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(Feature)High Quality, Slow Sales
A 90" square 1890 Blazing Star quilt from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, priced at $950, brought a burst of color to the booth of Axtell Antiques, Deposit, New York. This was the third year at the Litchfield show for Sandra L. Axtell and Richard S. Axtell, and they pulled out all ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Marriage Made in Heaven: Wine and Folk Art
The portrait used on the label of Ballet of Angels was also featured on the cover of A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster Jr. by Harlan Lane, published by Beacon Press in 2004. The book was the catalog for a museum show of the same ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Newest Lawsuit Raises Questions in the Bouguereau, Nuns, and Art Dealers Case
by David HewettRemember the story we carried in our April issue (p. 28-A) about the tale of the singing sisters in upstate New York who were left an oil painting that turned out to be a major rarity by French artist William Adolphe Bouguereau? The women invested $14,000 in restoration ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Ceramics Sale Marks Firm's 14th Auction
The sale’s first lot was this rare 6½" high stoneware flask with flattened sides and incised bird and floral decoration (est. $15,000/25,000). In mint condition and attributed to the Webster family of Hartford, Connecticut, it sold for $40,250 to Virginia dealer Marshall Goodman in the salesroom, underbid by a private ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
A very life-like terra-cotta bust of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, who had travelled from France to Mount Vernon to spend many days studying his subject, taking precise anatomical measurements and even preparing a life mask. It sold for $488,025 in a Sotheby's sale of July 9.Roughly 19" square, this ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)What's Blocking the Successful Sale of a Klimt Drawing
by David HewettWe noted in an August 2008 article ("Would-be Seller of Klimt Sues Would-be Buyer for $1.2 Million") that Maggie Wachter, the owner of a Gustav Klimt drawing, had filed a lawsuit against New York City's Quatrochi Art Agents and the moving and storage firm Day & Meyer, Murray ... (Read More)
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