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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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(Fragment)Sentences Handed Down in Rhino and Ivory Smuggling Case
On May 20 Christopher Hayes, president and owner of the Elite Estate Buyers Inc. auction house in Boynton Beach, Florida, was sentenced in federal court in Florida to 36 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his role in the illegal wildlife smuggling conspiracy in which ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Benton Brings $1,052,500
Discussion by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) sold for $1,052,000. Photo courtesy Leslie Hindman Auctioneers.
When the hammer came down May 20 at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago on Thomas Hart Benton’s 1967 Discussion, the 16" x 20" painting became the tenth Benton painting to sell for over $1 million. The final ... (Read More)
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