Auction Update Review
Distant Thunder
We are tiptoeing into the fall
season. For the week ending Saturday
September 15th, 2012 ten sales were archived, 1 in Mexican pesos, 1
in euros, 2 in British pounds and 6 in US dollars. Three thousand and thirty-eight lots were
offered and 2,132 sold for a 70.2% success rate. Sales totaled $1,087,443.
One sale saw its total proceeds reach at least 100% of its aggregate high estimate:
Dorotheum. Posters, Advertising Art, Comics, Film and Photo History on September 12th: 162%
Three sales saw at least 80% of
their lots sell:
National Book Auctions. Books and Ephemera – Grosz, Maps, Coins,
Dickens on September 9th:
100%
Bloomsbury Auctions. Bibliophile Sale on September 13th: 83%
Clars Auction Gallery. Prints, Photographs – Day 1: 80%
For the week ahead 22 sales are
scheduled:
Wed. Sept. 19th Bonhams. Prints featuring British Pop [19786]
Christie’s. Prints [5705].
Dominic
Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books,
Maps & Documents [91912]
Freeman’s
[Samuel T. Freeman & Co.].
Photography and Photographic Books [1437].
Sotheby’s. Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints
[L12161]
Thurs. Sept. 20th Bloomsbury Auctions. Children’s, Conjuring, Private Press and
Modern First Editions [35952]
Christie’s. Etchings by James Ensor from an Important
Private Collections [8258]
Cowan’s
Auctions. The World at War [283].
De
Baecque & Associes. Antiquarian and
Modern Books [19666]
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. A Country House Library [92012]
Freeman’s
[Samuel T. Freeman & Co.]. Books,
Maps and Manuscripts [1438]
Heritage
Auctions. Rare book – online bidding
ending today [201238]
Knotty
Pine Auction Service. Books and Ephemera
[92012]
Pierre
Berge & Associes. Books [19559]
Swann
Galleries. 19th and 20th
Century Prints and Drawings [560]
Fri. Sept. 21st Ferraton. Books, Autographs and Manuscripts [92112]
Galerie
Koller Auctions. Prints, Books [A162].
Galerie
Koller Auctions. Master Prints [W234]
Venator
and Hanstein [Buch und Graphikauktionen].
Books, Prints, Drawings, Autographs [124].
Sat. Sept. 22nd Auxerre Encheres –
Auxerre Estimations. Books [89739]
Galerie
Koller Auctions. Prints, Books [A162]
Venator
and Hanstein [Buch und Graphikauktionen].
Modern and Contemporary Prints and Drawings;
Modern Literature on Art
[125]
The next few months may be
rocky. Uncertainty with the elections
and the current malaise in the Middle East will give some bidders pause. The serious will be undeterred. Uncertainty comes and goes with some
regularity. Important and rare materials pass by less often.
Bruce McKinney
AE
September 16th, 2012