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(Fragment)Auction House CEO Indicted
Josh D. Levine of J. Levine Auction & Appraisal LLC, Scottsdale, Arizona, has been indicted on 23 felony counts, including fraudulent schemes and artifices, theft, and trafficking in stolen property.
Josh D. Levine.
According to a redacted indictment, the alleged offenses took place between November 1, 2016, and August 31, 2019.
On ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, November 2022
There are some unexpectedly high-priced portraits to be found in this “Letter,” among them a “sleeping” mother and child whose very modest estimate was demolished by a very serious six-figure bid. There is a broken mug and a royal scandal, along with a bronze huntsman figure whose creator’s career ended ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Furniture and Decorative Arts
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle New York, long the neighborhood auctioneer for Park Avenue estates, has had an influx of New England furniture and decorations at its Americana sales since Bostonian Chris Barber took over the American furniture department in March 2022.
At Doyle’s sale of 351 lots of furniture, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 34th Annual ADAA Art Show
New York City
The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), returned to the Park Avenue Armory in New York City November 3-6 for its 34th edition. Attendance was strong, and sales were made.
The four-day show had an evening preview November 2. The preview, which has historically ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Bob Zordani and Heidi Kellner, Z and K Antiques
Over time, Heidi Kellner has become a proponent of “Zen and the Art of Antiques Dealing,” she says. Unless there is significant sentimental value to an object, she no longer holds onto the finds she and her husband, Bob Zordani, buy.
“I got over that a long time ago,” she said. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of the Bjurman Collection and Western Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Western art specialist Katherine Halligan called the paintings owned by G. Andrew Bjurman (1948-2022) “an extraordinary collection,” and the market agreed on November 1 at Bonhams, paying a total of $5,436,720 (including buyers’ premiums) for them. Halligan said Bjurman was a careful and quiet collector who ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Collector’s Eye
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
The Collector’s Eye is now and always will be “the other show.” But that’s OK. It works. It works really well.
Held twice a year in the Hawkeye Downs Expo Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The Collector’s Eye is a general-line show that began in 2005 to supplement the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Midwest Antique & Art Show
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Perennially strong on folk art and Americana, the Midwest Antique & Art Show had its fall edition on Sunday, October 30, in the Hawkeye Downs Expo Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The semiannual show did not disappoint.
The event’s longevity speaks of its success. “We’ve been doing this for ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fall Elverson Antique Show
Elverson, Pennsylvania
“We just love this show,” said Heather Bissell while looking at stoneware in the booth of Duane Watson of Doc’s Crocks at the Elverson Antique Show in northern Chester County, Pennsylvania, Saturday, October 29. She and her two sisters, Heidi Kluesner and Sara McCool, came to the show from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Blessing Collection, Part One
Woody Auction, Douglass, Kansas
Photos courtesy Woody Auction
Nineteenth-century American furniture single-owner sales are rare. Ron Blessing’s collection was sold by the Woody Auction Company October 29 and featured a number of lots that had been originally sold to Blessing by Woody. Blessing’s sale included French art glass lots along with silver ... (Read More)
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