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(Fragment)Metropolitan Museum Announces 6.28 Million Attendance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City announced on July 16 that 6.28 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, is the highest recorded since the Metropolitan Museum began tracking ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Jewelry Sales Reveal Surprises
Antique Jewelry and Gemology
Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers held a sale on June 10 in Toronto, Canada. Duncan Parker, vice president, specialist in jewelry, who is new in this role but not to the jewelry market, offered valuable information on the sale and the current market.
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers held a fine ... (Read More)
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(Show)California Country
Tom Baker of Soquel, California, the show's former producer and promoter, asked $265 for this circa 1930 double-sided painted roadside sign from Litchfield, Connecticut. Baker said he'd had so many sales, he "almost sold out."This unsigned folk art still life of grapes in a basket, reminiscent of the wine country, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The South Street Connection: Joseph Smith, John Hansen, Conrad Freitag, Elisha Baker, and Antonio Ja
Ship Wide Awake, built by Perine, Patterson & Stack, colored lithograph, by Nagel and Weingartner, artist J. Hansen, on stone by Charles Parsons, circa 1863. Photo courtesy The Old Print Shop.
Pilot boat Centennial 7, oil on canvas, by Elisha Taylor Baker. Photo courtesy Christie's.
Pilot boat Washington 22, oil on canvas, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair
Because the Mart houses designer showrooms, three booths showcased in-house talent. This is the "Designing with Antiques" space of Ramsey Jay Prince Designs.This vignette booth highlights the work of designer M. Grace Sielaff.Designer Summer Thornton used classic antiques in her vignette.Zachary Skarda of Skarda Gallery, Grafton, Wisconsin, brought an array ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Four Collections in Two Days at Pook & Pook
A full page in the catalog was dedicated to this Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) oil on canvas, White Lilies, done in 1964. The 15½" x 14½" painting sold for $35,550 (est. $15,000/25,000). Selig collection.Four Continental miniature watercolor-on-ivory female portraits realized $504 (est. $200/300). Gohn collection.This New England Federal mahogany sofa, circa ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mixed Response to New Summer Date for Museums of Old York Antiques Show
by Rose SafranThe Old York Antiques Show in York, Maine, a small boutique show with a select group of dealers, was held this year on July 21 and 22 during the height of the southern Maine coast's popular summer tourist season.For four years, the show had been a September event, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Roger Tory Peterson Paintings, Drawings, and Photographs to Be Sold
Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996), whose field guides turned three generations of Americans into birdwatchers, painted the illustrations of birds, placing from six to 16 images on a page in a large (roughly 18" x 12") format that was then reduced to fit the pocket-size field guides.Two hundred of these paintings ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Protect Yourself
Kraken Investments is learning an expensive lesson. The firm, owned by Israeli art dealer Dr. Ronald Fuhrer, is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands with its principal place of business in Jersey, Channel Islands. It lost an appeal in court, and now a $9.5 million painting Kraken owns may be ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Matthew Saxton, Alstead, New Hampshire
Matthew Saxton.
Saxton's home just off a dirt road in Alstead, New Hampshire.
Saxton sells a lot of house parts and stores them in this outbuilding. Pre-1850 doors sell in the $25 to $190 range. Floorboards generally are in the range of $4 to $6 per square foot. "I also sell a ... (Read More)
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