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(Issue Story)Portrait of Frederick Baker Sells for $508,750
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
On April 4 two bidders competed at Neal Auction Company on Magazine Street in New Orleans for a pre-Civil War portrait of Frederick Baker, a black man wearing a red vest and black coat over his white shirt and black bow tie, his eyes turned ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Coopertition
Beneath the Surface
We feel like foreign correspondents these days, with many of the observations you read here written on the go, what with scratching odd bits on the back of reading schedules and permission sheets, regularly scrounging around under ketchup packets and outdated registration cards for crusty pens and stubby ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African American Art at Swann Galleries
Swann Auction Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Auction Galleries
Swann Auction Galleries, New York City, held its customary spring African American art sale Thursday, April 3, a day after the stock market reacted negatively to the Trump administration's announcement of widespread tariffs. Nevertheless, the 193-lot sale totaled $1,797,755 (including buyers' ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hyland Granby Antiques Offers Seven Paintings from the Lewis Collection
In this fast-changing world, more collectors and executors of estates have been consigning works of high quality to the trade for sale rather than sending them to auction. "The buyers pay more money at auction with the high buyer's premium, so the sellers can do better with a private sale ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tremont Attracts International Interest and Sales
Tremont Auctions, Sudbury, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Tremont Auctions
Tremont Auctions featured several large collections in the March 30 sale in the Sudbury, Massachusetts, gallery. American and European paintings attracted interest, and a large portion of the artwork was headed overseas. A large collection of Asian objects came from upstate New York, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Revealing F. Edwin Church
The F. Edwin Church Catalogue Raisonne Project and North Shore Historical Museum in Glen Cove, New York, will present a retrospective on F. Edwin Church (1876-1975), a New York Impressionist painter prominent in the first quarter of the 20th century. This exhibition is in honor of the 50th anniversary of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Deere Sign Brings Big Money
A recently discovered John Deere Gilpin Sulky Plow sign sold to a private collector for $71,500 (includes buyer's premium) at an auction conducted by Aumann Auctions of Nokomis, Illinois. The sale closed on April 28. Bidding for the sign started at $1 on March 28.
Photos courtesy Aumann Auctions.
The rare chromolithographed ... (Read More)
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(Show)International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Print Fair
New York City
The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Print Fair speaks for itself, evidenced by the lines of ticketholders wrapped around the Park Avenue Armory in New York City all the way to Lexington Avenue on opening night. And those on line were VIPs who arrived a full hour ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Carved Jade and Tiffany Lamps Set the Tone at Cottone Event
Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York
Photos courtesy Cottone Auctions
Cottone Auctions' March 27 event featured items from the estate of Sidonie (Triepel) Williams (1933-2024) of Buffalo, New York. Williams, president of John F. Triepel Antiques, passed away in October 2024 at the age of 91. The March auction offered numerous pieces from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Unpretentious Personality and Inherent Dignity": A Collection of Chinese Furniture
A Book Review
This self-published volume illustrating a portion of the author's collection of Chinese furniture is more than a photographic album, more than a catalog, more than a lesson on the genre. The Nobility of the Everyday is the author's intimate expose on Chinese furniture that he has collected over ... (Read More)
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