The artist Paul Hoecker was known for humorous drawings and caricatures ever since he was a schoolboy. His charming dachshund with a red slipper is coming to auction on Invaluable in the Karl & Faber November 12 sale. Bid to make it yours at: https://t.co/kTJFteo9n1
You could have owned one of these for under $500 (including auction fees). Here’s what sold last week, and what’s coming up next could be yours.
#CollectorsCorner#Under500#bargain
Paul Sample caught tuberculosis and learned to paint during four years of recovery in upstate New York. He then moved to Southern California, where many of his earliest works were marine pictures. This example is coming to auction on November 11: https://t.co/g0fdiE6VAb
Raymond Han painted his partner Paul Kellogg for 60 years. Han was a Korean-American painter, while Kellogg became General Director of New York City Opera. Their partnership, founded in art, lasted six decades. Portrait of Paul is coming to auction: https://t.co/p9PfnkhaKr
In 1985, Alfredo Jaar spent weeks at Serra Pelada - an open-pit gold mine in Brazil where 80,000 men dug by hand for gold, carrying earth on their backs up mud slopes.
Gold in the Morning, published for Documenta in 2002, is coming to auction: https://t.co/3nvETi4N09
In 1946, Picasso visited a pottery workshop in Vallauris in the south of France and made a few pieces from clay. This pitcher was made in 1954 and dated in Picasso's hand and it's coming to auction on Invaluable in Freeman’s Oct 27: https://t.co/GYgwogd1EV
Criss Canning has painted from the gardens and landscapes around her 1860s farmhouse near Ballarat for over five decades. Blue, 1998, is coming to auction on Invaluable on October 26: https://t.co/ZJ0Ct159ko
View into Infinity is the fullest expression of Ferdinand Hodler’s theory of Parallelism. This compositional study is a work in progress for finished paintings that are in the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Kunsthaus Zürich. Coming to auction: https://t.co/wigZh2H7BJ
“Gruau created a new ideal of feminine beauty, one that looked to the past and was at the same time inescapably modern,” wrote David Downton of René Gruau.
This ink and gouache drawing on torn card is coming to auction on Invaluable on Oct 23. Bid at: https://t.co/5O8ipsPjmi
In 1890, Mary Cassatt attended a major exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints opened in Paris and spent the following winter teaching herself to emulate Japanese printmakers. This print, Maternal Caress was made that winter. Place your bids at: https://t.co/8Y1Hx1LnJM
“Suitcase of memories” - the name of this auction - is a line is from the Cyndi Lauper 1984 song, Time After Time. 40 years of fashion, stage costumes and accessories from Lauper's estate are coming to auction on Invaluable in Bonhams' 22 October sale: https://t.co/atiqmpu26d
Mary Fedden was the first female tutor at the Painting School at the Royal College of Art. Among her students were David Hockney and Patrick Caulfield. Her painting, Iceland Poppies in a Vase, is coming to auction on October 21. Place your bids at: https://t.co/g6VDIWBMwu
Staffordshire solid agate: the marbling runs through the entire body of the clay, not just the surface. These two pieces from the 1740s are coming to auction on Invaluable in Bonhams' 20 October sale. Place your bids at: https://t.co/O0OgDAclsU
First called the Viking Chair - for its longship curves. Renamed the Harp Chair for its woven rope strings. Designed by Jørgen Høvelskov in 1963, at the peak of the golden age of Danish furniture. Coming to auction on 14 October: https://t.co/WC2qGsDFwl
Raymond Cauchetier taught himself photography while serving with the French Air Force in the early 1950s. He later became the set photographer of the French New Wave.
218 lots from his personal collection are coming to auction on Invaluable on 12 Oct: https://t.co/asNTXF9p1i
Carlo Corsi trained as an engineer before abandoning his degree for painting. In 1907 he travelled to the Netherlands to study Vermeer - specifically for the light. The impact is particularly visible in La Vetrata (The Stained Glass Window).
Bid at: https://t.co/ejSgDuW3QU