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(Issue Story)Letter from London, August 2016
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
There is a fair amount of sculpture and not a little bare flesh—carved and painted—in this month’s “Letter,” and with other stories headed “The Red-Haired Girl…” and “Bronzed Beauties…” I might be accused of being single-minded in my pursuit of subjects for this selection. I plead coincidence, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Director of Warhol Museum Joins Sotheby's
Eric Shiner, director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will join Sotheby’s this September. Based in New York City, Shiner will enter Sotheby’s fine art division as a senior vice president focused on private sales of 20th- and 21st-century art.
Shiner’s new role follows eight years at the Andy ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Action Comics" #1 Brings $956,000
A 1938 copy of Action Comics #1 featuring the first appearance of Superman sold for $956,000 (includes buyer’s premium) at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas, on August 4.
It came from the collection of a comic book fan from the East Coast, who had purchased it from a dealer in the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)More Genres of Posters Than There Are Peanuts in a Snickers Bar
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
At the semiannual auction of vintage posters at Swann Galleries in New York City on August 3, there were more genres of posters than there are peanuts in a Snickers bar. About 576 lots were offered for sale, and four auction records were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Buyers Buoy Bonhams
Bonhams, Los Angeles and San Francisco, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
“As always,” Scot Levitt, Bonhams’ California and Western paintings specialist, was “nervous” before his August 2 Los Angeles/San Francisco auction. Levitt was gratified and sometimes surprised, however, by the sale’s strong prices; sales totaled $3.3 million (includes buyers’ premiums). Levitt was especially ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Austin's Antiques Sold and Renamed
Peter Austin sold Austin’s Antiques co-op in Chichester, New Hampshire, on June 1 to Cathy Consentino and Thomas Thompson, two longtime dealers. Austin had owned the business for 23 years.
“After a lot of thought, the name is being changed to Thos. Bartlett Antiques & Oddments,” Consentino wrote. “The layout has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The 60th Anniversary of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum (AARFAM) in Williamsburg, Virginia, is kicking off its diamond anniversary in 2017 with the loan exhibition at the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory, January 20 through 29. The oldest continuously operating museum in the United States dedicated solely to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Finale for Farmer
Farmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia
Photos courtesy Farmer Auctions
Farmer Auctions held its summer catalog sale on July 30 at the firm’s gallery in Salem, Virginia. The event marked the firm’s final sale. Earlier in the month Will Farmer announced that he had reached an agreement to sell his business to Jarrod Hines, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 42nd Annual VADA Show
Antiques & Art in Woodstock, Woodstock, Vermont
A couple of the exhibitors at the Antiques & Art in Woodstock show (also known as the VADA [Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Association] show) on July 30 and 31 asked not to be identified before they answered questions about how well they’d done at the ... (Read More)
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(Show)National Insulator Association Convention Show
Muncie, Indiana
“What’s an insulator?”
The question came from my 22-year-old daughter. She’s not dumb. The kid attends a prestigious liberal-arts college and scored fives on the AP calculus and chemistry exams at the end of high school, so she has a brain. But she has also spent a lifetime in a ... (Read More)
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