemera on February 16th: 89%
Coutau-Begarie. Comics on February 2nd: 84%
Clars Auction Gallery. Prints online bidding ended February 17th: 82%
Here is a link to an interactive spreadsheet of this past week’s sales. All headers re-sequence the data.
For the week ahead 17 sales are
scheduled:
Mon. Feb. 25th Alde. Ancient Books of the XIX Century, Political
Economy [20983]. 380 lots
Bruun
Rasmussen. Prints [1309]. 59 lots
Hommage
to Aldo Crommelynck: From Picasso to
George Condo [PF1334]
Tues. Feb. 26th Christies. Prints [8337]. 6 lots
Cowan’s
Auctions, Inc. The World at War
[346]. 35 lots
Swann
galleries, Inc. Fine Photographs and
Photobooks [2304]. 138 lots
Wed. Feb. 27th Autographes Encheres. Autographs
Bloomsbury
Auctions. Beatrix Potter: The Mark Ottignon Collection [36015]
Christies. Prints [8179]. 7 lots
Thurs. Feb. 28th Ader.
Performing Arts: Collection of a
Belgian Amateur [20826]. 360 lots
Bloomsbury
Auctions. Literature, Manuscripts and
Modern First Books [36018]. 386 lots
Heritage
Auctions. Rare Books Internet bidding
ends today [201309]. 247 lots
PBA
Galleries. Golf Books [501]. 227 lots
Sothebys. Fine Travel and Plate Books: A Private Collection [L13410]. 142 lots
Swann
Galleries. Early Printed, Medical,
Scientic and Travel Books [2305]. 341
lots.
Fri. Mar. 1st Heritage Auctions
[HA.com]. Texana [6097]. 204 lots
Sat. Mar. 2nd Dorotheum. Gun Books [9932]. 8 lots
Just as Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstein wrote and Mary Martin sang, “the hills are alive”, if not in the
auction business with the sound of music, with at least the low rumble of the
audience preparing to bid. The winter is
over.
Bruce McKinney
AE
24 February 2013