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(Fragment)Freeman's Sale of the Horst Collection Is “Perfect Storm”
Winter Sunlight by Edward Redfield, oil on canvas, 38¼" x 50", $710,500. Photo courtesy Freeman’s.
Marshes of Long Point by Frank Benson, oil on canvas, 36" x 44", $662,500. Photo courtesy Freeman’s.
On Sunday, March 30, Freeman’s in Philadelphia sold the George D. Horst collection of 63 European and American 19th- and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The George D. Horst Fine Art Sale
Gustaf Edolf Fjaestad (Swedish, 1868-1948), Pool in Winter, inscribed “G Fjaestad 13” on the bottom left. It also retains on the back a label with “The Swedish Exhibition 1916” and “Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco 1915.” Horst bought the 47 3/8" x 57¾" oil on canvas from a Swedish exhibition at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Three Maud Lewis Paintings Bring $38,200
Can$15,400 (US$13,959).
Harris and Sons Auctions sold three paintings by Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis (1903-1970) in its March 29 auction at the Kings Theater in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, for a total of Can$38,200 (US$34,625) (with buyers’ premiums).
A view of a train station, sight size 12" x 11½", that was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Doll Sells for Whopping $302,400
A circa 1916 French character doll by sculptor Albert Marque sold for $302,400 (includes buyer’s premium) at a March 29 sale in Naples, Florida, conducted by Theriault’s, an Annapolis, Maryland, auction house that specializes in dolls.
The Marque doll was purchased by private collectors who will be sending it for exhibition ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Plenty of Variety at Cottone's March Sale
This 16" x 20¼" signed oil on canvas genre painting by Felix Schlesinger (German, 1833-1910), in original condition and its original frame, opened at $10,000 and went all the way to $39,100 (est. $15,000/25,000) to a Pennsylvania buyer.
This appealing 11" x 14" signed oil on canvas by Cornelius David ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Boston Blockfront Chest Leads Willis Henry Sale
This 18th-century Boston mahogany blockfront chest of drawers sold on the phone for $73,160.
A bidder favorite was Harbor Mists, a view of Gloucester harbor with vessels under sail, by Swedish-American artist John F. Carlson. It sold on the phone for $8260. The painting retained labels from the Grand Central Art ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Pier Antique Show
David Allen Fine Arts, Arlington, Virginia, had a lot of traffic. Allen “usually sells $20,000 to $30,000 here at the show,” and sometimes sells things for a lot more. He offered a port wine server with spigot, stamped Tiffany, that he found in Italy, for $3500 (middle shelf, second from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The End of the Winter that Wouldn't Die
This ship portrait of the Charles Dennis, built in Richmond, Maine, in 1873, sold for $4715.
Coastal Maine eider duck decoy, $4600.
Chinese dreamstones represent a harmony between man and nature. Nature creates the scenes, but it takes the hand of man to reveal them. The series of ten marble dreamstones was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Tools Ply the Atlantic
When Francis Nicholson, America’s first known specialist plane-maker, died in 1753, his son John and his freed slave Cesar Chelor continued the trend he had set in producing distinctive plows in yellow birch with square arms mortised in the fence and held fast by wedges. More efficient wooden thumbscrews as ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Season Opener Rises to the Occasion at $1.2 Million
Gunthermann (Germany) Gordon Bennet coupe racer, the medium-size edition of a treasured trio of speedsters, ex-Dr. Malcolm Kates, 8¾" long, $9940.
Marx (U.S.) “Butter and Egg Man,” 1934, lithographed tin, 7¾" high, $2242. Not shown: a Marx Red the Iceman with ice tongs and wooden block of ice, 8½" high, ... (Read More)
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