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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail Crystal Cheetah Is a Sold Again SleeperThe 11th-century Fatamid rock crystal ewer (with 19th-century French mounts) that was put up for sale at Lawrences of Crewkerne with a $200/400 estimate in January changed hands for $5.57 million at Christie’s on October 7.An Ottoman tombak shield, one ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Institutions Buy Big at African-American Art Sale
Swann Auction Galleries, New York City
by Jeanne Schinto
Frederick Douglass Lives Again (The Ghost of Frederick Douglass), an early (1949) drawing by Charles White (1918-1979), sold to the Sheldon Museum of Art, on the campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, for $204,000 (est. $100,000/150,000). What Swann described in its ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Pook & Pook
Pook & Pook Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenThree-piece Philadelphia pewter communion service, attributed to William Will. The flagon has a bulbous body, foliate finial, and spout engraved to suggest a serpent’s head with eyes and teeth. The chalice is 7¾" high, and the paten is 6¼" in diameter. All three ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Queen Anne and Cape Ann Lead Anniversary Sale
Blackwood/March Auctioneers & Appraisers, Essex, MassachusettsThe sale’s top lot (and the best ever for the auction house) was this circa 1730 Boston Queen Anne easy chair that sold to Luke Beckerdite for $127,650. March offered it as lot 29, chosen to coincide with his 29th year in business. Blackwood/March photo. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Exhibition of Babar Original Illustrations and Manuscripts
by Rose SafranDrawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors is the first exhibition of the Morgan Library & Museum's Babar collection, acquired in 2004. The series of images is sure to interest the many generations of adults who as children enjoyed the iconic fictional orphaned French elephant in a green suit, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Biggs Museum of American Art Buys Delaware Clock
by Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Weschler's.A tall clock in a walnut case with a silvered brass dial signed "Jas. Kinkead, Christiana Bridge," circa 1780, sold at Weschler's in Washington, D.C., on October 11 for $61,000 (includes buyer's premium). The buyer was the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, Delaware."The clock ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Obama Progress Poster Brings $4800
On Wednesday, November 5, one day after Barack Obama's historic election, a signed, dated, and numbered political poster by Shepard Fairey depicting Obama above the word "Progress" sold for $4800 (includes buyer's premium) during the $1.2 million sale of fine art prints in San Francisco and Los Angeles by Bonhams ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mother and Son Art Dealers Plead Guilty
>On October 22, Christopher Breithoff, 35, and Constance Breithoff, 60, both of Covington, Louisiana, pled guilty to crimes involving a scheme to defraud customers of the Barlow Art Gallery and Transitions in Mandeville, Louisiana, which the Breithoffs had owned and operated since 2004. They also operated a gallery on Royal ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Another Historical Document Seized
by David HewettAnother historical document has been seized from a dealer by law enforcement officers under orders from higher-ups. This latest episode occurred in Fishtown, Pennsylvania.On September 24, state troopers entered Perpetua, a store owned by 63-year-old Edward Marshall, and demanded that Marshall turn over an item he had bought ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Thomas Chambers: The People's Choice
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenThomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter, 1808-1869by Kathleen A. FosterPhiladelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2008, 171 pages, hardbound, $50 (plus $13 shipping), softbound, $39.95 (plus $8 shipping), from the museum store, (215) 684-7960, Web site (www.philamuseumstore.org).If you think it surprising ... (Read More)
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