Jackson's Auction Blog

World record auction prices were shattered and intense bidding was experienced at Jackson International’s auction of November 19th and 20th. The sale attracted over 2,000 registered bidders representing some 26 countries and nearly all 50 states. Total sales were slightly over $1 million for the two-session 720 lot auction.

Bidding trends for the most part followed the now well-established tendency of intense activity for blue chip ‘best of’ type material, as validated by a number of sales results.

The auction featured the estate collection of the late Guy Johnson (1933 – 2019), as well as items from the Dr. Frank Kulik lifetime collection of Scottsdale, Arizona, a collection of Russian art from the lifetime collection of George Odarchenko (1929-1999) Philadelphia, PA along with numerous other estates and collections.

A flurry of activity and enthusiastic bidding was seen at Jackson’s International auction of November 27th, which featured an offering of both modern and vintage masters.

The sale opened with a collection of modern masters, deaccessioned from a private collection. The star of the auction was lot 3, the Keith Haring carved and painted headless figure with engraved surface that sold for over half a million dollars, coming in at $537,500. That was followed by a Keith Haring sumi ink rendering of an iconic Ghetto Blaster. The 38 inch x 50 inch original work dated April 28, 1984 attracted 20 phone bidders and finished at $343,000 against a presale estimate of $70,000-$90,000.

Wow, wow and wow! Jackson’s International Auctioneers racked up another $1 million dollar in sales at their April 24th and 25th auction. The sale more than doubled the high pre-auction estimate posting sales of $1,063,000.00.

The two session auction featured items from a variety of different estates and collections and drew over 1,200 registered bidders representing over 30 countries and all 50 states.

In this modern age of digitalization, in which everyone has instant online access to old books, publications, inventories, sales records articles galore on nearly every artist and Pinterest posts dedicated to about every subject, it might be hard to imagine that there still existed somewhere out there a heretofore unknown important collection of art. Yet such is precisely the case of the Notman art collection whose works have inconspicuously remained together in the same family for three generations never having been published or publicly displayed since they were first acquired well over a century ago and which have been consigned to sell at Jackson’s International Auctioneers in Cedar Falls, Iowa on June 27th.

The offered collection, which consists of a total of 55 works, features paintings by some of the most prominent American artists such as noted early modernists Marsden Hartley (American 1877-1943), John Marin (1870-1953), Hudson River painter Samuel Colman (1832-1920) as well as others, and each having been acquired directly from the artist or through a gallery representing the artist.