Auction Block: January 12, 2022 Issue
• January 19, 2022

Over the holiday season, auction houses were busy with a host of interesting sales including a nearly 30-year-old bottle of wine, a sapphire and diamond ring, a first edition of “Leaves of […]

Auction Block – December 8, 2021 Issue
• December 13, 2021

This month’s auction block includes a bejeweled bracelet from Doyle, a seasonally appropriate Norman Rockwell from Weschler’s, a Picasso original at Sotheby’s and signed items from Ben Franklin and the […]

LAST CHANCE: Atlas Executive Director Is This Thursday’s Breakfast Speaker
• October 10, 2019

Douglas Yeuell will describe how the Atlas Performing Arts Center, in a landmark movie theater, has been a key player in the rebirth of the H Street NE neighborhood. RSVP to richard@georgetowner.com.

LAST CHANCE: Strathmore CEO to Speak This Thursday
• May 6, 2019

Strathmore President and CEO Monica Jeffries Hazangeles will speak at Georgetown Media Group’s May 9 Cultural Leadership Breakfast at 1310 Kitchen & Bar. RSVP to richard@georgetowner.com.

African Art Museum Is Focus of June 7 Breakfast
• May 7, 2018

Augustus (Gus) Casely-Hayford, the new director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, will speak at the George Town Club as part of Georgetown Media Group’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series, sponsored by Bonhams.

The Auction Block: Asia Week 2018
• March 15, 2018

Here are several choice lots coming up during Asia Week auctions in New York on March 19 and 22-23.

The Auction Block Feb. 7, 2018
• February 7, 2018

BONHAMS “A Throne for Two Kings” Gonçalo Mabunda (b. 1975) Estimate: $14,000 – $21,000 Auction Date: February 28 Two years after Mozambique gained independence in 1972, civil war broke out. […]

The Auction Block Jan. 10, 2018
• January 10, 2018

FREEMAN’S “Les Ombres Sur la Prairie” Blanche Hoschedé-Monet (1865–1947) Estimate: $40,000 – $60,000 Auction Date: January 23 Blanche Hoschedé-Monet became part of a family at the core of the French […]

The Auction Block
• October 11, 2017

BONHAMS “Artist, Mind, Studio,” 1994 Viola Frey (1933–2004) Estimate: $60,000 – $80,000 Auction Date: October 25 Over the course of her five-decade career, Viola Frey produced an impressive body of […]

The Auction Block
• September 13, 2017

Weschler’s “Fan Fire IV,” 1970 Sam Gilliam (b. 1933) Estimate: $100,000 – $150,000 Auction Date: September 15 Having relocated to Rockville in June, Weschler’s, the D.C. area’s oldest auction house, […]