A painting by acclaimed landscape artist Joseph Turner, titled “Rome, from Mount Aventine”, set an auction record for the painter, selling for £30.3 million ($47.4 million) at Sotheby’s in London, UK, on 3 December 2014. The 92 cm x 125 cm (36 in x...
A rare, complete copy of John James Audubon’s Birds of America was sold for £7,321,250 ($11,365,000), including buyer’s premium, at Sotheby’s in London, UK, on 7 December 2010. The book contains 1,000 life-size illustrations of 435 birds drawn and...
The most expensive painting by the Dutch Old Master Rembrandt Van Rijn to be sold at auction is Portrait of a Man, Half-length, With his Arms Akimbo, sold at Christie’s in London, UK, on 8 December 2009, for £20 m ($28.5 m). The painting is oil on canvas and was...
Joseph A. Almburg Jr. DELAVAN – Joe was born in Dekalb, IL on April 15th, 1963 and has lived his adult life in Delavan, WI after graduating from UW Whitewater. Joe Jr. passed away at the young age of 57 on Friday, Dec. 18th, 2020 after losing his battle with...
The golden voice of a prominent auctioneer in Monroe County is now silent. Robert Brandau has passed away. Robert “Bob” R. Brandau, 90, of South Ridge peacefully passed away Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019, surrounded by his family, on the home farm where he was born. Bob was a...