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Chicago Reader 2023: Best Auction House for the Fascinating and Rare
Potter & Potter was voted best auction house for the fascinating and rare by the Chicago Reader. "This isn’t your typical auction house. The eclectic items it’s sold over nearly two decades comprise a long and varied catalog of American history, nightmares, and illusions both real and manufactured."
Anything is Possible • Celebrity Photos & Art from the Beverly Hills Hilton | 2nd Session: Contemporary, Fine, Outsider and Folk Art
DECEMBER 4, 2024 • Our December Art sale features a special group of Milton Greene photographs and stunning artwork from the collection and corridors of the Beverly Hilton. The second session is Art in all categories.
Winter Magic Auction Featuring the Collection of Max Maven
DECEMBER 14, 2024 • Orson Welles wrote of Max Maven: "Yours is the most original mind in magic." This December, Potter & Potter is pleased to offer the very sources of information that helped supply that original mind, in the form of Max Maven's extensive collection and working library.
Fine Books & Manuscripts
JANUARY 16, 2025 • Potter and Potter is pleased to present our first auction of 2025. Not only does this auction feature rare books, fine bindings and sets, and autographs and manuscripts, one session will be devoted to the vast collection of original children's book artwork and signed books from the legendary collection of Dr. J. Robert and Alice Dornish.
Upcoming Auction
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Anything is Possible • Celebrity Photos & Art from the Beverly Hills Hilton | 2nd Session: Contemporary, Fine, Outsider and Folk Art
Our December Art sale features a special group of Milton Greene photographs and stunning artwork from the collection and corridors of the Beverly Hilton. Greene’s portraits of famous figures like Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, and Marilyn Monroe remain in high regard and we will offer over 50 of his images in the auction. The hotel itself is a world-famous landmark and particularly well known as the venue for the annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony. “Anything is Possible” is the hotel’s tagline which will hold true for this auction of classic photos.
The second session is Art in all categories. Contemporary/Fine: Margaret Wharton, Leon Golub, Robert Lostutter, Ed Ruscha, Leroy Nieman, Morris Barzani, Tony Fitzpatrick, Karen Finley, Peter Max, Joyce Owens, Cosmo Campoli, Andy Warhol, Medard Klein, Ralston Crawford, Jared French, and Ephemera from The 1913 Armory Show. Outsider/ Folk: Bessie Harvey, Howard Finster, Lee Godie, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, Wesley Willis, R. A. Miller, Quilts, Wood Carving and More!
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Download PDFWinter Magic Auction Featuring the Collection of Max Maven
Orson Welles wrote of Max Maven: "Yours is the most original mind in magic." This December, Potter & Potter is pleased to offer the very sources of information that helped supply that original mind, in the form of Max Maven's extensive collection and working library. Rare works on mind reading, magic, and the occult will be parts of the sale, along with Maven's material related to his idol, Thedodore Annemann. Complementing Maven's collection is an array of ephemera, posters, and magic apparatus both vintage and modern.
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Fine Books, Manuscripts, and the Collection of Original Art and Signed Children's Books from Dr. J. Robert and Alice Dornish
Potter and Potter is pleased to present our first auction of 2025. Not only does this auction feature rare books, fine bindings and sets, and autographs and manuscripts, one session will be devoted to the vast collection of original children's book artwork and signed books from the legendary collection of Dr. J. Robert and Alice Dornish.