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(Auction)The Mysterious East, Middle East, and Eurasia
A copy of Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov's Russian-language catalog of the medieval Byzantine enamels collected by wealthy St. Petersburg collector Alexander Zvenigorodski sold on the phone for $83,375. It is going to Russia, Michael Grogan said. Schinto photos.Jeune Femme en Profile by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) sold on the phone for $54,625 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bonhams Americana and English Sale
This French memorial clock by Jean-Baptiste Dubuc commemorating George Washington was made for the American market. It is signed "Dubuc/ Rue Michel-le-Comte No. 33/ A Paris," and the mainspring is dated 1815. The plinth with drapery swag was cast with a eulogy: "The First in War, First in Peace/ And ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Chester County Antiques Show
This Long Island dressing table is similar to one illustrated in Dean Failey's Long Island Is My Nation. It has similar pointed shoe feet, shell-carved knees on cabriole legs, notched corners on its top, and figured wood used for the drawer fronts. It was $19,500 from Jamie Price, and it ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Mr. and Mrs. William G. and Mary E. Yorke: Painters of Ship Portraits
From Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, "A Cruise in the Erie Basin," December 1892. Entitled "The Marine Studio," this actually shows the Yorkes' studio and home. The illustrator is not identified.Above, the sloop Defyer, oil on canvas, 201/2" x 24", unsigned, $10,665; below, the sloop Albatross (in moonlight), oil on canvas, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)20th-Century Design Auction
This monumental desk, 38 1/8" x 961/2" x 431/4", of oak, leather, and chromium-plated metal was designed by Jacques Adnet in the 1930's. It sold for $80,500 (est. $40,000/60,000).Enthusiastic buyers seem to vie for Tiffany at every level. This pair of circa 1910 geometric and turtleback tile wall sconces of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Opening Gun Sounds at Fort Andross
Appraiser Daniel Buck of Lisbon, Maine, showed a variety of upscale paintings, including this oil on canvas by Eric Sloane (1905-1985), Spring House, in the original Sloane frame, signed front and back, for $11,500.Jim Montell of Gardiner, Maine, had two matching seaweed mocha mugs with brown center backgrounds and blue ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Collectors Dominate African-American Fine Art Auction
The top lot by Romare Bearden (1911-1988), the circa 1973 Tidings, a 17" x 16" collage of various papers and mixed media mounted on masonite, sold for $96,000, nearly twice the high estimate. Be on the lookout for a Bearden retrospective, opening in September at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Not Only Funny: Stinger Wins Award at NOVA Show
Fall Sunrise-Lambertville, oil on canvas, 12" x 16", painted from New Hope looking into Lambertville.John Stinger, impressionist landscape painter and cartoonist for Maine Antique Digest, recently won the Alan Fetterman Award for best oil painting at the NOVA Galaxy Art Show held in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.The Stewartsville, New Jersey, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Buyer Sues Over a Sale Made and a Sale Not Made
by Daniel GrantWith eight branch locations around the world, the Manhattan-based Gagosian Gallery sells a lot of art to a lot of people. A lawsuit filed by a British collector in U.S. District Court in New York City on March 10 takes issue with a sale that the gallery made ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ansel Adams Negatives Case Settled
by Daniel GrantIn an out-of-court settlement reached between the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust and Rick Norsigian, a California school maintenance worker, photographic prints made from a group of 65 negatives found by Norsigian at a garage sale may be sold but not with Ansel Adams's name, likeness, or trademark. ... (Read More)
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