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(Show)Finally, a Building to Match the Quality of the Exhibitors
The Nashville Show, Nashville, Tennessee
The Nashville Show is the current––and surely permanent––title for the long-running February gathering of exhibitors presented by the Indiana-based Jenkins show management team. After many wanderings, the event has been held in recent years at what is formally called the Fairgrounds Nashville. In the past, the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dogs in Art and Sporting Art
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle offered 151 lots of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and other objects featuring dogs, horses, and sporting art in a sale scheduled to coincide with the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden, New York City.
The February 12 auction totaled $294,431 (includes ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Long-Running Show Transformed
Fiddlers at the Fairgrounds, Nashville, Tennessee
"Same Great Show, New Location” was the slogan on pre-event advertising, which proved to be absolutely true as the long-running Fiddlers show opened on February 12 at the brand-new Expo Center at The Fairgrounds Nashville complex, just off Interstate 65. Over 70 dealers set up ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Benton Family Accuses Trustee of Mismanagement
Missing paintings and mismanagement to the tune of millions of dollars are what the heirs of iconic American artist Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) are alleging in a legal action filed in Circuit Court in Jackson County, Missouri.
Jessie Benton, Benton’s daughter, and her three children—Anthony Gude, Daria Lyman, and Cybele Benton ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Book Auctioneer Pleads Guilty to Grand Larceny
Auctioneer David Hall of Freeville, New York of National Book Auctions and Worth Auctions pleaded guilty on February to grand larceny in the second degree. Hall was indicted in August 2019 for not paying $227,000 in auction proceeds for an estate consignment.
He will be sentenced on April 2. The maximum ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dynamic Duo: Cleopatra and Dave Reign at Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
"Was she ever outdoors?” That was the question asked by potential bidders for Cleopatra Morente, a signed Carrara marble sculpture by Pio Fedi (Italian, 1816-1892). Brunk Auctions’ sculpture specialist Laura Crockett could account for roughly half of the life of the elegant 1842 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fresh-to-Market Daumier Drawing Leads Potomack Sale
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company opened its 2020 auction schedule with a four-part sale beginning with a live auction on February 8 at its gallery in Alexandria, Virginia. The live sale offered a cross section of all categories of antiques and artwork. As has ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Roadshow Effect
The Young Collector
Recently we took the kids to see the final (let’s be honest—latest) installment of Star Wars, and they were talking about how excited they were, and how they could not wait. Andrew pointed out that he had been waiting for this moment for more than 40 years. It ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fine Estate Jewelry at Alex Cooper Auctioneers
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Alex Cooper Auctioneers
Alex Cooper Auctioneers’ February 6 auction included 192 lots of jewelry from two prominent Maryland estates. I spoke with Selden Morgan, director of fine jewelry at the Towson, Maryland, company, when I noticed that post-sale results included antique items that had brought good ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, February 2020
Into the New Year with a selection that has changed somewhat since I first drew up a list of options and is now heavily weighted towards Far Eastern works of art, both Chinese and Japanese, and to the world of antiquities.
Those Chinese lots are principally drawn from London sales, as ... (Read More)
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