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(Issue Story)Internet Scams
Computer Column #365
The Internet has been around for three decades, and Internet fraud has been discussed almost that long in this column. Hackers are inventing new frauds every day. A few new ones will be discussed this month in the hope that you develop an eye for scams just as ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Stuff about the Stuff: The Value and Imperiled Future of Collectors’ Papers
Part I of II
A collector’s stuff alone is often enough for heirs to deal with. But, as we all know, many collectors, being collectors, also collect stuff about their stuff, and these sometimes monstrous mother lodes of market notes, receipts, invoices, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs of objects, exhibition and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cropsey Hudson River View Tops Sale
William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New HampshirePhotos courtesy William A. Smith, Inc.
William A. Smith, Inc. held its 52nd annual Memorial Day auction at the company headquarters in Plainfield, New Hampshire, on May 27. The top lot of the sale was View of the Hudson by Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900), signed ... (Read More)
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(Show)Accent Your Life
Antiques at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, New York
Frank Gaglio of Rhinebeck, New York, a longtime dealer and antiques show manager, knows a lot about the antiques marketplace. He sees it changing and plans to keep up with the evolution. So when we asked one new exhibitor why he was doing Antiques at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Record for Paul Evans
A Paul Evans Sculpture Front sideboard, 100½" long, established a new world record auction price for the designer when it sold for $536,000 (includes buyer’s premium) at Sotheby’s on May 23. The estimate was $120,000/180,000. Made of lacquered and gilt steel and brass with a painted wood base and a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Prendergast’s Fantasy Tops Auction
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonham
Bonhams offered 55 lots in its American art sale on May 22, the last entry on the calendar in a week filled with sales, open houses at the “Just Off Madison” event, and the 24th annual American Art Conference “Initiatives in Art and Culture,” held ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Record Hartley Painting Sold
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s Images, 2019
Christie’s May 22 American art sale totaled $32,668,750, with a sell-through rate of 79%. The auction house’s online sale of American art held May 15-22 totaled $2,087,250, bringing the overall total to $34,756,000.
In the live sale were 28 offerings from the Michael Scharf ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, June 2019
In the early weeks of April, when this “Letter” was put together, the principal London salerooms had not really got into full swing, and some were far more focussed on what was happening in China, so on this occasion I have taken the opportunity to pick out a few additional ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Size Matters
The Young Collector
Size Matters
We talk often as an industry about what many consider to be the first rule of collecting: buy the best you can afford. Reduced, however, that means collecting two or three great objects per year rather than 25 “just good” objects. In theory, it makes sense, but ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Record for Gifford at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s May 21 American art sale offered 83 works of Modernism, illustration art, Impressionism, 19th-century landscapes, portraits, and Western art. At the end of the morning, 51 lots had sold, for a sell-through rate of 61.4%. The sale totaled $19 million, way below the presale ... (Read More)
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