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(Fragment)Queens Foundry Owner Charged with Trying to Sell Fake Jasper Johns Sculpture
On November 15, 2012, an indictment charging Brian Ramnarine, owner of Empire Bronze Art Foundry, with attempting to sell a bronze sculpture that he falsely represented to be a genuine work of art by Jasper Johns was unsealed in federal court in New York. Ramnarine was arrested at his home ... (Read More)
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(Show)Traditional Art Scoops Contemporary for a Change
The show’s coproducers, Robert Four (on left) and Tony Fusco.
An Early Snow by Walter Launt Palmer (1854-1932) was painted in 1887. The 22½" x 26½" oil on canvas was offered for $445,000 from Avery Galleries. Richard Rossello said it had been exhibited at the Chicago World’s Fair.
Boston-based Colleene Fesko, an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Edison Reproduces Again
Symphonion Eroica music box, 72" x 28", style No. 37, featuring duplex combs with 100 teeth. Having its original door picture, it was in wonderful condition. Included with the lot was a walnut cabinet with shelves to store the accompanying 32 three-disc sets. Top lot of the three-day sale, it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Overflow Crowd, Strong Prices Prevail at Labor Day Weekend Auction
The 20" x 24" oil on masonite by Eric Sloane (1905-1985) depicting a church in Grafton, Vermont, sold for $9350 to either an absentee or a phone bidder.The 1775 map of The Seat of the War in New England by an American Volunteer is the work of Robert Sayer and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner's Americana Sale
The 22¼" x 33" oil on canvas by William Allen Wall (1801-1885) depicts the area known as Old Four Corners, at the junction of Union and Water Streets in New Bedford, Massachusetts, circa 1807. Wall's painting has to be a bit conjectural, since it depicts the Four Corners as it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Back-to-Back Sales at Garth's
George III terrestrial globe, George Adams Jr., London, circa 1790, printed and hand colored, on an oak stand with cabriole legs and pad feet, the base mounted with a compass, the cartouche with Adams's standard dedication to the king, 31" high x 18" diameter, imperfections, $15,275.Map of the world by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cards Make Grand Slam at Saco River Auction
Michael “King” Kelly, $71,300.“Dan” Brouthers, $7475.by Mark SiscoPhotos courtesy Saco River Auction CompanySaco River Auction Company in Biddeford, Maine, hit a rare grand-slam homer on August 29 when it sold a collection of seven 19th-century baseball cards for a total of $102,005 (includes buyers’ premiums).All of the cards were Old ... (Read More)
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(Auction)JMK Shows Adds New York City Show
Allison Kohler, director of JMK Shows, has announced that the firm will launch a new show in New York City. The New York Antiques & Fine Arts Show will make its debut April 5-7, 2013, at the Bohemian National Hall located at 321 East 73rd Street.The Bohemian National Hall, which ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Internet Ruled at Augusta
Labeled “Doeuillet 18 Place Vendôme Paris,” this one-piece tea gown from 1910 was of fine Russian cream bobbin lace with a bodice insert and deep skirt panels of heavily embroidered cotton lawn with repeats of small flowers surrounded by a swirling vine. It was missing its original green silk sash ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Freeman’s
Three phone bidders wanted this Federal carved mahogany high-post bed with feather-carved reeded posts, made in Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1815. It sold for $26,250 (est. $8000/12,000).
Five phone bidders competed for this Tiffany Favrile aquamarine paperweight vase with yellow narcissi with orange and black centers and green stems and leaves. ... (Read More)
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