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(Show)The ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show
Amherst, Massachusetts
One of the very great pleasures of an antiques show is the freedom to touch the object, to feel its form and surface. What is particularly appealing about the Antiques Dealers’ Association of America/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show is color and surface. Dealers bring out their best, and those antiques ... (Read More)
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(Show)Falling for Rhinebeck
Rhinebeck, New York
It was fall; the leaf colors were late; the weather was like summer; but one thing remained constant, the annual fall Antiques at Rhinebeck, managed by Frank Gaglio and Barn Star Productions. Great dealers, great knowledge, sexy merchandise—wait a minute, did I get your attention—yes, sexy.
I do not ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and International Sale
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
The Americana in Pook & Pook’s Americana and international sale on October 7, 2017, was a good test of that market. There was plenty of what the trade calls “smalls.” Many smalls were Pennsylvania German, and some brought big prices.
Thanks to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)“Exhilarating” Auction at Wolfs
Wolfs Art Dealers & Appraisers, Cleveland, Ohio
Photos courtesy Wolfs
Michael Wolf, 71 years young, has no plans to slow down. Wolf, the owner of Wolfs Art Dealers & Appraisers in Cleveland, Ohio, was recently in San Francisco promoting several of the artists the gallery represents; this was only weeks after conducting ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Homeward Bound
The Young Collector
Have you ever seen one of those old submarine movies where the cook is rummaging under bunks for potatoes? Or maybe one where the crew is running out of air, and there are only minutes to spare before everyone suffocates or has a complete mental breakdown? While we ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby's American Art
New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s sold $3.5 million in its mid-season American art sale on October 6, selling 114 lots out of 158 offered, for a sell-through rate of 72.2%. The estimate was $2.9/4.4 million.
Highlights of the sale, which attracted a few dozen buyers in the salesroom, included works by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cynthia Herbert Named President of the AAA Board of Directors
Cynthia Herbert was appointed president of the board of directors of the Appraisers Association of America (AAA) effective July 1. Herbert served as vice president of AAA from July 2015 through June 30, 2017, and is president of Appretium, LLC. She is a certified member of the AAA in household ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Quincy Adams Daguerreotype Sells to National Portrait Gallery for $360,500
Photo courtesy Sotheby’s
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., paid $360,500 (including buyer’s premium) for a newly discovered half-plate daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) at Sotheby’s sale of photographs in New York City on October 5. The photograph was made in 1843, only four years after the invention ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)After 56 Years, A La Vieille Russie to Move One Block
A La Vieille Russie (ALVR), an art and antiques gallery founded in Kiev in 1851, is moving this fall to a new location a block from its headquarters at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street in Manhattan. The new gallery, designed specifically to showcase its collection of antique ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, October 2017
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
At the Threshold of Brilliance: The Brief but Splendid Career of Harold ... (Read More)
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