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Queen Anne and Cape Ann Lead Anniversary Sale
by Jeanne Schinto

Blackwood/March Auctioneers & Appraisers, Essex, MassachusettsThe sale’s top lot (and the best ever for the auction house) was this circa 1730 Boston Queen Anne easy chair that sold to Luke Beckerdite for $127,650. March offered it as lot 29, chosen to coincide with his 29th year in business. Blackwood/March photo. ... (Read More)

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Exhibition of Babar Original Illustrations and Manuscripts
by Rose Safran

by Rose SafranDrawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors is the first exhibition of the Morgan Library & Museum's Babar collection, acquired in 2004. The series of images is sure to interest the many generations of adults who as children enjoyed the iconic fictional orphaned French elephant in a green suit, ... (Read More)

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Biggs Museum of American Art Buys Delaware Clock
by Lita Solis-Cohen

by Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Weschler's.A tall clock in a walnut case with a silvered brass dial signed "Jas. Kinkead, Christiana Bridge," circa 1780, sold at Weschler's in Washington, D.C., on October 11 for $61,000 (includes buyer's premium). The buyer was the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, Delaware."The clock ... (Read More)

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Obama Progress Poster Brings $4800
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On Wednesday, November 5, one day after Barack Obama's historic election, a signed, dated, and numbered political poster by Shepard Fairey depicting Obama above the word "Progress" sold for $4800 (includes buyer's premium) during the $1.2 million sale of fine art prints in San Francisco and Los Angeles by Bonhams ... (Read More)
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