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The sale's top lot, Still Life with Tazza, Peeled Lemon, and Roemer by Willem Claeszoon Heda (Dutch, 1594-c. 1680), went to a phone bidder at $666,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). The 15½" x 22½" oil on cradled panel dates from 1630.Tabletop Still Life with Fruit by Robert Spear Dunning (1829-1905), signed and ... (Read More)
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The Outsider Art Fair, the annual show in New York City that showcases Outsider, self-taught, and folk art, has been sold by Sanford L. Smith and Associates, LLC to Wide Open Arts, LLC.In addition to a new owner, the January 31-February 3, 2013, show will be held in a new ... (Read More)
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by Betty FloodLegislation to provide protection for a consignor or his or her heirs when the consignors works of art are in the care of a consignee or an art merchant has been approved as Chapter 450 on the 2012 Chapter Law List. It was signed into law by New ... (Read More)
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From the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this mahogany easy chair with carving attributed to the Garvan carver, Philadelphia, 1760-65, 44¾" high, sold on the phone for $1,116,500 (est. $600,000/900,000) to dealer Todd Prickett of C.L. Prickett, Yardley, Pennsylvania, for a client. A similar chair sold at Christie's in January 2005 ... (Read More)
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Frederick Hurten Rhead large four-part tile panel depicting a peacock, marked "Frederick H. Rhead, U.C. 1910," 20¾" square. The U.C. stands for University City near St. Louis where Edward Gardner Lewis, a publisher of American women's magazines and an amateur potter, opened an art academy in 1907 with studios for ... (Read More)
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by Clayton PenningtonIn October, the United States, acting on behalf of the United States Coast Guard, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the William Lyon Phelps Foundation, which owns the Huron City Museum in Port Austin, Michigan. The suit seeks a declaratory judgment that the United States "is the ... (Read More)
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by Alice KaufmanThe more things change, the more they stay the same.The Whitehawk 30th annual Antique Ethnographic Art Show will open on August 8, 2013, and run through August 10. The Whitehawk 35th annual Invitational Antique Indian Art Show will open on August 11 and run through August 13. Both ... (Read More)
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Althof, Bergmann & Co. Santa in a sleigh pulled by goats, 9" high x 20" long, is the fourth one to turn up. Each is slightly different because they were made before the advent of mass production. This one had been the prized possession of a New York state family. ... (Read More)
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“There has been a huge amount of interest in this full-plate daguerreotype,” said a member of the Eldred staff before the auction began. The circa 1845 image was big and colorful––four men in uniform, standing before crossed American flags. The flags were hand-colored by the photographer, according to catalog notes. ... (Read More)
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Thomas G. Boss of Salem, Massachusetts, offered a number of French books with Art Deco bindings, including this one, Daphne by Alfred de Vigny. Priced at $40,000, it was designed circa 1924 by F.-L. Schmied and executed by G. Cretté. Printed by pressman Pierre Bouchet, it is copy no. 3, ... (Read More)
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