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Exposé of the Earth
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 March 21-23, 2019 auction weekend, certain to be an epic kickoff to our spring...
Collectors of All Kinds Invited: Prelude to our Premier Auction
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 $1,000, the Emporium Auctions generally contain items with estimated values under...
Idyllic, Iconic, Italian, Icy
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...
Rare Bronzes Take the Gold at Brunk Auctions September Sale
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...
Cut Glass Leads a Brilliant Sale at Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions held an auction of Fine and Decorative Arts on July 21-22, 2017. Over one thousand lots were offered in the two-day, two-session auction, with significant interest coming from buyers of Cut Glass and Southern objects. The top lot in the auction was a Fine and Rare Green Cut to Clear Dorflinger Montrose Punchbowl Set. The piece was...
Magnificent Jewelry, Record-Setting Paintings at Brunk Auctions
Nearly 1300 lots were offered over two days at the May 2017 Premier Auction at Brunk Auctions. Fine estates and collections graced the auction block, with bidders showing substantial interest in rare jewelry, fine art, and furniture. Dazzling jewelry from the Estate of June Montague Ficklen of Greenville, North Carolina brought staggering prices...
Southern Soars, Sets Records at Brunk Auctions Summer Sale
This weekend saw a bidding jamboree in our two-day, two-session auction on July 8-9. The sale focused predominately on American Furniture and Fine Arts with exceptional results and record-breaking prices coming for Southern objects. The top lot in the summer auction was an Important Daniel Huger Horry/Rutledge Family Chinese Chippendale mahogany...
May Auction brings exceptional prices at Brunk Auctions
ASHEVILLE, NC - On May 12-14, Brunk Auctions held a three day sale consisting of over a thousand lots of fine art, furniture, and decorative arts. The successful auction drew interest from across the globe culminating in strong results for the regional auction house. A view of Vermont Hills by influential American artist, Rockwell Kent was the...
Contemporary and Modern Corporate Collection Soars at Brunk Auctions
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA – APRIL, 2016 Over 150 lots of Contemporary and Modern Fine Art, sculptures, and more sold at Brunk Auctions on Thursday, April 7th. The objects offered were part of a Southern Corporate Collection before they were sold by the Asheville-based auction house. Many of the artists whose works were represented in the...
About the Collection: Corporate Contemporary
If the term, “Corporate Collection” conjures up images of portraits of founding fathers and perhaps some fine and useful furniture, then this collection will surprise you. Brunk Auctions will be liquidating the Contemporary art holdings of a regional corporation. Also included in the auction are the contents of the corporate kitchen – which reads...
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