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An aerial view of the Harvard Art Museums demonstrates the relationship between the new museums and its neighbor the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The ramp from the Carpenter Center has been extended to meet the Prescott Street entrance of the Harvard Art Museums. Photo by Peter Vanderwarker.
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On June 1 the California State Assembly unanimously approved AB 1182, a measure to remove some regulatory burdens on secondhand dealers created by existing law. The bill was sponsored by the California Association of Resellers, ReUsers and Buyers (CARRB). The vote was 79-0; there was no opposition.
CARRB chair Allen Michaan ... (Read More)
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This Haida gold bracelet made by Bill Reid (1920-1998) sold for $62,500 (est. $50,000/80,000) to a private collector, an overseas phone bidder who was not from Canada, Haas emphasized.
San Francisco, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams’ June 1 Native American art auction in San Francisco totaled close to $1.2 million (including buyers’ premiums).
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Photo courtesy American Glass Gallery.
In every category of collecting something will come along that will cause others to ooh and ahh and say, “Wow, that’s a beauty.”
At the May absentee bottle auction held by the American Glass Gallery (AGG) was a J R & Son scroll flask made by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Two Chinese cloisonné jardinieres, holding contemporary jade plants and standing on form-fitting carved hardwood stands, $33,350. Thomaston Place photos.
Bronze Age Cycladic alabaster male figure, $20,125.
This original Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) etching and drypoint of the Mennonite minister Cornelis Claesz.Anslo (1592-1646) was signed within the image and dated 1641. Anslo was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Top lot of the sale was a large allegorical painting alluding to the defense of Liberty by a united and vigilant citizenry. A handsome figure of Athena with shield and spear stands at center right. Bearing the date 1784, in the time of the Dutch Republic, the work by decorative ... (Read More)
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Henry Francis du Pont (left) and Charles F. Montgomery (right), Winterthur Museum’s first director. Image courtesy Winterthur.
On May 29 the Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library announced it had received a $5 million endowment to fund the Charles F. Montgomery Director of Winterthur, in honor of the institution’s first director (1954-61). According ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Blue Flower by Agnes Martin (1912-2004) sold to a New York dealer for $1,539,000 (est. $1,500,000/2,000,000). Dated 1962, the collage of oil, glue, nails, and canvas is on canvas stretched over an 11 5/8" x 11 3/8" panel. Many of the artist’s works look minimalist, but she considered herself to ... (Read More)
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Knoxville, Tennessee-based Case Antiques Inc. Auctions & Appraisals has opened an office at 116 Wilson Pike Circle, Suite #102, in Brentwood, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. The office will handle consignments from Middle and West Tennessee, southern Kentucky, and northern Alabama, along with appraisals, and will serve as a display ... (Read More)
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Jewelers in New York would be required to return to the customer who brings in an item for repair any portion of jewelry removed from an item during its repair, according to legislation sponsored by Assemblywoman Earlene Hooper (D-Nassau). According to the legislation introduced in early March, the jeweler must ... (Read More)
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