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(Auction)Marklin "Amerika" Steams to a Record $271,400
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
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An enthusiastic, rollicking crowd convened at Bertoia Auctions’ Toy Shoppe sale on May 20 and 21. They helped pull off, in Jeanne Bertoia’s words and in racetrack parlance, a trifecta. The $1.4 million run at the Vineland, New Jersey, auction house made it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Huge Sale from the Descendants of Artist J. Alden Weir
Boyd Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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On May 20 and 21, Boyd Auctions sold property for the descendants of J. Alden Weir in a monumental sale at the Frank Jones Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Weir (1852-1919) was an American Impressionist painter, a member of the Cos Cob art ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)George Schastey, Maker of Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age
The most publicized decorative arts exhibition this season, Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which opened on December 15, is being held over until June 5. More than 170,000 people have seen it and will now recognize the name George Schastey as a competitor ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Noel Barrett and Ron Pook Join Forces
Ron Pook (left) and Noel Barrett
Pennsylvania auctioneers Noel Barrett and Ronald Pook have announced a new collaboration. Barrett will be staging his annual fall auction of an eclectic mixture of vintage toys and other items at Pook’s facility in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, his first foray after rolling his Bucks County auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art
Christie’s, New York City
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Hung horizontally or vertically, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Lake George Reflection was a favorite during American paintings week in May. It is a large painting, 58" x 34", and Christie’s showed it both ways as the folding frontispiece in the catalog for the May 19 sale. For ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two by Sargent Top Sotheby's Sale
Sotheby’s, New York City
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Sotheby’s 6 p.m. American art sale on May 18 began with champagne. Collectors toasted two extraordinary paintings by John Singer Sargent—Staircase in Capri, painted in 1878, and Poppies, painted in England in the summer of 1886.
Sargent painted Poppies in a garden in the Cotswolds as ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Auction of American Art
Bonhams, New York City
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Twice a season, in December and May, collectors, curators, and dealers come to New York City to immerse themselves in American art. Auction houses hold lectures and cocktail parties to be sure that collectors get to the previews. Private dealers participating in “Just Off Madison” ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)University of Hartford's Plan to Sell Political Memorabilia Ignites Criticism
It’s a collection rivaled only by the Smithsonian Institution, the owners say, and if all goes according to plan, it will be hitting the market. The University of Hartford’s collection of political memorabilia—posters, banners, textiles, prints, medals, pottery, glassware, snuffboxes, ribbons, and torchlights, possibly as many as 60,000 objects—will be ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Rockwell Kents Top Portsmouth Auction
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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There was something for everyone at Northeast Auctions’ May 15 sale in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where buyers showed up and bought from the extensive range of objects offered. Prices were all over the place, with some lots selling under the money and others ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Art of Design Then & Now Show
New York City
Fifteen dealers hopped on the bandwagon to exhibit at the first The Art of Design Then & Now show, held at the Bohemian National Hall on New York City’s Upper East Side, May 13-15.
The new show, put together by longtime show manager Marty Ellis, who is based in ... (Read More)
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