Creighton-Davis Gallery

2010-09-10T20:53:00.000-07:00

Sept 20 Fine Art Auction Now Posted.

Featuring a large collection of works from noted British artist Nancy Banks whose works are in over fifty collections including that of the Royal Family. Mrs. Banks collected works in her travels all over the world including ceramics by Picasso from the pottery in Vallauris, France. Other works from her collection include paintings and prints by Paul Jenkins, Donald Hamilton Fraser, Leonid Pasternak,
John Piper and Elizabeth Frink and many others.

There is also a rare Appel stone construction, two Arman acrylic multiples and a lovely, rare Matisse etching from 1929.

Catalog at www.rareart.com where advance bids are now being recorded.

Live bidding at www.liveauctioneers where you can also leave advance bids.

As always, all works are guaranteed authentic.

Please let us know about works that you wish to sell for our late fall auctions. We have a variety of programs to assist you in placing works through our services. Top dollar, quick and discrete handling of all transactions.

Thanks for visiting us.

John Dupree

202-489-5300

2010-06-12T10:27:00.000-07:00

Please Note for our June 20th auction, we are expecting over 1000 advance bids and many more live bids during the acutal auction due to the low estimates in our "blow-out" style auction. Please review your bids and make sure you are competitive and realistic as there will be many bids at the low end of the estimates.

2010-06-12T10:25:00.000-07:00

Creighton-Davis Gallery

	Sunday June 20th 2010 Fine Art Auction Blow-Out Sale 7 PM EST (4 PM PT) CLICK ANY IMAGE TO VISIT DESCRIPTION
Lot 117: Jonathan Borofsky oil on Canvas with lights	London 00:00; Continent 01:00 advance bid deadline 6 P.M. E.S.T. Click Here for Catalog Link	Lot 108: Karel Appel, "Oliphant" Wood Sculpture

Live Internet Bidding-Audio-Webcam Feed
Listen to the auction live, bid using the rareart.com live bidding consol as the auction progresses
(test live bidding pre-auction)
Don't Miss this Sale!
lAST CHANCE ON SOME RARE ITEMS BEFORE BEING SENT TO FALL SALES AT MAJOR AUCTIONS

Our season ending sale of everything from rare 19th century etchings to museum caliber oils. Everything with an estimate of 100-100,000 and the reserves, if in effect, are no higher than the high estimate. Featuring paintings, rare drawings, sculpture by Appel, Agam, Borofsky, Chagall, Dali, Matisse, Miro, Picasso, Matta, Crash, Cuevas, Bearden, Calder, C. Gross, Hockney, Haring, Manet, Rembrandt, Max, Erte, Scharf, Rouault, Villuard, Icart, Soyer, Tarkay, Tate, Walkowitz, Vasarely, Rizzi, Richardson, and Grant Wood to mention a few.

Art Wanted

Please consider consigning to our next sale. Modest selling commission and no fees unless sold. The market remains strong and the demand from overseas continues to generate great prices.

Direct purchase available. Quick settlement, discrete and confidential arrangements available.

Creighton-Davis Gallery

4380 Gulf Shore Blvd. N. #804
Naples, FL 34103
202-489-5300
click to sell

Advance and Live Bidding Online
Auction Catalog Link

Lot 120: Alexander Calder, Couleurs Au Choix" (Colors of Choice), 1976, signed, est: 100-100,000

Advance and Live Bidding
Many works framed to the hilt, no expense spared.

Please note advance bidding on our web site (until 6 PM EST June. 20th). At the user friendly catalog indexes, open the lot description and click on the bid button.

All works guaranteed authentic including signatures.
Detailed COA acompanies each lot sold >
See "Terms and Conditions" for details. In house shipping services available for most lots.

April 18th Spring Art Auction 7 PM E.S.T.

2010-04-11T18:43:00.000-07:00

Our April 18th Fine Art Auction promises to be memorable if only for the large collection of important and rare AAA era prints.

Included are some of the rarest works by Grant Wood, John Stuart Curry, Roger Medearis, Jackson Lee Nesbitt, Thomas Hart Benton, John S. De Martelly, Adolph Dehn, and Dale Nichols.

This auction offers a rare signed, first state Mary Cassatt print, probably the only known example existent.

Other important works include the "Puppet Man", considered Calder's best print, a rare Whistler signed "Venice" print, three rare Escher prints, and a rare complete set of Jim Dine's tools, hand colored by the artist.

