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(Feature)Korean Painting Tops American Primitive
Park Soo-Keun mixed media painting, $460,000.Oil on canvas portrait by J.B. Gregory, $46,000.Frank Shapleigh oil on canvas, $31,625.John Mcinnis Auctioneers, Ogunquit, Maineby Mark SiscoTwo paintings from polar opposites of the artistic spectrum provided the major sparks at John McInnis's two-day auction in Ogunquit, Maine, on July 16 and 17. One ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Antiques-a-Palooza
EditorialEight bucks will get you a ticket to the Warren County Antiques Fair & Festival on September 25 and 26 in Harmony, New Jersey. As show admission fees go, that's on the low side.Carole Deutsch, involved in managing the show, is making sure that visitors get their money's worth. She's ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Heritage Auctions Opens New York City Gallery
The new Manhattan gallery and offices of Heritage Auction Galleries opened at 445 Park Avenue (at 57th Street) on September 1."The New York City area is home to many of the top collectors and collections and the center of the art and antiques market," said Greg Rohan, president of Heritage. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Sour Note: Lawsuits Filed over Pricey Bows; (Update) Suit Dismissed
Update: Suit Dismissed
Zoran Stoyanovich's lawsuit against Brompton's Auctioneers of England was voluntarily dismissed on September 17 without prejudice.
On September 23, Brompton's released a press release concerning the case. It read "Brompton's Auctioneers is one of the leading auction houses worldwide that specializes exclusively in the field of fine musical ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale Exhibits Irregular Pulse
The auction’s top lot was the portrait of the ship Rappahannock, a 31½" x 42" unsigned oil on wood panel that sold for $35,550 (est. $2500/3500).This was the best seller among the dozens of vanes. The 19th-century flattened full-bodied molded copper ram with weathered gilt surface and its original horns ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Success in Trying Times: NHADA's 53rd Annual Show
The set is not signed, but Jeff Cherry of Cherry Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine, has had similar ones that were marked “Heywood-Wakefield.” Cherry said he loves the light, airy look of them. He asked a very reasonable $2800 for the set.Frank & Barbara Pollack American Antiques & Art, Sunapee, New Hampshire, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Tilden-Thurber and The Weiss Collection
Stanley Weiss plays his Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu violin, noting that Paganini preferred a Guarneri to a Stradivarius. He seems to be accompanied by the woman at the piano in the portrait by John Blunt. Weiss said he bought the painting at a Christie’s auction years ago.The fourth floor, like ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: Continuing to plough my way through the summer backlog, I have focused my attention this month on record-breaking English watercolours by Cozens, Towne, and others, as well as a further group by J.M.W. Turner. The latter is also represented by a Roman panorama in oils that ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Major Change of Hours for Brooklyn Museum
Beginning Wednesday, October 6, the Brooklyn Museum will be open to the public eight additional hours a week, including remaining open until 10 p.m. every Thursday and Friday. When the new schedule goes into effect, the Brooklyn Museum will have a greater number of evening hours than almost any other ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Footstool Hits $92,000
Devin Moisan Auctioneers, Inc., Dover, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoLockwood de Forest footstool, $92,000.From the de Forest estate came this collection of 12 parcel-gilt, hammered sterling, and mixed metal spoons by Tiffany, circa 1880. Each was individually executed and had applied figures of a monkey, a frog, a crab, a beetle, ... (Read More)
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