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(Issue Story)Dealer Does the Right Things, State Wrongs Him Anyway
Editorial
New York City art dealer Richard L. Feigen & Company, Inc., in business since 1959, knows how to do the right thing.
On September 9, 2003, Feigen paid $2,325,000 for a purported Max Ernst painting, Floret;the signed painting came with extensive provenance and authentication written by Werner Spies, an Ernst expert. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Six Major Auction Houses Join Forces to Launch Bidsquare, a New On-line Bidding Platform
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(Fragment)Former Chairman of Christie's Takes the Helm at Phillips
Edward Dolman has been appointed chairman and chief executive officer of Phillips. Dolman spent 27 years at Christie's serving in many capacities, including chairman, CEO, managing director of Christie's Europe, managing director of Christie's Americas, and managing director of Christie's Amsterdam.
Dolman left Christie's in 2011. He was appointed director of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Changes at James D. Julia, Inc.
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(Fragment)Morphy Auctions Acquires Victorian Casino Antiques
Morphy Auctions of Denver, Pennsylvania, has acquired Victorian Casino Antiques (VCA), an auction house in Las Vegas, Nevada, that specializes in vintage gambling/coin-op machines and antique advertising. Terms of the deal were not announced. Victorian Casino Antiques' long-established corporate name will be retained, with the new tagline "a Morphy Auctions ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Invaluable Files Trademark Lawsuit
Will Internet users confuse AuctionZing with AuctionZip? Are "zip" and "zing" synonymous?
Yes, according to a lawsuit filed by Invaluable, LLC and AuctionZip, LLC against Storage Unit Auction List, LLC, which does business as AuctionZing and auctionzing.com. The suit was filed on July 21 in federal court in Boston.
Invaluable (once known ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rare Revolutionary War Map Tops Portsmouth Auction
The top lot of the sale was the 16" x 301/4" hand-drawn map of the Battle of Monmouth by Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy (1746-1804), the cartographer and aide-de-camp of Marquis de Lafayette. It was estimated at $90,000/150,000, but a private collector, bidding by phone, had to pay $486,400 to own ... (Read More)
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(Show)21st Annual Folk Fest
Jackie Haliburton's memory paintings focus on hats and body shapes within a southern African-American community. Butt Stop is typical of her work. She asked $1500 for this large (3' x 8') acrylic on canvas.
The artist John "Cornbread" Anderson was widely represented at Folk Fest. His 36" square oils on ... (Read More)
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(Show)Whitehawk Antique Indian and Ethnographic Art Show
Navajo rug specialist Eric Phillips of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was asking $48,000 for this 1910-20 large Zia jar, 17" tall x 22" diameter. "The show was well attended," Phillips told M.A.D., "with a lot of interest in everything. I sold more historic jars than Navajo weaving."
This circa 1900 Apache figural ... (Read More)
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(Show)Objects of Art Santa Fe
Michael Smith, who has a gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, was asking $18,500 for this large (74" x 46") circa 1920 Navajo weaving of a Hopi kachina. Smith said he'd met "a lot of people." By the day after the opening, he'd sold "a nice painting," but "business ... (Read More)
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