The two-day Asian arts, with gross sales of $1,005,008, accounted for nearly half of the week's sales. The top lot was a scroll painting in colored ink on paper by Qi Baishi (1864-1975), "Ch'i Pai-Shih,"...
Stair Galleries opened its new 549 Warren Street headquarters on September 14 for the preview of its English and Continental furniture and art auction.
Cohen estimated that this year's attendance was about 30 percent better than last year, and noted that last year's attendance was also up by 30 percent from the previous year.
"Furniture seems to be selling quite well this year; lots of it is going out the front door," Marie Miller said from her vantage point near the entrance to the VADA Show. Howard Graff, who manages the show,...
Hurricane Katrina hit at the beginning of the profitable fall convention season when doctors and software experts pour into town and spend generously. It wiped out what will surely be the entire fourth...
Some of the greatest drawings and paintings by Netherlandish artists will be in the exhibition "Rembrandt and His Time: Masterworks from the Albertina, Vienna."
The top lot of the auction came as a large portrait of a woman, done in the style of John Singer Sargent, was offered. The life-size painting sold for $6,600.