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(Auction)Joshua Johnson Portraits Top Americana Auction
Sotheby’s, New York City
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Sotheby’s various-owner sales followed the sale of the Teiger collection without a lunch break on Sunday, January 20, and it took until 7 p.m. to sell the 383 lots of furniture and decorations. The auction included 17 high chests, of which all but four found ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of the Teiger Collection
Sotheby’s, New York City
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The sale at Sotheby’s of the collection of David Teiger (1929-2014) on January 20 was a test of the market for folk art. The collection was put together over a period of 20 years in the 1990s and into the first decade of this century, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New York Antique Ceramics Fair
New York City
There were nine dealers at the New York Antique Ceramics Fair, which filled half of the third floor of the National Bohemian Hall, January 17-20, in New York City. The dealers rescued the fair when, after nearly two decades of participating in Americana Week in New York, show ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Backus Painting Brings $20,900
One day before the January 20 auction conducted by Ron Rennick of Rennick Auctions Inc., Vero Beach, Florida, featuring paintings by A.E. Backus and Highwaymen, Zollie Reed of Melbourne brought in two paintings by Harold Newton (1934-1994) that she personally had bought from Newton and a painting by Alfred Hair ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rago Brings in $4.8 Million
Rago Arts & Auction Center, Lambertville, New Jersey
Lita Solis-Cohen
Photos courtesy Rago Arts & Auction Center
Rago’s design sales in Lambertville, New Jersey, on Saturday and Sunday, January 19 and 20, were at the same time as the Americana sales at Sotheby’s, and, like the sales in New York City, they had ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Outsider and Vernacular Art at Auction
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s Images, Ltd., 2019
Christie’s sale of Outsider and vernacular art held a treasure-trove of works from notable collections, including the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the Louis-Dreyfus family collections; and the collections of Larry Dumont, Eugenie and Lael Johnson, and Bonnie Grossman, founder of the Ames ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Nelson and Happy Rockefeller Collection
Sotheby’s, New York City
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Nelson Rockefeller shared the collecting gene with his mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), and with his aunt Lucy Truman Aldrich (1869-1955). Between 1934 and 1956, Lucy’s collections were given to the Rhode Island School of Design, where they were joined by gifts from her younger ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Export Art
Christie’s, New York City
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Houqua (1769-1843) was the most powerful and wealthy of the Chinese merchants who made up the Co-Hong in Canton. By the time he retired in 1834, his wealth was estimated at $26 million. China traders wrote about his lavish entertaining and generous ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Word is Out on Outsider Art
Outsider Art Fair, New York City
The word is out. The seventh edition of the Outsider Art Fair (OAF) under the helm of gallerist Andrew Edlin’s Wide Open Arts, held January 17-20, during Americana Week, was a big hit with collectors, dealers, and curators who made the trip downtown to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Contents of Little Cassiobury
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s Images, Ltd., 2019
When Cassiobury Park, the Earl of Essex’s country house for 250 years in Hertfordshire, northwest of London, was demolished in 1927, some of its interior features were sold to museums and wealthy Americans. A grand staircase went to the Metropolitan Museum of ... (Read More)
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