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(Auction)Classic Chinese Furniture and a Sleeper Self-Portrait
A 20" x 16" oil on canvas self-portrait of Augustus John (1878-1961) sold for $44,250 (est. $2000/3000). The sleeper of the sale, it bore a gallery label from Arthur Tooth & Sons of London and is going back to London, said Michael B. Grogan.A 58" long 19th-century Chinese nine-dragon embroidered ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: Taking Notes
Note taking software displayed in front of the Web page it has just clipped and saved.Computer Column #279by John P. Reid, [email protected] on this column begins each month with a flurry of note organizing. A folder for the new subject is set up in the Web browser "Favorites" or "Bookmarks." ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
This scroll-back armchair, made in 1807 for William Bayard's brick residence at 6 State Street at the tip of Manhattan, is among the earliest documented Phyfe furniture in the Neoclassical idiom. It was among the 12 chairs purchased by Henry Francis du Pont in 1929 along with their original bill. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Main Line Antiques Show
Perry-Joyce Fine Arts, Sawyer, Michigan, offered mostly 19th-century British needlework pictures, paintings, ceramics, papier-mache, and metalwares, including furniture with needlework upholstery priced from $125 to $4000.Wesley Sessa, Heller Washam Antiques, and Dixon-Hall Fine Art together furnished a large stand that resembled a Main Line Philadelphia living room. The circa 1775 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chippendale Corner Chair Tops Auction
This Chippendale mahogany corner chair has a tooled Portuguese leather slip seat, well-formed ball-and-claw feet, pierce carved splats, and turned baluster posts. It sold for $34,500.This 10" x 14" oil on board by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait of a mother quail and her brood sold for $13,800.Devin Moisan, Dover, New Hampshireby ... (Read More)
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(Feature)"Chinese Is Hot!"
This Japanese scroll print showing lobsters and crabs in semiabstract style, possibly by an artist named Qi who may have passed away around 1990, according to the underbidder, sold for $13,225 (est. $100/200). Cobbs photo.First edition of A Book of Cats by Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita, signed copy #59 of 500, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, [email protected] a couple of new year sales feature in this month's reports, but 2012 sales should have gained more momentum by the time my next copy deadline comes around. Thankfully, I still had plenty left on my files from the old year, and this month's selection includes ... (Read More)
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(Show)Dealers' Eyes Were Shining at the Monroe Antique Show and Sale
A steam and sailing ship diorama featuring the City of Rome was offered by Kathy and Paul Johnson of Seattle Folk Antiques, Seattle, Washington. The actual City of Rome was built in England, launched at Barrow on June 14, 1881, and sailed her first voyage from Liverpool on October 13 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Who's Who Sale Is a Masterful Success
A signed late 19th-century carved and painted life-size Cuban tobacconist figure sold for $36,800. She was mounted on an original stenciled and iron-wheeled base.William Hawkins (1895-1990) created this very large (541/2" x 48") enamel on plywood Northeast View from the State House Grounds, signed and dated 1983. Bidding started in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)At the Louisiana Purchase Auction Exotic Lots Fly Like Tropical Birds
This view of a lonely cabin at Manchac, across Lake Ponchartrain from New Orleans, was attributed to Marshall Joseph Smith Jr. (1854-1923) and had descended in the family of artist William Henry Buck. Both men had been students of landscape painter Richard Clague Jr. The work brought $79,950.Southern collectors seek ... (Read More)
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