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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Treasures Great and Small: Portsmouth Furniture and a Dwarf Clock
A rare Federal flame birch and mahogany veneer reverse-serpentine chest of drawers, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1805-15, sold to Bill Samaha for $314,000 (est. $20,000/30,000). The 381/4" x 393/4" x 20" bureau has old refinish. Its escutcheons are ivory-inlaid; its original brasses are signed "HJ." Bidding opened tepidly at $20,000, then ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Twentieth Century at Bonhams
A Paavo Tynell brass snowflake chandelier, manufactured by Taito Oy, Finland, 1950's, impressed "Taito Oy" and numbered, 40" high x 25" diameter, sold for $36,600 (est. $10,000/15,000).Bonhams, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy BonhamsThe various-owners 20th-century design sale at Bonhams on the afternoon of December 14, 2010, was a potpourri ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Vintage Radios at Bonhams
An Air King 52, 1933, in a red Catalin case with red on black knobs and a map of the world dial, 113/4" high x 83/4" wide x 63/4" deep, sold in the salesroom with competition in the room and on a phone for $42,700 (est. $25,000/30,000).Bonhams, New York Cityby ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Orleans Auction Galleries Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
by David HewettOn April 1, in what was not an April Fools' Day prank, New Orleans Auction Galleries, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (reorganization) in the United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Louisiana. The firm was deadly serious when it revealed that it had assets of between $100,000 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kentucky Group Shop Owner Closes Rather Than Name Exhibitors
by David HewettOn February 13, Ray Gough closed his group shop, Charlie's Antique Mall. It was the biggest group shop in Hazel, Kentucky, with 100 booths and over 25,000 square feet of display area. He hired two men to cover the storefront with black-painted plywood.He didn't do it because business ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood Holiday Sale 2010
Rookwood Vellum glaze scenic plaque by E.T. Hurley, showing a lake with mountains and trees, 1942, 111/2" x 81/2" plus frame, no crazing, a few unobtrusive burst glaze bubbles, factory chip to a rear edge, $12,075.The top lot of the sale was a Rookwood Black Iris glaze vase by Kitaro ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Museums in 2010
by Daniel GrantIf 2008 and 2009 were years filled with anxiety and cutbacks (of staff, salaries, hours, programming) within the museum field, then 2010 was a year in which institutions worried about some gaping holes in the tax code. The lack of an estate tax in 2010 and the repeal ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Court of Appeals Affirms Decision in Gauguin Painting Case
by Betty FloodIn a unanimous decision the New York State Court of Appeals sent the case of Mandarin Trading Ltd. v. Guy Wildenstein, et al. back to the Appellate Division, where it should be affirmed.The case was brought by Mandarin Trading Ltd. against New York City art dealer Guy Wildenstein ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Blackie and Bulfinch
A beat-up but very salvageable painting of the ship John Harvey sold for $5500.Another oil painting representing the John Harvey, this one on a small document box with one of Captain H.H. Lovell's letters home shellacked to the inside of the lid, sold for $539.The signed Bernard Langlais wooden sheep ... (Read More)
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