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(Auction)Americana at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s, New York City
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Sotheby’s live sale of Americana on Saturday, January 25, brought $4,517,280 (with buyers’ premiums) for 94 of the 132 lots offered and was 71% sold by lot. When it began at 10 a.m., nearly 50 people were in the salesroom, but the crowd had dwindled ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Signature Quilt Returns Home
On January 25 Dana Auctions LLC, Princeton, New Jersey, sold an 80" x 84" Pennsylvania signature quilt in the Star of Bethlehem pattern for $6150 (includes buyer’s premium). The estimate for the quilt, dated March 1913, was $300/600.
The textile was crafted by the Zwingli Y. P. Society of Christ Reformed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$8.4 Million Americana Auction
Christie’s, New York City
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Christie’s January 24 Americana sale in New York City brought an impressive $8,476,042 and was 84% sold by lot. The firm attributed its success to the fact that one in four buyers was new to Christie’s, and 10% of them were millennials.
The newly discovered ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art of the Americas Sale
Sotheby’s, New York City
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Sotheby’s held its “Art of the Americas” sale featuring the American West January 24 in two sessions. The sale was part of the auction house’s “Visions of America” weeklong event. Overall, the two sessions totaled $8,716,620. The first session offered 48 lots and had an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)19th-Century American and Western Art
Christie’s, New York City
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Christie’s January 23 afternoon sale of 19th-century American and Western art sale offered 123 lots. The auction totaled $12,472,442 (including buyers’ premiums) and had an 85% sell-through rate. It followed the morning auction, “American Sublime: Property from an Important Private Collection.” With the two sales ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New England Art Paces Sale by PLD Auctions
PLD Auctions, Mechanic Falls, Maine
PLD Auctions, Inc., was formed years ago from the demise of the Cyr Auction Company. Three of the former Cyr employees, Pamela LaBonte, Louis Black, and David Kimball, picked up the pieces and formed their own auction company, combining their first initials as the new company ... (Read More)
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(Auction)“American Sublime”: A Private Collection at Christie’s
Christie’s, New York City
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Twelve Christie’s specialists were on the phones taking bids for “American Sublime: Property from an Important Private Collection” on the morning of Thursday, January 23. The 43-lot sale, consigned by an anonymous collector with whom some of the American art dealers sitting in the saleroom ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Olde Hope’s Party before The Winter Show
New York City
For the last five years, Patrick Bell and Edwin Hild of Olde Hope have hosted a cocktail party at their New York City gallery at 115 East 72nd Street on the Wednesday of Americana Week. This year it fell on January 22. New Yorkers and collectors in town ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Winter Antiques and Art Auction
Meander Auctions, Whipple, Ohio
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Paintings by Ohio artist Clyde Singer (1908-1999) brought the two highest prices during the winter antiques and art sale held by Meander Auctions in Whipple, Ohio, January 18. Also topping the charts were a political-based ambrotype from the mid-19th century, appropriate two months after ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Recovered Tiffany Window Returned to Museum
The Worcester Art Museum, through the work of the Art Loss Register (ALR), has secured the return of a Tiffany Studios stained-glass window to the museum in Worcester, Massachusetts.
In 1975 the Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Boston, Massachusetts, presented the Worcester Art Museum with a gift consisting of two sets ... (Read More)
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