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(Auction)Chest for $632,400 Tops at Keno Auctions during Americana Week
Drake family carved and painted joined chest with drawer, attributed to the Deacon John Moore shop tradition, the "foliated vine group," Windsor, Connecticut, 1675-90. Estimated at $100,000/150,000, it sold for $632,400, a record for a 17th-century chest, to a collector on the phone, underbid by Massachusetts dealer David Wheatcroft in ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Copley's Americana Week Sale
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927), Wild Turkey, 1924, oil on canvas, 30" x 50", signed and dated lower right, sold for $86,250 (est. $20,000/40,000) to New York City dealer W. Graham Arader. The artist depicted wild turkeys in a variety of stances, from feeding to preening, in a southern landscape. It ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Quinn's Auction Galleries Moves
Quinn's Auction Galleries has relocated to a new venue in Falls Church, Virginia. The new 14,400-square-foot site at 360 South Washington Street encompasses three floors, with the gallery and reception area at street level, the fine arts department on the second floor, and executive and administrative offices on the third ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Butterscotch Auction Gallery Sells Rachel Ruysch Painting for $2,040,000
A signed, untitled still life by Rachel Ruysch sold to a London dealer for $2,040,000 (est. $200,000/300,000) at Butterscotch Auction Gallery on February 12. According to the auction house, the price for the 44½" x 35" oil on canvas is a new auction record for the artist. Photo courtesy Butterscotch ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Julia Donates Meldrum Colt Replica to Museum
Bob Meldrum, a.k.a. "Hair Trigger Bob," a.k.a. "Bad Man Bob."by Mark SiscoJames D. Julia, Inc. in Fairfield, Maine, announced that it has donated to the Museum of Northwest Colorado in Craig, Colorado, a replica of a gold-inlaid and engraved presentation Colt revolver given to the infamous lawman Robert D. "Bad ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings, Orientalia, and One Spectacular Table
The Gillis Jacobsz van Hulsdonck oil on panel still life, 11" x 14", brought a hefty $97,750.This is the Italian micromosaic game table with an R. J. Horner base and a top composed of marble, slate, and semiprecious stones that sold for $92,000.A Patek Philippe miniature music box played a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Week in Philadelphia
by Lita Solis-CohenPut Philadelphia on your calendar for the last weekend in April. Come to the City of Brotherly Love and become immersed in art and antiques. Make it a long weekend or even a week to attend the auctions scheduled before and after the shows.Antiques Week in Philadelphia will ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Coffman's Antiques Returns
Joyce Coffman has opened a fresh version of Coffman's Antiques in Lenox, Massachusetts. She and her late husband, Don, were well known for their antiques shows in New Jersey and their popular shop in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, which closed in 2007.The new shop is located at 69 Church Street in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)50th Fishersville Antiques Expo Date Change
The 50th Antiques Expo in Fishersville, Virginia, will take place May 18-20 at Augusta Expoland. It is normally scheduled for the first weekend in May; Heritage Promotions moved the event to the third weekend because the Big Flea added a show that creates conflicts for a significant number of exhibitors ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy Peabody Essex Museum"If there is any people on earth whose lives are more tangled up with museums than we are, God help them."—Paul Chaat Smith, Everything You Know about Indians Is WrongThéâtre de Cristal by Kent Monkman (b. 1965), Cree, 2007. Approximately ... (Read More)
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