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A daguerreian brooch encasing a 11/4" x 1" image of a child with a curl and a toy trumpet brought $1100. It was the top price of the vintage material in the sale.A 31/2" x 21/2" tintype of a Native American family with a White man, perhaps a scout, sold ... (Read More)
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Kathy Pakay and Ben Wilson.Wilson's and Pakay's shop at 529 Warren Street, Hudson, New York.An Adirondack desk chair in a nice dark old surface is $675.An early 19th-century Connecticut cupboard with raised panel doors in cream and yellow over red (this is the type of surface Ben Wilson loves) is ... (Read More)
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This 14" x 21" watercolor on paper by Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was $100,000 from Sunne Savage Gallery, Winchester, Massachusetts. It was out on approval a few days after the show. Titled Breaking Wave, it was accompanied by a letter of authentication by Homer scholar Abigail Gerdts. "People who want a ... (Read More)
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Rick Norton of Noblesville, Indiana, called his diverse display "Merch 1." A standout item at the center was this swan fountain for $6500-perfect for a New Orleans courtyard.Antiques & Beyond, Atlanta, Georgia, had set up a display designed to appeal to private and commercial decorators. They had already sold an ... (Read More)
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Julian Stanczak (b. 1928), Black Daisy, 1969, acrylic on canvas, 341/2" x 28", $44,250. See the story for more information about Stanczak.Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), Jitterbug, aluminum sculpture, 81/2" high, signed, edition of 150, very good condition, $3422.Aaron H. Gorson (1872-1933), Steel Mills on a River, signed "A.H. Gorson" lower right, ... (Read More)
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Relief carving of the goddess Minerva by Bozanico, inscribed on the reverse, Continental, under glass, 193/4" x 151/2", $58,750.The Birds of America: From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories by John James Audubon (1785-1851), seven-volume set, New York and Philadelphia, Roe Lockwood & Son, 1860, royal octavo, ... (Read More)
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Approaching the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, visitors immediately perceive the unity of art, architecture, and nature. At the center of the circle stands Yield, a 2011 sculpture of polished stainless steel by Roxy Paine (b. 1966). At its base grow native Arkansas blue stem grasses.The curving concrete walls ... (Read More)
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by Ian McKay, [email protected] emperor Qianlong is said to have been very taken with this form of Buddhist alms bowl when visiting a temple at Jiannan in 1758 (on one of his "Southern Grand Tours") and to have subsequently requested, or perhaps ordered, that examples of such bowls be carved ... (Read More)
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An important full-size standing redhead drake by A. Elmer Crowell (1862-1952) of East Harwich, Massachusetts, sold for $241,500 (est. $140,000/160,000) to a buyer in the South. "It's a beautiful piece of art," stated one collector. It had near-mint original paint and very fine detail and had Crowell's oval brand on ... (Read More)
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by Lita Solis-CohenStuart Feld of Hirschl & Adler Galleries imparted his passion for the furniture of Duncan Phyfe to his daughter, Elizabeth, and together they have put together a selling exhibition, The World of Duncan Phyfe, at their stunning new galleries on the fourth floor of the Crown Building at ... (Read More)
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