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(Fragment)PADA Makes Grant to Grey Art Gallery
For the past 19 years, the Private Art Dealers Association (PADA) has made a grant to an outstanding institution in the arts. The 2012 recipient, the Grey Art Gallery of New York University, received its award at the annual dinner of PADA, held at the Lotos Club in New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction in Indiana
Stepback cupboard, the upper portion having a pair of four-pane doors over a fall-front door concealing a storage area, in original crusty red paint, said to be from Oldenburg, Indiana, $1100.
Pair of portraits of a lady and a gentleman, pastel on paper, 1830-40, $1100.
New England Chippendale tiger maple tall chest ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Happy New Year’s Day At Foster’s
This Louis Vuitton traveling wardrobe opens to reveal an abundance of drawers and hanging compartments and sold for $8800.
This Enrico Caruso caricature of fellow Italian tenor Dante Del Papa and a book entitled Caricatures of Caruso (not shown), published in 1908, which includes a very similar caricature of Del Papa, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Woman Pleads Guilty in Connection with Theft of Franklin Bust
Andrea Lawton, 46, of Mobile, Alabama, pleaded guilty in federal court in Philadelphia on December 18, 2012, to one count of interstate transportation of stolen property in connection with the theft on August 24, 2012, of a rare bust of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Antoine Houdon, valued at approximately $3 million.
Lawton ... (Read More)
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(Auction)First of Multi-Part Single-Owner-Historical Documents Sale Achieves $6 Million
The sale’s top lot, going at $336,000 (est. $200,000/300,000), was this four-page autograph letter in French signed by Vincent van Gogh. Written in Saint-Remy de Provence on January 20, 1890, to “M. & Mme. Ginoux,” the letter discusses illness, the artist’s and Madame Ginoux’s. “Less than seven months before his ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Chess Table Sells for $109,250
Photo courtesy S & S Auction, Inc.
Rare Chess Table Sells for $109,250
A rare chess table designed by Isamu Noguchi for Herman Miller in the 1940's and discovered by a contractor renovating a home outside Newark, New Jersey, sold for $109,250 at a sale held on October 22, 2012, by S ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
Letter from London
by Ian McKay, [email protected]
Before launching into this month's selection, which is strong on antiquities but also includes two forgotten Dollies, two Russian posters, two Chinese flutes, two naval frigates, one Charles X box, one warming tapestry, and an old model medical aide, may I, as usual, wish M.A.D. ... (Read More)
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