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(Auction)American Paintings and Sculpture
Sotheby's, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Sotheby'sSotheby's sale on September 24 of mid-priced American paintings and sculpture, held the day before its Americana sale, was a two-session event that dispersed 181 of the 271 lots offered for a total of $4,009,001, a 66.8% sold rate by lot and 76.5% ... (Read More)
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(Show)28th Annual Baltimore Summer Antiques Show Draws a Crowd
Baltimore, Marylandby Robert KyleProspective buyers examined carved ivory figures in the booth of T.K. Asian Antiquities,Williamsburg, Virginia.Susan Lapene of M.S. Rau Antiques, New Orleans, stood next to The Pine Trees at Varengeville by Claude Monet, circa 1882. The 253/4" x 32" painting was priced at $1,280,000.Rick Griffin of Newport News, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Van Pelt-Robb Dressing Table Sells for $1,142,500
Sotheby's, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Sotheby'sVan Pelt-Robb Philadelphia mahogany dressing table, attributed to the shop of Henry Clifton and Thomas Carteret, carving by Nicholas Bernard, circa 1760. It has an old surface and original brasses and is missing two knee returns and molding beneath the top. Sotheby's catalog ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Guilford Antiques Show Moves to February
Barn Star Productions manager Frank Gaglio and the Dorothy Whitfield Historic Society have announced a new date for the annual Guilford (Connecticut) Antiques Show. Saturday, February 21 and Sunday, February 22 will mark the 40th anniversary of the event benefiting the Hyland House Museum in Guilford, a museum of colonial ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: America Rising
EditorialIn late October, the fixed-priced catalog from Massachusetts dealer Rex Stark arrived in the M.A.D. offices. Stark, a specialist in historical Americana, sells using an old-fashioned method, especially in these days of instant messaging and dynamic database publishing on the Web; he uses an 81/2" x 51/2" catalog with color ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Half-Million-Dollar Oil Stands Heade and Shoulders above the Rest
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maineby Mark SiscoMartin Johnson Heade oil on canvas, Roman Newsboys, $522,500.Carved folk art bookcase, decorated with marine and animal themes, $15,400.By our unofficial reckoning, about $10,000,000 worth of antiques changed hands at auctions in Maine between August 25 and 31. About 5% of that total ... (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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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Commodity Futures (or the Risk of Commodifying Antiques)
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWe pondered this column for a long time. What do we know about finances, economics, investments, et cetera? Then it occurred to us that with the current state of the market, you might as well follow your barber's advice as your financial analyst's. ... (Read More)
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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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