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(Auction)New Orleans Auction Galleries Presents the Classical Style of Don Didier
Top lot of the sale was a large allegorical painting alluding to the defense of Liberty by a united and vigilant citizenry. A handsome figure of Athena with shield and spear stands at center right. Bearing the date 1784, in the time of the Dutch Republic, the work by decorative ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Establishes the Charles F. Montgomery Director
Henry Francis du Pont (left) and Charles F. Montgomery (right), Winterthur Museum’s first director. Image courtesy Winterthur.
On May 29 the Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library announced it had received a $5 million endowment to fund the Charles F. Montgomery Director of Winterthur, in honor of the institution’s first director (1954-61). According ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Agnes Martin's "Blue Flower" Makes a Cool $1.5 Million
Blue Flower by Agnes Martin (1912-2004) sold to a New York dealer for $1,539,000 (est. $1,500,000/2,000,000). Dated 1962, the collage of oil, glue, nails, and canvas is on canvas stretched over an 11 5/8" x 11 3/8" panel. Many of the artist’s works look minimalist, but she considered herself to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Case Antiques Inc. Auctions & Appraisals Expands into the Nashville Area
Knoxville, Tennessee-based Case Antiques Inc. Auctions & Appraisals has opened an office at 116 Wilson Pike Circle, Suite #102, in Brentwood, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. The office will handle consignments from Middle and West Tennessee, southern Kentucky, and northern Alabama, along with appraisals, and will serve as a display ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Introduces Jewelry Repair Legislation
Jewelers in New York would be required to return to the customer who brings in an item for repair any portion of jewelry removed from an item during its repair, according to legislation sponsored by Assemblywoman Earlene Hooper (D-Nassau). According to the legislation introduced in early March, the jeweler must ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Dealer Convicted
On May 19, after a three-week trial, a federal jury convicted art dealer and real estate investor Luke D. Brugnara of mail fraud, wire fraud, false declarations to a court, and escape.
Brugnara, 51, of San Francisco, was originally charged with fraud on May 27, 2014. Brugnara had refused to pay ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Online Research
A modern painting of a 19th-century ship raised questions of historical accuracy.
Computer Column #318
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Research is one of the most valuable uses of the Internet. Some people are born researchers, but most of us learn the methods and tools by experience. A small research project of mine will ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Better Business Bureau Issues Warning
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) of South Carolina is warning consumers to be on the lookout for a company called Memento Antique and Estate Liquidators, also known as Red Wagon Estate Sales.
According to the BBB, “Consumers are alleging they hired Jeffrey R. Moore to host estate sales to help liquidate ... (Read More)
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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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