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(Auction)A Record for Hockney’s Celia
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
A Record for Hockney’s Celia
by Walter C. Newman
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
In its relatively brief seven-year history, Hilliard & Co. in Madison, Virginia, has built a well-deserved reputation as an auction firm that the industry must keep an eye on. André and Nicholas Hilliard along ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Deaccessioned Work Sells for $2.8 Million
On October 21, 2020, the Greenville County Museum Commission, the governing body of the Greenville County Museum of Art (GCMA), Greenville, South Carolina, approved the deaccession of the museum’s Alma Thomas painting Flower Garden.
The deaccession and subsequent sale were in keeping with the policy of the museum, the American Alliance ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fishersville Doesn’t Miss a Step
Fishersville Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
Following a one-year pandemic-induced hiatus, the 66th semiannual antiques show in Fishersville, Virginia, opened for business May 7 and 8 at the Augusta Expoland. Formerly known as the Shenandoah Antiques Expo and newly branded as the Fishersville Antiques Expo, the show has long been one of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Antique Garden Furniture Fair
Bronx, New York
Computer screens were awash with greenery during the online New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) Antique Garden Furniture Fair and accompanying plant auction, held April 29 through May 7, a yearly springtime event coveted by weekend gardeners, landscape designers, horticulturists, and garden ornament enthusiasts.
Jeffrey Tillou Antiques, Litchfield, Connecticut, sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Leyendecker Smashes Record at $4.12 Million
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
After a brisk bidding session on May 7 at Heritage Auctions, with multiple bidders jockeying to buy a painting by illustrator Joseph Christian “J.C.” Leyendecker, the piece sold for an astonishing $4.12 million (with buyer’s premium), shattering the previous auction record for a work ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Legal Battle for Morphy and Julia
In November 2019 Morphy Auctions LLC filed a lawsuit in the Chancery Court in Delaware against James D. Julia, Inc., and James Julia, the former Maine auctioneer. The suit alleged that Julia violated terms of the agreement reached over the 2017 sale of Julia’s assets (see M.A.D., February 2020). That ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)LiveAuctioneers Suspends Montreal Auction House
On March 9 the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC), a nonprofit human rights organization based in Toronto committed to countering racism and anti-Semitism, issued a press release calling for Madison’s Historical, a Montreal auction house, to “immediately remove disturbing Holocaust and Nazi relics—including a used Zyklon ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of the Niall Smith Collection
Stair Galleries, Hudson, New York
Photos courtesy Stair Galleries
In the pause after the bidding for two Regency giltwood and ebonized convex mirrors ratcheted up to $24,000 ($30,720 with buyer’s premium)—making it the top sale at Stair Galleries’ online auction on May 6—there was not a sound. No audible exhale of excitement. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Barbara Israel
Photos by Bree Moon
We are all spending much more time now in our houses and apartments because of COVID-19. Because we all might enjoy staring at someone else’s walls for a change, this column gives our readers an idea of what some of their colleagues, fellow collectors, and other readers ... (Read More)
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