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Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
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On January 19 and 20, at the very same time that major sales of Americana were live in New York City and Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey, was selling early 20th-century and modern design live to a different audience with great success. The ... (Read More)
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Sotheby’s, New York City
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Sotheby’s sale of the collection of Philadelphia collectors Charles and Olenka Santore January 19 in New York City dispersed the finest assemblage of Windsor furniture ever to come to market.
Charlie Santore (1935-2019) was known in the world of Americana as the author of the definitive ... (Read More)
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Christie’s, New York City
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Christie’s offered 66 lots of 19th-century American art January 19 during Americana Week, and several dealers and collectors attended the live sale to buy and also observe what was selling and not selling during the auction. After three years of enduring COVID-19, clients sitting in ... (Read More)
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Christie’s, New York City
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Fans of paintings of fruit, flowers, fish, and faces showed their appreciation by bidding on and buying 32 out of 34 lots offered in Christie’s sale “From Peale to Peto: American Masters from the Pollack Collection,” held the morning of January 19 in New York ... (Read More)
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At a gathering at the Bernard and S. Dean Levy gallery in New York City January 18, John Davis, president and CEO of Historic Deerfield, announced the return of the annual Antiques Dealers’ Association of America/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show. Previously an October event, the show will now be held live ... (Read More)
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Christie’s, New York City
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The widely anticipated Outsider and vernacular art sale at Christie’s was held the afternoon of Wednesday, January 18, midway through Americana Week. The sale, which offered 103 lots, totaled $2,064,384, with a sell-through rate of 99%. The presale estimates totaled $1.2/2 million, according to Cara ... (Read More)
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Sotheby’s, New York City
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Sotheby’s offered 47 lots in its “Art of the Americas” sale held January 18, midway through Americana Week. The noon sale totaled $4,514,580 (including buyers’ premiums). Of the 47 lots offered (lots 5 and 7 were withdrawn before the auction), 33 sold, for a ... (Read More)
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Anyone who previewed the 400 lots of estate jewelry and coins from the New York County Public Administrator and a collection of Native American pottery for the first day of Weiss Auctions’ two-day monthly sale January 18 and 19 in Lynbrook, New York, might have walked past the tarnished Paul ... (Read More)
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Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
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Pook & Pook offered the collection of Margaret Berwind Schiffer in 393 lots in an illustrated color catalog and sold it live in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, January 18, with about 40 people in the salesroom competing with bidders online and on ... (Read More)
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Sotheby’s, New York City
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For the first time in eight years, Sotheby’s sold American Indian art. It was an online sale January 10 through 18 that opened with sculpture from the collection of Amy and Elliot Lawrence, most of it small pieces of walrus ivory. The sale also ... (Read More)
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