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The Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show
by Lita Solis-Cohen

This is a rare 18th-century brass dog collar for Israel Morris’s dog with his address on it, 67 S. Second Street in Philadelphia. Having a lock but missing the key, it was $1100 from Tucker Frey. Steven Still of Manheim, Pennsylvania, asked $5400 for this set of six birdcage bamboo ... (Read More)

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Racing Icon’s Awards Sold
by Don Johnson

First presented at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1909, two years before the debut of the Indianapolis 500, the Prest-O-Lite trophy was eventually incorporated as an award for the Indy 500. Nine engraved silvered plaques commemorate winners and various driving accomplishments, such as lap leaders, from 1910 through 1940. The ... (Read More)

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Hopper’s “Blackwell’s Island” Sells for $19.1 Million
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Blackwell’s Island, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 34½" x 59½", painted in the fall of 1928, sold for $19,163,750 (est. $15/20 million). The subject—the island in the East River now known as Roosevelt Island—embodies the quiet tensions of Hopper’s best work. In 1928 it was the ... (Read More)

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American Art
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962), Chef, watercolor and ink on paper, 13½" x 10", signed lower right and bearing estate stamp (on the reverse), sold for $7500 (est. $3000/5000). Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936), New York Harbor, oil on canvas, 31½" x 44",  signed and dated “T.E. Butler 1917,” sold for $86,500 (est. $40,000/60,000). Paul ... (Read More)

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American Paintings Auction (Sotheby’s)
by Lita Solis-Cohen

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Marionettes: Behind the Curtain, oil on canvas, 29" x 20 7/8", painted in 1903, sold for $5,205,000 (est. $5/7 million) on one bid to a buyer who had placed an irrevocable bid. Max Weber (1888-1961), Soloist at Wanamaker’s, 29¼" x 18½" gouache on paper laid down on ... (Read More)

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Dealer Charged with Tax Crimes
by M.A.D. staff

Art dealer Glafira Rosales of Sands Point, New York, was arrested on May 21 for filing false tax returns and for failing to disclose foreign bank accounts to the IRS. Rosales allegedly failed to report at least $12.5 million from the sale of works purported to be by celebrated Abstract Expressionist ... (Read More)

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Andy Williams’s Navajo Blankets and Arts of the American West
by Lita Solis-Cohen

This Northwest Coast polychrome wood headdress (est. $175,000/225,000) sold for $425,000 to Vancouver, British Columbia, and New York City dealer Donald Ellis, bidding in the salesroom. At 10½" high, it has flaring nostrils and exaggerated wide-set, pointed oval eye rims beneath thick arching brows. It is painted in black with ... (Read More)
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