Auction Update Review
Auctions: The Pace Quickens
For the week ending Saturday March
17th 20 auctions were archived in the AED; 9 denominated in Euros, 3
in British Pounds, 8 in US dollars. Five thousand one hundred and eighty lots were offered and 4,108 sold for a 79% success
rate. Total turnover was $11,808,311, a
number exaggerated by Christie’s successful sale of photographs on March 12th
that brought in $5,903,250 for 36 lots.
The other 19 sales and their 4,072 lots raised $5,905,081.
Five sales reached or exceeded 100%
of their total high estimate:
Neal Auctions. Prints on March 10th: 751%
Christie's. Masterworks by William Eggleston on March 12th: 176%
Dorotheum. Prints on March 12th: 149%
Sotheby’s. The Collection of Giovanni and Gabriella
Barilla on March 14th: 139%
Lyon and Turnbull. The Blair Sale on March 14th: 104%
For the week ahead 20 sales are scheduled:
Monday Mar 19th Rossini.
Posters [18630]
Tuesday Mar 20th Bruun Rasmussen. Prints [1212]
Wed’day Mar 21st Alde.
Ancient and Modern Books [18893]
Bloomsbury
Auctions. Travel and Natural History
[35878]
Bruun
Rasmussen. Prints [1212 continued]
Christie’s. Books [4802]
Rupert
Toovey and Co. Prints [1025]
Webb’s. C. L. Thomas Collection [032112]
Thursday Mar 22nd Ader.
Books of Photos [18833]
Alde. Library of an Amateur [18316]
Cowan’s
Auctions. Online American History [262]
Heritage
Auctions. Rare Books [201212]
Friday Mar 23rd Heritage Auctions. Vintage Movie Posters [7055]
Venator
and Hanstein. Buch und Graphikauktionen [122]
Saturday Mar 24th Cottone.
Prints [62]
Dirk
Soulis. Spivey, Phase III [30112]
Ferraton. Prints [18448]
Heritage
Auctions. Vintage Movie Posters [7055]
Morton
Casa de Subastas. Books, Documents and
Prints [627]
Venator
and Hanstein. Buch und Graphikauktionen [123]
The pace continues to quicken.
Bruce McKinney
AE
March 18th, 2012
