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Winnie The Pooh On The Auction Block

Along with millions of other children I loved Winnie the Pooh as a kid (my favorites were Piglet and Eyeore) and now a collection of the most loved iconic illustrations are going up for auction. Sotheby's will be exhibiting highlights of the auction in New York from December 3-6 and then in London from December 12th until the auction on the 17th. The drawing shown here, called 'Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders', goes with the first Winnie-the-Pooh chapter (when Pooh makes his first appearance) and is valued at £60,000-£80,000.

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Tags: art, auction, drawings, illustrations, sothebys, winnie the pooh, WinnieThePooh

Eight Schiele Drawings To Be Sold at Christie's

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Auctions, Art

How do you pay for a $135 million painting? Perhaps by selling off a few of your other treasures. On February 4, Christie's London will offer eight works on paper by the Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele. The proceeds from the paintings, which have a low estimate of $14.9 million, will go to the Neue Galerie, New York, which was created by cosmetics billionaire Ronald Lauder and the late Serge Sabarsky to showcase early-20th-century German and Austrian art. The sales of the paintings will go toward Lauder's $135 million purchase of Gustav Klimt's ``Adele Bloch-Bauer I." The drawings are from the the Serge Sabarksy estate. A Bloomberg article quotes Richard Nagy, a London art dealer, who says that Lauder owns the world's largest private collection of German and Austrian modern art. The Neue Galerie also isn't hurting for Schieles; the deputy director of the Neue Galerie says that the gallery has more than 140 addition Schiele works on paper.

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John Lennon's Schoolbook Auctioned

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One of John Lennon's schoolbooks was sold for $226,150 in a London auction of rock memorabilia. The auction house, Cooper Owen, had set a reserve price of more than $175,000 for the book, which was a copybook titled "My Anthology" and contained 10 pages of full color drawings done by the 12-year old Lennon to illustrate the lyrics of poems that were part of his literature curriculum, including The Walrus and the Carpenter and Agincourt.

If only I had known that used schoolbooks could go for so much, I wouldn't have spent so much time trying to unload my old textbooks at the end of every semester at university. Needless to say, the illustration quality in a calculus textbook would have to be fairly high to compete with Lennon's sketches, even as a child.

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Tags: anthology, auction, beatles, book, copybook, drawings, john lennon, lennon, music, school, schoolbook, textbook

Old Master Drawings Auction May Bring In Record Prices

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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This month's Artnews focused on the increasing market for drawings. What was once just an entry point for younger or less wealthy collectors has become something much larger. This point is well-illustrated by the prices for drawings in the latest Old Master Drawings auction to be held on Tuesday at Christie's New York. The drawing shown here a male torso that is one of the Michelangelo drawings in private ownership may bring in well over $3 million. Drawings by Rembrandt, Rubens and Watteau are also up for bid.

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