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(Auction)The Wolf Family Collection: “The Spirit of America”
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s called the collections that filled the sumptuous Fifth Avenue apartment in New York City of Erving Wolf (1926-2018) and his wife, Joyce “Joy” (1927-2022), “the most important collection of American paintings, sculpture, furniture, and design of this generation.” They offered the Wolfs’ collection April ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collection Proceeds Go to Local 4-H
Photos courtesy Iroquois Auctions
The mocha and spatterware collection of Carl and Janie Hinkle of Truxton, New York, was sold April 14 and 15 at Iroquois Auctions in West Monroe, New York. Carl (1935-2021) founded Atlantic Inland, a home inspection company, and Janie (1934-2015) was a schoolteacher.
A top price for mocha ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Splendor
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions
“Spring Splendor” it was. Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts, often gives its sales a name. The April 15 auction was a respite from winter in New England, and bidders showed up to bid—as did online and telephone buyers.
The auction began with paintings, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Palm Beach Dealer Pleads Guilty
Palm Beach, Florida, art dealer Daniel Elie Bouaziz pleaded guilty February 21 to laundering money derived from his scheme to sell counterfeit artwork.
Bouaziz is the owner of art galleries in south Florida, including Danieli Fine Art and Galerie Danieli. According to the agreed-upon factual proffer in support of Bouaziz’s guilty ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Family Circus
Beneath the Surface
Last year, Andrew was approached about the most effective way to disseminate an enormous collection. The answer was an auction. (Hollie keeps thinking of The Godfather Part III: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!”) This collection has, in many ways, illustrated much ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)National Gallery Buys a Dave Jar
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., has acquired an 1859 storage jar by David Drake that was deaccessioned by the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center (MMCC) in Madison, Georgia. The 21¾" high alkaline-glazed stoneware jug was donated to the MMCC in 1992.
Dave (c. 1801-1870s), later recorded as “David Drake,” was an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hap Moore Closes Business
In a February 14 email, York, Maine, auctioneer Hap Moore announced that he is closing his business. He is not retiring. “What I’m doing is stopping my business,” he said in a phone call. “When you’re in a business like antiques, and you are as dedicated to it as I ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Serendipity in Collecting
“Chance favors the prepared mind.” —Louis Pasteur, French chemist, microbiologist, and inventor.
Collectors sometimes find that it is the unplanned moment that rises in importance. I think of happenstance, a random event that happens by chance or coincidence. A wonderful word, happenstance, a combination of happen and circumstance, originated in America ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)All of Me: A Winfred Rembert Exhibition
Writers are taught to write about what they know. The same could be said for artists.
In the case of Winfred Rembert (1945-2021), his works of dye on carved and tooled leather, a skill he picked up while incarcerated during his youth, are filled with scenes of black life from Cuthbert, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Successful Spring Sales at Hilliard
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
There have been several significant changes at Hilliard & Co. since we last visited. Although none of the changes affects the firm’s business model or the way in which it conducts its auctions, Hilliard is heading in the right direction toward creating ... (Read More)
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