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(Auction)Fancy Mantel Leads Farmer Sale
The star of the Farmer sale was this painted Virginia folk art mantel. Unfortunately, no photograph can do justice to this magnificent piece of craftsmanship. It is profusely decorated with three-dimensional medallions and sunburst carvings, and the columns are intricately marbleized. The chimneypiece measures 62½" x 85½" overall, with an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Highs and Lows, Hits and Misses at Inuit Art Auction
The catalog cover lot, Hooded Figure by John Pangnark (1920-1980) of Arviat, was his best minimalist carving among the eightin the sale. Auctioneer Duncan McLean praised its “beautiful size and strength.” Estimated at $6000/9000, the 7¼" high sculpture earned $14,400 ($14,209).Polar Bear and Cub in Ice, a skin stencil print ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Estate of Nicholas Colella
Western landscape attributed to Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), unsigned, $21,850.Carved marble fireplace supposedly from the home of Leonardo da Vinci at Château du Cloux, $34,500.Kelly & Ben Schultz Auctioneers, Syracuse, New Yorkby Charles WennerPhotos courtesy Schultz AuctioneersThe estate of Nicholas E. Colella (1920-2008) was sold on March 20 at an unreserved ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Pure and Simple Antique Show
Cast-iron ram shooting target, fresh to the market, $3850, and one of two Mott Foundry benches, circa 1865, $2250 the pair from Don and Marta Orwig of Corunna, Indiana.Mike and Marti Korba of The old Shed, Russiaville, Indiana, had already sold the sawbuck table, but the jelly cupboard (center) in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Standing Room Only at Slotin Folk Art Auction
After about two hours of “warmup,” the section that the Slotins call the “Masters” was offered. It included two examples by Mattie Lou O’Kelley of Banks County, Georgia, both from the Karen and Werner Gundersheimer collection. Her Spotted Cat, 24" x 18", had been illustrated in a 1980 Life magazine ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Spring American Paintings Auctions
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), Off Shore, 1967, signed lower right, tempera on masonite, 21¼" x 51½", $6,354,500 (est. $1.2/1.8 million). The three men, one of them Wyeth’s neighbor, are going clam digging on the Georges River in Cushing, Maine, which was the view from Wyeth’s front lawn. A large painting, it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Civil War Auction Hits $1.16 Million
Confederate Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman’s presentation flag, the inscribed sword he was wearing when killed at the Battle of Champion Hill in 1863, and his sword belt generated the top bid of the auction, $59,750. These artifacts had been in the possession of the direct lineal descendants of General Tilghman ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in the Valley
Carlson & Stevenson, Manchester Center, Vermont, asked $1400 for the trundle bed (it would make a nice coffee table with a piece of glass on top) and $850 for the circa 1910 double birdcage. The early 20th-century watercolors of ships by a California artist are in period frames and were ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Oregon Auctioneer/Dealer Charged with Unlawful Trade Practices
by David HewettOn July 22, Oregon Attorney General John Kroger announced that the state had filed a lawsuit in Multnomah County against Lucy Leffler Knopf. Knopf and her auction firm, AAA Team Auctions, Antique & Art Dealers, LLC, are charged with several violations of Oregon's Unlawful Trade Practices Act and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art Auction
A Haida or Tlingit eagle effigy bowl, estimated at $50,000/80,000, was the auction’s top seller at $146,000. The bowl “went overseas,” purchased by a dealer who was not necessarily the end user, Jim Haas said. He said that bowls like this—“a great early classic example of Northwest Coast material”—were “exceedingly ... (Read More)
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