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A Tiffany Studios parakeet and goldfish bowl tea screen sold for $324,500, which was the auction day’s highest price. Michaan called the screen “very special, unique, a small version of a famous Tiffany window.” It is 8" tall including its 18k gold frame and was estimated at $400,000/600,000.
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(Auction)
In the mid-19th century, John P. Weimar modeled a bust of George Washington after the well-known life portrait by sculptor Jean- Antoine Houdon (French, 1741-1828). The Weimar version, cast in bronze in 1852, sold for $14,340. Neal Auction Company photo.
Top lot of the November sale was a landscape ... (Read More)
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The venue is small but always well attended. This crowd continued to circle the floor for a good long while at the one-day show.
Fabric panels such as this one were once a popular and inexpensive way to have a “Grandma Moses” in one’s home. Nadia Mered of Seattle, Washington, brought ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
A Tiffany Studios parakeet and goldfish bowl tea screen sold for $324,500, which was the auction day’s highest price. Michaan called the screen “very special, unique, a small version of a famous Tiffany window.” It is 8" tall including its 18k gold frame and was estimated at $400,000/600,000.
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(Auction)
The sale's top lot, Still Life with Tazza, Peeled Lemon, and Roemer by Willem Claeszoon Heda (Dutch, 1594-c. 1680), went to a phone bidder at $666,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). The 15½" x 22½" oil on cradled panel dates from 1630.Tabletop Still Life with Fruit by Robert Spear Dunning (1829-1905), signed and ... (Read More)
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The Outsider Art Fair, the annual show in New York City that showcases Outsider, self-taught, and folk art, has been sold by Sanford L. Smith and Associates, LLC to Wide Open Arts, LLC.In addition to a new owner, the January 31-February 3, 2013, show will be held in a new ... (Read More)
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by Betty FloodLegislation to provide protection for a consignor or his or her heirs when the consignors works of art are in the care of a consignee or an art merchant has been approved as Chapter 450 on the 2012 Chapter Law List. It was signed into law by New ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this mahogany easy chair with carving attributed to the Garvan carver, Philadelphia, 1760-65, 44¾" high, sold on the phone for $1,116,500 (est. $600,000/900,000) to dealer Todd Prickett of C.L. Prickett, Yardley, Pennsylvania, for a client. A similar chair sold at Christie's in January 2005 ... (Read More)
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Frederick Hurten Rhead large four-part tile panel depicting a peacock, marked "Frederick H. Rhead, U.C. 1910," 20¾" square. The U.C. stands for University City near St. Louis where Edward Gardner Lewis, a publisher of American women's magazines and an amateur potter, opened an art academy in 1907 with studios for ... (Read More)
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by Clayton PenningtonIn October, the United States, acting on behalf of the United States Coast Guard, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the William Lyon Phelps Foundation, which owns the Huron City Museum in Port Austin, Michigan. The suit seeks a declaratory judgment that the United States "is the ... (Read More)
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