Reminder: Oct. 7 is Housing Works’ First-Ever Live Auction, with Celeb Auctioneer Kathleen Guzman
This Gorgeous George could be yours!
Housing Works first-ever live auction is coming! Next Wednesday, October 7, legendary auctioneer Kathleen Guzman will auction off 60 fine prints, including dozens by engravers Currier & Ives. Many prints feature charming scenes of 19th-century New York; they range in estimated value from $100 to $1,500.
EVENT: Housing Works Auctions Presents “Early American Prints,” a live charity auction with Kathleen Guzman
WEBSITE: www.housingworks.org/earlyamericanprints
DATE: Wednesday, October 7, 2009
TIME: VIP cocktail hour with Guzman and celebrity appraisers, 6 pm to 7 pm. Live auction, 7 pm to 9 pm
LOCATION: Housing Works Gramercy Thrift Shop, 157 E.23rd St (between Lexington and 3rd)
COST: Live auction is FREE and open to the public. $50 for VIP cocktail hour.
BENEFITS: All proceeds benefit Housing Works, which provides lifesaving services to homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS.
Housing Works is proud to announce that, thanks to support from Liveauctioneers.com, we will be able to offer live online bidding during the “Early American Prints” auction. Find out all the auction details at www.housingworks.org/earlyamericanprints.
Also, don’t forget that, while the live auction is free, for $50, the public can meet Guzman and a group of her celebrity colleagues, including Daile Kaplan, Nicholas Lowry of Swann Galleries, Eric Silver of Lillian Nassau, and Joyce Jonas, jewelry appraiser, at a VIP pre-auction cocktail party. Guzman, Kaplan, Jonas, Lowry and Silver have appeared frequently on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow. Purchase tickets to the VIP event. (Housing Works members get in free. Join now!)
The venerated auction house Swann Auction Galleries and the collectibles website Worthpoint.com are contributing support to the “Early American Prints,” event, which will feature champagne, light hors d’oeuvres and Martine’s fine chocolates of Bloomingdale’s.
“Early American Prints” was prompted by an anonymous donation of nearly 300 engravings and prints. Many were originally sold by the famed Kennedy Gallery.
“This is a unique opportunity to bid on treasured artwork for your home or collection and generously help a worthy cause,” says appraiser Guzman. “Charming and significant prints by Currier & Ives, Endicott Brothers + Company, and William Sartain will be offered. Most notable are the many works depicting Hudson River subjects and the Catskill Mountains to be sold without reserve to the highest bidder.”
Posted on October 1, 2009 at 7:34 pm
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