Heritage Auctions
3500 Maple Avenue, Dallas, TX 75219 (877) 437-4824, www.ha.com
Art collectors have an array of outstanding auctions from which to choose this spring at Heritage Auctions, the largest fine art and collectibles auctioneer founded in the United States.
Heritage Auctions’ Fine Art department encompasses a number of genres, including but not limited to American, Texas, Western and Californian art. The department topped $60 million in total sales in 2019, a jump of approximately 20 percent over 2018.
Among the featured spring sales are the May 1 American Art Auction and the May 2 Texas Art Auction, each of which will be held in Dallas. Top Western lots in the American Art sale include The Lewis Crossing by John Clymer (est. $80/120,000) and The Liar’s Hour by Charlie Dye (est. $60/80,000) and many others.
The Texas Art auction highlights exceptional artwork from the Lone Star State, including work by the likes of David Bates,
Lee Smith and Billy Hassell. Early Texas art still has a strong following, and numerous paintings that have been sold through Heritage Auctions have been actively pursued and now reside in institutions, so they are rarer than they once were. But Heritage is now embracing the rise of contemporary art in which a new generation of young collectors is building collections as their interest grows. Among the top lots are a pair of works by Dallas-born Bates, including Sealife and Crab Legs, 1984, each of which carries a preauction estimate of $30,000 to $50,000.