Peale portrait of Washington sets record at Heritage

The May 10-11 events spanned American Indian art, Texas, Western and California Art and masterpieces of Fine American art. The auction sold 88 percent by lot and 93 percent by value and pushed three artists’ records past $500,000.

Peale’s portrait of Washington was presented with his equally iconic portrait of Martha Washington, which reached $158,500. It followed other important offerings including John McCrady’s Steamboat 'Round the Bend, a mammoth tribute—both figuratively and literally—to Southern regional art. At 14-feet wide, the 1946 commission for Delmonico’s Restaurant in New Orleans is recognized as McCrady’s most famous mural, helping it realize $542,500—a new world record for the artist. Jerome Thompson’s 1865 oil on canvas titled Riverbank in Bloom sold for $512,500 to shatter its $8,000-plus preauction estimate and set the new record for this artist.

“These results confirm Heritage Auctions looms large in the American art auction arena,” said Ed Beardsley, vice president of fine art at Heritage. “An increasing number of important collectors trust us with their paintings and sculpture because we consistently deliver knowledgeable buyers across the complete spectrum of American fine art.”

The auction also features works by acclaimed living artists such as Stephen Scott Young, whose Hibiscus Dress (Little Cindy), 2009, realized $68,500 and Final Study for Mr. Buck’s Funeral, 2010, sold for $62,500. An oil on canvas by Shen-Huan Lu, titled House by the Pond, 1996, reached $21,250.

Among the offerings of Western and California Art were a number of iconic works, such as Indian Tales, Taos, 1922 by Blanche Grant, which realized $62,500 and Girl with Calabash, Moorea, 1977, by Millard Sheets, a notable example of California modernism, which fetched $40,625. Additional highlights include four butterfly paintings by Albert Bierstadt, offered individually, which realized a combined $64,375, Thomas Hill’s Trout Fishing, 1891, brought $42,500 and End of Day by Gordon Snidow, achieved $30,000.

Works by Texas’ plein air impressionist masters remain popular with collectors as Julian Onderdonk’s Coreopsis, Near San Antonio, Texas, 1919, reached $50,000 and Texas Cacti by Dawson Dawson-Watson, a classic example of his signature style, realized $32,500. Porfirio Salinas’ Texas Summer, fetched $25,000, and his Bluebonnets on the River Bank, realized $15,625. Jose Vives-Atsara’s Mission San Jose, San Antonio, Texas, realized $17,500 to round out the selection’s top lots.

A fresh-to-market selection of American Indian art was led by a rare and substantial Apache pictorial coiled storage jar, which reached $32,500 to more than double its preauction estimate. A monumental Santa Clara redware jar by Richard Eberlacker, sold for $18,750, and a Santa Clara carved blackware jar by Margaret Tafoya, fetched $15,625.

The auction also features a collection of pre-Columbian gold ornaments, pendants and talismans, led by a large Quimbaya gold pendant, circa A.D. 1200-1400, representing a composite human/animal creature, which sold for $15,625.

Additional highlights include but are not limited to:

Fine American Art:

• The Artist’s Wife by Guy Pène Du Bois. Realized: $95,500.
• Views of Northern Head at Sunrise in the Bay of Fundy by William Bradford. Realized: $53,125.
• Dusk, Woodstock, New York, 1910 by Brige Harrison. Realized: $30,000.

Western & California Art:

• Breaking the Ice by Earl Biss. Realized: $27,500.
• Sisters by Mian Situ. Realized: $20,000.
• Rocky Road Nocturne by Robert Pummill. Realized: $20,000.

Texas Art:

• Guadeloupe River Scene by Robert William Wood. Realized: $13,750.
• Bluebonnets, 1960 by Porfirio Salinas. Realized: $13,750.
• Early Morning on the San Antonio River at Mill Bridge by Julian Onderdonk. Realized: $12,500.

American Indian Art:

• A Navajo sandpainting weaving, depicting Mother Earth/Father Sky, circa 1940. Realized: $14,375.
• A photo album from South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation. Realized: $12,500.
• A Sioux beaded hide baby carrier, circa 1890. Realized: $11,250.

