Posted on Tuesday 20 May 2008
After two highly successful May sales for Bloomsbury Auctions, could it be three times lucky for the auction house?
Tomorrow, May 21, the New York auction house will hold a sale of Masterworks of 20th Century Russian Literature and
Illustration. The collection includes unique and rare material from the leading writers, poets and artists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Among the highlights is a presentation copy of Anton Chekhov’s first book, which he printed himself in 1884, and inscribed to a close friend Mariya Vladimirovna Kiseleva (estimated at $30,000 - $40,000).
So far this month Bloomsbury has held two impressive sales; a silkscreen of Roy Lichenstein’s Sweet Dreams Baby sold for $138,000 in New York, and an autograph Einstein letter written to Philosopher Eric Gutkind sold for $404,000 in London.
To view the catalogue for the Russian literature sale, please visit:
http://ny.bloomsburyauctions.com/