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(Auction)Keno Auctions Fall Sale
Yun Gee (Chinese-American, 1906-1963) signed this Double Self Portrait, an 11" x 16½" oil on cardboard, in Chinese script lower left and dated it “12/8/26,” signed “DO/BO/WE” in the middle right, and also signed it on the back in Chinese script and English “Self Portrait/ $40.” It sold for $42,500. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Barn Star Revives Wilton Show
The Wilton Historical Society and Frank Gaglio’s Barn Star Productions will produce a new one-day show, the Wilton Fall Antiques Market, on Sunday, October 27, at the Wilton High School Field House in Wilton, Connecticut.
Show manager Marilyn Gould produced Wilton shows for years. Gaglio said in a press release, “I ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner Sells Folk & Decorative Arts on Event-Packed Last Sunday in October
Jack O’Brien, on a telephone with Leigh Keno, took the mahogany Chippendale card table with a drawer and square-blocked ends, carved knees, and ball-and-claw feet for $57,000. Keno told us, “I believe it relates to a large group of classic Boston pieces made from the 1730’s to 1750’s. Boston makers ... (Read More)
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(Show)Wilton Antiques Show Revived
Red Griffin Antiques, Georgetown, Connecticut, asked $13,500 for this ship portrait of Ida by Albert Szatmar Nemethy (1920-1998). A side-wheeler used by the Confederate Navy from 1862 to 1864, she was captured by the North and burned on December 10, 1864.
This circa 1940 sign for “Grinders / 2 Lbs. Average ... (Read More)
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()Fabergé Figure Found in Attic
A hardstone figure of a Cossack bodyguard, found in an attic in Rhinebeck, New York, has turned out to be a long-lost Fabergé portrait figure commission by Czar Nicholas II in 1912. When Colin Stair sells it at his auction gallery in Hudson, New York, on October 26, he could ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stair Sells Fabergé Figure for $5,980,000
When the executor of an estate handed to auctioneer Colin Stair of Hudson, New York, a hardstone figure of a bearded man, Stair instinctively knew that he might be holding his first million-dollar lot. The 7" tall figure was soon identified by markings on its feet as the work of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two-Day Sale Brings in $781,776
A phone bidder picked up this Connecticut cherry oxbow chest of drawers with blocked ends, attributed to the Chapin school of cabinetmakers in Hartford County, for $27,600. It has a rectangular top with molded edge, a blocked oxbow front, four long graduated drawers, and ogee blocked feet. The brasses were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Champagne, Small Talk, and Illustration Art
Jennifer Jones had gone by Phyllis Isley when she appeared with John Wayne in 1939 in a Western at Republic Studio on Hollywood’s poverty row and also in the serial Dick Tracy’s G-Men. Later she was discovered by David O. Selznick and obtained the lead role of Saint Bernadette of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rago's 20th/21st-Century Design Auction
This untitled watercolor by Sadie Irvine (1887-1970), with original frame, was done in New Orleans during the 1920’s. Done on a drawing tablet and signed “S.A.E. Irvine,” the 19" x 13" painting sold for $10,000 (est. $2750/3250) to a collector on the phone, underbid on line and on another phone.
Sara ... (Read More)
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(Show)The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show 2013
This Imperial Russian porcelain and gilt bronze centerpiece jardinière with an underglaze blue cipher mark for the reign of Emperor Nicholas I, 1825-55, was a highlight of European Decorative Arts Company’s booth. The upper four jardinières depict allegories of the arts and humanities, after paintings by 18th-century Dutch artist Jacob ... (Read More)
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