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Chippendale pie-crust table tops Kaminski sale at $11,000

The top lot of the sale was an 18th century Chippendale tilt-top pie-crust table. The finely carved table featured a beautiful spiral turned urn and shaft, carved knees, and sculptural ball and claw feet.

Tables of similar attributes and quality are listed among the “better” and “superior” examples in Albert Sack’s The New Finer Points of Furniture. The spiral turned and subtly tapered shaft, however, set this particular table apart from more typical examples listed in the book. Despite recent market trends predicting the contrary, this elegant table performed well at the podium, bringing in an $11,000 hammer price.

A 19th century Victorian revival walnut cabinet of exceptional quality also found a receptive market at Kaminski. Offered as Lot 7129, the piece featured fine inlays, bronze oval panels and an original circular hand-painted central porcelain medallion. The quality piece met its high estimate, selling for $5,500.

Also a surprise to many bidders was an 1818 broadside reproduction of the Declaration of Independence, penned by Benjamin Owen Tyler, and engraved by Peter Maverick. The fine, accurate and detailed penmanship along with Maverick’s skilled engraving made this a particularly desirable version of the 1818 copies of the Declaration of Independence from the years preceding the nation’s 50th anniversary. Originally expected to sell for between $1,000 and $2,000, the price of the broadside climbed to $7,500.

Also featured in the auction was an authentic 18K gold Presidential Rolex watch brought in at a local free appraisal event. The gold watch attracted significant preauction attention, with many interested parties requesting condition reports and additional images. The original box and paperwork, along with extra links, were also offered with the watch, which succeeded in fetching $6,000.

Of the many decorative paintings included in the sale, one watercolor caught the attention of bidders most. Many in the audience and online competed to own a scenic and sunlit watercolor of a wooded path signed W.M.T. Richards, 1868. The framed watercolor ultimately fetched $5,500.

From exceptional furniture to historic documents and paintings, the May estate sale brought an impressive variety of items to the auctioneer’s podium at Kaminski.

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Keen interest shown in Calif. artists at John Moran auction

PASADENA, Calif. – Bidders seeking more affordable, smaller works by classic California and American artists at John Moran Auctioneers’ April 23 auction may have been surprised to find that the normally approachable price points for such works were rather elevated. LiveAuctioneers.com provided Internet live bidding.

Paintings estimated to bring between $1,000 and $20,000 consistently sold near or above the high end of their estimates, while larger works with higher estimates met with more selective buyers. Nevertheless, prices at Moran’s April 23 sale were good overall, and a few records were set. Overall the sale achieved a sell-through rate of 80 percent, with 550 bidders participating.

Perhaps most notably, a large watercolor by Millard Sheets, originally estimated to bring between $20,000 and $25,000, achieved the artist’s world record, selling for $54,000 (all prices include 20 percent or 22.5 percent buyer’s premium). Executed in the later part of Sheets’ career, using transparent but rich jewel tones that evoke light filtering through stained glass, Sunday Morning, Moorea depicts a group of women in their Sunday best outside a chapel.

Moran’s also achieved records for works by Arthur J. Stephens and Cornelis Botke. The Stephens, a charming cityscape titled Villa Riviera, shows a view of historic downtown Long Beach, the artist’s hometown. Facing intense competition from prospective buyers on the floor, a phone bidder won the painting for $2,280 (estimate: $800 - $1,200). The Botke, a superb etching titled Mount Teewinot, Grand Tetons, realized $4,500, which is the highest price achieved for the artist in that medium.

Colin Campbell Cooper’s painting of the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts and reflecting pool was another runaway highlight. One of a series of studies Cooper made of the Palace of Fine Arts under different lighting conditions, this work was completed shortly after construction on the Palace was completed in 1915. The structure was built to house artworks submitted to the Panama Pacific International Exposition, and Cooper coincidentally won the gold medal in the category of oil paintings and the silver for a watercolor during the exposition. Its location hitherto unknown, this particular work resurfaced as a part of the aforementioned series when it was brought to Moran’s by a private collector. Assigned a conservative estimate of $15,000 - $25,000, it achieved a price of $90,000, with every available phone agent bidding.

