Heritage Ends Sports Year with $9.4 Million Auction Auction Action in Dallas
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16 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — January 17, 2020 Heritage Ends Sports Year With $9.4 Million Auction Auction Action In Dallas A 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311, PSA NM-MT+ 8.5 sold at $765,000. This 1993 SP Derek Jeter #279, PSA The 1910-11 M116 Sporting Life Near Set (314/316) saw its estimate of Gem Mint 10, drew $138,000. $200,000 squashed by the $324,000 result. DALLAS — Heritage Auctions fur- tors agreed and it sold at $765,000. Sporting Life (Type 4) Miller Huggins ther validated its status as the indus- Perhaps the happiest consignor in that realized $43,200; a 1909-11 T206 try leader December 5-7 as its three- the event was the owner of the 1910-11 Drum Tris Speaker brought $37,200; day, 3,000-plus lot trading card auction M116 Sporting Life Near Set (314/316), Lou Gehrig 1925 Exhibits sold at commanded more than $9,437,190 on which saw its estimate of $200,000 $69,000; and a 1933 Uncle Jacks Candy the strength of dozens of world-record knocked out by the $324,000 result. Unopened Pack Babe Ruth, went to results. This final major sale of the Other top performers included a 1911 $66,000. year carries Heritage sports’ auction T205 Gold Border Walter Johnson, More recent highlights include a 1951 tally to more than $70 million for the PSA NM-MT 8, for $63,000 and a 1922 Parkhurst Maurice Richard #4, PSA year. E121 American Caramel Babe Ruth Mint 9 ($57,600); 1952 Topps Baseball “We saw great prices across all eras (Holding Ball), PSA Mint 9, for $75,000. 5-Cent Unopened Wax Pack, PSA NM 7 and genres,” said Chris Ivy, director of Likewise, the late Twentieth and ($42,000); and a 1986 Fleer Michael sports auctions for Heritage. “The early Twenty-First centuries rocketed Jordan #57, PSA Gem Mint 10 entrenched vintage collectors came out to new heights as a 1993 SP Derek ($36,000). in force, and the modern market is con- Jeter #279, PSA Gem Mint 10, drew Heritage Auctions’ next major sports tinuing to gain strength and market $138,000 and a 2003-04 Upper Deck auction is January 16 when it presents share.” Exquisite Collection LeBron James The David Hall T206 Collection Part What would a sports auction be with- Rookie Patch Autograph #78, BGS III. On January 30, a special sale of the out Mickey Mantle being represented? Mint 9, sold for $228,000. The iconic 1952 Topps & 1953 Topps PSA Set Reg- “The margin of difference between this 1986-87 Fleer Basketball Wax Box, istry Auction will be held online in example and the multi-million dollar beloved for its fabled Michael Jordan extended bidding format. trio at the top of the population pyramid rookie, set a new hobby standard at Prices, with buyer’s premium, as is nearly too small to perceive,” it said in $84,000. reported by the auction house. For more A 2003-04 Upper Deck Exquisite Col- the description of a 1952 Topps Mickey Other highlights included vintage information, www.ha.com or 877-437- lection LeBron James Rookie Patch Mantle #311, PSA NM-MT+ 8.5. Collec- sports items like a 1902-11 W600 4824. Autograph #78, sold for $228,000. Hopper House Exhibits Art & Wit Of Rodney Smith’s Photos NYACK, N.Y. — The Edward ened agnostic whose life-long master’s degree in Divinity Hopper House Museum pres- contemplation of human- from Yale University, while ents, “Human in Nature: The kind’s relationship to God and also studying photography Art & Wit of Rodney Smith,” on nature bled into his photogra- under Walker Evans. His view until March 8. The exhi- phy. “The secret for me in all work has been seen every- bition features 20 black & my photographs is the loca- where, from the NY Times white and color photographs, tion, using the environment Magazine, Vanity Fair and illustrating Smith’s enduring as a studio, editing with light. Departures to Architectural love affair with nature. Smith’s I’m always attracted to a loca- Digest. Smith passed away magical images are instantly tion where the hand of man is unexpectedly at age 68, leav- recognizable for the way they apparent.” ing behind a large archive of combine surrealism, style and A longtime resident of Sne- work now being discovered. humor, in the first major Unit- dens Landing, N.Y., Smith His photography is in muse- ed States exhibition of his lived and worked in the same um collections, including the prints since his untimely pass- environment that shaped Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ing in 2016. Edward Hopper. Similarities Philadelphia Museum of Art Museum director Jennifer in their art abound — an and the Houston Museum of Patton writes, “Every few exquisite sense of design and Fine Arts. years, a photographer emerges composition, the use of light The Edward Hopper House, on the world stage with a and shadow to create mystery Museum and Study Center are unique voice and vision that and narrative, and the perfect at 82 North Broadway. For more immediately sets their work integration of figure and information, 845-358-0774 or apart from anyone else. Carti- landscape. Hopper once said, www.edwardhopperhouse.org. er Bresson, Richard Avedon, “Great art is the outward Irving Penn, Annie Leibovitz expression of an inner life in CLINTON, MASS. — The — each has a style and the artist, and this inner life Museum of Russian Icons pres- approach that defines their era will result in his personal ents “Emil Hoppé: Photographs and distinguishes them from vision of the world.” Smith from the Ballets Russes” to other talented but more pre- Rodney Lewis Smith, “Twins in Tree, Snedens Landing, was not only looking for March 8. The exhibition pays dictable image makers. Rod- New York,” 1999, 30 by 40 inches, archival pigment print. meaning in his own life but homage to Russian impresario ney Smith’s extraordinary for what it means to be Sergei Diaghilev who founded photographs are destined to and beauty out of despair. to people, as humans attempt human. Photography was his the Ballets Russes and photog- join the ranks of these mas- Human nature and humans to make nature less unruly. It way of knowing himself and rapher Emil Otto Hoppé, who, ters.” in nature are two entirely dif- is partly a desire to organize thereby knowing others. between 1911 and 1921, photo- Smith’s art is his response ferent propositions. Regretta- our environment, partly an Rodney Lewis Smith (1947- graphed the champions of that to the world — an attempt to bly, destroying nature is attempt to one-up God. As a 2016) was born in New York illustrious company. The muse- bring order out of chaos, clearly part of human nature. graduate of the Divinity City. Graduating from the um is at 203 Union Street. For understanding out of confu- Trying to improve upon School at Yale, none of this University of Virginia in information, 978-598-5000 or sion, wisdom out of ignorance nature also comes naturally was lost on Smith, an enlight- 1970, he went on to earn a www.museumofrussianicons.org..