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Anderson, John Jr. |
1900 – 1903 |
34 West 30th Street from 1901: 20 West 30th Street 1903: at 91 & 93 Fifth Avenue (successor to Bangs & Co.) |
first sale on Feb. 6, 1900 in March 1903 Anderson purchased the business of Bangs and Company, change of name to Anderson Auction Company |
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Anderson Auction Company |
1903 – 1915 |
5 West 29th Street from 1908: 12 East 46th Street from 1911: 284 Madison Avenue 1912: 16 East 40th Street from 1912: Madison Avenue 40th Street |
Arthur Swann, chief of the book department, till 1913 |
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Anderson Galleries |
1915 – 1929 |
284 Madison Avenue from Nov. 5, 1917: 489 Park Avenue |
John B. Stetson, Jr. was the largest financier Mitchell Kennerley, president |
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The American Art Association |
1883 – 1929 |
head: Thomas E. Kirby (d. 1924) 4-6 East 23rd St., Madison Square South, New York from 1922: 30 East 56-57th Street |
Arthur Swann (from 1913 to 1928) in 1923: Cordtlandt Field Bishop purchased the AAA from Kirby Vice-Presidents Hiram Parke and Otto Bernet |
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The American Art Association – Anderson Galleries |
1929 – 1939 |
head: Robert Milton Mitchell (1929-1933, d. 1939) 1933: Hiriam H. Parke, President, Otto Bernet, Vice-President (-1937) 1937 – 1938 Mitchell Kennerley 30 East 56-57th Street |
Arthur Swann reinstated, retired in the 1950s |
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Bangs and Company |
1837 – 1903 |
from 1896: 91 & 93 Fifth Avenue, New York |
the oldest book auction house in New York taken over by John Anderson, Jr., in 1903 |
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Bloomsbury Book Auctions |
1983 – 2004 |
starting in 6a Bedford Square, London from 1984: 3-4 Hardwick St., Islington, London |
founded by Frank Herrmann, Lord John Kerr and David Stagg (all three coming from Sotheby’s) |
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Bloomsbury Auctions |
2004 – 2011 |
Maddox St., London |
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2007 – 2011 |
New York office |
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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions |
2011 – today |
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Bonhams |
1793 – today |
Montpelier St., Knightsbridge, London |
Bonhams, founded in 1793, is one of the world’s largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. The present company was formed by the merger in November 2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son & Neale. In August 2002, the company acquired Butterfields, the principal firm of auctioneers on the West Coast of America. |
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Christie, Manson & Woods |
1859 – 1918 |
8 King St. / St. James’s Sq., London |
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Christie’s (London) |
1973 – today |
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Christie’s (New York) |
1977 – today |
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Duttons, Inc. |
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681 Fifth Avenue, New York |
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Forum Auctions |
2016 – today |
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successor of Bloomsbury Book Auctions |
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Leslie Hindman |
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Chicago |
Leslie Hindman opened her auction house in Chicago in 1982. Within a few years, it became the largest auction house in the Midwest, and one of the largest in the U.S. In 1997, Ms. Hindman sold the house to Sotheby’s, and “retired“ to host a television program for HGTV and write a column for the Chicago Tribune. In time, Sotheby’s shut down the Midwestern auction and Ms. Hindman missed the business, so in 2003, she reopened Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago. In 2010, the auction expanded by opening a second location in Naples, Florida. Now doing business as Hindman Auctions |
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Hodgson & Co. (John, Sidney, Wilfrid) |
1901 – 1967 |
“Auctioneers of Books“ 115, Chancery Lane, London WC2 |
merging with Sotheby’s in 1967, sales continued to be held at Hodgson’s Rooms, until 1981 |
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The Merwin-Clayton Sales Company |
1904 – 1912 |
20-24 East 20th Street, New York |
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Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc. (New York) |
1937-1964 |
742 Fifth Avenue from 1939: 30 East 57th Street, New York from 1949-1964:
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Arthur Swann, head of book and print department Otto Bernet died in 1945 followed by Vandegrift, Louis Marion and Leslie Hyam (suicide in 1963) |
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Puttick and Simpson |
1841 – 1954 |
47 Leicester Square, London |
taken over by Phillips, Son & Neale in 1954, continued to have a separate identity until 1971 |
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Phillips |
1796-1840 Phillips |
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After a series of disastrous sales and extremely heavy losses Bonhams bought the UK operations of Phillips in 2001 and merged them into the Bonhams name |
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The Rosenbach Company |
1903 – 1952 |
1320 Walnut Street, Philadelphia from 1942: 1618 Locust St., Philadelphia 17 East 51 Street, New York |
see Bement, Clarence S. |
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Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London) |
1864 – 1924 |
Wellington Street from 1917: 34-35, New Bond Street |
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Sotheby & Co. / Sotheby’s (London) |
1924 – today |
34-35 New Bond Street, Mayfair |
founded in 1744 since 1954 an American representative and a New York office acquired Parke-Bernet in 1964 opened offices in Paris, Los Angeles and Houston in 1967 opened offices in Melbourne, Florence and Toronto in 1968 opened offices in Zurich, Munich and Edinburgh in 1969 opened office in Monte Carlo in 1975 opened office in Vienna in 1981 |
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Sotheby Parke-Bernet (New York) |
1964 – 1983 |
Peregrine Pollen, President York Ave 72nd Street from 1981: 171 East 84th Street |
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Sotheby Parke-Bernet (London) |
1977 – today |
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Swann Galleries, Inc. |
1942 – today
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104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010 |
founded in 1941 a third-generation family business |