Other works by familiar names in California plein air painting—Maurice Braun, Edgar Alwin Payne and Clarence Hinkle (all of whom also submitted works to the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition—also did very well at the block. Early in the sale, a small landscape of yellow flowers in a hilly California landscape by Braun brought $6,737.50, well above the estimate of $3,000 - $5,000. Payne’s Sycamores Near Santa Paula, an excellent example of the artist’s mastery of deep-set compositions, found a buyer at $39,000 (estimate: $20,000 - $30,000). Hinkle’s Clam Hunters – Laguna, Low Tide received a good deal of interest prior to the sale date, and a number of phone lines were already reserved shortly after catalog was published. While originally estimated to bring $1,000 - $2,000, this painting went to an absentee bidder for $4,200.

Select works by New York artists also brought excellent prices. Ukrainian-born Simka Simkhovitch’s work The Ringmaster, dated 1929, five years after the artist’s immigration to the United States, is an interesting example of his thoughtful composition and the ethereal palette he favored after his arrival in this country. The estimate of $4,000 - $6,000 was handily outstripped within a few short seconds, the selling price landing at $11,637.50. Max Arthur Cohn’s charming New York Street Scene quietly gained attention prior to the sale date, shooting to a selling price of $4,500 after intense competition between phone bidders (estimate: $2,000 to $3,000). A striking terra-cotta sculpture of the head of a young African American woman by celebrated Harlem Renaissance artist William Ellsworth Artis was originally expected to bring $15,000 - $25,000 at the block, but sold for $33,000, another world auction record for Moran’s.

Additional highlights include:

• The frenzied Moulin Rouge, a 1924 watercolor by Frans Masereel, found a European buyer at $23,275 after a well-fought battle between phone, Internet and multiple absentee bidders (estimate: $1,500 - $2,500).
• A large, unframed oil of Taos Canyon in winter by Ernest Leonard Blumenschein exceeded expectations with a final price tag of $12,000, above the estimate of $6,000 - $8,000.
• Stephen Seymour Thomas’s charming composition titled The Old Dove Cote, featuring a figure before a ramshackle dovecote in a verdant, newly sprouted spring landscape was estimated to bring $2,500 - $3,500, but bidding did not top out until $7,200.
• Camilla, by Pal Fried, is a playful example of the artist’s figural works portraying beautiful young women and earned $8,575 at the block, more than twice the high estimate of $2,000 - $3,000.

Consignment inquiries are always welcome at John Moran Auctioneers. Interested parties are encouraged to contact John Moran Auctioneers directly at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 626-793-1833. John Moran Auctioneers is currently seeking items for their July 30 Antiques Auction and the Oct. 22 California and American Fine Art Auction.

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Set of Finn Juhl chairs surprises Leighton Galleries auction

Mid-century furniture sold exceedingly well. Highlighting this category was a set of six Niels Vodder teak Egyptian chairs designed by Finn Juhl. The chairs carried an estimate of $6,000-8,000 and after fierce competition between the Internet, floor and phone bidders, they were finally hammered down at $22,000.

Another surprise of the night was a pair of unsigned teak caned-seat benches estimated at $300-500, which were hammered down at $4,300. Rounding out the category was a 1950s Johannes Hansen valet chair designed by Hans Wegner which was hammered down at $6,500 against a $5,000-7,000 estimate, and a pair of Worts Mobler credenzas also designed by Hans Wegner, each bringing $950 against their $800-1,200 estimates.

A fine estate collection of Judaica silver also stirred up some competitive bidding. Among the pieces exceeding their high estimates included a Hanukkah oil menorah selling for $2,200 against a $1,500-2,000 estimate, a German seder plate realizing $2,300 exceeding high estimate of $1,500, and a Sabbath challah plate that reached $1,300 topping its estimate of $800-1,200.

Among the artworks that sold exceedingly well was a Leroy Neiman lithograph Namath which garnered $3,200 (est. $300-500), a bronze sculpture after Antoine Barye Running Elephant realized 1,800 (est. $400-600), an A. Carrier bronze Cavalie sold for $1,200 (est. $600-800), an English watercolor portrait of Mr. Thomas Haixby Esq. brought $1,100 (est. $300-500), a Bernard Buffet lithograph Bouquet with Butterflies reached $900 (est. $400-600), and a bronze sculpture of Ben Franklin after Francois-Marie Suzanne realized $700 (est. $300-500).

