“Brunk Auctions has had a unique position in the marketplace selling historical portraits of Southern importance. We set three records for Charlestonians by Jeremiah Theus. In 2007, we sold a life portrait of John C. Calhoun for $200,000. I am very excited to say that we now have the honor of representing a descendant of […]
Fab Four Specials from May 16-18, 2019 Auction, Featuring Tennessee Estates Introducing Brunk Auctions’ preliminary summer sale featuring institutional deaccessions, private collections and estates from longtime collectors in Tennessee and the greater Southeast May 12, 2019 Asheville, North Carolina— Join Brunk Auctions for our early summer sale May 16-18, 2019 Premier & Emporium Auction, with over […]
Press Release – March 28, 2019 ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA – March 21-23, 2019 auction sales of Important Southern and American Art, featuring the Marion and Theodore Gore Collection, brought a total of $2,622,544.00 with a pre-sale estimate high of $2,664,825.00. 51% of buyers were new with Brunk Auctions 20% of items sold were above estimate […]
Press Release – March 8, 2019 Introducing Brunk Auctions’ kickoff spring sale featuring cut glass, gemstones, marbles and breccias, watercolors, flora and fauna Naturalist prints, and early maps Asheville, North Carolina — Join Brunk Auctions for a multi-faceted March 21-23, 2019 auction weekend, certain to be an epic kickoff to our spring auctions. Between our Emporium […]
Press Release – March 5, 2019 ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA — Please join Brunk Auctions on March 21 and 22 at 9:00 am for the Prelude to our Premier Auction– the Emporium Auction. While our Premier Auctions generally include items with estimated values of over $1,000, the Emporium Auctions generally contain items with estimated values under $1,000. […]
Press Release – February 1, 2019 ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA — Idyllic, Iconic, Italian, Icy: What a Rare Devotional Panel, a Long-Unseen Icon, an Italian Bertuzzi Shotgun, and the Pennsylvanian Schuylkill River Have in Common. Etching formative lines in the historic landscape, these four items claim Brunk Auctions’ top lots in the Premier and Emporium Auction […]
ONE AUCTION TWO EXTRAORDINARILY RARE AND IMPORTANT PAINTINGS Until now, only twenty-two icons were known to have been signed by the artist, Angelos, the late Byzantine Master working in Crete in the first half of the 15th century. The inscription ‘angelus pinxit’, which we read on this icon, is very rare. There is only one other icon, Christ Man […]
Dick Button is widely considered one of the premiere male figure skaters of all time. He dominated the world of figure skating for a seven-year period, winning two Olympic gold medals (1948 and 1952), five consecutive World Championships, seven U.S. National titles, and four North American and European Championships. His illustrious, fifty-year broadcasting career earned […]
In 1917, John Singer Sargent was staying as a guest at Vizcaya, the work-in-progress villa being built for James Deering in Miami. It presented almost infinite opportunities for painting, which Sargent took full advantage of and had no intention of leaving for some time. When James and his brother Charles invited Sargent on a fishing […]
Rare bronzes and paintings highlighted a major two-day sale at Brunk Auctions over the weekend of September 15. Among the top lots were works by Frederic Remington, Henry Moore, Nicolai Fechin, Eugène Boudin, and Jane Peterson. Leading the charge in the sale was Frederic Sackrider Remington’s iconic bronze, The Bronco Buster. As both Remington’s debut […]
