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(Feature)Editorial: Pay Up or Put It Back
EditorialPay Up or Put It BackHow much has a political firestorm driven up the cost of artwork in the middle of a controversy? The answer might soon be found in Maine.There's been heated debate following Governor Paul LePage's decision to remove a 36' mural from the walls of the Department ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Design Auction
This monumental desk, 38 1/8" x 961/2" x 431/4", of oak, leather, and chromium-plated metal was designed by Jacques Adnet in the 1930's. It sold for $80,500 (est. $40,000/60,000).Enthusiastic buyers seem to vie for Tiffany at every level. This pair of circa 1910 geometric and turtleback tile wall sconces of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Phone Bidders Are Heavy Hitters at Native American Art Auction
The catalog cover lot, "an exceptional" 12" high Hopi polychrome jar attributed to Nampeyo, estimated at $60,000/90,000, sold over the phone for $350,000, "a new auction record for a Pueblo pottery vessel," Jim Haas told M.A.D. This price beats the previous record, also held by Bonhams, $337,250 for an Acoma ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Evans Sale Offers Something for Every Collector
This room-size (12' x 15'10") Persian carpet emerged as the high lot of the Evans sale. The carpet dates from the first half of the 20th century and displays a light blue field with a stylized floral and vine design. It shows moderate to heavy wear in several areas and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Gallery and Transformative Artist Lose in Copyright Violation Case
by Daniel GrantIn a sweeping decision, a U.S. District Court judge in New York City ruled on March 18 that appropriation artist Richard Prince had violated the copyright of French photographer Patrick Cariou when he produced his own collage paintings incorporating Cariou's images of Jamaican Rastafarians.The Gagosian Gallery in New ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New York Tackles Deaccessioning Criteria
by Sabrina Pry and Betty FloodNew deaccessioning criteria for regents-chartered museums and historical societies are being discussed by a New York State Board of Regents ad-hoc advisory committee on deaccessioning."These criteria are for all of the museums that are under the board of regents chartering. That does not include the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Herington Jug Excels in Specialty Ceramics Auction
The historic Gorsuch Barn is the location of the new Crocker Farm gallery auction facility. Located in Sparks, Maryland, it is roughly 30 miles south of the York Fairgrounds, where they had previously held sales. Sparks is in Baltimore County and nearly 20 miles north of the city. Pass photo.This ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Mysterious East, Middle East, and Eurasia
A copy of Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov's Russian-language catalog of the medieval Byzantine enamels collected by wealthy St. Petersburg collector Alexander Zvenigorodski sold on the phone for $83,375. It is going to Russia, Michael Grogan said. Schinto photos.Jeune Femme en Profile by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) sold on the phone for $54,625 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bonhams Americana and English Sale
This French memorial clock by Jean-Baptiste Dubuc commemorating George Washington was made for the American market. It is signed "Dubuc/ Rue Michel-le-Comte No. 33/ A Paris," and the mainspring is dated 1815. The plinth with drapery swag was cast with a eulogy: "The First in War, First in Peace/ And ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Chester County Antiques Show
This Long Island dressing table is similar to one illustrated in Dean Failey's Long Island Is My Nation. It has similar pointed shoe feet, shell-carved knees on cabriole legs, notched corners on its top, and figured wood used for the drawer fronts. It was $19,500 from Jamie Price, and it ... (Read More)
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