Other artists in this sale are documented old masters by Durer and Rembrandt, important works by Matisse, Man Ray, Miro, Charles Sebree, Raphel Soyer, Vasarely, and Latin artists Cuevas and Matta. Included also are decorative works by by well known artists such as Erte, Richardson, Bill Mack and Robert Wyland among many others. Pop era works include artists Lichtenstein, Red Grooms, Crash, Hockney, Haring, Peter Max, Rizzi and Jasper Johns. Works by german expressionist and related European artists Redon, Orlik, Kollwitz, Corinth, and Zorn are also offered. Plus other rare and fine paintings, prints and sculptures, over 200 lots, estimates from $100 and up, some works no reserve. Check our client feedback or add some if you are a return client, consider adding comments on your experience.

Advance and Live Bidding Online
Auction Catalog Link

Lot 306 : Grant Wood , "Sultry Night" est 8000-10000

Art Wanted

Please consider consigning to our next sale. Modest selling commission and no fees unless sold. The market remains strong and the demand from overseas continues to generate great prices.

Direct purchase available. Quick settlement, discrete and confidential arrangements available. Email us at sell@rareart.com

Contact us concerning art you may wish to sell.

2010-02-13T09:02:00.000-08:00

Don't miss the exciting President's Day auction on Monday February 15th...7 P.M. E.S.T.

Offerings include rare late 40's Chagall watercolor typical of the exhuberant, joy filled works produced upon returning to France after his wartime sojurn in the U.S.
Featured as well are three rare M.C. Escher prints from the fifties.
There is also a large group of fresh James Rizzi collages, important Grant Wood prints, Fresh Earte works and works by other important artists such as Picasso, Miro, Dali, Matisse, Hundertwasser, Rouault,

Check out the catalog at www.rareart.com and good luck with your bids.

Art Wanted: Consider consigning to our next auction. Already received very large collection of AAA prints and other works from that era.
email us at sell@rareart.com for more information.

July 8th Auction

2009-07-06T11:37:00.000-07:00

Fine Art Auction

www.rareart.com

7 PM E.S.T. (4 PM P.T.); London 12:00; Continent 01:00

Creighton-Davis Gallery

Fine and Decorative Arts

Full catalog at www.rareart.com

(Index Link)

Select Sale featuring works from Estates, collectors, dealer overstocks, etc.

Artists include: Picasso, Dali, Miro, Manet, Hockney, Wood, Matta, along with a large selection of decorative arts. Many sold with no mimimum.

Estate and Gallery Closeout Sale
Advance and Live bidding

DEALERS TAKE NOTE: many works can be bought at prices that allow for the 10-20 times markups needed to pay your overhead and make you rich...not to be missed opportunity. Many framed to the hilt, no expense spared.

Please note advance bidding at our main site (link into the full individual lot descriptions and click on bid buttons).

LIVE BIDDING DURING THE AUCTION BOTH AT OUR MAIN SITE AND WWW.LIVEAUCTIONEERS.COM. Check out the test bidding consol at this link: http://www.rareart.com/livebidhelp.html

March 24, 2009 Fine Art Sale

2009-03-05T17:56:00.000-08:00

Our first big sale for 2009. Fresh works from estates, collections, and dealers. Many ordered sold "no reserve" in this big "blow-out" sale*.

Picasso, Dali, Miro, Chagall, Botero, Sharf, Haring, Braque, Calder, De Chirico, Dine, Degas, Dufy, Erte, Fini, Fischl, Foujita, Francis, Grant Wood, Hayter, Gross, Kuhn, Laurencin, Lipzchitz, Matisse, Luce, Matta, Moore, Richter, Rouault, Tanning, Vasarely, Zadkine.

A large collection of oils, watercolors and acomplished charcoals...landscapes, figure studios, abstracts...offered from a well established regional gallery.

The complete catalog will be posted at the following link:
http://www.rareart.com/index1a.php

ART WANTED: sell your art in the big spring market. No charges unless sold, quick turnaround, multiple venues no extra costs, no string of misc. fees. Large collections or distinguished individual works. Prints, paintings, drawings, sculpture. Immediate purchase available if helpful. Discrete, personal service.

*Minimum bid on any lot $100.

Bid Deadlines for Dec. 30th Auction

2008-12-27T07:52:00.000-08:00

Happy Holidays from Creighton-Davis, the oldest online fine art auction with everything guaranteed authentic.

Please note that absentee bids must be submitted by 6 PM, Tue. Dec. 30 th to reach our staff in time for posting to the auction.
(You can enter advance bids at the catalog entry for each lot in the auction.)
Live bidding will be available during the three hour auction. Click here to see how live bidding works in our online auctions. To access the full catalog click here .

Please note effective Dec. 31, ebay live auctions will cease broadcasting live auctions from auction houses around the world. Sign up here to receive notice of rareart.com live auctions on the internet in 2009 and beyond.

