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(Auction)First of Multi-Part Single-Owner-Historical Documents Sale Achieves $6 Million
The sale’s top lot, going at $336,000 (est. $200,000/300,000), was this four-page autograph letter in French signed by Vincent van Gogh. Written in Saint-Remy de Provence on January 20, 1890, to “M. & Mme. Ginoux,” the letter discusses illness, the artist’s and Madame Ginoux’s. “Less than seven months before his ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Chess Table Sells for $109,250
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Rare Chess Table Sells for $109,250
A rare chess table designed by Isamu Noguchi for Herman Miller in the 1940's and discovered by a contractor renovating a home outside Newark, New Jersey, sold for $109,250 at a sale held on October 22, 2012, by S ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
Letter from London
by Ian McKay, [email protected]
Before launching into this month's selection, which is strong on antiquities but also includes two forgotten Dollies, two Russian posters, two Chinese flutes, two naval frigates, one Charles X box, one warming tapestry, and an old model medical aide, may I, as usual, wish M.A.D. ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
Books Received
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.
Maine and the Sea: 50 Years of Collecting at Maine Maritime Museum ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Design of the 20th Century
This rare Tiffany Studios Trumpet Creeper lamp sold for $914,500 (est. $400,000/600,000) to an American private collector. It was highest auction price for Tiffany in December 2012. The 1902-06 lamp has a large Tree base. The leaded glass and patinated bronze shade is impressed “Tiffany Studios/ New York/ 346-1” and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Book and Manuscripts Sale: Paper and Plastic
The scarce first newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence, very likely the second printing overall (preceded only by John Dunlap’s official Congressional broadside), sold for $722,500 (est. $300,000/400,000). It was within a bound full year’s run of the Pennsylvania Evening Post, published in Philadelphia.
This is the entire King James ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Design Including Tiffany
Carlo Bugatti (1856-1940), rare desk and chair, circa 1902, the chair with adjustable back, painted vellum, tooled copper, brass, and wood, desk 36¾" high x 27¼" wide x 22" deep, and the chair 38¼" high, sold for $80,500 (est. $30,000/50,000).
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) for Jean-Michel Frank (1895-1941), Trepied a Feuilles table ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Greenberg Collection of Art Deco
Jean Dupas, Allegorie du Tissu, circa 1937, 38½" x 128", oil on canvas with silvered wood frame. It sold for $1,650,500 (est. $150,000/250,000) to an American private collector. It is the final preparatory painting for a mosaic executed by Dupas for the Pavillon du Textile at the 1937 Paris Exposition ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American and European Art
Ballerina at Barre, a circa 1959 bronze and polished aluminum sculpture, 15" high, by Enzo Plazzotta (1921-1981) sold for $6000 (est. $2000/4000).
Nine works (one shown) by Edouard Leon Cortès (1882-1969) were offered. Flower Market at the Madeleine, a circa 1955 oil on canvas, sold above high estimate for $35,000.
Though ... (Read More)
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