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(Auction)Rookwood XXII, Keramics 2012, Art Glass 2012
Tiffany Studios stamp box, gilt bronze and Favrile glass, bronze and glass scarabs on the cover, marked, 2" high x 4½" wide, one scarab missing a leg, the other scarab adhered to the lid, $33,350.Weller Gardenware "Happy Ducks" lawn sprinkler, marked, 14 5/8" high (ceramic portion), original fittings, fine overall ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Monhegan Paintings and Wyeth Top Thomaston Auction
An oil on linen of a great blue heron by Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945), inscribed "To Carolin J. Chandler, June 1942," fetched $253,000. Thomaston Place photo.This 39½" x 49½" (sight size) oil on canvas by Andrew Winter, Happy Lobstering Ground, Whitehead Island, Lower Penobscot Bay, signed lower right and dated ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 49th Delaware Show
Montgomery County walnut schrank with replaced brasses and original feet and shelving, 82½" x 56½" x 25", ex-collection J. Stogdell Stokes, deaccessioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, $52,000 from Philip H, Bradley of Downingtown, Pennsylvania. The walnut wing chair with Russian leather covering from the Moravian Community workshop, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Salon Art + Design
Galerie Downtown, Paris, specialists in 20th-century furniture, installed furnishings from a private house in Montmartre. “Charlotte Perriand was close to the owners, Jean and Huguette Borot, and for thirty years designed for them. It was one of her last private commissions,” said Hélin Serre, director of the gallery. He ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: Calendars and Graphic Tablets
by John P. Reid, [email protected] an on-line calendar to multiple computers and cell phones as well as using a graphics tablet for photo editing will be described.-Calendar AnywhereMost collections of computer software include a personal calendar. It keeps track of doctor's appointments and family birthdays. It also can remind of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Baltimore Summer Antiques Show 2012
Jon Eric Riis, the Atlanta, Georgia, fiber artist who in 2011 was named a Windgate Fellow by United States Artists, citing his research into pre-Columbian Peruvian, Imperial Chinese, and Russian textile traditions to create tapestries. One of his forms is the "universal coat," which he meticulously weaves with metallic thread, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Vintage Posters Sale Totals $581,891
An artist's record for Fred Spear (dates unknown) was set by this 32¼" x 22¾" condition B+/A- "Enlist" poster from 1915. It brought the auction's highest bid—$22,800—from a collector bidding on the phone (est. $15,000/20,000). In August 2005, a 32" x 23" condition B copy sold within estimate for $5060.The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Crowell Black-Bellied Plover Stands Out in Easton
This “humpback” model goldeneye hen with “paddle tail” and turned head by the Ward brothers, in original scratch paint, sold just over low estimate for $80,500 (est. $75,000/95,000) to a private collector from New Jersey. “It had everything you look for in an early Ward brothers working decoy,” remarked one ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: A Picture Is Worth...
by Steve ProffittA lawyer wrote to me about a case involving a painting that her client had consigned to an auctioneer. The consignor lacked any expertise with art and was simply looking to sell some things in an effort to raise money. The painting previously belonged to a relative, who ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Camden-Rockport Historical Society Show
Gordon Nicoll of Nicoll Fine Art and Antiques, who recently opened a new gallery in Damariscotta, Maine, displayed this beautiful French double-sided four-segment wood and canvas painted screen, dating from the early 19th century, for $12,500.Patrick Renschen, who is the husband of Virginia Renschen ("We're married but not in business ... (Read More)
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