Arader Galleries Charity Auction at Neal Auction in New Orleans!
ARADER GALLERIES CHARITY AUCTION AT NEAL AUCTIONS
June 25th and 26th 2011
For the third year running Arader Galleries will hold its increasingly successful Charity Auction on June 25 and 26th. As in the past 20% OF THE HAMMER PRICE WILL BE DONATED TO THE CHARITY OF THE BUYER’S CHOICE.
Over the last three years Arader Galleries has raised over $2,000,000 for over 25 deserving schools, hospitals, settlement houses, libraries and academic institutions. Some of the benefiting charities with the amount given are listed at the end of this notice.
This experience has been deeply meaningful to me in so many ways:
- my clients get great deals
- I have the chance to learn about and contribute to the institutions that they care about most
- worthy causes get the funds they so desperately need
As in my previous auctions, the Arader Galleries Charity Auction at Neal in New Orleans http://www.nealauction.com will include OVER 65 OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON’S ICONIC AQUATINTS FROM THE ELEPHANT FOLIO “BIRDS OF AMERICA”. Published in London by Robert Havell between 1826 and 1838.
A large proportion of the plates will be framed to full museum specifications.
ALL WILL BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE
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With the magnificent Hesketh complete copy selling in London for $11,400,000 or an average of $26,200 each, collectors will have a chance to pay less than 10% of this for some of his Audubon’s most well-known and accomplished works!
The Arader Galleries Charity Auction will also include the FIRST IMPERIAL FOLIO EDITION Audubon's famous later work “The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America”. Complete in three volumes, and with 150 fine hand-colored lithographed plates, this is the largest color plate book published in America in the 19th century, and is the best summary ever of the animals that Audubon saw on his famous journey up the Missouri River in 1843. In addition more than 20 individual hand-colored lithographs will also be available in separate lots.
Other giants of 19th-century natural history illustration will be represented by 20 framed HUMMINGBIRDS BY JOHN GOULD, 16 FRAMED CATS BY DANIEL G. ELLIOT, AND BEAUTIFUL BOTANICAL IMAGES BY JOHN ROBERT THORNTON FROM HIS “TEMPLE OF FLORA”.
Other highlights include:
- the first map to show the names Texas and New Orleans, by Delisle printed in 1718.
- the best civil war map of the Mississippi River published during the Civil War by J. T. Lloyd.
- complete sets of John Gould’s “...Hummingbirds”, the “Birds of Great Britain” and “Birds of Europe”.
If you would like a catalogue of the sale please contact Lori Cohen at loricohen@aradergalleries.com.
It would be my very great pleasure to donate 20% of the hammer price of anything you buy in this sale to the charity of your choice.
Here is a list of the charities that have benefited so far:
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University of Tennessee $640,000 •
UGA $283,000 •
LACMA $2,000 •
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History $189,000 •
Irish Society $2,000 •
University of Florida $700,000 •
Bruce Museum $2,000 •
Franklin College $87,000 •
Boston Library $1,400 •
The Hawks Foundation $70,000 •
Santa Fe Opera $1,300 •
Marymount College $34,000 •
William Clements Library $1,200 •
Rigosin Institute $31,900 •
Fatherhood Education $1,100 •
United Way of Miami $20,000 •
The Parsons School $1,000 •
The Wilderness Society $15,000 •
The Library Company $1,000 •
Roundabout Theatre Company $15,000 •
The Galmann Foundation $1,000 •
Moore Charitable Foundation $15,000 •
Redwood Library $1,000 •
United Way of Miami $14,000 •
NY Aquarium $1,000 •
MMOA $12,000 •
Nietsche Music Project $1,000 •
Robin Hood $11,000 •
National Fish and Wildlife $1,000 •
American Antiquarian Society $11,000 •
Mann Music Center $1,000 •
Yale University $10,000 •
Library of Congress $1,000 •
SF Zoo $10,000 •
Lenox Hospital $1,000 •
NY School of Interior Design $10,000 •
Independence Seaport Museum $1,000 •
East Side Settlement $10,000 •
Franklin College $1,000 •
Covenent United Church $10,000 •
Fine Arts Museum SF $1,000 •
Columbia University $10,000 •
Dessoff Choir $1,000 •
Akiva Hebrew Day School $8,000 •
Columbia University $1,000 •
Harvard University $6,600 •
Wildlife Conservation Society $5,000 •
Children's Scholarship Fund $1,000 •
The Frick $5,000 •
Boys Scouts of America $1,000 •
Rodelph Sholom Campaign $5,000 •
Animal Medical Center $1,000 •
NYC Outward Bound $5,000 •
America Prairie $1,000 •
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund $4,600 •
Telfair Art Museum $750 •
Collegiate School $4,300 •
NY Historical Society $600 •
Pack 1703 (Boy Scouts) $2,650 •
The David Lynch Foundation $400 •
City Squash $2,500 •
United Way of Miami $2,400 •
Yale Class of 1973 $2,000 •
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Please join us at our Philadelphia gallery for our new exhibition:
"Flower Power, 16th-19th Century Botanical Works"
Featuring: Basilius Besler, Robert John Thornton, and Pierre-Joseph Redouté
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from June 02, 2008 to July 30, 2008 |
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W. Graham Arader on the Today Show!
Click the link below to watch W. Graham Arader discuss the 5 most historically important maps of the United States, as seen on The Today Show on Tuesday, December 5th:
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The Today Show
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