Auction Update Review
A Season in Focus
For the week ending Saturday June 1st,
2013 16 auctions were archived to the AED; 2 denominated in US dollars, 1 in
Mexican pesos, 12 in euros and 1 in Australian dollars. Turnover was $9,749,932 on the sale of 4,880
lots, a soft 55% of 8,885 lots offered.
Two sales reached a million
dollars:
Sothebys. Books and Manuscripts on May 29th: $3,656,267
Sothebys. Photographs on May 29th: $1,923,415
Four auctions saw total sales
reach 100% of the total of the high estimates of all lots offered:
Alde. Letters and Manuscripts on May 30th: 129%
Sothebys. Books and Manuscripts on May 29th: 115%
Cottone. Books, Ephemera, Prints on May 18th: 103%
Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F.
Tajan. Modern Books on May 28th: 100%
Three sales saw at least 80% of
their lots sell:
Heritage Auctions [HA.com]. Rare Books – internet bidding ended May 30th: 94%
Cottone. Books, Ephemera, Prints on May 18th: 91%
Alde. Letters and Manuscripts on May 30th: 80%
For the week ahead 23 sales are
scheduled:
Mon. June 3rd Neret – Minet & Tessier. Posters [16379]. 530 lots
Tues. June 4th Archives International
Auctions. Autographs, Ephemera [60413]. 82 lots
Bruun
Rasmussen. Books [1323a]. 218 lots
Sothebys. The Library of a Disttinguished American Book
Collector [N09029]. 180 lots
Wed. June 5th Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F.
Tajan. Prints and Illustrated Books
[21837]. 342 lots
Bonhams. Prints [20738].
Galerie
Bassenge. Photography from the 19th
and 21st Century [101M]. 452
lots
Sothebys. Music, Continental Books and Manuscripts
[L13402a].
Sothebys. Highlights from the Mendham Collection: The property of the Law Society of England
and Wales [L13409]. 142 lots
Thurs. June 6th Alde.
Fine Library of an Amateur, Freemasonry, Collection about Paris [21424].
AntiquarianAuctions.com. Rare Books – internet bidding ending
today. [27].
Bruun
Rasmussen. Interiors – Prints [1323b].
Heritage
Auctions [Ha.com]. Rare Books – internet
bidding ending today [201323].
Minerva
Auctions Roma. Enchantment of Art
[Roma-93].
Sothebys. Music, Continental Books and Manuscripts, Day
II [L13402b]
Swann
Galleries, Inc. Maps, Atlases, Natural
History and Historic Prints, Ephemera [2317].
Fri. June 7th Artcurial Briest-Le
Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan. Comic Strips with
L’univers du
Createur de Tintin – 1st part [21838].
Audap
& Mirabaud. Prints [20447].
Sat. June 8th Artcurial Briest-Le
Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan. Comic Strips with
L’univers du Createur de Tintin –
3rd part [21882].
301 lots
Artcurial
Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan. Comics,
Illustrations – Benefiting
“Douleurs sans Frontieres” [21955].
Heritage
Auctions. [Ha.com]. Militaria and Civil War [6098]
Sun. June 9th Bruun Rasmussen. Photographs [1323c].
Osenat. French Empire at Fontainbleau [21042].
It’s another interesting week.
Bruce McKinney
AE