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(Issue Story)Letter from London, June 2015
Letter from London
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Antiquities take centre stage in this month’s report, with no fewer than 15 items from two April sales held by Christie’s and Bonhams in London providing a fascinating mix of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman treasures, along with a couple of items with other cultural backgrounds.
A “frogstrich” ... (Read More)
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(Show)Everyone Loves a "Comeback Kid"
The booth of Missouri Plain Folk, Sikeston, Missouri. The dealers said that this “Rhinebeck was a show that matters. There is energy and diversity, and it looks great.”
American Spirit Antiques, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, featured formal furniture, such as a $16,000 Connecticut Queen Anne highboy and a $7500 Classical wood and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Reproductions Attract Interest
Pennsylvania joiner Eric Jacobsen made the 1998 replica of the Rhode Island mahogany Chippendale chest-on-chest from the Kaufman collection, which is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Jacobsen said it’s one of his favorite pieces, and he bought it back for $13,200.
This 35¼" high x 40" ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June 2015
Judy Friday, hooked rug pillow, 17" x 17".
—Through June 6 —Old Lyme, Connecticut
The Cooley Gallery announces Many Facets, an exhibition of new paintings, weavings, and textiles by Judy Friday. Friday is also a sculptor and a photographer, and a gallery press release notes that she “confounds her audience by being ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Festival of Antiques Announces New Starting Time
The ninth annual June Festival of Antiques in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, will have a later start this year; gates will open at 10 a.m. on June 13. The one-hour later start will allow travel time for dealers and show patrons coming from long distances, said promoters Tracy Dodge and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Man Arrested for Cemetery Desecration
Kristopher K. Komaromi.
Kristopher K. Komaromi, 24, of Coxsackie, New York, was arrested on May 22 and charged with three counts of cemetery desecration in the first degree, a class E felony. According to the New York State Police, during the week of April 27, Komaromi allegedly stole numerous concrete flower ... (Read More)
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(Show)Brandywine Show 2015
Mark Allen sold these two figural food choppers on opening night. He said they had just arrived from France where they were made from 1850 to the 1940s. Prices for all the choppers he brought ranged from $1850 to $3000. The highest price was for the circa 1850 birds.
Ed Weissman ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian Art
There was good competition for this Classic Navajo pictorial man’s wearing blanket, Four Corners region, made of handspun wool in natural ivory, dark brown, and indigo blue and raveled bayeta in lac and cochineal red, 76" x 53". It sold on the phone for $250,000 (est. $60,000/100,000), underbid in the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Eaton Collection of Native American Art and Western Paintings
Indians Riding through the Canyon of Chelly (A Turn in the Canyon de Chelly) by Edgar Alwin Payne (1882-1947) is a 30" x 34" oil on canvas, signed (lower left) and inscribed on the back “Canyon de Chelly.” It sold to a bidder standing at the back of the salesroom ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art and Visions of the West
Above: The Cliffs of Green River, Wyoming, painted in 1896 by Thomas Moran, sold in the salesroom to dealer Mike Frost of J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York City, who bought it for a client. The 20" x 30" oil painting, as well as Green River (below), had been acquired by ... (Read More)
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