Dec 30th Blowout Auction

2008-12-20T12:30:00.000-08:00

Yes 2008 is coming to an end and we are offering just over 100 lots with a mandate to sell by year end. Our fantastic blowout auction starts at 7 PM E.S.T. (4 P.S.T.-0.0hr London- 1.0hr Paris).
We have a variety of works from decorative to rare on offer in this auction. As always, previews are by internet catalog(see link above) or in person by appointment. Call 202 489 5300.

We are currently working on our winter auctions and would love to work with your rare and fine art. Contact us about our "no fee unless sold at your price consigner" agreement.
Works wanted from the 15th to 20th century, American, European, Latin and Asian works of art.

As this is the holiday season, please consider bidding early at our advance bid forms, so that you don't forget this great opportunity for bargains.

Dec 2nd Auction Bid Deadlines

2008-11-28T20:40:00.000-08:00

Please note that absentee bids must be submitted by 6 PM, Tue. Dec. 2nd to reach our staff in time for posting to the auction.
Live bidding will be available during the three hour auction. Click here to see how live bidding works in our online auctions. To access the full catalog click here.

Please note effective Dec. 31, ebay live auctions will cease broadcasting live auctions from auction houses around the world. Sign up here to receive notice of rareart.com live auctions on the internet in 2009 and beyond.

Two December Fine Art Auctions

2008-11-17T17:53:00.000-08:00

Gallery Closeout Auctions in December

We are liquidating major artist collections in December in two auctions. Dec. 2 and 3oth will feature a large group of works by Barrington, Finch, Milkovitch(rare rock and roll photos) and many other works with starting prices lower than shipping costs. It is too costly to store these fine works any longer.

Consign now to get in the our final ebay live auction of the year, Dec. 30th. After Jan 1, all live auctions on ebay will cease and will take place through a variety of independent portals.

We expect the holiday season to produce a lot of potential buyers after xmas when everybody will be flush with cash and looking for the those post christmas sales.

See www.rareart.com/sell to learn how to contact us about art you may wish to sell in our next auction(s). Or call direct at 202 489 5300.

Bid Deadlines

2008-09-21T04:10:00.000-07:00

Bid deadlines for Tue. Sept. 23rd 2008 auction.
Please place advance bids for the auction before 6 PM
Tue Sept 23rd.
As usual registered bidders will be able to place bids during the auction as the bidding progresses on each lot. Bids are received from a variety of sources including the internet, on the telephone and by advance placement.
You can test out live bidding and see how it works by clicking here.
http://www.rareart.com/livebidhelp.html

Auction Sept 23rd 2008 7PM

2008-09-18T20:29:00.000-07:00

Don't miss this special estate sale of fine and decorative art on Sept. 23rd.
Many works offered with no reserve (minimum starting bids in effect).
See the link about to go to the fully illustrated catalog. Live bidding at our site and on ebayliveauctions starting at 7PM. Advance bids now being recorded. Telephone bidding available. See website for complete details and contact information.

Non-Profit Organizations- Raise Cash from Art Donations.

2008-07-19T05:37:00.000-07:00

Non profit organizations such as museums, universities, churches, community support agencies and other groups often receive works of art including photography as a charitable donation. Many generous individuals pass along these works of art that they have enjoyed over the years to worthy organizations and get a tax advantaged treatment for the value of the artwork as well as the psychic payoff associated with a community philanthropic gesture.

The agencies that receive these gifts may not be able to fit them into their programs and may wish to convert some of these donations into cash to meet more pressing needs.

That is where Creighton-Davis comes in. We can appraise, catalog and market fine and decorative art of all types to an appropriate market at little or no cost to the institution. We can travel to your location and work out all the logistics from storage to transport thus taking the stain off already stretched resources at the institution.

And there is no cost associated with these programs except our fees deducted after sale and from the sales proceeds. A win-win proposition for cash strapped non-profit groups and institutions.

Contact us direct at sell@rareart.com for more information and to arrange an inventory and estimate on works that you may wish to sell.

John Dupree

202 489 5300

Authentication Services

2008-07-13T07:38:00.000-07:00

(Please read everything before contacting us)

Fine Art BARGAIN OR SCAM!!! When it comes to fine art, it appears that there are more of the latter than the former at the various anonymous bulletin board auction and other sites on the net.

After thirty years in the business working with some of the best known names in art history, such as Picasso, Warhol, Chagall, Lichtenstein, Miro, Matisse, Stella, Dali, Escher, Cassatt, Whistler and many, many other artists, we have wide exposure to the fakes and frauds of the art world.

How can you tell what's an interesting and/or important work of art and what's something else if you're not a pro? Our authentication service may be a big help. With 30 years of experience, a staff with advanced degrees in art history, an extensive in-house library and access to the National Gallery in Washington, we can, in most cases, put you on par with the pros and help you avoid many costly ripoffs.