Bidding also proved strong for jewelry. The sleeper of the night was an amber, amber-style and plastic costume jewelry group that soared past its $250-350 estimate hammering down at $1,900. Other highlights include a 2.25-caret diamond engagement ring selling for $7,500 (est. $6,000-6,500), a gold mechanical Pesag bracelet watch going for $1,500 (est. $1,000-1,200), a yellow gold choker necklace realizing $1,400 (est. $800-1,000), a Tiffany sapphire and diamond ring selling at $1,300 (est. $800-1,200), and a pair of 18K fluted earclips that fetched $500 (est. $250-300).

There were many other lots well exceeding their high estimates throughout the evening. An 18th century Italian inlaid desk was hammered down at $12,000 against a $1,000-1,500 estimate, a Samuel Yellin iron candlestand sold for $4,800 (est. $2,000-3,000), a Japanese carved ivory tusk section reached $1,700 (est. $400-600), a Wedgwood Colonnade china service brought $1,400 (est. $500-700), a Chinese enameled dragon-form ashtray garnered $1,300 (est. $300-500), a pair of polychromed blackamoor figures brought $1,100 (est. $600-800), and a pair of Chinese porcelain figural headrests sold for $850 surpassing its modest estimate of $150-250.

For more results or information call 201-327-8800 or www.leightongalleries.com.

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Corset display laces up $17,100 at Showtime Auction

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – A C/B a la Spirite corset display with the original box, original etched and gold leaf on the front of the large display case and even a mannequin inside sold for $17,100 at an auction held April 12-14 by Showtime Auction Services. LiveAuctioneers.com provided Internet live bidding.

The display measured 23 1/2 inches by 42 inches by 20 inches and the mannequin was in very good original condition, except for some minor staining. The lot was typical of many other country store and general store displays that contained actual product, driving up their value and desirability as a collectible. Most of these displays had not been on the market for 30 to 40 years.

They came from the collection of the auction’s headlining consignors—Bill and Kathie Gasperino, known in antique circles for having one of the finest country store and advertising collections in the United States. Also offered was Part 2 of the Robert and Harriett Potter fire fighting collection and Part 3 of the Ed and Christy Ramsey collection of toys and pedal cars.

In all, over 2,400 lots came up for bid in an auction that grossed about $2.2 million. “It was one of our best spring auctions ever,” said Mike Eckles of Showtime Auction Services, based in Woodhaven, Mich. “Over 500 lots were rare and unseen country store and general store displays and products from the Gasperinos. I can’t stress enough the quality of their collection.”

The auction featured merchandise from over 30 categories—fairly typical for Showtime Auction Services, which conducts only two auctions a year. Approximately 2,200 people registered to bid online.

Following are additional highlights from the auction. All prices quoted include a buyer’s premium.

The sale’s top lot was a rare Campbell’s Soup embossed tin sign, which read: “6 Plates for 10 Cents – Just Add Hot Water and Serve.” Measuring 40 inches by 27 1/2 inches, it is one of the most sought after advertising signs by advertising and folk art collectors. Some nail holes around the perimeter and light rusting didn’t deter bidders, who drove the final price to $60,000.

Following closely at $57,000, was a 1917 La France automatic aerial ladder truck, professionally restored and in excellent running condition. “In our opinion, this is the finest hook and ladder fire truck ever offered at auction,” Eckles said. The truck (Reg. #352) came with a period braided life net and equipment, and read on the side: “Martin’s Ferry Hook & Ladder.”

A Bellingham Bay Beer reverse glass sign in the original frame, in mostly excellent condition and 19 1/2 inches in diameter, soared to $31,200; an outdoor sand sign for Walden Eddy Plows (Greenwich, N.Y.), in very good condition, 59 inches by 24 inches, brought $20,520; and a rare Kelly Tire round tin sign in good original condition, 24 inches in diameter, made $17,100.

