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(Fragment)Not Only Funny: Stinger Wins Award at NOVA Show
Fall Sunrise-Lambertville, oil on canvas, 12" x 16", painted from New Hope looking into Lambertville.John Stinger, impressionist landscape painter and cartoonist for Maine Antique Digest, recently won the Alan Fetterman Award for best oil painting at the NOVA Galaxy Art Show held in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.The Stewartsville, New Jersey, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Buyer Sues Over a Sale Made and a Sale Not Made
by Daniel GrantWith eight branch locations around the world, the Manhattan-based Gagosian Gallery sells a lot of art to a lot of people. A lawsuit filed by a British collector in U.S. District Court in New York City on March 10 takes issue with a sale that the gallery made ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ansel Adams Negatives Case Settled
by Daniel GrantIn an out-of-court settlement reached between the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust and Rick Norsigian, a California school maintenance worker, photographic prints made from a group of 65 negatives found by Norsigian at a garage sale may be sold but not with Ansel Adams's name, likeness, or trademark. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Choppy Waters? Not for Order Bidders at Ocean Liner Sale
Swann Auction Galleries, New York City by Richard de ThuinPhotos courtesy Swann An interior view captioned "Main Salon of the Ill Fated Titanic" (White Star Line) on a near-mint postcard published by Max Rigot, Chicago, 1912, doubled its high estimate to bring $960 from an order bidder. It was velvety ... (Read More)
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(Show)Outsider Art Fair: New Artists, Old Favorites, Lots of Fun
The oil painting Picking Cotton by Clementine Hunter (1886-1988) in the booth of Gilley's Gallery, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had paint-textured cotton balls that gave it a three-dimensional quality. It was $8000.Galerie Bonheur, St. Louis, Missouri, brought several paintings by Guatemalan artist Eric Guttelewitz (b. 1956), including this one, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Original York Show
Margaret Johnson Sutor of Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, always has an array of quality transferware, Gaudy Dutch, and canary yellow china, as shown here. The large ship painting by R.E. Nickerson was $4200. The small one at top left was $395, and below, $850.Hanes & Ruskin, Old Lyme, Connecticut, asked $1850 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Strong Jewelry Sales and a Gallery Opening at MFA
This 21/4" x 1 3/8" platinum and diamond brooch with 94 marquise-shaped and 48 baguette and tapered baguette diamonds weighing approximately 15.00 carats, approximately 20.3 dwt., sold for $17,500 (est. $5500/6500), making it the top lot at the February 22 auction at Doyle New York.A 31/4" x 2" antique gold, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art
The catalog cover lot, a painted hide shirt from the Great Lakes region and dating from the first half of the 18th century, was purchased for $362,500 for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Joe D. Horse Capture, associate curator of Native American art, in the salesroom.Christie's, New York Cityby ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Export Art at Auction
Found in an attic in Maine, a 24" x 361/2" Chinese school tea production scene from the first half of the 19th century, ink and colors on paper, sold for $116,500 (est. $20,000/30,000). Tobacco Leaf tureen and cover of lozenge form, enameled with tobacco leaves in Famille Rose colors, with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Superheroes Museum
Superman costume in the style worn by Kirk Alyn, light blue and brown, $2860. The outfit was among those Daniel E. Miller claimed he had loaned to the museum.Batmobile in the style used in Batman starring Michael Keaton, 1989, a replica built on a Corvette chassis with a 1985 Corvette ... (Read More)
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