(Fragment)Winterthur Acquires the Pastor Frederick S. Weiser Collection
Religious text by Andreas Kolb, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, circa 1785. Winterthur Museum purchase with funds provided by the Henry Francis du Pont Collectors Circle; photo, Jim Schneck. This extraordinary fraktur is a masterpiece from the hand of Andreas Kolb, a Mennonite schoolmaster and fraktur artist who taught in Montgomery and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Not Keeping a Promise in Texas Costs $1.2 Million Plus Interest
The untitled 93 1/8" x 80 1/8" oil on canvas by Mark Rothko, signed and dated 1961.
Is it reasonable to expect that the chain of provenance can be kept secret when a major work is consigned to auction? How about when the piece in question is a humongous (93 1/8" ... (Read More)
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