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(Auction)American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture
Guy Rose (1867-1925) signed Martin's Point, Carmel on the lower right. The 24" x 29" oil on canvas sold to a collector on the phone for $890,500 (est. $350,000/ 500,000), showing the strength of the market for the California Impressionist painter's works.The 61/2" x 53/4" gouache and tempera on paperboard, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Small Bierstadt Brings Big Bucks
The auction started off on a great note. Specifically, it was a rare five-dollar national currency note from the Great Falls National Bank, 1882 series. It opened at a mere $800 and finished for $8337.50. Moisan photo.Oil on paper laid down on canvas of a Rocky Mountain aspen grove by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)National Book Auctions to Offer Cash Advance to New Consignors
National Book Auctions in Ithaca, New York, is offering a cash advance program, allowing new consignors to secure funds on their collection of books, ephemera, artwork, or stamps in advance of a live auction. This new program is available on any qualified consignment and gives new consignors security for their ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Revolutionary War-Era Map of Connecticut Sells for $168,000
The map by Bernard Romans includes Connecticut, Long Island, Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Hudson River valley up through Ulster County. Photo courtesy Swann. by Jeanne SchintoA Revolutionary War-era map of "Connecticut and parts adjacent" by Dutch-born Bernard Romans sold for $168,000 at Swann Galleries in New York City on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bless the Brooklyn Museum
A handmade cream Valenciennes bobbin lace shawl, mid-19th century, with scalloped edges, 44" x 110", in excellent condition and from the Brooklyn Museum, went to the Internet against the room and phones at $3900 (est. $600/800).Three designer-label cocktail dresses from 1955-66 sold to the room at a bargain price of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Poetry in Potion: The Monroe Antique Show and Sale
Eric Swanson has booth space at Pacific Galleries Antique Mall in Seattle, Washington, and does shows. This carved chicken flew the coop quickly for the reasonable price of $65. Swanson did not have much information about the piece but did note that the wings were applied separately and that it ... (Read More)
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(Show)AD20/21 and Boston Print Fair
Lella and Massimo Vignelli with Boston Architectural College president Theodore C. Landsmark (on right). The Vignellis, who established Vignelli Associates in 1971 and Vignelli Designs in 1978, received this year's AD20/21 Lifetime Achievement Award for work that includes corporate identity programs, interiors, furniture, decorative arts, and graphics, perhaps most famously, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Spring Show NYC
An English burr mulberry and brass-inlaid sofa table, 1800-25, was in the center of half of New York City dealer Carlton Hobbs's stand. "It was meant to be placed before a sofa; the ladies chiefly occupied them to write, draw, or read upon," said Hobbs. "They were suitable for a ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Risky Business
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittBack in January, I heard from fellow columnist David Hewett. He had written an article about the losses consignors had suffered from a firearms auction conducted by J.C. Devine, Inc. The founder and leader of the company, Joseph C. Devine, had passed away just 11 ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)CSA: Community Supported Antiques
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWhat do Grant Wood, the Midwest Antiques Forum, our summer garden produce, and your local house museum have in common? Regionalism!Regionalism, a sense of regional identity and a concern for a local way of life that's being replaced by strip malls and restaurant ... (Read More)
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