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(Auction)William Morris's Press Goes to a Museum, and Newton's Principia Sets a Record
William Morris, when contemplating “what should be the thing most to be longed for” in life, said he thought it should be, first, “a beautiful House” and then “a beautiful Book.” “To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort seems to me to be the pleasurable ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Federalist Papers Top Lot at Mebane
The sale’s top lot was displayed in a glass case at the front of the gallery. Although the so-called Federalist Papers were published in two volumes, this lot consisted of two copies of volume one of the 1788 document. One volume was complete, while the other lacked the first six ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Dealer Sentenced to 37 Months in Prison for Wildlife Smuggling
Qiang Wang, also known as Jeffrey Wang, a 34-year-old Flushing, New York, antiques dealer, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court on December 5, 2013, to 37 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to smuggle Asian artifacts made from rhinoceros horns and ivory and violate wildlife trafficking laws.
Wang ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Steam Locomotive Photography Leads Ephemera Sale
A gargantuan archive of photographs and related material documenting the era of American steam locomotives was the top lot of the sale, selling to a dealer for $40,000. The lot included several thousand vintage photographs of locomotives in various formats, thousands of pages of meticulously detailed and organized typed notes, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Christie's American Art Sale
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), East Wind Over Weehawken, signed “E. Hopper” (lower right), oil on canvas, 34" x 50¼", sold for $40,485,000 (est. $22/28 million). Painted in 1934, it was acquired in 1952 from the Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries in New York by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sacred and the Profane at Books and Manuscripts Sale
An original typescript of Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit sold to a North American private collector for $485,000 (est. $300,000/500,000). A salesroom notice said: “The present typescript does not correspond in completeness to the 1964 limited first edition of Grapefruit. It is, however, a draft of the work, and includes a typed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Records Fall for American Art
Norman Rockwell, Saying Grace, signed “Norman Rockwell” (lower center), oil on canvas, 43" x 41", painted in 1951, $46,085,000. Sotheby’s photo.
Edward Hopper, East Wind over Weehawken, oil on canvas, 34" x 50¼", painted in 1934, $40,485,000. Christie’s photo.
Saying Grace, Norman Rockwell’s illustration for the Thanksgiving issue of the Saturday Evening ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Arts of the American West
Rare Meskwaki bear claw necklace and turban. The necklace is composed of 31 grizzly bear claws on an otter neck ring, each pierced through the center and joined together with a hide strip strung with an alternating series of large white and pale green glass trade beads, a long tapering ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby's American Art Auction
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Saying Grace, oil on canvas, 43" x 41", signed “Norman Rockwell” in his block style, lower center, painted in 1951, sold for $46,085,000 (est. $15/$20 million), a record for Norman Rockwell and for any work of art sold at an American art auction.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Norman Rockwell Visits ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) painted Girl Choosing Hat in 1931. The 38½" x 30" oil on canvas sold in the salesroom to Judy Goffman Cutler, a New York City dealer and cofounder and director of the National Museum of American Illustration, for $1,205,000 (est. $400,000/600,000), underbid on the phone. The painting ... (Read More)
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