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