Help Support Intuit’s Mr. Imagination Education Studio

Help Support the Mr. Imagination Education Studio at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art Inspire Children of all Ages to Learn the Power of Curiosity, Imagination, And Creativity Click to View the Virtual Catalog Material Culture is currently accepting all types of auction-worthy consignments from individuals who are inspired to donate all or part of the proceeds to help create the Mr. Imagination Education Studio at Intuit in Chicago, one of the world’s premier museums of outsider and self-taught art. This invitation extends beyond just art; it encompasses all the categories we regularly auction. Click image to view the virtual catalog. —> For consignments designated for this project, Material Culture will waive the seller’s commission for Consignors. For auction queries, please email or send images/photos to: expert@materialculture.com or call: 215-438-4700 Or visit our Consigning Made Easy page. The Mr. Imagination Education Studio at Intuit In 2025, Chicago’s Intuit, one of the world’s premier museums of outsider and self-taught art, will reopen its renovated and expanded facility—a reimagined modern, accessible, world-class museum. For the first time, school field trip activities, teacher professional development and public learning and art-making events will take place in a dedicated classroom studio, tributed [...]

2024-03-18T15:10:11-04:00March 13th, 2024|Uncategorized|

ORIENTAL RUGS FROM AMERICAN ESTATES | 64 | AUCTION, MARCH 27

ORIENTAL RUGS FROM AMERICAN ESTATES | 64 ~ 433 LOTS ~ NO RESERVES Live Showroom Auction: Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 10AM ET Public Exhibition: March 24-25-26, 11AM-4PM Join Us! Exhibition Opening & Refreshments, Sunday, March 24, Noon to 4PM BUYER’S PREMIUM: IN-HOUSE, PHONE, ABSENTEE: 25% Absentee Bid Form | Telephone Bid Form | Terms and Conditions (PDF) Browse the Auction Catalog and Bid Live Online: Online Bidding Also Available on these Portals: NOTE: There Are No Hidden or Confidential Reserves; All Acceptable Bidding Commences at the Online Start Price. We Sell Approximately 60-80 Lots Per Hour. Shown below are a small sampling of lots. Please go to one of the online portal links above to view the entire auction catalog.

2024-03-13T10:07:04-04:00March 1st, 2024|Uncategorized|

ETHNOGRAPHIC, ANCIENT, ASIAN & TEXTILE ARTS | AUCTION, FEB 29

ETHNOGRAPHIC, ANCIENT, ASIAN & TEXTILE ARTS ~568 LOTS~ Live Showroom Auction: Thursday, February 29, 10AM ET Public Exhibition: February 26-27-28 Absentee Bid Form | Telephone Bid Form | Terms and Conditions (PDF) BUYER’S PREMIUM: IN-HOUSE, PHONE, ABSENTEE: 25% Browse the Auction Catalog and Bid Live Online: Online Bidding Also Available on these Portals: Please Note: There Are No Hidden or Confidential Reserves; All Acceptable Bidding Commences at the Online Start Price. We Sell Approximately 60-80 Lots Per Hour. Shown below are a small sampling of lots. Please go to one of the online portal links above to view the entire auction catalog.

2024-02-17T11:50:36-05:00February 6th, 2024|Uncategorized|

INVITATION TO CONSIGN | FINE FOLK OUTSIDER

Live Showroom Auction: Monday, April 29, 2024 Public Exhibition: April 26-27-28 Consignments accepted until March 15   Consign with Material Culture and experience a hassle-free auction journey. Contact expert@materialculture.com or call (215) 438-4700. HOW TO CONSIGN UPCOMING AUCTIONS

2024-01-24T11:05:42-05:00January 22nd, 2024|Uncategorized|

MOUNTAIN HIGH | RUGS KILIMS TRAPPINGS | AUCTION, JAN 31

View the Virtual Catalog MOUNTAIN HIGH | RUGS KILIMS TRAPPINGS ~302 LOTS~ Live Showroom Auction: Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 11AM ET Public Exhibition: January 28-29-30, 11AM-4PM Join Us! Exhibition Reception and Refreshments, Sunday, Jan 28, Noon to 4PM 1PM: Special Guest Speaker, James Opie, author of Tribal Rugs of Southern Persia and Tribal Rugs: Nomadic and Village Weavings from the Middle East and Central Asia Click to Watch the Video Featuring a large collection of fresh-to-the-market Anatolian, Caucasian, Persian and Central Asian tribal and nomadic weavings Absentee Bid Form | Telephone Bid Form | Terms and Conditions (PDF) BUYER’S PREMIUM: IN-HOUSE, PHONE, ABSENTEE: 25% Browse the Auction Catalog and Bid Live Online: Online Bidding Also Available on these Portals: Please Note: There Are No Hidden or Confidential Reserves; All Acceptable Bidding Commences at the Online Start Price. We Sell Approximately 60-80 Lots Per Hour. Shown below are a small sampling of lots. Please go to one of the online portal links above to view the entire auction catalog.  

