Fall 2015

THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT, CHAMPIONED BY THE BAPTIST MINISTER, WAS SIGNED INTO LAW 50 YEARS AGO. A LOOK AT LOTS FROM THE HERITAGE AUCTIONS ARCHIVES   8NUMBER OF NOTECARDS (above) King used to deliver a speech, circa December 1959, to his congregation at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. The cards sold for $31,250 at an October […]

HERITAGE AUCTIONS PRESIDENT DISCUSSES DEALERS, UNDERVALUED ARTISTS AND HIS COLLECTING OBSESSION GREG ROHAN STARTED collecting coins at the age of 8, and by 10 had a dealer’s table at trade shows in Seattle. His business grew rapidly and in 1987 he joined Heritage Auctions, where today he is company president. Rohan has appeared as an […]

By Eric Bradley Contemporary Art ANDY WARHOL’S POP-CULTURE image of a moonwalker was formerly owned by a moonwalker himself. Moonwalk, 1987 (above), came from the private collection of Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon. In May 2015, it realized $173,000 at Heritage Auctions, a record for the work. American Indian Art […]