The Art Auction

Friday evening, Doug and I headed down to the Sheraton Buckhead Hotel to meet Kathy, Matt and Anna for a VIP art auction. Neither Doug nor I had ever been to an art auction before, so we were excited and slightly nervous at the same time. We were not sure if we would actually bid on anything, but we wanted to go to the auction because one, we wanted to spend time with our friends, and two, there were free drinks and a free steak and lobster dinner (which was absolutely delicious by the way). How can you pass that up? Ha!

After dinner, we browsed around the room and picked two items that we really wanted to bid on. Since we had never done this before, we figured that we could watch "the pros" at work before our paintings were featured for bid. Of course, the first picture put up for bid (even though there were a ton of pictures in the room) was one of the paintings that Doug and I were interested in. So the auctioneer starts the bidding. We had a piece of paper with a number on it that we were supposed to put in the air to bid on the painting. After Doug and I do the "You do it. No, you do it" number, Doug put the paper in the air. No one else bid after us, so the painting was ours! It is called "String Trio" by Steve Bloom. It is now hanging over our piano in our living room. We won our second piece as well called "Jazz Lane" by Misha Lenn which is now also hanging in our living room.

Thanks so much Kathy and Matt for inviting us! We had a great time and now we have some great art!