Auction Update Review
The Market is Warming
For the week ending Saturday March 30th, 18
auctions were archived to the AED; 4 in US dollars, 3 in British pounds, 8 in
euros, and 3 in Swiss francs. Turnover
was $8,240,697. Seven thousand four
hundred-sixteen lots were offered and 4,930 sold for a 66% success rate.
Three sales reached the million dollar level:
Venator and Hanstein [Buch und
Graphikauktionen]. Books and Prints on
March 22nd: $1,807,178
Heritage Auctions [Ha.com]. Vintage Movie Posters on March 23rd: $1,731,902
Galerie Koller Auctions. Manuscripts and Books on March 23rd: $1,026,030
Nine auctions saw their total sales exceed
the total of the high estimates of all lots offered:
Ferraton.
Prints on March 23rd: 159%
Galerie Koller Auctions. Prints on March 22nd: 137%
Osenat.
French Empire at Fontainbleau on March 24th: 136%
Heritage Auctions [Ha.com]. Vintage Movie Posters on March 23rd: 130%
Jeschke – van
vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH.
Rare Books on March 22rd: 124%
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Books on March 21st: 123%
Cornette de Saint Cyr. Prints and Multiples on March 27th: 105%
Venator and Hanstein [Buch und
Graphikauktionen]. Books and Prints on
March 22nd: 104%
Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F.
Tajan. Books, Prints on March 26th: 100%
Six sales saw 80% or more of their lots sell:
Jeschke – van
vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH.
Rare Books on March 22rd: 100%
Bonhams.
Prints on March 24th: 92%
Heritage Auctions [Ha.com]. Vintage Movie Posters on March 23rd: 91%
Ferraton.
Prints on March 23rd: 89%
Galeria Koller Auctions. Prints on March 22nd: 82%
Osenat.
French Empire at Fontainbleau on March 24th: 81%
For the week ahead 20 sales are scheduled:
Wed. April 3rd Aguttes. Prints and
Photographs [20651]. 9 lots
Neret – Minet &
Tessier. Books and Autographs [15831]. 233 lots
Old World Auctions. The Grace
Collection of Important Antique Maps and Prints [144].
Thurs. April 4th Bloomsbury Auctions. Books,
Manuscripts, Prints, Drawings and other Artworks [35999].
Christies. Photographs and
Modernist Masterworks [2767].
Dorothy Sloan Rare Books.
Americana: Texas, the West, Mexico & the Borderlands [23]. 614
lots
Freeman’s [Samuel T. Freeman &
Co.]. Books, Manuscripts and Maps [1454].
Heritage
Auctions [Ha.com]. Rare Books online bidding ending today [201314]
Fri. April 5th
Alde. Important Music Sale
[20984]
Christies. Photographs and
Modernist Masterworks [2691]..
Dorothy Sloan Rare Books.
Americana: Texas, the West, Mexico & the Borderlands [23]. 614
lots
Eldred’s. Prints [763].
Freeman’s [Samuel T. Freeman &
Co.]. Posters and Other Graphics [1455].
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers.
Prints [1104].
Piasa. Ancient and Modern
Prints [20618].
Sothebys. The Modern
Image: Photographs from an Important American Collection [N09027].
Sat. April 6th Eldred’s. Prints [763].
Sothebys. Photographs
[N08979].
Stair
Auctioneers & Appraisers. Books and Prints [40613]
Sun. April 7th National Book Auctions. Books,
Prints, Ephemera [40713].
The market is warming.
Bruce McKinney
AE