The little girl in the red dress was the first image that snared me as my eyes wandered among the artwork on the auction house wall. Her with the brown face, standing on a sidewalk in the…
Category: Art
At auction, artwork is always the first draw for me. I immediately head over to the paintings to first see an image that transfixes me and then an artist’s name that I recognize. Finding new and old…
Poster of 1964 encounter between King & Malcolm X
Posted in Art, civil rights movement, history, and Photos
No one seemed to want the framed poster of the smiling and jovial Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. The auctioneer’s voice lingered on the call-out for bids, but no hands with numbers…
From where I stood, I could see what looked like a giant purse in the middle of a sand sculpture, surrounded by two very busy artists. I figured they were making something with a…
I watched as Jonathan Demme, in royal blue sneakers and looking a little thinner and a little grayer than I expected, walked breezily up to a man staring at a painting by Haitian artist Hector Hyppolite. Demme is…
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
The print was actually quite sweet. It was an etching of a young girl playing “Bo Peep” from sheet music on a Victorian grand piano as other children played a violin, accordion and horn. Some…
A clothesline for hanging art, not sheets
Posted in Art
The air was still as water in the room at the auction house, but the garments on the clothesline in the painting were flapping in the wind. I could feel the breeze flowing through them…
Readers ask about Warrington Colescott etching & numbers book
Posted in Art, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…