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’,...
by Admin | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured Stories
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,...
by Admin | Nov 28, 2018 | Featured Stories
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...
