Auction Update Review
This week an auction every 6 hours and 13 minutes
For the week ending April 6th
15 auctions were archived to the AED; 8 in US dollars, 2 in British pounds, and
5 in euros. Turnover was a brisk
$27,563,384 earned on the sale of 3,245 lots, 76% of the 4,267 lots offered. The market was firm.
Six sales reached the
million-dollar level:
Christies. Photographs and Modernist Masterworks [2767]
on April 4th: $7,654,125
Christies. Photographs and Modern Masterworks [2691] on
April 5th: $7,245,375
Sotheby’s. Photographs on April 6th: $5,061,190
Sotheby’s. The Modern Image: Photographs from an Important American
Collection on April 5th:
$2,544,376
Dorothy Sloan Rare Books. Americana:
Texas, the West, Mexico & the Borderlands on April 4th: $1,578,488
Bloomsbury Auctions. Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Drawings and
other Artworks on April 4th:
$1,305,407
Seven auctions saw their total
sales exceed the total of their high estimates:
Cornette de Saint Cyr. Private Sacha Guitry on March 28th: 254%
Neret – Minet & Tessier. Books and Autographs on April 3rd: 244%
Bloomsbury Auctions. Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Drawings and
other Artworks on April 4th: 142%
Aguttes. Prints and Photographs on April 3rd: 116%
Christies. Photographs and Modern Masterworks [2691] on
April 5th: 112%
Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers. Books on March 21st: 106%
Christies. Photographs and Modernist Masterworks [2767]
on April 4th: 101%
Eight sales saw 80% or more of
their lots sell:
Cornette de Saint Cyr. Private Sacha Guitry on March 28th: 100%
Freeman’s. Books, Manuscripts and Maps on April 4th: 90%
Heritage Auctions [HA.com] on April
4th: 89%
Aguttes. Prints and Photographs on April 3rd: 116%
Bloomsbury Auctions. Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Drawings and
other Artworks on April 4th:
89%
Christies. Photographs and Modern Masterworks [2691] on
April 5th: 84%
Sotheby’s. The Modern Image: Photographs from an Important American
Collection on April 5th: 83%
Freeman’s. Posters and Other Graphics on April 5th: 80%
For the week ahead 27 sales are
scheduled:
Mon. April 8th Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F.
Tajan. Weapons and Historical Memories
[20892]. 7 lots
Bruun
Rasmussen. Old Prints [1315a]. 5 lots
Doyle
New York. Photographs [40813]. 519 lots
Sothebys. Collection de Nicholas Landau et Jacqueline
Goldman [PF1336]. 11 lots
Tues. April 9th Bonhams. 20th Century Prints [21121]. 103 lots
Bruun
Rasmussen. Modern Prints [1315b]. 61 lots
Christies. Books and Manuscripts [2706]. 351 lots
Piasa. Ancient and Modern Books [20921]. 319 lots
Sothebys. Collection de Nicholas Landau et Jacqueline
Goldman [PF1336]. 11 lots
Wed. April 10th Bonhams. Roy David’s Collection: Part III:
Poetry [20922]. 264 lots
Christies. Books and Manuscripts [2706]. 351 lots
Christies. Prints [8623]. 250 lots
Christies. Books and Manuscripts [2806]. 3 lots
Dominic
Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books and
Maps [41013]. 658 lots
Heritage
Auctions [Ha.com]. Rare Books
[6094]. 630 items.
Leslie
Hindman Auctioneers. Fine Books and Manuscripts
[239]. 465 lots
Thurs. April 11th Bloomsbury Auctions. Horology and Science Books [36036]. 169 lots
Dominic
Winter Book Auctions. Private Collection
of Mountaineering Books [41113]. 418
lots
Heritage
Auctions [HA.com]. Historical Manuscripts
[6093]. 652 lots
Heritage
Auctions [Ha.com]. Illustration Art
[5126]. 856 lots
Heritage
Auctions [Ha.com]. Internet online bidding ended today
[201315]. 369 lots
PBA
Galleries. South Sale: The Library of Dr. Richard Topel, Part I
[504]. 364 lots
Swann
Galleries, Inc. Fine Books, Including
Incunabula [2309]. 148 lots
Fri. April 12th Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Private Collection of Mountaineering Books
[41113]. 418 lots
Heritage
Auctions [Ha.com]. Illustration Art
[5126]. 856 lots
Sat. April 13th Alde. Beautiful and Modern Bindings [20985]. 344 lots
Sun. April 14th Bonhams. Books, Prints [20943]. 27 lots
It’s an important week. Not so long ago extensive sales in a single
week were rare. These days they are
becoming the norm.
Bruce McKinney
AE
April 15th, 2013
