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(Feature)How Do You Price a Promise When a $31 Million Rothko Is Involved?
by David Hewett
The untitled 93 1/8" x 80 1/8" oil on canvas by Mark Rothko, signed and dated 1961, sold for $31,442,500 at Sotheby’s on May 12.
How do you keep secret a link in the chain of provenance of a major artwork that is to be sold at auction? Does ... (Read More)
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(Auction)English Charger Brings $81,900
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Pook & PookThis Mahantongo Valley, Pennsylvania, painted poplar dower chest has a center panel inscribed “John Kesler den/ 16 Junius 1814/ in under Mahantango/ Taunschip Schuhl Caunty,” flanked by two panels of stylized tulips and a vase of flowers. The chest is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Greenwich Antiques Show Canceled for 2010
The Greenwich (Connecticut) Historical Society will not hold the Greenwich Antiques Show in conjunction with its year-end fund-raiser, Antiquarius, in 2010.The historical society will continue to hold its popular annual Antiquarius House Tour and Holiday Boutique in early December and plans to add new fund-raising activities and programs to the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 13th Annual Marburger Farm Antique Show
A Louis XVI 18th-century bookcase fromPorto, Portugal was $22,000 from Eric Vanpoucke of Antica Collection, Houston, Texas. Made of pioppo wood, with original paint and a rebuilt side, it was originally inserted in a pharmacy wall.Maggie Langdon of Austin, Texas, offered this display bin for nails and screws, from San ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"A Stitch in Time" Gets More Time
Because of strong attendance, the Greenwich Historical Society in Greenwich, Connecticut, has extended its current exhibition, A Stitch in Time: Quilts from the Collection, to August 29. The exhibition was originally scheduled to close on June 13.A number of the historically significant quilts in the exhibition have never been shown ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Quiet Silver Sale in Texas
A George I silver gilt ewer (9" tall) and basin (10 7/8" diameter) by Paul de Lamerie, London, England, 1714-16, sold for $61,000.01 after the auction. This set is among the earliest extant examples of de Lamerie’s work.The enamel and silver gilt clock, Carl Fabergé, workmaster Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Tough Task: A review of "J.E.Buttersworth: 19th Century Marine Painter"
A Book Reviewby A.J. Peluso Jr.J.E.Buttersworth: 19th Century Marine Painterby Rudolph J. Schaefer. Revised and updated by Andrew W. German and Janet U. Schaefer, Mystic Seaport, 2009, 269 pp., hardbound, $150 plus S/H from Mystic Seaport, (860) 572-5386, (www.mysticseaport.org).Note the title of this new book. The incomparable original, published in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Eames Photographic Archive Pulled from Auction, Subject of Legal Dispute
by Daniel GrantIn all other respects, the sale of 133 lots of furniture and decorative objects designed by husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames at Wright auction house in Chicago on April 8 took place without a hitch. It did reasonably well, realizing $344,896 (includes buyers' premiums) for the sale ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Button, Button: Gwinnett Letter Sells for $722,500
Sotheby's, New York Cityby Jeanne SchintoThe Copley Library’s Button Gwinnett autograph letter sold to an unidentified buyer for $722,500 (est. $500,000/700,000). A Sotheby’s press office spokesperson said there was only one other bidder. The text is in the hand of Timothy Matlack, scribe of the final version of the Declaration ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Monroe (Washington) Antique Show: Definitely Not a Light Repast
This little (8" x 10" x 4") cabinet or doll bed from France, 1880-90, quickly sold for $195 on the first day of the show. Show promoter Loretta Johnson of Cobweb Antiques, Monroe, Washington, offered it and said she wasn’t certain if it represented a cabinet bed or armoire but ... (Read More)
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