NEW YORK CITY — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s first litho-graph, the renowned 1891 “Mou-lin Rouge / La Goulue,” attained $300,000 at Poster Auctions International’s October 30 auc-tion. It was the marquis item for the firm’s 70th auction, and the standard-bearer for a number of iconic Art Nouveau posters that delivered impressive results, contributing to total sales of $1,819,800.

Highlights included several other Toulouse-Lautrecs: an 1895 “Napoleon” for $120,000; the rare 1896 “Alt & Wiborg Co.,” Toulouse-Lautrec’s only Ameri-

can commission, for $55,200; and 1894s “L’Artisan Moderne” for $31,200.

Steinlen’s billboard for his printer Verneau (“La Rue”) real-ized $102,000. Mucha remains synonymous with Art Nouveau and accounts for his popularity: his Four Arts sold for $48,000; a pair of Moet & Chandon images for $28,800; and Reverie and Gismonda (both French and American versions), $19,200 each.

Classics such as Chéret’s “Loie Fuller” at $8,400, Jane Atche’s “Job” for $6,000 and Livemont’s “Absinthe Robette” at $9,000 tes-

tified to the continuing interest in fin de siécle lithographs. Biais’ rarely-seen “Maison Moderne” was acquired for $6,600.

Notable Cappiello sales include his “Absinthe Pernot” for $12,000 and his “Conchita Supervia” at $9,600.

Art Deco rarities also proved particularly popular: Soubie’s 1924 “Bugatti” sold for a record $78,000. Loupot’s “Philippossian & Co. Cigarettes” departed for $16,800; Cassandre’s “Cycles Brillant,” after a battle, was won for $18,000; his “Statendam,” likewise, was wrested for $16,800; while Colin’s 1946 “Cannes Film Festival” took $8,400 and Dupas’ “Spring Fash-ions” blossomed for a lucky owner at $6,000.

The auction’s selection of clas-sic auto posters was especially well received. In addition to Sou-bie’s poster,” a Rene Vincent image for the Bugatti brand was driven off the block for $12,000 and Pau’s “Grand Prix” leapt off for $8,400.

Propaganda posters proved rel-evant: Hopps’ WWI-era “Destroy this Mad Brute” triumphed at $12,000, while Shimin’s “Jim

Crow is his Enemy” was honored by a $3,840 sale.

Psychedelic rock posters also remain very collectible, with 85 percent sold, including Wes Wil-son’s “Quicksilver” for $2,400.

Other artists much appreciated by collectors include Barrère with his “Delmarre” and “Rai-mond” each going for $3,120; Baumberger’s “Steinfels” fetch-ing $3,600; Cardinaux’s “Palace

Hotel” earning $5,200; Cocteau’s “Ballet Russe” pair for $10,200; Gesmar’s “Mistinguett” at $13,200; Schnackenberg’s “Odeon Casion,” $18,000; and Stenberg Bros.’ “Two Encoun-ters” maquette, for $31,200.

All prices reported include the buyer’s premium.

For additional information, www.posterauction.com or 212-787-4000.

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Affiches Charles Verneau, “La Rue,” 1896, Théo-phile-Alexandre Steinlen, 118 by 89 inches, made $102,000.

Charles Loupot’s “Philippossian & Co.,” 1920, 35¼ by 50-7/8 inches, went out at $16,800.

Roger Soubie’s “Bugatti,” 1924, 47 by 62¼ inches, fetched $78,000.

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HARVARD, MASS. — “Com-forts, Cures and Distractions: Winter” is at Fruitlands Muse-um until March 26. This spe-cial exhibition offers glimpses into wintertime daily life in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century New England. It brings wintry New England into vivid focus with an assort-ment of art and artifacts from the museum’s diverse Tran-scendentalist, Shaker, Native American and landscape paint-ing collection.

“As daylight hours shorten and temperatures plummet, snow transforms the landscape, blanketing it with hushed beauty,” says Fruitlands cura-tor Shana Dumont Garr. “Dur-ing this season of winter won-der it becomes difficult to imagine how people made it through the cold weather in

past centuries, before central heating and other modern con-veniences. The objects assem-bled in this exhibition offer glimpses into wintertime daily life in Eighteenth and Nine-teenth Century New England when life was often so much more challenging day to day.”

The array of items also tells a unique story about Fruitlands’ collection, with Shaker scarves and mittens, a Woodlands Native American water warm-er, or mokuk, and a Nineteenth Century painting of ice skaters that captures the dramatic transformation of the land-scape. There are skates, sleds and snowshoes dating from the era when 11-year-old Louisa May Alcott described playing in the snow when she and her family lived in the Fruitlands Farmhouse in 1834; as well as

a pair of pink and white mit-tens that are believed to have been used by the Alcott girls.

“Seeing items drawn from Fruitlands Museum’s varied collections provides an oppor-tunity to see how different communities solve the same enduring problems of how to stay warm, fed and entertained during the tough winter months,” adds Rebecca Migdal, co-curator. Contemporary objects, such as dried herbs that follow Shaker healing tra-ditions, a shovel, hat and sled will help round out stories that follow themes of either surviv-al or celebration and connect winters past with winters pres-ent.

Fruitlands Museum is at 102 Prospect Hill Road. For infor-mation, www.fruitlands.org or 978-456-3924.

