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(Auction)Church Painting Brings $353,000
The star lot of the sale, Frederic Edwin Church’s View of Baalbek, circa 1868, sold on the phone to the Detroit Institute of Arts for $353,000. The 9½" x 20" oil and pencil on heavy card had an estimate of $80,000/120,000. The painting had descended in the family of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The New York Sale
The “most emblematic of New York’s emblems” is how the auctioneer described Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s La Liberté éclairant le monde or Statue of Liberty. This parcel-gilt bronze with a dark green patina, 112 5/8" high, was cast in 2010 as part of an edition of 12 from the plaster in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Midweek Antiques Show Confirms Opening Hours
Barn Star Productions’ 22nd Midweek Antiques Show, now held in Concord, New Hampshire, during Antiques Week in New Hampshire, is adjusting the opening hour for the August 4 and 5 show.
“Last year we moved our Midweek Show to Tuesday following the Americana Celebration Antiques Show, launching Antiques Week with two ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Wes and Shelley Cowan's Stereoviews
View of the 1882 lynching of Francisco Tafoya, also known as Navajo Frank, the photo by F. E. Evans of East Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory, imprinted description on reverse, minor spotting to mount, and very faint discoloration from the top edge, $2640. The text noted: “Francisco Tafoya / A Navajo ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Rediscovery: Henry Grant Plumb, Master of Arts and Letters
Henry Grant Plumb self-portrait, circa 1910.
Henry Grant Plumb to his family, Paris, May 11, 1875. The vignette on the first page shows the artist and a friend sketching in the Bois de Boulogne.
Untitled, watercolor on paper, circa 1874, 14" x 10".
Lake Champlain from Basin Harbor, 1910-20, oil on artist’s board, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Canadian Auction House Busted for Selling 1970s Ivory
A scientific first has led to an auction house and its director pleading guilty to offering prohibited ivory for sale in Canada.
On February 27, Five Star Auctions and Appraisals of Toronto and its director, Chun Al Jin, pleaded guilty to charges under the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Neon Sign Brings $143,750
Sold for $143,750. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions.
An original porcelain neon factory-rotating Mobil Pegasus in working condition brought $83,375. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions.
More than 400 vintage collectible signs from the Vernon Walker collection were offered for sale by Mecum Auctions on March 28 and 29 in West Memphis, Arkansas. The collection, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Pier Antique Show
You know what they say about the early bird. Folks were lined up before the 10 a.m. opening, some with empty shopping carts.
This campaign desk made by Kittinger Furniture Co., Buffalo, New York, was available from Harris Art and Mid-Century Antiques, Natick, Massachusetts. It was tagged $2850, and it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old New England Prizes
An 18th-century New England desk-on-frame in maple with tiger maple and chestnut secondary wood, 35½" x 32" x 16", sold on the phone for $7080 (est. $2000/3000). It had been passed down through the Solomon Lincoln family, early settlers of Hingham, Massachusetts, and distant relatives of Abraham Lincoln.
The early 19th-century ... (Read More)
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(Show)AD20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries
Left to right: Tony Fusco, coproducer of AD20/21 and Boston Design Week, is pictured with Robert Campbell, recipient of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award, Ted Landsmark of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and Julie Burros, chief of arts and culture for the city of Boston.
As show managers, Tony Fusco and Bob ... (Read More)
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