Based on this experience, we offer a inexpensive way for collectors and dealers to check out the authenticity of a work of art you may own or are contemplating purchase.

Usually within 24 hours we can give you a detailed report on the work of art offered for sale or already own sufficient to give you the edge in making an on-line purchase or possibly getting a refund. Here are some examples based on real items we have noticed offered for sale on the net.

Example 1: Item 012 on XXXX site, described as by Joan Miro, titled "XXXX" is a known original lithograph documented and illustrated in Cramer's text on the illustrated books of Miro, No. X and the Mourlot catalog of the original lithographs of Miro, No. X. It was issued in an edition of 100 signed and numbered and a larger edition with the addition of a printed (plate) signature. This sheet measures 11(h) by 22(w) inches and was issued with a center vertical fold in the unsigned version as it was inserted in an issue of Derriere le Miroir.

The recorded measurements of the original work varies substantially from the size reported for the work that you are thinking of bidding on. It is unlikely that two sets of plates (one for each color), to produce two identical prints, in two different sizes were created by the artist. There are no documented overruns or unfolded proofs. It is possible that the work offered is a reproduction of the original lithograph and not the original lithograph itself. In summary this does not appear to be the listed authentic work.

Example 2: Item 012 on XXXX site, described as "serigraph by Salvador Dali", in fact, corresponds to a mixed media etching entitled "XXXXX XXXXXXX" documented in the Field catalog of the authentic graphics of Salvador Dali, No. XX-12; also the Morse catalog of the authentic works of Dali, No. XX; also the Sabatier text No. 1234.

This work was issued in several editions, including an artist signed edition of 150 on Arches paper such as seen on the work you are interested in (justification de tirage). The paper has the appropriate plate mark which you would expect with an etching, the image and colors correspond accurately to the image in the various reference texts (as best we can tell from the internet photos), the paper appears to be consistent with the paper of this edition. The size reported for the sheet corresponds to the size reported in the various texts.

This appears to be the etching with "pochoir" coloring described above in the various texts on the authentic graphics of Dali.

These two examples illustrate the information that we can provide you based on our professional experience. No warranty of any kind is made or implied by these research opinions, but you should be much better informed in making your buying decision with this information.

To obtain one of these reports, fill out the e-mail form below with the specific address of the offer. (Example http://www.auctionsite.com/1113.html.) and specify the item identification number along with a brief description of the work.. There is a one time charge of $25.00 per report. No charge is made unless we can provide useful information within a meaningful, mutually agreed upon deadline if sold through another venue. Payment is by credit card, so provide us with that information via phone or e-mail. We will respond promptly advising you of the feasibility of providing you with the report requested.

Some works are too obscure or poorly documented to be properly studied through the services offered here, or may require more time to research, and you will be advised without charge if this is the case for a work that you are interested in.

We do not provide an appraisal or valuation with these reports (see appraisal services link at http://www.rareart.com) Also our area of expertise, experience and background applys only to fine art works: paintings, prints, sculptures, watercolors, drawings and related works.

Email link for authentication advice.
authenticate@rareart.com

Phone: 202-489-5300
1-800-489-0447
Fax: 301-468-8998
Creighton-Davis Gallery
5501 Wilkins Ct
Rockville, MD 20852
Directions Web link: www.rareart.com

Rare and Fine Art Wanted

2008-07-03T16:43:00.001-07:00

Art Wanted

Please consider consigning to our next sale. There are no fees unless sold. The market remains strong and the demand from overseas continues to generate great prices.

Direct purchase available.

Contact us concerning art you may wish to sell immediately.

Quick settlement, discrete and confidential arrangements available.

Creighton-Davis Gallery

P.O. Box 1035

McLean, VA 22101

5501 Wilkins Ct

Rockville, MD 20852

202 489 5300

800 489 0447

301 468 8998 (fax)

art[at]rareart.com

Rae and Select Fine Art Auction

2008-07-01T19:37:00.000-07:00

Creighton Davis Gallery

Rare and Select Fine Art Auction

limited to 62 lots

Full catalog
at www.rareart.com

Index Link

Advance bids accepted up to 7 PM local time.

Live bidding online during the auction.

Rarely seen works by Whistler, Miro, Picasso, Dali, Motherwell, Stella, Appel, Agam, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Jim Dine, Bearden, Andre Gisson, MC Escher, Marie Laurencin, Matisse, Leuus, Lichtenstein, Matta, Nevelson, Pfaff, Rembrandt, Carol Summers and James Twitty.

Included are works on paper, fine prints, sculpture, photographs, and fine works on canvas.

As always, all works guaranteed authentic. Most works
extensively documented and illustrated with large blowup photos. We have
been auctioning guaranteed authentic fine art on the internet since 1996,
probably the oldest strictly fine art internet auction.