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(Auction)A New Year, a New Decade, and a Lot More Old Stuff
Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maine
It’s a new year and a new decade, and there’s lots of old stuff to go. Robert Foster broke the New Year’s ice with his traditional January 1 auction in Newcastle, Maine, just as he’s done for the last several decades since taking over his father’s ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Duveen Brothers: Dealers and Advisors
A Book Review
Charlotte Vignon, curator of decorative arts at The Frick Collection and visiting associate professor at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, has written a revealing book about the role of Duveen Brothers as dealers and advisors in the formation of major American collections of decorative arts ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, January 2020
As ever at this time of year, I have been looking out for something to serve as a “Letter from London” Christmas card, and I found something in a December 3-10, 2019, Sotheby’s book sale that seemed to fit the bill.
The Carol Singers is a pencil and watercolour drawing by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Another Trip Around the Sun
The Young Collector
People are fond of telling tired parents, “The days are long, but the years are short.” Time does seem to change after having children, but perhaps not in that way. Unlike most of the things around us or at least in comparison to them, children change rapidly. The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Newly Expanded, Peabody Essex Museum Is “A Whole Window on the World”
My first reaction to touring the new galleries at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, just before its public opening on September 28, 2019, was indignation. PEM has had all these treasures for decades, if not centuries, and I’m only just getting to see them now? My second ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Harsh Punishment for Peddling
This is the one that should break the camel’s back.
According to a report in the Everett Herald, Donald Rooney, a 72-year-old longtime antiques dealer from Everett, Washington, is going to jail for 15 days.
Not only is Rooney going to jail, he’s facing a month of house arrest with electronic monitoring, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, January 2020
Leila Jeffreys, Candle, 2019, photographic ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Arader Buys The Birds of America for $6.6 Million
Graham Arader bought The Birds of America; from Original Drawings by John James Audubon at Sotheby’s in New York City on December 18, 2019, for $6,642,400 (including buyer’s premium) and said he got a bargain. The estimate was $6/8 million.
The total was about half the $11,542,683 (the auction record price ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
A Navajo blanket (the catalog cover lot) and a Plains muslin painted with ledger drawing-like figures of a Sun Dance scene were the stars of the December 16, 2019, auction at Bonhams in Los Angeles. Department director Ingmars Lindbergs told M.A.D. that at 190 lots, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Sentenced to 14 Months in Prison for Smuggling Rhinoceros Cup
On October 1 Richard Sheridan, 50, an Irish national who was extradited to the United States in August, pleaded guilty and was sentenced for his role in trafficking a libation cup made from the horn of a protected rhinoceros.
After Sheridan entered his guilty plea in Miami, U.S. District Judge Jose ... (Read More)
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