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(Fragment)Maud Lewis Tops New Year’s Day Auction
A small (10" x 14") painting by folk artist Maud Lewis (Canadian, 1903-1970) was the highlight of a New Year’s Day auction at the King’s Theatre in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, when it sold for Can$11,500 (US$10,807). The buyers, a couple who recently made Nova Scotia their home, were in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mesda Launches On-Line Craftsman Database
On January 1, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) at Old Salem Museums & Gardens in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, launched its full-text, on-line Craftsman Database, a powerful resource for historians, collectors, and those researching their family histories.
MESDA’s database contains information about artisans gathered through primary research in public ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Robert Foster Opens the New Year
Two mahogany tall-case clocks produced widely divergent prices. The darker clock above stopped at $550, but the lighter one on the right sailed all the way to $5170.
What made this $550 Native American Shasta basket most interesting was the original Hudson Bay Fur Co. label. A gentleman named Moritz Gutmann ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Emerald Expositions to Acquire George Little Management
Emerald Expositions, Inc. has agreed to acquire George Little Management LLC (GLM) from Providence Equity Partners for $335 million. The deal was announced on December 20, 2013.
U.S. Antique Shows, a division of GLM Shows, produces nine antiques shows, including the Miami National Antique Show, the Armory Antique Show, the Original ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historical Documents of "Distinguished American Collector"
The sale’s top lot, a huge archive (nearly 140 letters) of George III correspondence addressed to the 2nd Earl of Shelburne, sold for $159,900 (est. $40,000/60,000) to an American bidding on the Internet.
This two-page letter signed big and bold by John Hancock as president of the Continental Congress sold for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Twentieth-Century Design
Rembrandt Bugatti (1885-1916) created Éléphant d’Asie en marche (grand modèle) circa 1909. Of patinated bronze this is number “1” from an edition of five, 17¾" x 27" x 8½", and signed “R. Bugatti 1909,” with stamp “Cire Perdue A.A. Hébrard” and numeral “1” and with a plaque inscribed “To William ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Institutions vs. Collectors and Dealers at Poster Auction
A sought-after genre of vintage posters advertised cigarettes back when consumers hadn’t a clue to the detrimental effects of tobacco on the human body. Erich Muller (dates unknown) designed this 24" x 35½" condition B+ poster for the Hansom Cigarette. The repeated motif of a well-dressed woman, in this case ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Design Sale at Sotheby's
Paul Evans, Sculpture Front wall panel with welded signature, lacquered and gilt steel, 48½" x 59¾" x 5¼", 1974, executed by Paul Evans Studio, Plumsteadville, Pennsylvania, sold for $149,000 (est. $50,000/70,000). It sold at Sollo/Rago on October 25, 2004, for $35,250.
Judy Kensley McKie, Faces cabinet, signed “JHM/ 1991” with copyright, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Appeals Court Rules that Auctioneer's Name Satisfies New York Law
“The big issue, of course, is not so much the secrecy of the consignor; the big issue is that you cannot use the statute of frauds to defend a fraud.” Auctioneer William Jenack of Chester, New York, made that comment on December 17, 2013. On that cold December morning, the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Modern Design Auctions Bring $11.1 Million
Alexandre Noll (French, 1890-1970) created this rare circa 1945 dining table and set of ten chairs of mahogany. The table is 28¼" x 98 5/8" x 34½"; each chair is approximately 34¼" x 16" x 17". They sold for $905,000 (est. $400,000/600,000). Noll was not an interior decorator; he was ... (Read More)
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