Prioritization
What auctions are prioritized for production 2 weeks before auction date?
Final production step is uploading prices, the following items need to be checked and selected (5)
Select the prices phrase Hammer/Premium
Spot check at least 3 random lots
Check off Entered/Edited boxes
Check off Prices List Received box
For AHP, change UPC to CUR
HELMUT NEWTON (AUSTRALIAN, 1920-2004)
Sumo
The book, 1999, comprising 400 duotone reproductions of photographs selected and edited by June Newton, signed in blue pencil on the title page and stamp-numbered '00629' from the total edition of 10,000, first edition, published by Taschen, Monte Carlo, bound as published with cloth wrappers and illustrated dust jacket, housed in the original box with chromed metal bookstand designed by Philippe Starck, overall size 698 x 502mm (27 1/2 x 19 3/4in); stand 508 x 546mm x 546mm (20 x 21 1/2 x 21 1/2in)
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Artist: Helmut Newton
Title: Sumo
Medium: photobook
Pub Date: 1999
Edition: 629/10000
Pub: Taschen
Object Type: Photographs
What are the only Asian artist names that should be entered in Western Style (first and last name field)? (2)
Japanese and Thai
Various alerts, assigned: painting with 1 dimension listed
Gottfried Wals<br/>Cologne 1595 - 1638 Calabria<br/>Landscape with a Farm and Trees Beside a River<br/>oil on copper<br/>copper diameter: 95/8in.; 24.4 cm.
Update lot with appropriate dimensions in height and width fields and mark done.
Fine Art book sale for an A level house would be...
C level sale
In order to add a non-AHP auction to the events page to be included on the upcoming auction calendar, you need to do the following steps (3)
Select non-AHP feature image on the lot listings page (not lot summary)
Add press release text on Auction Info page
Check off Show in Calendar box on Auction Info page
PABLO PICASSO (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Polychromatic Head 1961
glazed ceramic, ed. 191/200
Inscribed verso: Edition Picasso / 191/200 / Madoura
25.5 x 25.5cm
LITERATURE:
Alain Ramié, Picasso: Catalogue of the edited ceramic works 1947-1971, Galerie Madoura, Vallauris, 1988, pg. 239, no. 455
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Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Polychromatic Head
Work Year: 1961
Medium: glazed ceramic
Edition: 191/200
Pub: Ed. Picasso, Madoura
Cat Rais: Ramié 455
Object Type: Prints/Multiples
What is considered an anonymous artist AND would not qualify for PDB (3)
-“Anonymous” under $2000
-Artist listed with initials (and are not known by them) under $2000
-“Various artists” that is not a portfolio or collection (considered mixed lot)
Various Alerts: Acrylic before 1950
What is Contact AH?
Dec Art African Art sale for an A level house would be...
A level sale
Before uploading, these fields should be spot checked for obvious errors (4)
Missing High Estimates
Missing Image URLs
4 or more digits in Dimension fields
3 or less digits in the Date fields
Bonus: Image URLs are removed for 3D items in French auctions
Nick Kuder
Rings Genesis #2 – Schematic
Executed in 2019, minted in 2021.
Token ID: 1
Contract Address: 0x4426391e8d7d191d867ae19842a74464c0f22afc
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Artist: Nick Kuder
Title: Rings Genesis #2 – Schematic
Work Date: 1919
Cast/Pub Date: 2021
Medium: NFT
Object Type: New Media
List some ways you can avoid creating a duplicate artist
- google search artist name and check for different spellings
- use 3 letter rule in cms search
- check if any numbers were generated in seo name
- ask in cms channel to double check
Missing media, assigned: Charles and Ray Eames Ash LCW Chair
What is Ash?
Update lot listing, and mark done
Name 5 auction categories that should always get published ASAP, regardless of Auction House priority
Contemporary Art
Modern Art
Prints/Multiples
Post-War
Photography
Old Masters
19th Century Art
Design
Lot Summary checks before enabling a Fine Art sale (3)
Use pre-edit filter to find lots with Missing Artists and Object Types
Skim for double Object Type tags
Check for Missing Images
Arik Brauer Vienna 1929 - 2021 Vienna. The Proverbs of King Solomon. 12 color aquatint etchings. 1970/71. Artist's proofs XI / XV before the edition in the amount of 50 copies. - Koschatzky G 58 I-XII. - The series of magnificent etchings with the etched texts in English and Hebrew was published by the Marlborough Gallery in New York and was printed by Robert Finger in Vienna.
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Artist: Arik Brauer
Title: The Proverbs of King Solomon
Work Date: 1970-1971
Medium: color aquatint
Edition: AP XI/XV before ed. 50
Pub/Found: Marlborough Gallery; Robert Finger
Cat Rais: Koschatzky G 58 I-XII
Other than some Asian artists, what other artists can be entered only in the last name field?
-Company names
-Artist duos
-Street artists
-Artists that go by their alter ego/alias name
-Royalty
Work date after artist death: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Federico García Lorca, Chant funèbre pour Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. Bièvres, Pierre de Tartas, 1976. Un volume
What is moving the work date to cast/pub date?
During busy season, when should you publish a mixed auction from a C level house?
Bonus question: how do you decide when a mixed auction should be listed a C level priority?
Only when ALL A/B Fine Art and A Dec Art sales have been published on everyone's calendars - TEAM WORK!
Bonus question: let's discuss
Lot Summary checks before enabling a Dec Art sale (3)
Use Pre-Edit filter to find lots with missing object type tags
Use the Object Type drop-down to skim though lots by category, checking for wrong tags
Skim lots to find missing Region, Style/Movement, and/or Period tags
A Suite of Furniture: table mod. no. 8088, designed before 1911, manufactured by Thonet including 4 chairs, first half of the 20th century. stained beechwood construction, square table top, with unattached glass plate, table foot with green linoleum cover and hammered sheet brass edging, including four chairs brown-stained beech bentwood frames on four legs, matte finish, plywood seats.
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Artist: none - enter manufacturer Thonet
Title: A Suite of Furniture: table mod. no. 8088, designed before 1911, manufactured by Thonet including 4 chairs, first half of the 20th century
Work Year: before 1911
Medium: beechwood, glass, linoleum, brass
Manufacturer: Thonet (optional)
Pub/Cast Date: c. 1911-1950
Object Type: Design (FA)
What is the correct sort name and work year?
REN YI (1840-1896)
Scholar Sitting by the Chrysanthemum Fence
Ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll
Inscribed and signed Ren Yi Bonian, with two seals of the artist
Dated gengyin year (1890)
Titleslip signed Yiting studio, dated the thirty-second year of Guangxu reign, bingwu year (1906)
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26197/lot/869/?category=list
Ren Bonian
Missing media, assigned: John Hutton for Sutherland Furniture (American), contemporary. Two "Beachside" indoor/outdoor lounge chairs with upholstered cushions. Cushions are not intended for outdoor use as currently upholstered. Marked to back of seat. Approx. h. 26.25", w. 33.75", d. 36.5".
What is upholstery?
Update lot listing and mark done.