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(Show)Fiddlers Antiques Show: Taking the Band Downtown
Nashville, Tennessee
Between the February 2020 edition and this year's event, held February 10-13, the management of the long-running Fiddlers Antiques Show was taken over by veteran promoters Kay and Bill Puchstein, as reported in last September's issue of M.A.D. The plan was to continue holding this show side by side ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Nevelson Sculpture Tops Barridoff Sale
Barridoff Galleries, South Portland, Maine
Photos courtesy Barridoff Galleries
In keeping with its usual modus operandi, Barridoff Galleries' February 13 auction in South Portland, Maine, was a compact offering of only 200 lots. All but about 33 of the lots found new homes, and only a handful of the misfires came from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)London, Dublin, and Boston Stories at Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
The estate of New York City investment banker Robert Kyle Johnson (1938-2020) consigned 128 lots of 18th-century British and Irish furniture and silver to Brunk Auctions' February 12 and 13 "Premier" sale. All the consignments were from Johnson's home in Aiken, South Carolina. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Assets of Harold Cole to be Sold in Bankruptcy Auction
On February 13 the assets of longtime dealer Harold Cole will sell in an unreserved online auction. The sale will include antiques, paintings, weathervanes, decoys, and ceramics, according to court papers.
The auction, ordered by the United States Bankruptcy Court, will be conducted by the Hamilton Group, LLC, Clinton, Connecticut, and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Four Auctions, One Winner: Life of a Small-Pocket Collector
In baseball terms, my interest in four items in four different recent auctions resulted in two passed balls, a missed swing, and finally a line-drive hit. All the action, as you can imagine, happened online (in my case, via LiveAuctioneers.com). But none of my decision making would have been possible ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Seeks Dismissal of False Claims Lawsuit
On December 18, 2020, Sotheby's filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James alleging that Sotheby's had violated New York's False Claims Act. The case revolves around a collector using a false resale certificate to avoid paying sales tax (see M.A.D., January, p. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$40,625 Rookwood Vase Tops "Art + Design" Sale
Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Treadway Gallery
A Rookwood Pottery vase took the top bid during the "Art + Design" auction held by Treadway Gallery of Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 7. In an Iris glaze, the 15" high vase was decorated by Kitaro Shirayamadani in 1907. Having a dozen poppies encircling ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Hybrid Outsider Art Fair 2021
New York City
The Outsider Art Fair (OAF), usually a long weekend event held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, pivoted to a ten-day, multivenue experience because of the pandemic.
A gallery-share model, along with an online viewing room, allowed participants to visit seven exhibitions in five locations throughout New ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Troyan Living Trust Sues to Recover Collection
"Without Bob, all of this couldn't have happened. I put all my trust in him," Mitzi J. Troyan said on December 11, 2011, at the National Arts Club in New York City. The occasion was an exhibition of the work of artist Matthew Troyan (1913-2007), her late husband.
"Bob" referred to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, February 2021
The Aeneid, the 16th-century epic poem by Virgil, provided the inspiration for an extraordinary series of coloured enamel panels that feature in one of this month's reports-one that also includes a painted figure of the Virgin Mary that brought a much higher than expected sum.
A piratical painting, buried treasure, and ... (Read More)
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