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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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(Feature)Mr. and Mrs. William G. and Mary E. Yorke: Painters of Ship Portraits
From Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, "A Cruise in the Erie Basin," December 1892. Entitled "The Marine Studio," this actually shows the Yorkes' studio and home. The illustrator is not identified.Above, the sloop Defyer, oil on canvas, 201/2" x 24", unsigned, $10,665; below, the sloop Albatross (in moonlight), oil on canvas, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)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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(Show)Opening Gun Sounds at Fort Andross
Appraiser Daniel Buck of Lisbon, Maine, showed a variety of upscale paintings, including this oil on canvas by Eric Sloane (1905-1985), Spring House, in the original Sloane frame, signed front and back, for $11,500.Jim Montell of Gardiner, Maine, had two matching seaweed mocha mugs with brown center backgrounds and blue ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Collectors Dominate African-American Fine Art Auction
The top lot by Romare Bearden (1911-1988), the circa 1973 Tidings, a 17" x 16" collage of various papers and mixed media mounted on masonite, sold for $96,000, nearly twice the high estimate. Be on the lookout for a Bearden retrospective, opening in September at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, ... (Read More)
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