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(Fragment)Some Pig: "Charlotte's Web" Cover Art Brings $155,350
The original 1952 cover art for the best-selling children's book Charlotte's Web by E.B. White brought $155,350 (includes buyer's premium) on October 15 at Heritage Auction Galleries' illustration art sale in New York City.The auction was Heritage's second-highest-grossing auction of illustration art since the inception of the category, tallying $3.75 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Copley and Keno in January
by Jeanne SchintoLeigh Keno is part of a new matched pair. He and Stephen B. O'Brien Jr. of Boston's Copley Fine Art Auctions are having back-to-back sales in New York City in mid-January 2011. A jointly issued press release stated their intent was to "to kick off Americana Week."The back ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Langlais, Brooks, Yes! Thieme, No.
If ever there was a wooden cat sculpture that screamed "Bernard Langlais," this is it, but Gamage sold it as "attributed to" because he didn't acquire it directly from the artist's estate. It sold for $990. "It wasn't in the house, and we couldn't find it signed," Gamage said. "But ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Blunt and Hartwell Lead Foster Auction
An oil on canvas portrait of a lady in black dripping with jewelry and seated on a red couch was attributed to John Samuel Blunt and brought $20,900.A primitive oil on canvas portrait solidly attributed to George G. Hartwell (1815-1901) of a young gentleman in three-quarter pose, with several style ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Santa Fe Show: Objects of Art
This group of dolls from the collection of Pat Hatch was priced at $2700 for the group at J. Compton Gallery,Wimberly, Texas.Terry Schurmeier, who owns Cowboys and Indians Antiques on Central Avenue in Albuquerque, was asking $28,000 for the pair of ram and ewe kachina dolls made by Jimmy Koots.Jan ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Jonathan Fisher House Antique Show
A new book by CUNY professor Kevin D. Murphy, Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier, published by University of MassachusettsPress, was $49.95 at the Jonathan Fisher House booth.This cribbage board with a drawer for the pegs was $875 from Patricia Stauble of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The National Museum of American Illustration Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
Newport, Rhode Islandby Lita Solis-CohenThe exhibition Norman Rockwell and his Mentor J.C. Leyendecker begins in the loggia. The ceiling panels were painted by muralist James Wall Finn of Tiffany Studios. They were restored over two summers by conservators from Winterthur and from Paris.Two Santas. Left, J.C. Leyendecker's 1918 Santa, wearing ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Zoar Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale
A field of soybeans banked the white tent that is the trademark of the Zoar Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale.The tent housed the majority of the dealers.Found in the booth of Deborah FisherAntiques, Lebanon, Ohio, were a two-drawer, two-door jelly cupboard in original red wash, $2800; a bulk garden ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Mythbuster
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittThere are myths in auctions that some auctioneers don't recognize. An "auction with reserve" seems like a simple concept, but its nuances cause confusion for many. I'm reminded of that whenever I address an audience of auctioneers on the subject, as I did recently while ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Joe Lincoln Widgeon Drake Highlights Decoy Sale
A rigmate pair of mergansers with slightly turned heads by Keyes Chadwick of Oak Bluff, Martha's Vineyard, sold for $19,550 (est. $11,000/14,000). The hen had a crack on the underside, and they both had some light discoloration to their original paint.A decorative preening old squaw drake with lifted wings by ... (Read More)
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