(Auction)
Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858-1924), Park along the Shore, oil on canvas, 201/4" x 24 3/8", signed "Prendergast/ CP" in the hand of his brother Charles Prendergast on the lower right, $206,500 (est. $150,000/250,000) to a collector in the salesroom.Harry Herman Roseland (1866-1950), The Lucky Card, oil on canvas, 10" x ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)
by Karl H. PassThe Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley, located at 237 West Main Street in Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has received a donation of daybooks kept by pioneering antiques dealer Hattie Brunner. Gifted by descendant Raymond Brunner, the ledgers record her sales from 1929 through 1976, according to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)
Manhattan art dealer Robert Scott Cook was charged on January 26 with defrauding one of his clients out of more than $4 million worth of art, including works by Pablo Picasso, Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said, ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondIn the December 2011 issue, back before the blur that was the holidays, we tackled that touchy subject about what to do if you see something misidentified or miscataloged when at an auction or a show. We hear from people regularly who have found themselves ... (Read More)
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(Show)
The Pennsylvania chest made for Catherine Wereley (b. 1762), Northampton and Lehigh Counties, was $85,000 from Raccoon Creek Antiques, Oley, Pennsylvania. It is similar to the chest made for her sister, which is now in the Winterthur Museum's collection. Their father was one of the founders of Lehigh County. The ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Karen and Charley Buckingham of Burleson, Texas, were pleased to sell the weathered but true Windsor chair to young collectors on Friday morning. The display was anchored by a canopy bed with turned posts for $1250. The 18th-century Massachusetts hanging cupboard in the corner with red finish was $2400.Canadian Grenfell ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
The girl in this 26" x 22" oil on wood panel by Zedekiah Belknap, painted in 1823, was identified on the reverse as Alvina (or Elvina) Smith, born August 1819. It sold for $34,500.Bidding was lively on this small New Hampshire pine cupboard in well-worn red paint with a wide ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Two phone bidders competed for this watercolor on paper by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Blue and Opal-The Photographer, 4 15/16" x 81/2", painted in Dieppe, France circa 1885. It was from the estate of Gerald M. Bordman of Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, who bought it in 1959 from Hirschl & ... (Read More)
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(Feature)
The American Art Fair filled three floors of the Bohemian National Hall November 27-December 1, 2011. Alexander Acevedo's Alexander Gallery and Thomas Colville shared the balcony space on the fifth floor. "Nobody wanted to be up here. We wanted to charge more for these larger spaces, so since we own ... (Read More)
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(Feature)
There were five to six phone bidders when this pair of Paris porcelain vases came up for bid. The field soon narrowed to two. One of them paid $68,440 for the 14 5/8" high vases with depictions of America's second and third presidents on them. There was repaired breakage to ... (Read More)
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