Auction Update Review
July going quietly into that good night..
This week the title is a turn on Dylan Thomas' phase "do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day." And so it is with seasons of books and of men. We live in dangerous times, the past not prologue, our contents staked to the old as we live through to the new.
For the week ending Saturday July
27th 8 auctions were archived to the AED; 5 in US dollars and 1 each
in Mexican pesos, British pounds, and euros.
Turnover was $1,585,579 as 3,831 lots were offered and 2,604 sold for a
68% success rate.
No sales reached the million
dollar level. Neither did any total
sale exceed the total of the high estimates of all lots offered.
Three sales saw at least 80% of
their lots sell:
Heritage Auctions. Rare Book online bidding ended July 25th: 92%
Christies. Interiors – Prints on July 23rd: 86%
Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Documents on July 24th: 81%
For the week ahead 20 events are
scheduled:
Tues. July 30th Copley Fine Art. The Sporting Sale [73013]. 99 lots
Heritage
Auctions [HA.com]. Illustration Art
[5140]. 432 lots
Wed. July 31st Bloomsbury Auctions.
Visual Arts [36061]. 330 lots
Bonhams. Prints [20703]. 26 lots
Copley
Fine Art. The Sporting Sale
[73013]. 99 lots
Eldred’s. Books, Prints, Maps [782]. 129 lots
Gray’s
Auctioneers. Prints, Books [69]. 114 lots
Heritage
Auctions [HA.com]. Illustration Art
[5140]. 432 lots
Profiles
in History. Animation [58]. 900 lots
Thurs Aug. 1st Eldred’s. Books, Prints, Maps [782]. 129 lots
Heritage
Auctions [HA.com]. Illustration Art
[5140]. 432 lots
Heritage
Auctions [HA.com]. Vintage Comics and
Comic Art
[7079]. 1,203 lots
Heritage
Auctions [HA.com]. Rare Books online
bidding
ending today [201331]. 218 lots
Fri. Aug. 2nd Eldred’s. Books, Prints, Maps [782]. 129 lots
Heritage
Auctions [HA.com]. Vintage Comics and
Comic Art [7079]. 1,203 lots
Northeast
Auctions. Americana [13]. 132 lots
Sat. Aug. 3rd Addison and Sarova. The Dwaning & the Awakening: A Nation, A Religion,
& an Art Form
[1004]. 369 lots
Northeast
Auctions
Sun. Aug. 4th National Book Auctions.
Northeast
Auctions. Americana [13]. 132 lots
August is what was once the quiet month but more
houses now selling into the waning summer because one can be seen and heard more easily.
Bruce McKinney
AE