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(Fragment)Colescott Record Smashed
In Sotheby’s contemporary art evening auction on May 12 in New York City, held a week before the American art auction, Robert Colescott’s George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware River: Page from an American History Textbook sold to the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art for $15,315,900 (includes buyer’s premium). The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Realm of Rejected Values and Bad Behavior by Collectors (and Others)
It is comforting to think of collecting American antiques as a world of virtuous people. The courage and passion inherent in collecting bring a smile to my face. As a former academic I cherish the learning that takes place for any serious collector—learning history, learning what characteristics make a piece ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, May 2021
No real preamble for this month’s Letter, just an expression of gratitude for the fact that though I continue to dip into provincial sales for my selections, the sort of London sales that this column thrives on have at last begun to make their way back into contention and selection.
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Churchill ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)New Tech for Old Stuff
The Young Collector
Much of the news of late in the art world has been about the sale of NFTs—or non-fungible tokens. If you are like us, you may have been struggling to understand this. (Or trying to ignore it entirely. We have gone back and forth on this a lot.) ... (Read More)
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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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