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(Auction)Carlsen Gallery Celebrates 30 Years of Auctions
Carlsen Gallery, Freehold, New York
Photos courtesy Carlsen Gallery
In September 1992 the Carlsen family held the first auction at their new gallery. There were no computers, no websites, no Internet, and no smartphones. Carlsen’s buyer’s premium was 5%. George Bush was president. The average annual personal income was $22,000. Gasoline was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Decorative Arts, and Fine Jewelry
Garth’s Auctions, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth’s Auctions
Garth’s Auctions held a sale of Americana, decorative arts, and fine jewelry September 9-19. The online-only event was unusual because of its large size (874 lots) and the diverse mix of material, from Windsor chairs to Haitian paintings.
Chinese porcelain vase and bowl, both with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Photographic Pieces of the Past
One Source Auctions, Canandaigua, New York
Every buyer of an old home dreams of a “find,” a treasure in the attic, a rare piece of history. But to find an entire “time capsule” with hundreds of items untouched for 100 years from an American cultural movement and its historical figures, along ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fresh Kensett Painting Tops $1 Million
A September 18 online sale described as “small and exclusive” by Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York, netted $3.75 million, with a painting by John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872), a Navajo chief’s blanket, and a circa 1870 timepiece setting the pace.
Singing Beach & Eagle Rock, Magnolia, Massachusetts by Kensett, a Hudson River ... (Read More)
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(Show)Chicagoland Decoy Show
Lombard, Illinois
Assume, for the sake of elucidation, that you are on the board of directors of a nationwide collecting group with more than 6000 members. For as long as most remember (some 54 years) the group has held a multi-day annual show each spring in the same location. The event ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, October 2021
William Doriani (1891-1958), Flag Day, 1935, oil on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sidney and Harriet Janis collection. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York.
—Through December 11 —Atlanta, Georgia
The High Museum of Art presents Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught ... (Read More)
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(Show)The York Show: This Is What We Missed
Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale, York, Pennsylvania
Photos by Kathy Lesieur
There was a good gate on Friday, September 17, at what show manager Melvin Arion called the 177th Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale even though the last one held, pre-COVID-19, January 31-February 2, 2020, was the 174th. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry Spanning over a Century at Clars
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Clars Auction Gallery
The fine jewelry and timepieces sale on September 16 at Clars Auction Gallery, Oakland, California, “offered a beautiful selection of diamond, colored gemstone, and signed jewelry spanning over a century,” according to Lauren Della-Croce, director of jewelry. “Prices were strong for signed jewelry ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Oppenheimer Collection of Meissen
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
On Tuesday, September 14, in a Sotheby’s salesroom, 21 collectors and connoisseurs, including several members of the trade, and a lawyer from Tel Aviv representing the consignors of 117 lots of Meissen porcelain filled the chairs arranged in pairs, 6' apart, for social distancing according ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gentlemen, Start Your Bidding
A circa 1909 Märklin clockwork limousine, estimated at $7500/25,000, sold for $48,875 (includes buyer’s premium) at Stony Ridge Auction in Lemoyne, Ohio, on September 12. The buyer was Doug Prendeville of Train Collector’s Warehouse and Tin Toy Gallery in Parsippany, New Jersey. The underbidder was on the phone.
$48,875. Photo courtesy ... (Read More)
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