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Dale Chihuly Books: Magnificent Art Auction Finds

Art books are usually a big seller in art auctions. You can always find books, catalogs and magazines that are held for auction. Among the many publications commonly featured is by artist Dale Chihuly.

The name Dale Chihuly may no longer ring strange bells in the field of art. Chihuly’s works have been featured all over the world and his publications usually go way high in art auctions. Even his books about his drawings have a high resale value as well. Chihuly is able to weave bursting energy and ethereal beauty through his drawings, which start out as ideas before these are breathed into splendid glass artworks. Here are some of Dale Chihuly’s books, which are currently being sold in a number of art auctions.

Chihuly Gardens and Glass beautifully illustrates and features installations at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago. The book contains essays by the Garfield Conservatory director and Barbara Rose that gives a history and background of garden conservatories and touches Dale Chihuly's niche in art history, respectively.

Chihuly at the Royal Botanic Gardens illustrates over a hundred photographs that captured the exhibit at the Royal Botanical Gardens, which was Chihuly’s first botanical garden exhibition outside the United States. This book was sold for fifty dollars in an art auction.

Chihuly Seaforms illustrates forty-four strikingly brilliant photographs of his most up to date series at present. Considered highly intrinsic in value in art auctions, the book showcases Chihuly’s creations that have been tagged as tributes to the sea as well as a reflection of the artist’s skill, passion, teamwork and utter genius.

Chihuly Form Fire, published in 1993 seldom features in art auctions. This book is hardbound and over a hundred pages long with more than seventy-five full color reproductions of his highly creative pieces. It also contains a commentary and tidbits about Chihuly’s career. There is also another Chihuly book that is rarely featured in art auctions. It is softbound and only has seventeen full color reproductions. This books features the magnificent neon-and-ice installations that had twenty thousand pounds of ice. It would be recommended to buy this book online than from a previous owner in an auction.

Another Chihuly book showcases his solo exhibition at the Louvre museum in Paris, France in 1986, wherein he was only the fourth American to have had been in such a stint. The book is softbound containing thirty-three photos of the exhibit and an introduction written by the Centre du Verre’s chief curator and director.

Chihuly Jerusalem 2000 is another interesting finding, which sells new for about fifty dollars. It contains more than a hundred brilliantly extraordinary color reproductions. There is also his soft cover book that highlights fifty-one highly impressive photos of his exhibit at the Marlborough Gallery in New York City. Its starting bid is set at twenty-five dollars.

On the other hand, a Chihuly book was sold at an auction last year. It depicted the installation at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Japan in the year 1990. It contained fifty-four dramatically powerful images that can wow anyone who vie