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(Auction)Iconic Names Generate Strong Bids
The 1964 offset lithograph Liz by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is a very well-known image, but Davis was not sure which edition it was. Signed in pen and having some minor handling creases, the 21 5/8" x 22" image (22 1/8" x 221/4" sheet) must have been from a desirable edition. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)An Expressionist's Flowers, a Sargent Head, and a Girl Smelling an Apple
The unsigned 22" x 171/4" oil on canvas study of a man's head by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), circa 1878, inscribed on the stretcher 182 and 4242, sold for $243,000.
Apple Perfume by Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942) brought $65,190. The 22" x 18" oil on canvas is signed and dated 1911, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Harvest Sale Totals $837,000
The sale's top entry, a Rock and Graner (Germany) battleship, circa 1900, hand painted, came from a European estate, had been proudly possessed by one family for nearly a century, and was essentially original and exceptional. Measuring 19" long, it sold for $30,680 (est. $35,000/45,000).
Keystone (U.S.) "Ride 'Em" Coast-to-Coast bus, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New York Art, Antique, and Jewelry Show
Banners outside the Park Avenue Armory announced the show. The new owners, the Palm Beach Show Group, blanketed Manhattan with advertisements, banners, and tickets.
This stretch Lincoln was available to shuttle showgoers between the armory and the Asia Art Fair at the Bohemian National Hall farther uptown.
John Atzbach Antiques, Redmond, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chinese Vase Brings $24,723,000
The Qianlong period imperial vase became the most expensive object sold at an auction in New England when it brought $24,723,000. Skinner, Inc. photo.
A monumental (383/4" x 103/4") Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period fencai vase became the highest-grossing object sold at auction in New England and achieved the highest price ever ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Silver in the Met
A Book Review
Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Beth Carver Wees with Medill Higgins Harvey
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, distributed by Yale University Press, 2013, 328 pages, hardbound, $75 plus S/H from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (800) 468-7386 or (www.store.metmuseum.org), or from Yale ... (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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(Young Collectors)Gone to Carolina
The Young Collector
We never take vacations. Oh, we go places, quite often, but almost always "There's just this one stop I need to make in Hingham" or "It will only take five minutes, but we've got to deliver this five-hundred-pound corner cupboard, and I said we'd help her get it ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Building Customer Loyalty
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of promoting your business in a 21st-century way. This month I'll move over to another topic-building customer loyalty.
It is rare that a business can survive without loyal repeat customers. Loyal customers are certainly your most valuable asset. If you can build ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay,
Lots and lots of good things fill my pending files and will continue to feature in these reports even when the new season sales get up and running. Two of the London summer highlights, a Rysbrack bust of Franklin and a Gilbert Stuart portrait of a Mohawk chief, ... (Read More)
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