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(Auction)Arts of the American West
Rare Meskwaki bear claw necklace and turban. The necklace is composed of 31 grizzly bear claws on an otter neck ring, each pierced through the center and joined together with a hide strip strung with an alternating series of large white and pale green glass trade beads, a long tapering ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby's American Art Auction
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Saying Grace, oil on canvas, 43" x 41", signed “Norman Rockwell” in his block style, lower center, painted in 1951, sold for $46,085,000 (est. $15/$20 million), a record for Norman Rockwell and for any work of art sold at an American art auction.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Norman Rockwell Visits ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) painted Girl Choosing Hat in 1931. The 38½" x 30" oil on canvas sold in the salesroom to Judy Goffman Cutler, a New York City dealer and cofounder and director of the National Museum of American Illustration, for $1,205,000 (est. $400,000/600,000), underbid on the phone. The painting ... (Read More)
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(Show)The American Art Fair 2013
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York City, asked $600,000 for The Old Checkered House by Grandma Moses, 35½" x 44¾", painted in 1944.
Ralston Crawford, The Sails, oil on canvas, 26" x 40", $375,000 from Menconi & Schoelkopf Fine Art, New York City.
This William Hunt Diederich (1884-1953) fire screen was $115,000 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Annual Thanksgiving Holiday Auction
The ornate Art Nouveau enameled gold pin, set with 2.9 carats of European-cut diamonds and seed pearls, brought $15,400.
Pictured are three separate lots of jewelry. The Art Deco platinum brooch set with pointed rubies and diamonds, plus other diamonds, in a filigree setting sold for $1925. The Art Deco diamond ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction at Garth's
This Federal Pembroke table, attributed to the Goddard family of Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1810, is mahogany with urn and bellflower inlay. It may have been refinished and has some surface wear. It brought $36,000.
Chippendale chest of drawers in cherry, Massachusetts or Connecticut, circa 1780, period brasses and old finish, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bay Psalm Book Sells for $14,165,000
Photo courtesy Sotheby’s.
The Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in British America, sold for $14,165,000 (includes buyer’s premium) at Sotheby’s in New York City on November 26, 2013. It made auction history, setting an auction record for any printed book. It was purchased by philanthropist David Rubenstein, co-founder and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California Paintings
Under Surveillance, 24" x 30", oil on board, 1971, by Frank McCarthy (1924-2002) sold for $112,500 (est. $30,000/50,000) to a private collector from Texas, who had bought a Bierstadt at the Bonhams spring 2013 sale. Catalog notes said, “A porcelain plate was produced on behalf of Wells Fargo & Co. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Floor-Standing Astronomical Regulator Clock Brings $277,300
This E. Howard & Co. No. 68 floor-standing astronomical regulator sold for a record $277,300.
An E. Howard No. 68 astronomical regulator clock, 105" tall, sold for $277,300 (includes buyer’s premium) at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on November 23, 2013. According to John Fontaine, that’s a new world auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hi-Yo Silver at Moore's
The company of Samuel Kirk & Son, founded in 1815 or 1817, once billed itself as America’s oldest silversmith and operated under various Kirk family names until 1979 when it was bought out and renamed the Kirk Stieff Corporation. The intricately decorated matched pair of Kirk serving dishes sold for ... (Read More)
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