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May 23, 2006On May 3 at Sotheby's, in a packed salesroom, Pablo Picasso's "Dora Maar au chat," one of the artist's most spectacular depictions of his lover and artistic companion, sold for $95,216,000.
May 23, 2006A feather in the cap for Wendy Management, The Spring International Art and Antiques Show was a highly successful upscale event of unprecedented quality.-
May 23, 2006Just in time for the release of the film The Da Vinci Code, the Portland Museum of Art is displaying its rarely seen "Mona Lisa" painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
May 23, 2006On Memorial Day Weekend when people traditionally reopen their camps and cabins, The Brick Store Museum debuts its newest exhibition, "Camp Maine: Rustic Furniture & Accessories, 1860-1940."
May 23, 2006The world's best collection of Hudson River School paintings returns, after a two-and-a-half year national tour, to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, June 2-December 31.-
May 23, 2006Thanks to longtime Hartford philanthropists Melinda and Paul Sullivan, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's exhibition "Samuel Colt: Arms, Art and Invention" is back on the museum's 2006 schedule.
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May 23, 2006"It was really hoppin'," commented Tony Zipp in regard to Crocker Farm's auction of American stoneware and redware that took place this past Saturday, May 20.
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May 17, 2006A rare oversized watercolor by Jacob Maentel attracted a great deal of attention during Pook & Pook's two-day auction May 12 and 13, quadrupling its high estimate to sell for $420,000.
May 16, 2006With spring weather adding to the ambiance, the Concord Antiques Show was filled to capacity with dealers offering antique furnishings, household accessories and even some Revolutionary War rdf_Descriptions.
May 16, 2006The middle years of the Nineteenth Century continue to challenge scholars of American decorative arts, who have never found a way to neatly sum up the decades between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
May 16, 2006"When they said I was ahead of my times, I said, 'No I'm not, I'm of my time, you are behind the times,"' Man Ray once said. And his times were electrifying if not, in the beginning at least, electrified....
May 16, 2006Oskar Schlemmer's (1888-1943) "Halbfigur diagonal (Half-Figure Diagonal)," painted in oil over pencil on paper in 1941, was knocked down for a winning $380,000 at Nagel's recent auction.
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