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GLM Acquires the Pier Antiques Show and Antiques at the Armory
by M.A.D. staff

A widely circulated rumor was confirmed on May 20 when show producer GLM announced it had acquired the Pier Antiques Show and Antiques at the Armory from Stella Show Management Company. The Pier Antiques Show, one of New York City's largest, is held semiannually in March and November at Pier 94 ... (Read More)

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The 1%'s 18%
by Clayton Pennington

Editorial The superrich really are different, if numbers released by the Singapore-based firm Wealth-X are to be believed. A report released on June 5 claims that the world's top ten billionaire art collectors have an average of 18% of their net worth tied up in their art collections. The number one collector ... (Read More)

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Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George
by David Hewett

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Saline Antiques Market to Fill Ann Arbor Gaps
by M.A.D. staff

The new Saline Antiques Market will be held June 15-16, July 20-21, August 17-18, September 14-15, November 17, and December 8 at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Ann Arbor, Michigan.According to a press release, when the promoters of the Ann Arbor Antiques Market chose to refocus their efforts to ... (Read More)

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Coping with an Antiques Paradigm Shift
by Pete Prunkl

Landschaft mit Vulkan (Landscape with Volcano), 301/4" x 281/2", by Franz Sedlacek (Austrian, 1891-1945) sold for $188,800. It was the sale's top-dollar painting. In 1927, the year he painted Landschaft, Sedlacek joined the Viennese Secession, a group generally opposed to academic art. He also worked in the New Objectivity ... (Read More)

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Twentieth-Century Decorative Arts
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Sable Antelope from the "Canopic Jar" series by William Morris (b. 1957) is hand-blown glass. The neck interior is inscribed "William Morris 1995." The overall height is 48" and the diameter is 12". It sold for $290,500 together with a copy of the original 1995 invoice from the artist's studio. ... (Read More)

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Antiques in the Valley
by Lita Solis-Cohen

There were a dozen stoneware pitchers with cobalt decoration for sale at various booths. Ruth Rogers asked $3095 for the stoneware pitcher; the redware plate with a dragon design was $1490. Raccoon Creek Antiques at Oley Forge, Oley, Pennsylvania, asked $6800 for this Pennsylvania floral hooked rug in red, green, white, ... (Read More)

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Tiffany Studios, Decorative Arts, and Design
by Lita Solis-Cohen

The indoor flock of sheep by Francois-Xavier Lalanne, Moutons de Laine, was designed in 1965 and executed in 1975 of wool, wood, and aluminum. Ex-Andy Williams collection, it sold on the phone for $987,750 (est. $500,000/700,000). This flock of sheep by Francois-Xavier Lalanne can reside outside. Ex-Andy Williams collection, Nouveaux Moutons ... (Read More)

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Sotheby's 20th-Century Design
by Lita Solis-Cohen

This circa 1905 Tiffany Studios Poppy table lamp, leaded glass and patinated bronze, sold in the salesroom to McClelland + Rachen, New York City, for $209,000 (est. $80,000/120,000). The 201/2" diameter shade is impressed "TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1531-17." The base is impressed "TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/366" and is ... (Read More)

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Twentieth-Century Design
by Lita Solis-Cohen

This is the Cappello del Doge vase by Thomas Stearns, 1961-62. It is hand-blown opaque and transparent glass, 53/4" high, produced at Venini in Murano, Italy. The underside is acid-etched with "venini/ murano/ ITALIA," and it sold for $60,000 (est. $16,000/18,000). According to catalog notes, during his apprenticeship and subsequent ... (Read More)
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