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(Auction)20th-Century Design Including Tiffany
Carlo Bugatti (1856-1940), rare desk and chair, circa 1902, the chair with adjustable back, painted vellum, tooled copper, brass, and wood, desk 36¾" high x 27¼" wide x 22" deep, and the chair 38¼" high, sold for $80,500 (est. $30,000/50,000).
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) for Jean-Michel Frank (1895-1941), Trepied a Feuilles table ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Greenberg Collection of Art Deco
Jean Dupas, Allegorie du Tissu, circa 1937, 38½" x 128", oil on canvas with silvered wood frame. It sold for $1,650,500 (est. $150,000/250,000) to an American private collector. It is the final preparatory painting for a mosaic executed by Dupas for the Pavillon du Textile at the 1937 Paris Exposition ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American and European Art
Ballerina at Barre, a circa 1959 bronze and polished aluminum sculpture, 15" high, by Enzo Plazzotta (1921-1981) sold for $6000 (est. $2000/4000).
Nine works (one shown) by Edouard Leon Cortès (1882-1969) were offered. Flower Market at the Madeleine, a circa 1955 oil on canvas, sold above high estimate for $35,000.
Though ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Radios and 20th Century Decorative Arts
Shown is a circa 1942 Fada 188 All American in a yellow case with blue knobs and handle with a red wraparound grill and Fada decal, 5½" high x 9" long x 5 ½" deep, that sold for $16,250 (est. $6000/9000). Another Fada 188 (not shown) in an orange-yellow case ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Design Sales
Line Vautrin (1913-1997), Baguettes mirror, circa 1960, convex mirrored glass, Talosel resin, colored glass, 14¾" diameter, sold for $96,100, the highest price of the week for a Line Vautrin mirror.
Harumi Nakashima (b. 1950), Struggling Form T-1, 2001, stoneware, white, blue, and transparent glazes, 38" x 34½" x 17½", sold for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Successful California and Western Paintings Sale
Woman Sewing by Guy Rose (1867-1925), 29" x 24", sold for $782,500 (est. $400,000/600,000) to Ray Redfern of Redfern Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, bidding for a client. It was the auction’s highest price.
Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922), Field of Bluebonnets at Sunset, 30" x 40", sold for $326,500 ($150,000/200,000).
Bonhams, San Francisco, California ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Document, a Map, and a Song Lead Book Sale
This 59 15/16" x 44 3/16" six-sheet manuscript map by Charles Blaskowitz (circa 1743-1823), consigned by Mrs. M. Sharpe Erskine’s trust, sold for $782,500 (est. $700,000/1 million) to Paul E. Cohen of Cohen & Taliaferro, New York City, who was bidding for a client. Another member of the trade, Seth ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Chicken Shall Lead Them
Even those unfamiliar with North Carolina’s obsession with these Moravian pottery figures will agree that this little chicken shaker is precious. It is small, old, beautifully glazed, undamaged, and in this part of the world highly coveted. The chicken shaker can rest in its new home in Virginia after ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History Auction
Worsted wool 34-star Naval flag with diamond-shaped star configuration, 6' x 10', some toning, scattered holes, and canton repair, $23,500.
Book from Thomas Jefferson’s library, Robert Patterson’s A Treatise of Practical Arithmetic, Intended for the Use of Schools (1818), purchased in 1829 at the sale of Jefferson’s library in Washington, D.C., ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mang Netsuke Collection Nets $1.6 Million
The scowling figure who is looking skyward represents a sennin, or immortal person, who is holding a mokugyo, a wooden percussion instrument used while reciting Buddhist texts. This relatively large (3 7/8") netsuke is carved from bone, and the mokugyo appears to contain a loose ball inside. It sold for ... (Read More)
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