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(Fragment)New Art Fair in Texas
The first annual Houston Fine Art Fair will be held September 15-18 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Approximately 80 international, national, and Texas galleries will set up.The new fair will offer modern and contemporary artworks, from 1950 to the present, including paintings, drawings, print editions, installations, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old Salem Toy Museum and Thomas Gray Collection
The Van Haeften house, a detailed Palladian mansion on its original arcaded base, 1740-50, 52½" wide x 49¼" high x 19¼" deep, was acquired by Vivien Greene in 1966 from Mabel Annie, Lady Ley, whose first husband was Baron Franz Izaak Van Haeften. The house became part of Greene's private ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2011 Ceramics Fair
1Exhibitors and shoppers liked the new venue at the Bohemian National Hall on East 73rd Street. The view from the balcony shows how the stands fit together. The space could be expanded to the stage if more dealers want to exhibit next year."We'll take the whole shelf," said Sandra Cluthe, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Bald Eagle as an American Icon
Gilded wooden eagle, 9" x 12". Author's collection.Wooden eagle on a pedestal, 12" x 12". Author's collection.Ship in a bottle with an eagle background, 6" x 11". Author's collection.Cast-iron eagle, 8½" x 21". Author's collection.Carved wooden eagle holding a shield, on a brick background, 9" x 25". Author's collection.Seat cushion, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antique Glass: Color Makes the Difference
About 30 collectors of Millersburg glass were among the bidders to show up for the sale. Disappointed though they were about the color of the Cosmos pattern bowl, devotees stayed to buy, bidding on the 80 pieces that ranged from common and selling in the low hundreds up to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)N.C. Wyeth Illustration Tops Paintings and Prints Auction
And They Did Their Trading from the Top of Battlemented Walls, a 38" x 26" signed oil on canvas, was one of four illustrations by Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945) that accompanied a story by Arthur E. McFarland, "An Antiente Greate Companie," published in the November 11, 1905, issue of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)2011 Peabody Essex Museum Antiques Show Canceled
The Peabody Essex Museum antiques show will not be held in 2011.A letter sent to exhibitors in early March by executive director and CEO Dan L. Monroe reads: "The Peabody Essex Museum's Antiques Show has been a major part of Thanksgiving weekend for the last 38 years. Several of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Grogan Sells Russian Book for $83,375
The book with its silk embroidered dust jacket folded back. Grogan cataloged it only as "Russian Book on Byzantine Art; in Russian; N. Kohaakoba, bears date on title page 1892; limited edition numbered 175 out of 200 copies; white cover with black and gold decoration, 14½"." Bidders found it anyway. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marine Paintings and Decorative Arts
Robert Salmon (1775-1845), Drying Sails in Boston Harbor, 1831, oil on canvas, 16½" x 24¼", signed lower right and inscribed on the reverse. Was this top lot at $458,000 a sign of greater sales to come? If so, we can thank Alan Granby of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, for leading the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Million-Dollar-Plus Painting Forfeited
Leda ed il Cigno (Leda and the Swan), oil on copper, 16 7/8" x 11¾".Leda ed il Cigno (Leda and the Swan), an oil on copper by Italian Renaissance painter Lelio Orsi (1511-1587), was ordered forfeited to the United States government as property brought into the U.S. in violation of ... (Read More)
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