A National Cash Register Model 442-E-L cash register with reproduction top sign (“Try Our Oysters”), professionally restored by Peter Warns, whose grandfather was a repairman at NCR when the brass machines were first made, rose to $6,600.

A bronze sculpture by the Egyptian-born American artist Maher Morocos (b. 1946), one of only 20 cast, changed hands for $15,960. The sculpture, 34 inches tall, depicted an American Indian brave leaning down from his horse and handing a canteen to a wounded, thirsty cowboy. It was designed as a 73rd birthday present for President Ronald Reagan.

An authentic Sioux beaded baby cradle in a geometric pattern, made circa 1890 from sinew, sewn supple cowhide, 21 inches tall, garnered $7,500; a circa 1930s Steelcraft Auburn Super Charge pedal car, fully restored, with pneumatic tires, 55 inches long, sped off for $4,560; and a J. Chein Popeye bag puncher tin toy, near mint in the box, hit $3,600.

Showtime Auction Services’ next big auction will be held Oct. 3-5, also at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Ann Arbor. It will feature the lifetime advertising collection of Don and Diane Sayrizi, plus consignments from over 100 advanced collectors, in the many categories that have made Showtime Auction Services renowned in the industry.

These include petroliana and automobilia, general store, country store, toys, pedal cars, barber shop, tobacciana, fire fighting antiques and memorabilia, veterinary, hardware, advertising signs, store tins, soda fountain, Coca-Cola, Western, Native American, farm signs, whiskey, breweriana, match safes, drug store, saloon, post office, coin-op, arcade, scales, gambling, cash registers, folk art, department store, millinery, showcases and store fixtures.

Showtime Auction Services is always accepting quality items for future sales. To consign an item, an estate or an entire collection, call Michael Eckles at 951-453-2415; or e-mail him at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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Woodbury Auction reports strength in furniture, folk art

An Iznik pottery charger had tremendous interest with seven phone bidders, Internet interest and bidders in the room, and after brisk bidding it hammered for $9,600 to a London buyer. A Thomas Dugard Georgian bracket clock sold on the phone to a European bidder for $1,320.

American painted country furniture brought strong prices, with an early red painted dry sink fetching $3,009; a Queen Anne painted oval tea top table selling for $2,388; a primitive American red painted candlestand going to an online bidder for $1,968; an American country pine apothecary cupboard also selling to an online bidder for $1,968; and an American country cupboard with original gray paint sold in the room for $1,680.

Wooden advertising signs performed well with a painted and gilded wooden dressmaker’s sign selling in the room for $2,700; a carved and painted wood and wrought iron barber pole sign hammering at $1,680, and a painted barbershop sign bringing $1,560 after much presale interest.

Several Native American items sold above estimate with a possibly Native American hand-carved burl bowl going to the internet for $1,353, and a large Eastern Woodlands Indian basket hammering for $840.

Children’s toys, miniatures and other cast-iron toys sold well with a felt stuffed elephant pull toy bringing $570, four-wheel horse pull toys selling online for $553 and a folk painted hobby horse galloping away for $861 to an online bidder.

Inquiries should be directed to 203-266-0323.

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Starry glass mountain climbs to $65,520 at Kaminski sale

BEVERLY, Mass. – Prices for exciting and rare glass, ivory, bronze, and ceramic items soared above their high estimates at the March 30 day-long Fine Asian Art and Antiques Auction at Kaminski.

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The top lot of the day brought in phone and online bidders from around the world for competitive bidding. The auction hall audience and staff watched as the bidding for Lot 4236, a carved starry glass mountain, climbed well above the original estimate of $12,000 to finally settle at a record-setting $65,520. The glass mountain with a Qianlong mark was carved in the form of three rams on a rocky outcrop and set on a huanghuali wood stand. It came to Kaminski Auctions from the collection of a Boston College professor, and stood 6 1/2 inches tall.

Despite the small scale of the mountain, the piece carries great historical significance and auspicious meaning. “Starry glass,” was a form of glassmaking newly developed in the 18th century, when artists added gold dust to give the glass its entrancing shimmer. Research done prior to the sale at Kaminski Auctions indicates that only one other starry glass mountain in this form has been sold at auction. The three rams that surround the mountain are known as sanyang and indicate that the New Year will bring a change of fortune.

