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(Auction)Richard and Valerie Tucker's Collection of Shooting Gallery Targets
Soulis Auctions, Lone Jack, Missouri
Photos courtesy Soulis Auctions
There’s something to be learned by zeroing in on Richard and Valerie Tucker’s collection of shooting gallery targets offered by Soulis Auctions on September 26, 2020, in Lone Jack, Missouri.
It wasn’t the quality or quantity of the collection; that was already well known. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Philadelphia Print Shop Has a New Owner
The Philadelphia Print Shop, a fixture on Germantown Avenue in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia and at major antiques shows, has been sold. The new owner is David Mackey, a Main Line commercial real estate/land developer, collector, and sometime dealer in maps and prints of Chester County (www.malvernmaps.com). Mackey ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)GSA Establishes Rules for Art in Federal Buildings
On September 25 the General Services Administration (GSA) published new rules regarding the “Art in Architecture” program for federal buildings in order to comply with Executive Order No. 13934, issued by President Trump on July 3.
The Executive Order, titled “Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes,” required revisions in the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American and European Works of Art
Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner
Skinner’s Marlborough, Massachusetts, gallery was the site of a September 25 auction of American and European works of art. Vice president and department director Robin S.R. Starr took the podium precisely at noon with an audience of no one. Skinner staffers were in place at their ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Alexandra Mann-Nelson
We are all spending much more time now in our houses and apartments because of COVID-19. Because we all might enjoy staring at someone else’s walls for a change, this column gives our readers an idea of what some of their colleagues, fellow collectors, and other readers surround themselves with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of the Spanierman Collection
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
“‘It costs you as much to frame a $1,000 painting as it does a $100,000 painting,’ Ira told me. ‘It costs you as much to photograph it, to store it, and to ship it out on approval. And you have to work just as hard ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Lyman Parks Portraits: A Major Private Sale
Private sales are a big part of the art and antiques business. Discoveries and record prices are reported by auctioneers and sometimes touted by dealers at shows. Museums occasionally send out press releases when they buy something special. But private sales are, well, private. We never know who is selling ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Folk Art, and Decorative Arts
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan’s Auctions
Painted by Matthew Harris Jouett (1788-1827) circa 1818, a portrait of Isaac Shelby (1750-1826), the first governor of Kentucky, realized $112,500 (including buyer’s premium) to highlight the sale of American furniture, folk art, and decorative arts held by Cowan’s Auctions of Cincinnati, Ohio, September ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Sales, Secrecy, and Sanctions
In late July the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued a report, “The Art Industry and U.S. Policies that Undermine Sanctions,” that should have every dealer and auction house preparing to have their sales of over $10,000 be subject to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).
While legislation to add ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bugatti Furniture Attracts International Attention
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Carl Nordblom and Karin Phillips of CRN Auctions can be relied on to assemble auctions of items considered esoteric, even for Cambridge, Massachusetts.
At the September 20 auction, eight lots of furniture by Italian designer Carlo Bugatti (1856-1940) spurred international bidding. Bugatti, a designer of ceramics, musical instruments, ... (Read More)
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