Auction Update Review
Count down
For the week ending Saturday
November 12th nineteen auctions were archived; four in British
Pounds, eight in Euros and seven in Dollars.
Five thousand and fifty three lots were offered and 3,746 sold for a 74%
success rate. Total turnover was
$15,758,205 against the aggregate high estimate of $19,004,566: 83%.
Sotheby’s completed three sales in this category and accounted for
$7,943,675 of the week’s turnover:
Rare Books from an Amateur’s
Library on November 9th:
$1,839,892
Books and Manuscripts on November 9th: $3,523,234
Photographs on November 11th: $2,580,549
Theirs was an exceptional
performance.
Doyle New York also delivered
back-to-back first tier performances as well:
Books, Photographs & Prints on
November 7th: $2,171,081
Prints and Books from the Creedmore
and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation Trust:
$568,900
In the changing alchemy of the New
York auction market Doyle, with these sales, is delivering results commensurate
with the top New York houses, further confirming New York’s dominance of the
North American if not the world auction market for printed material. In New York today Sotheby’s, Christies,
Bonhams, Swann’s, Doyle and Heritage are delivering the most exciting auction
market in a generation.
For the week six sales reached or
exceeded 100% of their high aggregate high estimate:
Skinner. The Early Photography Collection on November
1st: 225%
Sotheby’s. Rare Books from an Amateur’s Library on
November 9th: 169%
Doyle New York. Books, Photographs & Prints on November
7th: 123%
Doyle New York. Prints and Books from the Creedmore and Adele
Fath Charitable Trust on November 8th:
123%
Dominic Winter. Important Bible & Theology from Ramsgate
Abbey on November 10th: 116%
Dominic Winter. Books and Maps on November 9th: 106%
For the week ahead 22 sales are
scheduled:
November 14th Ader.
Photographs (17501)
Artcurial
Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan. Books
and Manuscripts (17689)
Kapandji
Morhange. Photographs (17848)
November 15th Burgersdijk & Niermans. Books (334)
Christie’s. Books and Manuscripts (2611)
Sotheby’s. Travel, Atlases, Maps (11405)
November 16th Bloomsbury Auctions. Photographs (35854)
Burgersdijk
& Niermans. Books (334)
Dominic
Winter Book Auctions. Aviation and
Transport (11162011)
November 17th Ader.
Sacha Guitry – Collection Andre Bernard Part I (17504)
Bloomsbury
Auctions. Photographs (Roma-62)
Bonhams. Photographs (18988)
Dominic
Winter (11172011)
PBA
Galleries. Rare Books & Manuscripts
(467)
Swann
Galleries. American Art / Contemporary
Art (2262)
November 18th Ader.
Sacha Guitry – Collection Andre Bernard Part II
Galeria
Koller Auctions. Books (G49)
Jeschke
– van vliet Buch and Kunstauktionen GmbH.
Modern and Graphic Art (73)
November 19th Adams Amsterdam Auctions. Fine & Rare Books and Prints (111911)
Neal
Auction Company. Antiques (111911)
November 20th Neal Auction Company. Antiques (111911)
National
Book Auction. Books and Ephemera –
Antique, Special Editions, Art, etc.
(11202011)
We are now in the high cotton.
Bruce McKinney
AE
November 13th, 2011