| Books about art sell well in art auctions. I have | | | | and exhibit is extraordinary and I want to own a |
| found many publications that feature my favorite | | | | copy of this book. This book contains 117 full-color |
| artist, Dale Chihuly. There are books, catalogs and | | | | reproductions and from what I've seen they are |
| even magazines routinely up for auction. | | | | all extraordinary. |
| Chihuly Gardens and Glass is currently for sale in | | | | I was surprised that even the book of Chihuly's |
| several art auctions. This book is beautifully | | | | drawings has tremendous resale value at an art |
| illustrated and shows installations at the Garfield | | | | auction. He is able to convey such beauty and |
| Park Conservatory in Chicago. The book has an | | | | energy with his work and these drawings actually |
| essay by Barbara Rose addressing Dale Chihuly's | | | | do the same thing. These drawings are what his |
| place in art history. There is another essay by the | | | | ideas start out as before they are fully realized in |
| Garfield Conservatory director that provides a | | | | glass. |
| history of garden conservatories | | | | There is one inexpensive Chihuly book that I |
| Chihuly at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | | | | rarely seen in art auctions. It only contains 17 |
| features more than one hundred photographs | | | | color reproductions. It does cover the installations |
| that captured this event. An art auction for this | | | | that had 20,000 pounds of ice. These were called |
| book sold for fifty dollars. The exhibit at the | | | | the neon-and-ice installations and they had a |
| Royal Botanical Gardens was Dale Chihuly's first | | | | powerful effect on the people that viewed them. |
| botanical garden exhibition outside of the United | | | | This book is soft cover and it is better to buy it |
| States. | | | | new from a website than from a previous owner |
| Chihuly Seaforms has an excellent value at an art | | | | at an art auction. |
| auction. It depicts forty four color photographs of | | | | I've lost countless art auctions for the book that |
| his most ethereal series to date. The pieces he | | | | contains photos of his exhibit at the Marlborough |
| created for this series have been called not only | | | | Gallery in New York City. I just never bid enough. |
| "reflections of skill, passion, teamwork and sheer | | | | At some point, I will probably just have to bid |
| genius" but also "tributes" to the sea. He is truly a | | | | more to win it from an art auction. I know that |
| master. | | | | the 51 images are dramatic, but the book is a |
| Chihuly Form Fire was published in 1993 and it only | | | | soft cover and I just don't think I should pay $25 |
| occasionally shows up in art auctions. The book is | | | | for it. |
| hardcover and 144 pages long with over 75 color | | | | My mother won a Chihuly book for me at an art |
| reproductions of his splendid work. There is a | | | | auction last year. It chronicled the installation in |
| very informative commentary in the book about | | | | Japan at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in |
| Chihuly's career. | | | | 1990. I loved each and every one of the 54 |
| Chihuly has been exhibited all over the world and | | | | images contained in this book. I have been asked |
| the accompanying catalogs sell for a lot at an art | | | | several times to loan it to friends, but I have |
| auction. The catalogs have a value to people that | | | | refused. This is one book that I refuse to lose. |
| cannot possibly afford to ever own an actual | | | | In 1986, Chihuly was only the fourth American to |
| piece of his art. I bought a catalog at an art | | | | get a solo exhibition at the Louvre in Paris. There |
| auction that depicted his installations from the | | | | was a soft cover book published with 33 photos |
| years 1964-1992. I have spent a lot of time | | | | in it that chronicles the exhibit. Also in the book is |
| looking at the photographs and have determined | | | | an introduction written by the chief curator and |
| that Chihuly is pure genius. | | | | director of the Centre du Verre. This is the next |
| I really want to find a copy of Chihuly Jerusalem | | | | book I hope to own and I've been watching art |
| 2000 at an art auction. The book sells new for | | | | auctions hoping to see it pop up. |
| fifty dollars. I think that the story of this journey | | | | |