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NEW BEDFORD, MASS. — On Friday, December 9, from 6 to 8 pm, the New Bedford Whal-ing Museum will hold a book launch to celebrate the release of the long-awaited publication, Around the World in Search of Whales: A Journey of the Lucy Ann Voyage. The hard-bound, nonfiction book is a recounting of a 31-month whaling voyage aboard the whaleship Lucy Ann (1841–1844). The book presents, in its entirety, the personal account and illustrations of whaleman-artist John F. Martin, edited by Kenneth R. Martin.

John F. Martin was at sea dur-ing the cultural heyday of Amer-

ican whaling. Though thousands of log-books, diaries and jour-nals have survived the days of Yankee whaling, none have matched Martin’s combination of droll narrative and evocative watercolors.

The book launch event is free and open to all. The book can be purchased at the White Whale or at the museum.

His journal is considered a masterpiece of its genre. Thirty-one months of daily entries are vibrantly and sometimes comi-cally detailed by the seasoned, savvy observer with a humorous take on the whaling trade. It is richly illustrated with elegant,

vivid watercolors large and small: whales, whaling encoun-ters, ships and boats, sea crea-tures, distant landfalls and exotic strangers.

The detailed account of life aboard Lucy Ann includes dan-gerous encounters, shipboard shenanigans, faraway ports, good times, bad food, close scrapes and dashed hopes, described in a rol-licking comic style worthy of a professional author. His observa-tions and illustrations are second to none in their historical, anthro-pological and biological value.

For more information or to order the book, www.whaling-museum.org or 508-997-0046.

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BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. — Items from the estate of creative comedy and advertising genius Stan Freberg (1926–2015) will be available at an auction of anima-tion cels and related memorabilia conducted by Heritage Auctions December 10 and 11 at its 9478 West Olympic Boulevard galler-ies.

Personally selected by his widow, Hunter Freberg, the items include the first draft script for his acclaimed 1961 comedy album, Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America Volume One: The Early Years; the 1953 Gold Record award for the satiri-cal “St George and the Dragonet”; the script for his award-winning 1958 recording “Green Chri$tma$”; animation cels from his prodigious voice-over work; and important items from his memorable TV commercials. Other highlights offered in “The Treasures of Stan Freberg Collec-tion” are his 1960 Hollywood Walk of Fame plaque and the Inkpot Award he received at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con.

“Stan Freberg was a genius who rose to the height of achievement and stardom in so many different fields. Advertising Age called him

the father of the funny commer-cial,” said Jim Lentz, director of animation art at Heritage Auc-tions.

“He was an animation voice-over actor for over 70 years, from age 18 to 88. He achieved fame as a puppeteer with the television

program, Time for Beany, and with his space alien puppet, Orville. He was the leading com-edy album recording artist for Capitol Records, a prominent television personality and a Radio Hall of Fame star,” explained Lentz.

Many of the awards and anima-tion cels were kept at home “so we could see them all the time,” Hunter Freberg said. “He was the son of a Baptist minister and always said God had given him the blessings for all the creativity he had. No words can describe living with The Stan Freberg. We laughed so hard, and never had a boring moment together!”

Other highlights include Fre-berg’s personal, typed, with hand-written notations, first draft script for his 1961 comedy record album, Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America Volume One: The Early Years. The manu-script is accompanied by a second version of the script for nine sec-tions of the album and a copy of the actual vinyl record that sold more than one million copies.

A typed manuscript for the 1953 recording of “St George and the Dragonet” that starred Fre-berg, June Foray, Daws Butler

and Hy Averback as a parody of the popular radio and television crime series, Dragnet. The record quickly rose to number one on both the Billboard and Cash Box record charts. The script is accom-panied by a vinyl record, “The Best of Stan Freberg,” that includes “St George and the Dragonet.”

The Capitol Records gold record award Freberg received for “St George and the Dragonet”; an original script and sheet music for Freberg’s acclaimed holiday season satire record, “Green Chri$tma$”; and 1958 Best Com-edy Performance nomination cer-

tificate he received for that record from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences round out a few of the top lots.

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Illustration from Martin’s journal: July 27, 1843, “In the forenoon a whale breached entirely out of the water with the exception of his flukes.”

OLD LYME, CONN. — The Cooley Gallery’s annual holi-day exhibition “All Paintings Great and Small” features his-toric and contemporary works of art 12 inches in size or smaller. Artists from around the country, with a concentra-tion of works by artists in Con-necticut, participate in this annual show, now in its 30th year. It will remain on view through January 7.

For this year’s exhibition the gallery is featuring select works by 30 contemporary art-ists. Each artist was given “a

wall” for their work. This show comprises 30 little exhibitions within the holiday exhibition of select small works of art in addition to the upstairs gallery hung with historic small paint-ings.

As in years past, “All Paint-ings Great and Small” offers a wide variety of subjects and media carefully chosen by the staff at the gallery. Three of the four galleries are hung “salon-style” with multiples by each artist hung from floor to ceiling and a wealth of varied artwork.

Prices range from the low hundreds on up, giving collec-tors at all levels a chance to acquire some truly wonderful original works of art. In addi-tion to the holiday show, the gallery features recent acquisi-tions and paintings from the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.

Gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 5 pm, and Sunday, noon to 4 pm.

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