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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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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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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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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, 20½" x 24", unsigned, $10,665; below, the sloop Albatross (in moonlight), oil on canvas, ... (Read More)
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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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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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Fall SunriseLambertville, 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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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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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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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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