Material Culture understands the unique challenges and opportunities of auctioning large single owner collections and estates. Where others may seek to cherry pick a limited group of high value items, we strive to see the bigger picture and tap its potential for making the whole greater than the sum of its parts. We invite all interested parties to contact us to discuss how Material Culture can best serve your practical and logistical needs while enhancing the value of the total package of items you wish to sell. Please contact us by email: expert@materialculture.com, or call our auction department at 215-438-4700
The Joseph Pauletich Collection, New York:
1133 lots offered, 1110 sold
The GlaxoSmithKline Collection:
456 lots offered, 456 sold
The Kristina Barbara Johnson Estate:
987 lots offered, 967 sold
The Jonathan Demme Collection of Self-Taught Art:
1048 lots offered, 931 sold
“I’m so grateful to Material Culture for conceiving of this auction as an exhibition, an event where anyone who shows up will get to see this “quirky” collection in full display. Artists whose work I first encountered in the dusty attics of the Centre d’art or the Iron Market, both in Port-au-Prince, or in the Jacmel Artists Co-op, will now be in a show in Philadelphia!”
—Jonathan Demme
The Silver Shop, Princeton, New Jersey:
1095 lots offered, 1034 sold
Estate of Alexander R. Raydon, Raydon Gallery, New York, NY:
889 lots offered, 860 sold
The Bob Brand and Liz Werthan Collection:
888 lots offered, 840 sold
Private New York Collection of American Outsider Art
339 lots offered, 335 sold
The Allan Stone Collection, New York:
577 lots offered, 577 sold
Isadore and Nancy Marder Estate Collection, Philadelphia
207 lots offered, 207 sold
The Cathryn Cootner Collection, California
773 lots offered, 748 sold
The Estate of Mary Bert Gutman, Pennsylvania
160 lots offered, 159 sold
The Roger Hollander Collection of Indian Mainland Textiles:
168 lots offered, 154 sold
Jack Cassin Collection | Fine Oriental Rugs and Kilims
147 lots offered, 147 sold
The Leigh Marsh Collection: Antique Turkmen and Oriental Rugs | Fine Art
168 lots offered, 154 sold
The Eileen Ford Estate:
320 lots offered, 318 sold
The Bill Liske Collection, Colorado:
189 lots offered, 180 sold
Andonian Collection, New York:
208 lots offered, 190 sold
The Richard Stewart Collection of Baluch and Navajo Weavings
168 lots offered, 160 sold
The Dardashti Collection | Fine Antique Rugs & Carpets
240 lots offered, 232 sold
The Roger Hollander Collection | Antique Indonesian Textiles
137 lots offered, 130 sold
Jim and Kit Horne Collection: Fine, Folk, Outsider Art | Asian and Ethnographic Art | Antiques and Decorative Arts
604 lots offered, 585 sold
Apsara Arts of Asia | Important Songle Owner Collection of Ethnographic Art & Textiles
458 lots offered, 440 sold
Sylvia and Phillip Chaplain Collection: Asian Art | Fine, Folk & Ethnographic Art | Decorative Arts
533 lots offered, 490 sold
The Roger Hollander Collection | Antique Indonesian Textiles
315 lots offered, 307 sold
The Aaron Fine Estate, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania:
889 lots offered, 860 sold
The George Anderson Collection, Philadelphia:
235 lots offered, 232 sold
The Peggy Knowlton Collection:
632 lots offered, 632 sold
