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Books & Manuscripts

Records & Results: Early Printed Books

Our October 17 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books  garnered eager interest from biblio…

Books & Manuscripts

The First Accounts of Captain Cook’s Fateful Voyage

A transportive highlight in our October 17 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books is the r…

Photographs & Photobooks

Magnum Photographs: 70th Anniversary

Magnum Photos, founded as a cooperative agency in 1947, is perhaps the most well-known photographic collective in th…

African American Art

Records & Results: African-American Fine Art

Four works exceeded $100,000 at our sale of African-American Fine Art on Thursday, October 5. A wealth of unique pai…

Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana

Hoards of history-lovers came out to attend the preview for our auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana on Sep…

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Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

We opened our fall season with a marathon sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, breaking multiple r…

African American Art

Four Unique Works by Charles White Debut at Auction

The highlight of our October 5 auction of African-American Fine Art is a series of unique works by Charles White tha…

African American Art

Alma Thomas’s Journey to Abstraction

Alma Thomas is renowned for her brightly colored abstract works that seem to dance across canvas and paper, but how …

Printed & Manuscript Americana

Diary of a Syrian-American Woman, 1908

On a trip to her homeland, a young Syrian-American woman named Mary Arbeely kept a diary recording her attempts to c…

Printed & Manuscript Americana

A Nineteenth-Century Honolulu Gossip Rag

The book arrived in Honolulu by ship from San Francisco on New Year’s Day, 1863, and soon caused a stir throug…

African American Art

John Biggers Mural Damaged by Hurricane Harvey

As Hurricane Harvey roared through Houston last month, an unlikely victim was left behind: the monumental 1953 mural…

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Who is Françoise Gilot?

The top lot in our September 19 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings is a masterful lithograph b…