Ivey, formerly the managing director of Phillips-Selkirk of St Louis, acquired the 180-year-old Midwest auction house from Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg on February 4. ...
There was some concern by the show committee that the wet weather might keep people away, but one of the dealers was quick to reply "these people are gardeners - they will come out in any weather."...
Despite a cautious buying audience, the 17th annual show brought out a loyal contingent of antiquarians from the town and its environs, and pleased most dealers with satisfying sales....
El Museo del Barrio, New York's premiere Latino and Latin American cultural institution, will host the only East Coast presentation of Mexican Art from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, featuring...
An exhibition from the distinguished Native American art collection of the Peabody Essex Museum premieres at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts May 8 and will travel after its debut....
John James Audubon's keen observation, passion for the natural world and remarkable aesthetic sensibility combined to produce one of the world's preeminent natural history documents, as seen...
With its boundless prairies, vast forests, soaring mountains, mighty rivers and exotic Native American population, the West was a magnificent stage that challenged the best of the young nation's artistic...
Of two William Merritt Chase paintings, a portrait of William A. Putnam, Sr, brought $8,625, and a river landscape, which opened at $50,000, was finally hammered down at $250,000....
The firm's 600-lot event realized a total of $23,325,518, Antiquorum's best watch sale ever and the second best international watch auction total to date....
The top-selling lot was an oil-on-board portrait of a dour-looking woman wearing a reddish-brown dress with a lace collar and a white bonnet. Attributed to Sheldon Peck from his Vermont period (pre-1828),...
Embellished with more than 3,000 diamonds and rose-cut diamonds, the Winter Egg was given by Tsar Nicholas II to his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, on Easter in 1913. Contained within the egg is a "surprise"...