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(Auction)Zipps Cap Off Third Sale of Monumental Year
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
Riding high from the record $1.56 million sale of Dave Drake’s 25-gallon poem jar during the summer of 2021, the Zipps of Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland, sold an inscribed three-gallon stoneware jug made by Drake for $420,000. It was the firm’s top lot in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, December 2021
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Charing Cross Bridge, brouillard, 1902, oil on canvas, 28¾" x 36¼". Collection of Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Gift of Ethel and Milton Harris, 1990. Photograph © AGO.
—Through January 23, 2022 —San Antonio, Texas
Claude Monet and James Abbott McNeill Whistler were both fascinated by London’s Thames River. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Passing It On
Passing It On
In 2020, staring into the teeth of the COVID-19 pandemic, Germany launched a rescue package dubbed Neustart Kultur (Restart Culture), which committed one billion euros in order to maintain the country’s cultural scene and infrastructure. When the initial funds were used up, Germany threw another billion euros at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chris Strand Named Director of Winterthur
Chris Strand, the longtime director of garden and estate at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, has been named its Charles F. Montgomery Director and CEO. Strand has served as interim director and CEO at Winterthur since May.
As interim director, Strand was responsible for all aspects of museum, library, and garden ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Keane Collection Sold
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
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Skinner brought the collection of John and Marilyn Keane of Boston to auction on November 19 in the Marlborough gallery, where the auction was live. The Keanes bought carefully and with consultation with knowledgeable members of the antiques trade. They were collectors and philanthropists, ... (Read More)
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(Show)American Art Sale
Christie’s, New York City
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Sharing the proper works with the proper audience was the motivation behind Christie’s decision to offer a majority of works by American Modernist artists, including a dozen Impressionist paintings, in its November 18 live auction.
The 78-lot sale totaled $28,931,500; 66 lots sold, for a sell-through ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Robed Nude Tops Bonhams Sale
Bonhams, New York City
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Bonhams offered 108 lots of American art in its November 18 afternoon sale, following Christie’s morning sale in the same category. The Bonhams sale totaled $4,349,691. Two lots were withdrawn, and 97 lots sold, for a sell-through rate of 89.8%. The results fell close to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Printing of Constitution Sells for $43 Million
Sotheby’s, New York City
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This “Official Edition” of the United States Constitution, printed in September 1787 by John Dunlap and David Claypoole for the Constitutional Convention, is from the first printing of the final text of the U.S. Constitution. Although approximately 500 copies were printed, only 13 are known ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)O’Keeffe’s Crab’s Claw Ginger Hawaii Brings $7.7 Million
A live auction that took place on the evening of November 17 in the new Park Avenue space at Phillips, New York City, included a 1939 work by Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) making its auction debut. Nestled in the 20th-century and contemporary art sale, which offered 46 lots (lots 14 and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Silver Sells at Heritage
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
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A trove of exquisite American silver pieces from the personal collection of a former art curator and museum director was the centerpiece of Heritage Auctions’ recent silver auction. Heritage’s November 16 auction of fine silver and objects of vertu featured 102 pieces from the ... (Read More)
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