April Auction Block
• April 9, 2025

April’s auction items include a Salvador Dalí etching, a pair of Art Nouveau candelabra, a Buddhist terracotta, an oil painting related to a Lorenzo Lotto work in the Louvre and […]

March Auction Block
• March 11, 2025

This month’s Auction Block features a Stickley dining table, a grasshopper vase, a 40-year-old bottle of whisky, a necessaire (tea caddy) and a Helen Frankenthaler painting that sold for $2.1 […]

February Auction Block
• February 24, 2025

February auction highlights include a pair of mirrors from Dublin glass sellers Francis and John Booker, a dessert service set, diamond bracelet and more.   Bonhams A French Polychrome Parcel […]

November 2024 Auction Block
• November 13, 2024

 November’s Auction Block column includes: a religious portrait that passed through George Washington’s family; a gold, sapphire and diamond necklace; and a copy of Anne Rice’s “Interview with the Vampire,” […]

October 2024 Auction Block
• October 9, 2024

In this month’s report, a Surrealist painting by Gertrude Abercrombie sold for $469,900 at an auction by the merged Freeman’s and Hindman auction houses. Other noteworthy items sold included a […]

August 2024 Auction Block
• August 14, 2024

Recent auction highlights include: striking works of art by Stephen S. Pace and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith; cufflinks playfully set with diamonds; and a dozen bottles of fine Burgundy.   Bonhams   Untitled […]

July 2024 Auction Block
• July 17, 2024

Among the highlights of recent auction results were the sale of a pair of National Park posters, a signed sketch of a dress worn by Grace Kelly and a portolan […]

April 2024 Auction Block
• April 10, 2024

April’s auction report brings a blend of sales. Noteworthy mentions include  a Christian Dior newspaper print dress sold for over $23,000 and a sapphire and diamond ring that sold for […]

March 2024 Auction Block
• March 13, 2024

March auction items include a pair of pearl, platinum and diamond earrings from The Potomack Company, a Fiat beach car from Bonhams, a Mario Sanchez painting from Christie’s, and more. […]

November 2023 Auction Block
• November 8, 2023

This month’s auction block features an art deco emerald, diamond and platinum necklace, a painting that sold for 10 times its estimate, a pre-prohibition pint of Bourbon and more.  The […]