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(Auction)California and Western Paintings
Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Californiaby Alice KaufmanPhotos courtesy Bonhams & ButterfieldsScot Levitt, Bonhams & Butterfields California and Western paintings specialist, said that his August 17 and 18 auction "continued the trend of the last few sales. We sold about eighty percent, including post-auction sales, both by ... (Read More)
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(Show)Folk Fest Meets Expectations
Offered by Le Primitif Galleries, this untitled piece portrays women at market. By Haitian artist Claude Dambreville, it was $600.The floatplane and canoe combination is typical of the early work of Canadian artist Scott Griffin of Minivan Gallery andwas $900. Griffin creates the images by placing welding material on found ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Mobile Apps and On-Line Databases
A cell phone accessing auction data. Courtesy Christie's Images.Computer Column #263by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] topics will be covered: mobile applications for antiquers and on-line databases.But first, a correction. In column 260, "Antiquing Around the World-On Line," we wondered whether Becca Gauldie Antiques (www.beccagauldie.com) is actually in Scotland. Gauldie ... (Read More)
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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.First Impressions: Nineteenth-Century American Master Prints by Alicia G. Longwell (Parrish ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Kaufman IV Toy Auction Ups the Score at $1.6 Million
A tour de force, this American National deluxe coupe, circa 1925, 69" long, sold for $46,000. Madaline Friz photo.The top lot in the Disney segment was not a windup or a doll but a 1934 Mickey Mouse merchandise catalog-Disney's first. Contained in the 9" x 12" catalog were all the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art and Antiques Insurance--Know What Is and Is Not Covered
by David HewettIn one of our previous stories about the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries collapse and the subsequent arrest and jailing of its owner (May 2010, p. 33-A), it was noted that the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) filed suit in a U.S. District Court in Maryland against AXA Art Insurance Corporation, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Berks County, Pennsylvania, Schrank Sells for $818,500
by Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Pook & Pook.A colorful Berks County sponge-painted schrank in a small, desirable size (81" high x 60" wide) and in exceptionally good condition sold for $818,500 (includes buyer's premium) at Pook & Pook's auction of the collection of Richard and Joane Smith on October 30 in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Some Pig: "Charlotte's Web" Cover Art Brings $155,350
The original 1952 cover art for the best-selling children's book Charlotte's Web by E.B. White brought $155,350 (includes buyer's premium) on October 15 at Heritage Auction Galleries' illustration art sale in New York City.The auction was Heritage's second-highest-grossing auction of illustration art since the inception of the category, tallying $3.75 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Copley and Keno in January
by Jeanne SchintoLeigh Keno is part of a new matched pair. He and Stephen B. O'Brien Jr. of Boston's Copley Fine Art Auctions are having back-to-back sales in New York City in mid-January 2011. A jointly issued press release stated their intent was to "to kick off Americana Week."The back ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Langlais, Brooks, Yes! Thieme, No.
If ever there was a wooden cat sculpture that screamed "Bernard Langlais," this is it, but Gamage sold it as "attributed to" because he didn't acquire it directly from the artist's estate. It sold for $990. "It wasn't in the house, and we couldn't find it signed," Gamage said. "But ... (Read More)
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