A pair of monumental elephant tusks that became a focal point of the Kaminski gallery in the weeks leading up to the sale also garnered significant bidding attention. The tusks, complete with original documentation of their legal capture, towered above visitors at 7 feet 3 inches tall, and each weighed over 100 pounds. The pair, after much competition, sold for $54,990.

A pair of equally large and impressive 66-inch-tall huanghuali lanterns was also among the top lots of the sale. The pair of lanterns came from the Qing Dynasty and featured intricate carvings of clouds, monkeys, dragons and coins, and sold for $25,740.

Kaminski’s sale also featured two high selling rhinoceros horn items. Lot 4378 included an antique pair of rhinoceros horns mounted in sterling silver that sold for $32,400. A pair of rhinoceros horn inkwells also sold well, fetching $13,200.

A beautiful pair of bronze vessels in the form of decorated elephants carrying vases on their backs also captured the interest of the audience. The Qing Dynasty pieces sold to an Internet bidder for $25,200. A thangka from 18th or 19th century Tibet also sold above estimate at $19,890. The finely painted cloth featured the Shakyamuni Buddha in the center surrounded by guardians and Luohan.

Fine Asian furnishings also performed well. A pair of zitan chairs with distinctive cutout designs and back slat panels with intricately carved flowers fetched $17,000. Another pair of chairs, with horseshoe shaped woven seats and floral carved back panels, sold for $9,500.

View the fully illustrated catalog for Kaminski Auctions’ Fine Asian Art and Antiques Auction on March 30, complete with prices realized, at www.LiveAuctioneers.com.

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Leyendecker’s ‘Honeymoon’ rings up $194,500 for Heritage

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“Collectors would be hard pressed to find a Leyendecker that showcases the artist’s skill in a ways as spectacular as this painting,” said Ed Jaster, senior vice president of Heritage Auctions. “This was the third-highest price ever for the artist, and with good reason – it’s a masterpiece.”

The auction also saw spirited bidding for Patrick Nagel’s oversize acrylic, Her Seductive Look, which soared to $158,500 – more than tripling the world record for the iconic 1980s artist.

“This is a staggering price realized for Nagel,” said Todd Hignite, vice president of Heritage Auctions. “Heritage set a record for Nagel last fall, at $56,250, and we felt that was a great result. Clearly, with the results from this auction, we’re seeing that Nagel’s profile continues to rise.”

With a 95 percent sell-through rate, numerous world record prices in the auction were witnessed from some of the great names of the form, such as Earle Bergey’s classic The Cybernetic Brains, Startling Stories pulp cover, September 1950, the auction catalog’s cover piece, which realized $89,500, along with Thorton Utz’s whimsical, complex Love's Lost Child at Information Booth, The Saturday Evening Post Christmas cover, Dec. 20, 1958, which drew applause in the room as it finished at $104,500. Rolf Armstrong’s dazzling Twinkle Toes proved quite popular at $68,500, while Edward Runci’s aquatic pinup, Scenic Shorelines, finished the day at $62,500, all world records for the artists. Frank McCarthy's original movie poster artwork for 1967’s The Dirty Dozen sold for $27,500, a world record for the artist’s movie poster art.

“The room was buzzing and we are seeing many new collectors entering the field right now,” said Hignite. “This auction proved that great examples across all genres and value ranges of Illustration are poised to set records in our auctions.”

Further highlights include, but are not limited to:

Gil Elvgren, A Near Miss (Right On Target), Brown & Bigelow calendar pinup, 1964: Realized $104,500.

Gil Elvgren, Let's Go Around Together, Brown & Bigelow calendar pinup, 1948: Realized $101,500.

John Philip Falter, Antique Store Accident, The Saturday Evening Post cover, June 20, 1959: Realized $74,500.

View the fully illustrated catalog for Heritage Auctions’ Illustration Art Signature® Auction on April 11-12, complete with prices realized, at www.LiveAuctioneers.com.