Auction Updates: Summer 2020
While institutions grapple with ‘the new normal’ in the wake of the Covid-19 global pandemic, plans and schedules have been subject to weekly, and sometimes daily, changes. Nowhere does this seem truer than at auction. Photography auctions that had been scheduled for April were shifted to June, then back to April, then auction themes switched around and then changed completely. Preliminary calendars for the spring auction season have been, almost completely, rewritten, so here is a newly formed schedule for the summer auction season.
If you missed some of these last minute spring auctions you can view the results of the Walker Evans auction [here], or From Pictorialism to Modernism auction results [here].
Current Auctions
19th May – 3rd June – Photographs, Christie’s Online.
238 lots are available in this annual spring photographs auction. This auction combines the sale of several collections including property from David Scheinbaum and Janet Russek and the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Estate, property from the collection of Sarah Bachir and Jacob Yerex, property from Richard L. Weisman’s collection, as well as property from an important Japanese collection. The current lowest bid is $2,200 and the highest at $60,000.
19th May – 4th June – Ansel Adams and the American West Photographs from the Center for Creative Photography, Christie’s Online
Until the 4th June Christie’s is auctioning 34 lots by Ansel Adams. The auction is in association with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson (CCP), for which Adams was a founding member. All proceeds from the auction will go to establish an acquisition fund for CCP. The current highest bid is $26,000 and the lowest bid is $1,700.
June
10-18th June – Tailor Made Photographs: Online Auction, Phillips Online.
July
13th July – Photographs, Phillips New York.
TBC July – Photographs from the Ginny Williams Collection, Sotheby’s New York.
Click auctions titles for more information or to register to bid.
image by Olena Sergienko