Auctions in December

- By Bruce McKinney

Christie's Modern & Contemporary Prints. December 5, 2012.

It’s the holiday season and the end of the fall auction season is at hand.  The last scheduled December auction is, as of today, on December 28th.  For the month of December 83 events are scheduled, a stunning number, up 20 from last year.  As in other years December is expected to be a blockbuster although the items in the stratosphere perhaps a bit fewer.  It hardly matters because we are looking for personal gems, not necessarily the fields’ icons.  By tradition the most important material passes from seller to buyer in this period and there is every indication that both consignors and buyers will go home happy.

What’s increasingly different are the numbers of sales and lots.  Not so long ago three or four thousand lots in a week were impressive.  Today the new normal quickly approaches 10,000 and, as the holiday weeks are demonstrating, 16,000 is possible.

Here is what the December auction schedule looks like.  Use the auction search at the top of all pages to search all posted sales together.  It saves time and simultaneously shows you alternative buying options in Books for Sale as well as the number of related records in the AED.
   

Saturday Dec. 1st

Neret – Minet & Tessier.  Sale No. 14592.  Comic Strips

Profiles in History.  Sale No. 12012.  Animation Auction 52 – Internet Only

Galerie Bassenge.  Sale No. 100L.  Modern Art – Part I

Galerie Bassenge.  Sale No. 100L.  Modern Art – Part II

Dirk Soulis.  Prints [34604].  63 lots

Sunday Dec. 2nd
       

Osenat.  Sale No. 13962.  Fontainbleau Empire

National Book Auctions.  Sale No. 120212.  Books, Art, Ephemera, and Collectibles

Auctions in December

- By Bruce McKinney

Lot 22 of Cowan's American History, December 7, 2012. Robert E. Lee on Traveller.

Friday Dec. 7th

Galerie Koller Auctions.  Sale No. A163.  Modern Prints

Alde.  Sale No. 19729.  Ancient and Modern Books, Day 2

Christies.  Sale No. 2607.  Books and Manuscripts Session I

Christies.  Sale No. 2656.  Books and Manuscripts Session II

Saturday Dec. 8th

Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Sale  No. 6083.  Civil War and Militaria

Clars Auction Gallery.  Sale No. 120812.  Prints

Sunday Dec. 9th

Clars Auction Gallery.  Sale No. 120812.  Prints continued.

National Book Auctions.  Books, Art, Ephemera, and Collectibles [120912]

Monday Dec. 10th

Cornette de Saint Cyr.  Sale No. 19629.  Prints and Multiples

Cowan’s.  Stereoview and Early Photography – Internet sale ending today

Tuesday Dec. 11th

Henri Godts Books & Prints Auctions.  Sale No. 18147.  Books from the XVth to the XXth Century

Piasa.  Sale No. 20131.  Manuscripts

Heritage Auctions [HA.com].  Legends of the Old West

Swann Galleries, Inc.  Sale No. 2298.  Fine Photographs and Photobooks

Wednesday Dec. 12th

Dominic  Winter Book Auctions.  Sale No. 121212.  Printed Books, Maps and Documents

Sothebys.  The Art of Illustration = from the Collection of Michael Winner [12409]

Ader.  Sale No. 19598.  Prints

Bloomsbury.  Astronomy and Space Exploration [36006]

Woolley and Wallis.  Sale No. 121212.  Books

Minerva Auctions Roma.  Books, Autographs and Prints [ROMA-85]

Sothebys.  Sale No. N08886.  A Show of Hands:  Photographs from the Collection of Henry Buhl

Sothebys.  English Literature and History [L12408]

Dorotheum.  Sale No. 121212.  Prints

Auctions in December

- By Bruce McKinney

Woolley & Wallis' Paintings & Books, December 12, 2012.

Monday Dec. 17th

Alde.  Sale No. 19730.  Music

Bonhams.  Sale No. 20087.  Period Art and Design

Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan.  Historical Memories [20385]

Tuesday Dec. 18th

Piasa.  Sale No. 20134.  Plans

Profiles in History.  Sale No. 121812.  The Property of a Distinguished American Private Collector

Swann Galleries, Inc.  Sale No. 2299.  Monsters & Maidens:  A Film Poster Collection

Wednesday Dec. 19th

Sothebys.  Sale No. N08922.  Important Judaica

Alde.  Sale No. 20308.  Ancient and Modern Books

Friday Dec. 28^th

Rupert Toovey and Co.  Prints [1091]