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(Feature)Tilden-Thurber and The Weiss Collection
Stanley Weiss plays his Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu violin, noting that Paganini preferred a Guarneri to a Stradivarius. He seems to be accompanied by the woman at the piano in the portrait by John Blunt. Weiss said he bought the painting at a Christie’s auction years ago.The fourth floor, like ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: Continuing to plough my way through the summer backlog, I have focused my attention this month on record-breaking English watercolours by Cozens, Towne, and others, as well as a further group by J.M.W. Turner. The latter is also represented by a Roman panorama in oils that ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Major Change of Hours for Brooklyn Museum
Beginning Wednesday, October 6, the Brooklyn Museum will be open to the public eight additional hours a week, including remaining open until 10 p.m. every Thursday and Friday. When the new schedule goes into effect, the Brooklyn Museum will have a greater number of evening hours than almost any other ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Footstool Hits $92,000
Devin Moisan Auctioneers, Inc., Dover, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoLockwood de Forest footstool, $92,000.From the de Forest estate came this collection of 12 parcel-gilt, hammered sterling, and mixed metal spoons by Tiffany, circa 1880. Each was individually executed and had applied figures of a monkey, a frog, a crab, a beetle, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Reproduction
Carter Kyan Caisse was born on May 8, 2010. He's the first grandchild for Wiscasset, Maine, dealers Dennis and Natalie Louwers Antiques. "Our little salesman's sample—he's met a lot of our customers at the shop this summer here in Maine," they wrote. Originally published in the October 2010 issue of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)An Auction Market Rebound
by Daniel GrantDon't try this at home. In 2007 The Fine Art Fund, a London-based art hedge fund, purchased British artist Glenn Brown's 1992 painting Dali-Christ for $1.1 million; the fund sold it in June 2010 at a Christie's auction in London for $2.2 million. A 100% profit in just ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Florida Man Charged in Fake Art Sting
Luigi Cugini of Pompano Beach, Florida, was charged with committing mail fraud in a criminal complaint filed on August 19 in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida. Cugini allegedly sold reproductions of John Singer Sargent paintings that he claimed were authentic. Cugini, also known as Gino Cugini, was arrested ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mostly Winners in the Fine Collection
The 24" x 19½" oil on wood portrait of a seated child in a white dress, circa 1825 and by Sheldon Peck, sold for $200,600 to dealer David Schorsch on the phone, underbid by another David who deals in folk art, David Wheatcroft, that is.The 8¾" high coffeepot was attributed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hirschl & Adler Galleries Moving to Expanded Quarters
by Lita Solis-CohenWhat has been rumored all summer was finally confirmed by gallery owner Stuart P. Feld and his daughter, Elizabeth Feld. Hirschl & Adler Galleries will move in late fall from its historic townhouse at 21 East 70th Street in New York City, where the gallery has carried on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ohio Valley Auction
Soap Hollow chest of drawers by Jeremiah Stahl, dated 1864, red ground with stenciled birds and flowers, some paint wear and losses, varnish darkened and partially cleaned, pet scratches, most escutcheon inlays missing, $14,100.Pair of portraits attributed to William Matthew Prior (1806-1873), oil on artist board, unsigned, 15" x 10½" ... (Read More)
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