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(Auction)Unusual Mix of American, Continental, and Asian Objects
This riverine landscape by French artist Charles François Daubigny (1817-1878) came from a New Jersey collection and sold for $38,400. The painting retained a paper label of the Parisian gilder and framer on the back. CRN Auctions photo.
A Connecticut collection of Latin American items was also the source of this ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Art Auction Tops $1 Million
Martin Ramirez (1895-1963), Caballero, graphite on paper, 25" x 23½", $44,400.
The single lot by Minnie Evans (1892-1987) sold for $30,000. From the artist’s personal collection, it had been displayed in the 1986 exhibition Heavenly Visions: The Art of Minnie Evans at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. The exhibit ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antique Garden Furniture Fair
Cherry Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine, had a welcoming booth.
A new paint collection, inspired by the New York Botanical Garden, was introduced at the Antique Garden Furniture Fair. The NYBG partnered with paint manufacturer Prestige; purchases of the paint, available on Amazon.com, support the garden.
Francis J. Purcell displayed lanterns, carriage lamps, Art ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Insurance for Conceptual Art
Crystal & Company has partnered with AIG Private Client Group to create a new insurance solution for collectors with conceptual art collections, according to a press release.
Conceptual art, the company said, is focused more on the idea being expressed, while the form and material are secondary. A certificate is provided ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show in Ridgewood, New Jersey
Debbie Turi is managing the first annual Art & Antiques Show at the Ridgewood Woman’s Club in Ridgewood, New Jersey, on June 6 and 7. Turi has previously teamed up with Brad Reh to run a couple of shows: the Art, Design, and Antiques Show at Wallace Hall during Americana ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)TV Guide (to Antiques)
The Young Collector
Librarians get asked lots of odd questions—can you help me find the red cookbook I was looking at last week, what foods float, am I divorced? (yes, seriously, all of those)—but many of them would say their favorite question comes when someone just wants a good book to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Anne and Jeff Miller Sale
This oil on canvas view of St. Joseph’s Academy, Emmitsburg, Maryland, mid- to late 19th century, with buildings including a church in the landscape, was bought at Northeast Auctions by Milly McGehee in 1998 for $27,600. Fifteen years later it sold for slightly less—$26,400 (est. $8000/12,000) to Lititz, Pennsylvania, dealer ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pastels Rule the Day
This Northwood ice-blue stippled Strawberry ruffled bowl with a basketweave back sold for $18,000. Ice blue is among the rarest pastel colors, and this bowl further had a mix of unusual features of a basketweave back and stippled treatment. The bowl was the top-selling lot of the auction.
Northwood stippled Strawberry ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Texans' Clock Collection Sells in Massachusetts
Peter Sawyer took home this Joseph Nye Dunning wall clock for the second time. It has an eight-day time-only weight-driven brass movement typical of banjo-style wall clocks, but the shaped mahogany case is distinctive and especially attractive. It made $30,750. Two other rare Dunning clocks also brought strong prices.
One of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Property from the Oprah Winfrey Collections
At $45,000, The Little Mother by Hovsep Pushman was the top lot. Photo courtesy Leslie Hindman Auctioneers.
Some things are simply unexplainable. The set of six rabbit placeholders, estimated at $100/200, sold at $531. Hindman photo.
Visually striking, the circa 1900 Viennese ebonized dressing table measured 28" x 27½" x 19¾" and ... (Read More)
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