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(Feature)Collectors Dominate African-American Fine Art Auction
The top lot by Romare Bearden (1911-1988), the circa 1973 Tidings, a 17" x 16" collage of various papers and mixed media mounted on masonite, sold for $96,000, nearly twice the high estimate. Be on the lookout for a Bearden retrospective, opening in September at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art
The catalog cover lot, a painted hide shirt from the Great Lakes region and dating from the first half of the 18th century, was purchased for $362,500 for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Joe D. Horse Capture, associate curator of Native American art, in the salesroom.Christie's, New York Cityby ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Choppy Waters? Not for Order Bidders at Ocean Liner Sale
Swann Auction Galleries, New York City by Richard de ThuinPhotos courtesy Swann An interior view captioned "Main Salon of the Ill Fated Titanic" (White Star Line) on a near-mint postcard published by Max Rigot, Chicago, 1912, doubled its high estimate to bring $960 from an order bidder. It was velvety ... (Read More)
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(Show)Outsider Art Fair: New Artists, Old Favorites, Lots of Fun
The oil painting Picking Cotton by Clementine Hunter (1886-1988) in the booth of Gilley's Gallery, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had paint-textured cotton balls that gave it a three-dimensional quality. It was $8000.Galerie Bonheur, St. Louis, Missouri, brought several paintings by Guatemalan artist Eric Guttelewitz (b. 1956), including this one, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Original York Show
Margaret Johnson Sutor of Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, always has an array of quality transferware, Gaudy Dutch, and canary yellow china, as shown here. The large ship painting by R.E. Nickerson was $4200. The small one at top left was $395, and below, $850.Hanes & Ruskin, Old Lyme, Connecticut, asked $1850 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Strong Jewelry Sales and a Gallery Opening at MFA
This 2¼" x 1 3/8" platinum and diamond brooch with 94 marquise-shaped and 48 baguette and tapered baguette diamonds weighing approximately 15.00 carats, approximately 20.3 dwt., sold for $17,500 (est. $5500/6500), making it the top lot at the February 22 auction at Doyle New York.A 3¼" x 2" antique gold, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Conroy Sentenced Again, Escapes Further Jail Time
by David HewettOn March 17 former auctioneer Tim Conroy, who pleaded guilty in March 2010 to stealing from his Onondaga County clients, escaped further jail time by making restitution of over $3000 to one of them.The 48-year-old Elbridge, New York, man received a sentence of five years' probation from state ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Alexander Gallery Moves--To Two Places
The Alexander Gallery has moved, after almost 40 years on Madison Avenue in New York City. The executive office is now located at 115 East 72nd Street near Park Avenue, and the interim exhibition space is off Madison Avenue at 34 East 68th Street.According to the firm, plans to move ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Twelve-Tune Clock Sells for $74,750
Photos courtesy Hudson Valley Auctioneers.by Lita Solis-CohenAt an estate sale at Hudson Valley Auctioneers in Beacon, New York, on Monday night, February 28, a bidding battle erupted between John Delaney Jr. of West Townsend, Massachusetts, and James Price of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, when a musical clock made by Frederick Heisely in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Paint, Pattern & People" Has Opened at Winterthur
Chest-over-drawers, Lancaster County, 1783, walnut, hard pine, sulfur, brass, and iron, 29" x 54" x 26". Inlaid in sulfur on a board beneath the till covering a secret drawer compartment: "ANNO 1783." Inscribed on underside of lid in graphite: "D.W. Dietrich 1876." Feet replaced (no evidence of ball feet); proper ... (Read More)
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