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(Auction)19th-Century American and Western Art
Christie’s, New York City
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Christie’s January 23 afternoon sale of 19th-century American and Western art sale offered 123 lots. The auction totaled $12,472,442 (including buyers’ premiums) and had an 85% sell-through rate. It followed the morning auction, “American Sublime: Property from an Important Private Collection.” With the two sales ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New England Art Paces Sale by PLD Auctions
PLD Auctions, Mechanic Falls, Maine
PLD Auctions, Inc., was formed years ago from the demise of the Cyr Auction Company. Three of the former Cyr employees, Pamela LaBonte, Louis Black, and David Kimball, picked up the pieces and formed their own auction company, combining their first initials as the new company ... (Read More)
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(Auction)“American Sublime”: A Private Collection at Christie’s
Christie’s, New York City
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Twelve Christie’s specialists were on the phones taking bids for “American Sublime: Property from an Important Private Collection” on the morning of Thursday, January 23. The 43-lot sale, consigned by an anonymous collector with whom some of the American art dealers sitting in the saleroom ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Olde Hope’s Party before The Winter Show
New York City
For the last five years, Patrick Bell and Edwin Hild of Olde Hope have hosted a cocktail party at their New York City gallery at 115 East 72nd Street on the Wednesday of Americana Week. This year it fell on January 22. New Yorkers and collectors in town ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Winter Antiques and Art Auction
Meander Auctions, Whipple, Ohio
Photos courtesy Meander Auctions
Paintings by Ohio artist Clyde Singer (1908-1999) brought the two highest prices during the winter antiques and art sale held by Meander Auctions in Whipple, Ohio, January 18. Also topping the charts were a political-based ambrotype from the mid-19th century, appropriate two months after ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Recovered Tiffany Window Returned to Museum
The Worcester Art Museum, through the work of the Art Loss Register (ALR), has secured the return of a Tiffany Studios stained-glass window to the museum in Worcester, Massachusetts.
In 1975 the Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Boston, Massachusetts, presented the Worcester Art Museum with a gift consisting of two sets ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale at Pook & Pook
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
Pook & Pook’s January 16 and 17 sale with nearly 1000 lots avoided going head to head with Americana Week in the Big Apple. The sale was posted before Christmas, and printed catalogs, now a rarity, were mailed and available ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Story Time
Beneath the Surface
Our children have reached the age where they find us “cringe.” (That is what they call “embarrassing” these days. A key way to be cringe is to use their slang against them. You get bonus points if you do it on purpose, and you level up if you ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Online-Only Sale of the Estate of Craig Fisher
Davies Auctions, Brookston, Indiana
Photos courtesy Davies Auctions
Two-piece stepback cupboard in cherry with original red paint, Indiana, circa 1850, 86" high x 53½" wide, $32,200 (est. $4000/8000). The cupboard had sold at auction in 2002 for $40,000.
A two-piece stepback cupboard in cherry with old red paint sold for $32,200 (includes buyer’s ... (Read More)
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(Show)“Preserving the Future of Our Past”
Washington Winter Show, Washington, D.C.
The 70th edition of the Washington Winter Show was held January 9-12 at the Katzen Arts Center on the campus of American University in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1954 as the Washington Antiques Show and in the ensuing years having been held at several locations in ... (Read More)
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