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(Auction)Exceptional Results at Louisiana Purchase 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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(Show)Vintage Holiday Show at Craven Farm
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)Tiffany Garden Museum Contents Sold
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)Prolonged Bidding Takes Dutch Still Life to $666,000
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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(Fragment)Outsider Art Fair Sold
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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(Fragment)New York Consignor Protection Law Signed
by Betty FloodLegislation to provide protection for a consignor or his or her heirs when the consignor’s 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)Christie's Americana
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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(Fragment)Frederick Hurten Rhead Four-Part Tile Panel Sells for $637,500
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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(Fragment)Coast Guard Sues to Get Back Lighthouse Lens
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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(Fragment)Santa Fe Show Schedule Shakeup Scuttled
by Alice KaufmanThe more things change, the more they stay the same.The Whitehawk 30th annual Antique Ethnographic Art Show will open on August 8, 2013, and run through August 10. The Whitehawk 35th annual Invitational Antique Indian Art Show will open on August 11 and run through August 13. Both ... (Read More)
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