Posts tagged public sale
Forget Me Not

Public Sale’s – and every auction house’s – gallery is a Memory Palace, stocked with a carnivalesque riot of things both wholly imbued with past experiences, and anticipating new ones – in new places, new rooms, with newly appreciative and artful owners.

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Silhouettes: Collections of a Collection

Public Sale’s upcoming auction Standing Still features an incredible lifetime collection of silhouettes, that  iconic style of paper illustration which became popular in the United States in the 19th-Century and democratized portraiture long before the advent of photography.

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