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(Fragment)Notre Dame Sued over Purportedly Stolen Collection
A collection of pre-Columbian artifacts at the University of Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana, includes stolen property according to a Pennsylvania man who is suing the university. Notre Dame and the dealer who sold the collection to the university deny the accusation.
Scott Leff, the son of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The GSA Goes after Another Painting
Collector Myron Kaplan paid $57,500 for Abstraction #6 by Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) at Sotheby's on November 20, 1997. The 161/4" x 20" oil on canvas was estimated at $15,000/20,000, and the provenance in the catalog noted that it was "acquired directly from the artist."
In May 2016-almost 20 years after he ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Promoter and New Look for Zoar Harvest Festival & Antiques Show
Zoar, Ohio
The 43rd annual Zoar Harvest Festival & Antiques Show had a new look and a new show promoter for the August 6 and 7 event. Since 2008, Jan and Dick Wilks had ably brought wonderful dealers and antiques to Zoar, but with their decision to retire from managing the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Enormous Gets More Enormous
Maine Antiques Festival, Union, Maine
Paul Davis's centerpiece show, the three-day Maine Antiques Festival in Union, Maine, held August 5-7, is back on a solid upswing again.
In its second consecutive year of renewed growth, about 45 new dealers brought the total to just under 200 exhibitors, still down from its peak ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Useful Dictionary of Canton Forms
A Book Review
Collecting Canton: In Pursuit of the Best by Gail and Rich Mellin, with Erica Mellin Scioscia Mellin's Antiques Publishing, 2015, 167 pages, hardbound, $165 postpaid from Mellin's Antiques, (203) 938-9538 or (www.mellinsantiques.com).
After purchasing two dinner plates in the 1970s, Gail and Rich Mellin fell in love with blue ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Firehouse Antiques Expands
Firehouse Antiques in Galena, Maryland, is expanding and has purchased a Victorian building at 100 North Main Street, adjacent to its current location at 102 North Main Street. The 150-year-old Victorian building has served as a country inn, store, and residence and will now be home for antiques offered by ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman
A Book Review
Photos courtesy New-York Historical Society
Making It Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman
by Margaret K. Hofer and Roberta J.M. Olson
New-York Historical Society, in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2015, 375 pages, hardbound, $65.
A current exhibition at the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS) has taken on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Paintings
Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
Summer on Cape Cod attracts tourists, vacationers, and antiques shoppers. Thus was the case for Eldred's August 3-5 auction of over 1400 lots of American furniture, decorative accessories, and paintings at the East Dennis, Massachusetts, gallery. Bidders assembled beneath the striped ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lawsuit over Picasso Sculpture Settled
The lawsuit filed in January by Gagosian Gallery of New York City against Pelham Europe, Ltd. involving the sale of Pablo Picasso's 1931 sculpture Buste de Femme (Marie Therese) has been settled.
"We are pleased that the dispute between the Picassos and Pelham has been settled and Mr. Black will receive ... (Read More)
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(Auction)French House Contents Tent Auction
William A. Smith, Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith
On August 5 William A. Smith sold the contents of the French House, a lifelong accumulation of American 18th- and 19th-century country antiques, under a tent in Plainfield, New Hampshire. A top lot at the auction was a Civil War powder ... (Read More)
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