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(Auction)The 2017 Louisiana Purchase Auction
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy Neal Auction Company
In 2017 Neal Auction Company’s Louisiana Purchase Auction, a three-day event held November 17-19, fell on a busy weekend in New Orleans. Everyone was talking about the Thursday wedding of tennis star Serena Williams to Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian at the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Preserving the History of Mankind
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Auctioneer and company president Kaja Veilleux floridly introduced the three-day auction at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, as “preserving the history of mankind.” It was, perhaps, an overstatement, but not a serious one. The November 17-19, 2017, auction offered nearly 1500 lots of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Morning’s Work Leads Sporting Art Auction’s $2.5 Million Sale
Cross Gate Gallery/Keeneland, Lexington, Kentucky
Photos courtesy Cross Gate Gallery
It’s a natural collaboration for Keeneland—where everyone who is anyone goes to buy the finest Thoroughbreds—and Cross Gate Gallery—where everyone who is anyone goes to purchase the finest sporting art. These Lexington, Kentucky-based businesses first teamed up in 2013 to bring to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art and Antiques at Tremont Auctions
Tremont Auctions, Newton, Massachusetts
Antiques from the estate of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, show promoter, collector, and dealer Sonia Paine, who died last summer at 95, provided several bright spots in the Tremont Auctions November 19, 2017, sale in the Newton, Massachusetts, gallery. Paine, who opened an antiques shop in 1968, was ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heartland Antique Show
Richmond, Indiana
For anyone driving rural back roads to the Heartland Antique Show in Richmond, Indiana, on the morning of November 18, 2017, something quickly became apparent. It was the opening day of deer season, as evidenced by an abundance of pickup trucks and SUVs edged off country roads near adjacent ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art and Carved Chinese Plaques Set the Pace at Potomack
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The November 18, 2017, cataloged auction at The Potomack Company was held at the firm’s galleries in Alexandria, Virginia. The sale presented a mix of offerings from a broad group of categories, with a concentration of lots from an equally broad selection ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Comic and Disney Characters Star at Milestone Auctions
Milestone Auctions, Willoughby, Ohio
Photos courtesy Milestone Auctions
Vintage comic characters are a perennial favorite. When “the Mouse” is involved, it’s a given that interest will follow. Milestone Auctions saw this phenomenon firsthand during its “Hectic Eclectic” vintage comic character event held on November 18, 2017.
Selling were more than 500 lots of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Freeman’s
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
Freeman’s marketing focuses on selling collections. “Not only does it create a historical record, it delivers a better financial result” is the pitch of the Philadelphia auction house. Over the last four years, Freeman’s has successfully offered large and small collections in separate catalogs. And when ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Little Knowledge and a Little Money Go a Long Way at Farrin’s
Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
Every year for the past two decades or so, Rusty Farrin of Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine, has piled together some of the best of a year’s worth of gathering for presentation in a pre-Thanksgiving sale, which happened on November 15, 2017. A larger-than-usual crowd perused ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Salon Art + Design 2017
New York City
The Salon Art + Design, held November 9-13, 2017, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, exploded with color—from the neon shades of yellow, orange, and turquoise on the show’s catalog to the deep reds, pinks, and greens of the stones used by jeweler and lead ... (Read More)
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