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(Show)Ceramics Fair 2010
Sylvia Powell of London, England asked around $80,000 for this Picasso vase made in Vallauris, circa 1956.These very special Staffordshire dogs, incredibly rare, were $3500 from Elinor Penna. “No one had seen this model before,” Penna said, adding she did OK at the show but since has made three sales. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Something-for-Everyone Sale at New Hillsborough Venue
First among the sale’s 750-plus lots at $31,050 was this 21¾" bronze figure of dancer Loie Fuller by Agathon Léonard. Second was a slightly smaller Loie figure at $29,900.Leland Little Auction and Estate Sales Ltd., Hillsborough, North Carolinaby Pete PrunklPhotos courtesy Leland LittleAsian art dealers from mainland China are a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Partner and Consultant for Hermann Historica
Hermann Historica, auctioneer for arms, armor, and militaria based in Munich, Germany, has formed an alliance with Bloomsbury Auctions and Dreweatts.Hermann Historica will establish a permanent presence in Bloomsbury's Maddox Street (Mayfair, London) premises as well as a representative office presence in New York City and Rome. Dreweatts will establish ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale in Lancaster County
From the Hershey Museum, this Pennsylvania paint-decorated chest, dated “1808” and inscribed “Sarah Wengert,” was likely from either Lebanon or Dauphin County. It had triple tombstone panels on front and rested on bracket feet. The buyers were Marietta, Pennsylvania, dealers Harry Hartman and Oliver Overlander II, who paid $19,210 for ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The American Art Fair 2009
Hammer Galleries along with Galerie St. Etienne has represented the estate of Grandma Moses (1860-1961) since 1961. A Grandma Moses exhibition is at Galerie St. Etienne in New York City through April 3. The snow scene (top), We Will Celebrate, 16¾" x 21½", signed lower right, was $145,000. July (bottom), ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Pooks Pack the Place
Elinor Gordon hung this 25" x 30" N.C. Wyeth oil on canvas of his own farm, Home of N.C. Wyeth, over her fireplace. Initialed at lower left and shown at the N.C. Wyeth exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum in 1972, it sold for$70,200.Philadelphia mahogany tea table, circa 1765, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)California Police Selectively Enforcing "Secondhand Dealers" Licensing Law
by David HewettThere's been another arrest in California of a buyer accused of violating the section of the state's "Business and Professions Code" dealing with licensing buyers and sellers of "secondhand" property.We reported in our January 2009 issue (page 11-A) about the arrest of book and ephemera collector Richard Hopp ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Heads to the Big Apple
Heritage Auction Galleries will open new exhibition galleries in New York City in September. The ground-floor space located at 445 Park Avenue, between 56th and 57th Streets, has been leased for 11 years.Heritage does not plan to hold sales in the space, but the Big Apple does figure in the ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong
by Jeanne SchintoEverything You Know about Indians Is Wrongby Paul Chaat SmithUniversity of Minnesota Press, 2009, 193 pages, hardbound, $21.95 plus S/H from University of Minnesota Press, (www.upress.umn.edu) or (800) 621-2736.Anyone who has been dissatisfied, to say the least—or confused and annoyed, to say the most—by a visit to the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Stella Pier Show Starts New Year with a Bang and Some Bucks
“Don’t call them tractor seats,” said Leslie A. Segal of East Hampton, New York. “They’re cast-iron farm implement seats! They were used with horse-drawn rigs.” Gee, I was going to call them sculpture. The seats, clockwise from top, were $500, $250, $200, $300, $250, and $600. The starred one in ... (Read More)
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