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(Fragment)A Spirit of Simplicity
by Lita Solis-CohenWhen wealthy collectors are passionate about what they collect, they endow a foundation in order to share it with the public. Dr. Albert Barnes did it to show people how to look at his artworks by Cézanne, Renoir, and Matisse at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. Abby ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Last Hunt Country Antiques Fair
An early morning crowd begins to search for bargains among the show tents on the grounds of Oatlands Plantation. It was Dordy Fontinel’s final show under the tents at the historic venue.A kilted David Parker from nearby Waterford, Virginia, came to the show with a mission. He was in search ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall American Paintings Sales
Francis A. Silva (1835-1886), Sailing at Twilight, signed and dated ’77, oil on canvas, 20" x 36", $86,500 (est. $40,000/ 60,000). Sotheby’s photo.Boats on a River by Austrian-born artist Joseph Floch (1895-1977), signed “Floch” lower right, oil on canvas, 25 5/8" x 32", sold for $37,500 (est. $8000/12,000) to anAustrian ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rookwood Pottery Gets into the Auction Business
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(Auction)High-Test: Standard Station Print Brings $170,000
$170,000.At a Bonhams & Butterfields prints auction on November 3, simulcast between its San Francisco and Los Angeles salesrooms, Standard Station, 1966, a screenprint by Edward Ruscha (b. 1937), sold for $170,000 (includes buyer's premium). It was estimated at $30,000/40,000.According to Bonhams & Butterfields, that's the highest price ever paid ... (Read More)
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(Auction)McCloskey Pastel Heads Foster Auction
This pastel still life, solidly attributed to William Joseph McCloskey, was the sale’s leading seller at $11,000. Foster photo.One of the sale’s biggest prices was $7700 for this early unsigned Italian oil on canvas in a lemon gold frame, 38" x 52" (sight size), of a circular domed Roman temple ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Canadian Auction House Bankrupt
Ritchie's, the Toronto-based auction house, has declared bankruptcy. A note posted on Ritchie's Web site (www.ritchies.com) read: "To all consignors, secured and unsecured creditors of Ritchies Inc.: Please be informed that the landlord Hildegard Hammer has petitioned Ritchies Inc. into bankruptcy. As of October 26th, 2009, Ritchies Inc. is now ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
Michael Bennett-Levy with just a small part of his early television collection in one of the cellars of Monkton House, and a room typical of those that Bonhams had to sort through in preparing the sale catalogue.It is estimated that no more than 120 American-made television sets of pre-World War ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.Picturing Victorian America: Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bibles, Library Dupes, and Cookbook Lead Americana Sale
A number of items relating to the Arctic did well, including Joseph-Nicolas Delisle’s Nouvelles Cartes des Decouvertes de l’Amiral de Fonte, published in Paris in1753. With 60 pages and four folding maps, minus the final plate as well as (as usual) the final appendix, this early imagining of Alaska’s coast ... (Read More)
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