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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: I Never Thought of This
by Steve ProffittAn interesting e-mail popped into my inbox from a M.A.D. reader who raised an issue I've never encountered. Unfortunately, the man didn't give me enough information to fully understand his complaint about an auction in which he had been a consignor. I e-mailed him back and requested additional ... (Read More)
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(Show)Signs of the Times at Rhinebeck
An all-wire motorcycle, replicating a Harley-Davidson from the 1930’s, was tagged $2650 by David Allan Ramsay of Cape Porpoise, Maine.Raccoon Creek at Oley Forge Antiques, Oley, Pennsylvania, showed an exceptional large rooster weathervane with a great surface for $26,000. The 1840’s Pennsylvania apothecary was $7200.A pair of 1940’s “block art” ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Matching Grant Will Help Museum Retire Mortgage
Dean Six, executive director of The Museum of American Glass in West Virginia, told attendees at the 19th annual Glass Gathering on October 23, 2009, that an anonymous donor has stepped forward with a matching donation offer. The goal of the current fund drive is $45,000, which, when matched, will ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Charlotte Show Changes Hands, Not Management
Lydia Sullivan, show director of the Greater Charlotte Antique & Collectible Show, has announced that she has purchased the rights to the show from The Art Fair Company, which acquired the show earlier in 2009 from dmg world media."We are building such a great show at the Cabarrus Arena," said ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Some Big Hits in the Big Easy
Charles Cage, silver specialist at NOAG, was enthusiastic about the silver lots that had done well, especially the George III sterling silver soup tureen, made in London 1777-78 by Robert Makepeace and Richard Carter, that sold for $21,600. As he put it, “Beautiful work on it—the crest and the arms, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: [email protected] of the collection of letters from Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson that sold for $455,466 at Sotheby's."The partridges are plentiful…& the girls on the manor just coming into season…" [Lord Byron]Time was when British Prime Ministers were expected to be serious bookmen-to be well read, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show
Pair of Sèvres biscuit models of lions supporting gilt white reticulated baskets, modeled by Jean-Charles- Nicholas Brachard l’ainé, after a drawing by Fragonard, 1818-20, part of an elaborate dessert service, $400,000 from Brian Haughton Gallery.Three-panel room divider by Paul Evans (1931-1987) of patterned welded steel panels with gold-leaf edges and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Betty Lacey Gordon Estate
La Meule (The Haystack) by Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, a 20" x 32" oil on canvas, sold for $48,875 (est. $15,000/20,000).Environs de Giverny by Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936), oil on canvas, 1921, sold via the Internet for $34,500 (est. $20,000/30,000). Butler was married to Blanche Hoschedé-Monet’s sister Suzanne.A Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) lithograph ... (Read More)
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