Leonard's Price Index of Latin American Art at Auction

Susan Theran

This first-of-its-kind book includes the auction prices of Latin American art from over a 30+ year period with 87 illustrations, 87 b&w images with informative, entertaining captions, 30,000+ auction prices, and 1,117 biographies, some never before published in English. Also included are articles written by Mary-Anne Martin [available online], August Uribe of Sotheby's and Dr. Alejandro Anreus of the Jersey City Museum.

ISBN 0-918819-98-9
556 pages

$149.95, $10 domestic shipping, $15 ground to South America $25 air

first published September 1999 by Auction Index, Inc. 30 Valentine Park, Newton MA 02465,
(617)964-2876

Available through Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, Amazon Books and Barnes & Noble

Jeffrey Weidman of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO writes:

Susan Theran's new Leonard's Price Index of Latin American Art at Auction is an invaluable resource for both auction and biographical information.

The nearly one hundred double-columned pages of detailed biographical entries offer unique information to complement the section of nearly 400 double-columned pages of auction information.

Exhibiting the same high standards of the other Leonard's paper and electronic auction indexes,this specialized resource appears just at the time when Latin American art is burgeoning in the art market place. The auction index pages are interspersed with nearly 70 small essays, each illustrated with a blackand white image of a work of art, on a wide and rich variety of subjects,such as conservation, iconography, groups of artists (e.g., Orozco, Siqueiros, and Rivera), accurate printed birth and death information, dealers, the market place, discoveries, media (e.g., gouache), etc.

This superb publication is enhanced by Appendices such as a Nationality Index,Auction House Addresses, Sales Dates Cited arranged by auction house, Auction Vocabulary, a fine Select Bibliography, Indexing Guidelines, and List of Illustrations. The book is introduced by a series of scholarly essays on the coming of age of this specialized market, a survey 20th Century Latin American art, and Latin American art at auction. This timely and well-produced publication will be of interest to libraries, collectors, dealers, museums, and auction houses.