2024-01-15T18:05:13-05:00January 6th, 2024|Uncategorized|

THE ROBERT L. PFANNEBECKER COLLECTION

SELECTIONS FROM THE ROBERT L. PFANNEBECKER COLLECTION ~ 339 Lots ~ Live Showroom Auction: Monday, December 18, 2023, 11AM EST. Public Exhibition: December 16-17, 11AM-4PM. Join Us! Exhibition Reception/Refreshments, Sunday, December 17, 1pm – 4pm. (And don’t miss our Celebration of Folk Art on the same day!) (click for more information) Absentee Bid Form | Telephone Bid Form | Terms and Conditions (PDF) BUYER’S PREMIUM: IN-HOUSE, PHONE, ABSENTEE: 25% Browse the Auction Catalog and Bid Live Online: Online Bidding Also Available on these Portals: Please Note: There Are No Hidden or Confidential Reserves; All Acceptable Bidding Commences at the Online Start Price. We Sell Approximately 60-80 Lots Per Hour. Shown below are a small sampling of lots. Please go to one of the online portal links above to view the entire auction catalog.

2023-12-11T10:09:22-05:00November 19th, 2023|Uncategorized|

THE RUSSELL S. FLING COLLECTION

View the Virtual Print Catalog THE RUSSELL S. FLING COLLECTION Fine Rugs and Textiles Live Showroom Auction: Monday, December 4, 2023, 11AM ET Public Exhibition: December 1-2-3, 11AM to 4PM Join Us! Exhibition Reception, December 3, 1PM to 4PM Special Guest Speaker, Kate Fitz Gibbon, 2pm: “A Walk in the Garden, Central Asian Suzani Embroidery and the Urban Textile Tradition” Kate Fitz Gibbon and co-author Andrew Hale have written six books on Central Asian art including IKAT, winner of the Wittenborn Prize for Best Art Book of 1996 and Uzbek Embroidery in the Nomadic Tradition, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2007. She was editor and contributor to Who Owns the Past? Cultural Property, Cultural Policy and the Law, Rutgers University Press, 2005. Kate is an attorney in Santa Fe, New Mexico, specializing in art and cultural heritage law and estate planning. She is Executive Director of the Committee for Cultural Policy and editor of the online journal, Cultural Property News. She serves on the Art and Cultural Heritage Law Steering Committee of the American Bar Association and was a member of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee to the President from 2000-2003. Absentee Bid Form | Telephone Bid Form | Terms and Conditions (PDF) BUYER’S PREMIUM: IN-HOUSE, PHONE, ABSENTEE: [...]

2023-12-02T17:28:46-05:00November 6th, 2023|Uncategorized|

FINE ORIENTAL RUGS & TEXTILES | AUCTION, NOV. 21

View the Virtual Print Catalog ORIENTAL RUGS & TEXTILES FROM AMERICAN ESTATES | 61 Live Showroom Auction: Tuesday, November 21, 2023, 10AM Public Exhibition: November 18-19-20, 11AM – 4PM Join Us! Exhibition Reception, Sunday, November 19, Noon – 4PM Absentee Bid Form | Telephone Bid Form | Terms and Conditions (PDF) BUYER’S PREMIUM: IN-HOUSE, PHONE, ABSENTEE: 25% Browse the Auction Catalog and Bid Live Online: Online Bidding Also Available on these Portals: Please Note: There Are No Hidden or Confidential Reserves; All Acceptable Bidding Commences at the Online Start Price. We Sell Approximately 60-80 Lots Per Hour. Shown below are a small sampling of lots. Please go to one of the online portal links above to view the entire auction catalog.

2023-11-01T14:36:25-04:00October 26th, 2023|Uncategorized|

DARK SHADOWS 2

OBJECTS OF INTRIGUE & STRANGENESS Live Showroom Auction: Halloween, Tuesday, October 31, 1PM ET Public Exhibition: October 28-29-30, 11AM-4PM Join Us! Exhibition Reception, Saturday, October 28, Noon to 4PM, Including a Special 2PM Screening of the Just Released Horror Film, HERD (click here) Featuring a Collection of Fresh-to-the-Market Vampire Killing Artifacts Absentee Bid Form | Telephone Bid Form | Terms and Conditions (PDF) BUYER’S PREMIUM: IN-HOUSE, PHONE, ABSENTEE: 25% Browse the Auction Catalog and Bid Live Online: Online Bidding Also Available on these Portals: Please Note: There Are No Hidden or Confidential Reserves; All Acceptable Bidding Commences at the Online Start Price. We Sell Approximately 60-80 Lots Per Hour. Shown below are a small sampling of lots. Please go to one of the online portal links above to view the entire auction catalog.

2023-10-13T15:40:19-04:00October 8th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Yosi Barzilai

YOSI BARZILAI Sarajo, the creation of Yosi Barzilai, was one of SoHo's premier gallery destinations for thirty-five years. Yosi, who hails from Israel and was exposed to Islamic art during his upbringing, embarked on this artistic journey after graduating from art school. Prior to that, he had worked in his family's diamond business, which, while lucrative, failed to satisfy his creative soul. Yosi, sometimes known as Joe, later joined forces with Sarah Penn, the renowned proprietor of Knobkerry, resulting in the birth of the amalgamated name Sarajo. Sarajo's initial establishment graced the intersection of Broadway and Prince, but it underwent six relocations, including a brief sojourn in Portland, Maine. Originally purveying a diverse array of ethnographic artifacts, Sarajo underwent a transformation into a distinctive gallery specializing in textiles and costumes. Its clientele comprised creative talents within the fashion and interior decorating industries, along with collectors and museums across the United States and around the globe. From luminaries such as Miuccia Prada and Peter Marino to icons like Kate Moss and Mick Jagger, the client roster attested to Yosi's unwavering commitment to offering the finest and most rare treasures. Under the new stewardship of Jess Petino, Sarajo has transitioned [...]

2023-10-04T13:30:27-04:00October 4th, 2023|Uncategorized|