Benefit Art Auction

I went to my very first auction...how exciting. My company wasa sponsor for the event last night...for Sunnyside Community Services. I actually bid on a few of items in the silent auction...and won 2.

#1)
The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Fair market value: $59.95 | Minimum bid: $20

304 pp. 350 color ill. softcover exhibition catalogue edited by Lynne Seear and Suhanya Raffel. Published by the Queensland Art Gallery for the exhibition The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, 2006, in association with the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art, this richly illustrated publication accompanies the fifth in the series and examines the work of 37 individual artists, filmmakers and performers, as well as two multi-artist projects. Essays explore the traditions and histories that inform the practices of each artist while broader cultural and historical contexts are examined in a number of lead essays by eminent writers.

I got it for $30.

#2)

Fernand Léger and Manierre Dawson (set of 3 items)
Fair market value: n/a | Minimum bid: $15

Portfolio of six 11x14" prints and 50 postcards by Fernand Léger; 71 pp. color ill. softcover exhibition catalogue Manierre Dawson: New Revelations.
Fernand Léger was prolific in many media and gained recognition as one of the most prominent artists in Paris in the first half of the 20th century. A painter, filmmaker, designer, and printmaker. He had a great interest in industrial evolution and its relationship to man, which became one of the central themes of his oeuvre. He continually experimented with color, shape, movement, and space. Geometric forms and elements of a machine culture (cranks, pistons, robots, etc.) were important motifs in his many creations.

I got it for $20.

Cool, huh?

It was a lot of fun! Maybe next year, I could donate a piece to be included =)