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(Issue Story)Letter from London, February 2015
Ian McKay,
Joseph Mallord William Turner's Rome, from Mount Aventine, the 361/2" x 491/2" oil of 1835 that at Sotheby's on December 3 sold for $47.4 million. In the last 15 years of his life, Turner was enormously experimental and this work, produced when he was 61, just at the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Shared Legacy
Book Review
A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America by Richard Miller, with contributions by Avis Berman, Cynthia G. Falk, Lisa Minardi, and Ralph Sessions Art Services International and Skira Rizzoli, 2014, 256 pages, softbound, $65.
A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America by Richard Miller, with essays by Avis Berman, ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)What's Your Niche?
A low-cost 7" tablet computer running Windows 8.1.
Computer Column #314
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Antiquers may want to identify their personal niche in the computer world. Personal niches are changing as hardware and software rapidly evolve. Let's look at the whole picture and identify the range of niches.
Big Computers
The really big ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Sotheby's Magnificent Jewels Sale Caps a Year of Stellar Results
This circa 1920 signed Tiffany & Co. platinum, moonstone, and sapphire brooch designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany sold to a phone bidder for $62,500 (est. $20,000/30,000). It was accompanied by an AGL report stating that the sapphire is of Ceylon origin, with no indications of heating. Sotheby's, New York.
When Lisa ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Elise Abrams, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Elise Abrams's shop is just north of Great Barrington on Route 7. Part of it was originally a Dairy Queen.
Elise Abrams.
A very partial interior view.
Abrams said a service like this (which is for 12 although only eight are set up) averages about $300 per piece.
Art Deco Czech geometric cut ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)2014: The Year in Review
The Young Collector
It's a fitting thing to be wrapping this up on New Year's Eve, that night when we indulge ourselves, overindulge ourselves, in any number of ways including nostalgic reflection. Sometimes, like in the afternoons of wet fall days or in the sticky middle-of-summer mornings (or anywhere on Interstate ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare to Make a List
Auction Law and Ethics
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
I've long liked that Mark Twain line, and the message rings true for selecting the "right" auctioneer versus just any other. When a consignor seeks to hire an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Farnsworth Extends Shaker Exhibition
Due to the popularity of the exhibit, and to facilitate an increase in school group visits, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, will be extending the exhibition The Shakers: From Mount Lebanon to the World through March 8. The show of approximately 100 works opened in June 2014.
Drawn primarily ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Dozen Dealers to Launch Weekly On-line Antiques Show
Tuesday at noon. That's the day and time a group of 12 dealers want antiques buyers to remember. Every Tuesday at noon (Eastern time), a batch of fresh antiques will go on line at the soon-to-be-launched Web site 1st N Line (www.1stnline.com), a new on-line weekly antiques show.
The idea ... (Read More)
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