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(Auction)American Paintings Sale at Bonham's
Paul Howard Manship (1885-1966), Dancer and Gazelles, 321/2" high, signed and dated 1916 on the base and inscribed "Roman Bronze Works NY." The bronze sculpture has a green and gray patina. It sold in the salesroom to Alice Levi Duncan, the director of sculpture at Gerald Peters Gallery, New York ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bottle Spirits Rise in Fall
The sun rose, leaves fell, and bottle spirits soared at the annual Norman Heckler bottle lollapalooza on Saturday, October 10, 2009, as 70 to 80 dealers set up in the pasture. Your reporter (in the odd sweatshirt in the foreground) searches for rare target balls and good quotes.by Ralph FinchPhotos ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Amish Quilts Exhibition
The Tailgate Antique Show and Antiques at Music Valley, to be held February 11-13 at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds, will feature an exhibition of Amish quilts from the Darwin D. Bearley collection.Bearley's collection, put together over the last 30 years, consists of over 150 quilts made by the Amish community ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chris Jussel Resigns from Freeman's
Chris Jussel, the original host of the PBS television series Antiques Roadshow, has resigned as senior vice president of Samuel T. Freeman & Co. in Philadelphia.Jussel, former president of the National Antique & Art Dealers Association of America, helped to establish the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show at ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fake Movie Posters: One Pulled from Auction, Two Lawsuits Filed
Estimated at $200,000/250,000, the Dracula poster was revealed as a fake and withdrawn from the Profiles in History auction.by Richard de ThuinA one-sheet poster from Dracula (Universal, 1931), the landmark and much-revered horror film starring Bela Lugosi, was withdrawn from the Hollywood auction #37 at Profiles in History (an auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Sale
Above the Narrows, a 48" x 321/4" tempera on panel painted in 1960 by Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), depicts Nicholas Wyeth at age 18 at Bradford Point on the St. George River in Cushing, Maine. It was estimated at $3/5 million and sold to a woman in the salesroom, bidding for ... (Read More)
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(Show)The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show
Berkeley, California, dealer Thomas Livingston was asking $12,500 for this American Aesthetic Movement gilt and marble-top console that had been sold in San Francisco on November 22, 1884. The initials "WF" are stenciled on the back; Livingston wondered if they stood for Wells Fargo. The top of the console is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Record Benton at American Paintings Auction
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(Feature)Antique Ice Skates in America
Bone skates are mostly found in museums and date back 1500 to 1700 years ago.Snow skate, $100 and higher; uncommon 10", $150 to $200.Maple or beech skate with attached rounded blade, 10", $200 to $350.Skating scene showing crowds and old-time skating clothing. Skating, 1885, Boston by Henry Sandham, from a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Autumn Americana Sale at Doyle's
This 22" x 25 7/8" oil on board by Grandma (Anna Robertson) Moses (1860-1961), Sugaring Off, 1942, sold for $28,125 (est. $5000/7000). It was the most expensive painting in the sale, but it brought less than it had at Sotheby's in December 1998, when it sold for $34,500.This set of ... (Read More)
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