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(Show)The Bowmanville Antiques & Folk Art Show: Fragments of Living Canadian History
Fairfield Antiques, Kingston, Ontario, offered the folk painting of the Yankee whale fishery for $1800. It dated from the second half of the 19th century (ex-Rod Brook collection). The six-board blanket box hailed from the Niagara Peninsula via the Bill Hogan collection and dated from the second quarter of the ... (Read More)
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(Show)It Was an Interesting Time
Customers filled the floor on Saturday afternoon. One thing that pleased the dealers was a steadier than usual second-day flow.
This custard glass dresser set with its mustard-colored decoration on white shows a little wear, but for a set from the 1890s, once proudly gracing someone’s boudoir, that is to be ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Forty Years of Sommer
“I have a wonderful relation with the dealers who are in the shop. I like what they see and buy and bring in. I’m spoiled,” said Phyllis Sommer.
The next time you’re driving on Route 1 into Searsport, Maine, take heed of the 25 m.p.h. speed limit sign as you’re approaching ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hot Prices for Barkley Hendricks's Cool Portraits and Norman Lewis's Abstractions
Barkley L. Hendricks (b. 1945), Steve, 72" x 48" oil, acrylic, and Magna on canvas, 1976, $365,000.
Boy and Sheep under a Tree by Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) sold within estimates to a collector for $245,000. The 17 3/8" x 27" oil on canvas is signed and dated (“1881”).
Cathedral, Norman Lewis ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Church Painting Brings $353,000
The star lot of the sale, Frederic Edwin Church’s View of Baalbek, circa 1868, sold on the phone to the Detroit Institute of Arts for $353,000. The 9½" x 20" oil and pencil on heavy card had an estimate of $80,000/120,000. The painting had descended in the family of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The New York Sale
The “most emblematic of New York’s emblems” is how the auctioneer described Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s La Liberté éclairant le monde or Statue of Liberty. This parcel-gilt bronze with a dark green patina, 112 5/8" high, was cast in 2010 as part of an edition of 12 from the plaster in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Midweek Antiques Show Confirms Opening Hours
Barn Star Productions’ 22nd Midweek Antiques Show, now held in Concord, New Hampshire, during Antiques Week in New Hampshire, is adjusting the opening hour for the August 4 and 5 show.
“Last year we moved our Midweek Show to Tuesday following the Americana Celebration Antiques Show, launching Antiques Week with two ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Wes and Shelley Cowan's Stereoviews
View of the 1882 lynching of Francisco Tafoya, also known as Navajo Frank, the photo by F. E. Evans of East Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory, imprinted description on reverse, minor spotting to mount, and very faint discoloration from the top edge, $2640. The text noted: “Francisco Tafoya / A Navajo ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Rediscovery: Henry Grant Plumb, Master of Arts and Letters
Henry Grant Plumb self-portrait, circa 1910.
Henry Grant Plumb to his family, Paris, May 11, 1875. The vignette on the first page shows the artist and a friend sketching in the Bois de Boulogne.
Untitled, watercolor on paper, circa 1874, 14" x 10".
Lake Champlain from Basin Harbor, 1910-20, oil on artist’s board, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Canadian Auction House Busted for Selling 1970s Ivory
A scientific first has led to an auction house and its director pleading guilty to offering prohibited ivory for sale in Canada.
On February 27, Five Star Auctions and Appraisals of Toronto and its director, Chun Al Jin, pleaded guilty to charges under the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation ... (Read More)
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