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(Auction)Grogan & Company Holds Sale in New Boston Gallery
The new Grogan & Company gallery on Charles Street, Boston.
Lucy Grogan is vice president and gallery director of Grogan & Company.
Michael B. Grogan is the president and chief auctioneer of Grogan & Company. His wife, Nancy H. Grogan, is the vice president of the company they began back in 1987—also ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings and Jewelry Rule in Columbia
Shortly after bidding opened at $7500, a phone bidder jumped the bid on Conrad Wise Chapman’s View of Monterey, 1865, to $30,000. At the end, auctioneer Ronald Long was asking for $5000 increments. A New York collector bidding on the phone bought the 8¼" x 32½" oil on canvas for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Quinn & Farmer Sale Led By a "Really Heavy Desk Thingy"
This Sculpture Front cabinet by Paul Evans (1931-1987) is signed and dated 1968. The cabinet is constructed of welded, torch-cut, and polychromed steel and brass, with a thick slate top. The piece has three doors with external hinges. The pair of doors on the proper left open to reveal two ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hooper Family High Chest Sells for $257,000
Photo courtesy Christie’s.
The Hooper family mahogany Chippendale chest of drawers, made in Massachusetts, 1770-90, from the estate of Eric Martin Wunsch, sold on the phone at a Christie’s “Exceptional Sale” at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City on December 11, 2014, for $257,000 (including the buyer’s premium). The chest was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Authorities Seek Buyer of Stolen Sign
Lt. Col. Bobby Webre of the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a Denham Springs, Louisiana, man wanted on charges of purchasing a stolen antique sign and refusing to return it to authorities.
On December 11, 2014, Chad Prejean was arrested for stealing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$1.37 Million Indian Arts Sale
Mother’s Blessing, a 22" high x 33" wide bronze by Allan Houser (1914-1994), sold to an Arizona collector for $35,000 (est. $20,000/30,000).
A Northwest Coast raven rattle, 13" long, sold to an East Coast dealer for $62,500 (est. $20,000/40,000).
A 6" high x 25½" diameter Apache tray sold for $15,000 (est. $7000/10,000) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionism
Six phone bidders competed for The River Road by Daniel Garber (1880-1958). The 30" x 28" circa 1940 oil on canvas was signed “Daniel Garber” on the bottom left. In a Bernard Badura frame, the painting sold to a collector on the phone for $327,750 (est. $150,000/250,000).
Newell Convers Wyeth ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Ownership and Strong Victorian Sales for Farmer
The high lot of Will Farmer’s sale was this elaborately carved parlor table by John Henry Belter. The mid-19th-century table is in the Victorian Rococo Revival style and features what appears to be its original turtle-form marble top. The base is heavily carved and pierced laminated rosewood. The skirt features ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"The House Is Out" and Other Hillsborough Stories
At $44,840, this 100" x 46" x 22" Roanoke River basin Chippendale china press was the sale’s top lot. It was purchased above its $20,000/30,000 estimate by a floor bidder from Virginia.
Ernest Trova (1927-2009) was noted for his “Falling Man” series of armless, pot-bellied male figures in paintings, prints, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Robert and Elaine Dillof Collection
Grueby Faience Company vase decorated by Ruth Erickson (1883-after 1932), carved and applied vertical leaves, suspended matte green glaze, incised artist’s initials, illegible date, 22" high, minor glaze chipping to foot, very good overall, $20,740. This was the vase discovered in the lobby of a hotel in Southwest Harbor, Maine. ... (Read More)
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