North America

Nine works on paper by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) are included in Hindman’s 86-lot American Art auction on October 17.

The late 19th century Japanese artist Keika Hasegawa remains something of an enigma.

With crossover appeal between modern prints and vintage fashion, this Souper Dress attracted strong attention at a recent US sale.

The October 22 Important Fine Art & Design Auction at Showplace in New York includes two oils by the French Post-Impressionist Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque (1865-1937).

Lynn Chadwick’s (1914-2003) figure sculptures of the 1960s-80s consist largely of angular male and female couples – standing, sitting, walking or lying together.

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) is best known for his work as a glassmaker and jeweller catering to the Gilded Age elite.

The so-called ‘Four Indian Kings’ were not the first native Americans to visit Britain.

A shotgun built for sharpshooter Annie Oakley in 1888 and used during a significant period of her career has sold for $210,000 (£170,100) in Denver, Pennsylvania.

Two pieces made for members of the famed Society of the Cincinnati led a single-owner sale of Chinese export porcelain were sold by Grogan and Company (30% buyer’s premium) in Boston.

With the blockbuster Margot Robbie-Ryan Gosling movie packing cinemas worldwide, this has been the summer of Barbie, and that also includes the toy-collecting world.

The phenomenon of rubbing a wet finger around the rim of a wine goblet to produce a note is as old as glassmaking.

Hindman will hold its first sales in New York with a series of single-owner auctions from October 18-26.

Based in Detroit, DuMouchelles (24% buyer’s premium) still receives the occasional consignment from families tied to the glory days of the US car industry.

This Roman marble torso, off the radar since 1948 but recently found in a private American collection, will be offered at the Potomack Company auction in Alexandria, Virginia, on October 4.

The sale of Vintage & Modern Magic at Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) in Chicago on August 26 included this original theatre contract signed by Erik Weisz, the man better known as Harry Houdini (1874-1926).

A trove of material related to the Japanese Antarctic Expedition (JAE) of 1910-12 comes to market at Potter & Potter in Chicago on October 12.

Items from the Robert and Nancy Nooter collection of ethnographic art come for sale at Ararity Auctions in Lorton, Virginia, on October 1.

Next month Christie’s New York will present the final sales of the remarkable Ann and Gordon Getty collection.

The Americana & International sale at Pook & Pook in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, on October 5-6 includes a collection of art from a Delaware estate.

Edward and Marilyn Flower’s substantial and impressive collection blossomed partly thanks to help from a London dealer