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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
Islamic and Indian works of art account for a fair proportion of this month’s selections, but an iconic ice-axe, Crusader swords, a geochronoscope, a billiards table, peacocks, a man-powered spinning reel, Lalique glass vases, 20th-century prints, and Spindrift, a lost clipper, are also on the bill of fare.
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(Auction)Skinner’s Andrews Sale Sets Unanticipated Records
No one was terribly surprised when the first lot offered, this lidded wooden pail made in Canterbury, New Hampshire, brought $11,070. The pail has choice yellow paint and all the quality construction details Shaker collectors prefer. Skinner CEO Karen Keane, sitting at the rear of the phone bidders group, held ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Going West" Goes Up
This lithograph sold for $78,600. Photo courtesy Rachel Davis Fine Arts.
At Rachel Davis Fine Arts on June 14 at the Works on Paper auction, a lithograph by Thomas Hart Benton, Going West, sold for $78,600 (includes buyer’s premium) to an on-line bidder. The print, signed and numbered “29” in pencil, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Twentieth-Century Design
Paul Evans (1931-1987), Paul Evans Studio, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1969, welded and polychrome steel, 23k gold leaf, laminate, welded signature “Paul Evans 1969 D,” 25" x 82½" x 19", from the collection of Dorsey Reading, sold for $219,750 (est. $100,000/125,000), a record for a horizontal Evans steel-front cabinet, the third-highest ... (Read More)
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(Show)Burton Antiques Market
Leisa Kirtley of Western Reserve Antique Shop, Canfield, Ohio, consistently presents a great mix in her dealer display. A dough board with breadboard ends was $68. An early baker’s cupboard in red paint (back left side) with flour and sugar bins, wide cut dovetailing, and a pie safe top was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Local History Boosts Folk Art and Furniture
This oil on canvas portrait of an unknown subject was attributed to French Classical portraitist Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805). The attribution came from a pair of ink inscriptions on the back that also mentioned that the painting came from the collection of Professor Armando Perera of Rome, Italy. The painting clearly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collector-Friendly Southern Pottery Sale
At $25,300, this rare Salem, North Carolina, cast redware fish flask was the top-priced lot in this sale. In the society’s over 40 sales and 20 years of auctions, this is only the fifth such example offered. Extremely detailed scales, fins, gills, and eyes are protected by a generously applied ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)An Art Deal Gone Wrong: Dealer Sued and “Buyer” Indicted
An $11,080,000 art deal gone awry has resulted in both a civil suit and a federal indictment.
On June 13, the Degas Sculpture Project Ltd. and Modernism Fine Arts Inc. filed suit in federal court against Rose Ramey Long, who is also known as Rose Ramey Littlejohn and does business as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Auctions Files Suit against Christie’s, Ex-Employees
What are three experts worth? About $60 million in lost profits and damages, claims Heritage Auctions.
The Dallas-based auction firm filed suit against Christie’s on June 13, claiming that the venerable auction house stole Heritage’s “complete Luxury Accessories business group” when three former employees defected to Christie’s. The former Heritage employees ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Book & Ephemera Fair Folds after Opening Night
A strange thing happened at the Flamingo Eventz Philadelphia Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair at the Sheraton in downtown Philadelphia on Friday, June 13. Greg Gibson of the Ten Pound Island Book Company wrote about it in his weekly blog (http://bookmanslog.blogspot.com). “After setup and opening night at the Philadelphia Vintage Book ... (Read More)
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