Our “ABC” Auction: An online-only auction of fresh, modestly valued estate finds.
Days 1 & 2 offer a wide selection of furniture, modern design, decorative objects, and artworks sourced from notable New York City estates. Anchoring the sale will be a single owner collection featuring fine European and English china, porcelains, and glassware. Day 3 highlights books with a scattering of works on paper, maps, autographs and ephemera, featuring important historic and literary books from the collection of Leonard D. Hamilton, and continuing from our December 2020 sale, many more lots from the private library of an art historian. Mid-century, surrealist and modernist art and poetry books include rare and one-of-a-kind items, with etchings and drawings by Matisse, Leger, Dali, Miro, Man Ray, Picasso, Ernst, Bellmer, Masson and others. Authors and poets include Paul Eluard, Claire & Ivan Goll, Andre Breton, Jean Cocteau, Stephane Mallarme, Andre Beaudin, Camus, Maugham, T.S. Eliot, Verlaine, Wilfred Owen, Tolstoy, Keynes, and more.