by Admin | Jul 2, 2019 | Featured Stories
With his bold, inventive, and luxurious jewelry designs, David Webb remains one of America’s most important jewelers. Born on July 2nd, 1925, in Asheville, North Carolina, Webb grew up in an Arts and Crafts home designed by Richard Sharp Smith, a supervising architect...
by Admin | Jun 5, 2019 | Upcoming Sale Events
Please join us on July 19th & 20th as our American Indian and Western Art Specialists at Brunk Auctions offer for sale a vibrant array of Native American, Southwestern, and Western art and objects, including: Cherokee rivercane baskets by Rowena Bradley and Emma...
by Admin | May 30, 2019 | Press
Post-Auction Press Release and Prices Realized – May 16-18, 2019 AUCTION —– Consigned from an important Southern Collection, WILLIAM AIKEN WALKER’S Man Holding Possum SOLD FOR $52,500 ANTONIO NICOLO GASPARO JACOBSEN’S Paddlewheel Steamship, St....
by Admin | May 28, 2019 | Featured Stories
“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...
by Admin | May 15, 2019 | Press
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...
by Admin | Mar 29, 2019 | Press
Press Release – March 28, 2019ASHEVILLE, 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...
by Admin | Mar 8, 2019 | Press
Press Release – March 8, 2019Introducing Brunk Auctions’ kickoff spring sale featuring cut glass, gemstones, marbles and breccias, watercolors, flora and fauna Naturalist prints, and early mapsAsheville, North Carolina — Join Brunk Auctions for a multi-faceted...
by Admin | Mar 5, 2019 | Press
Press Release – March 5, 2019ASHEVILLE, 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...
by Admin | Feb 1, 2019 | Press
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...
by Admin | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured Stories
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’,...
