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  • ‘Wizard Of Oz’ Half Sheet Pushes Heritage Poster Auction Above $2 Million
    March 26, 2019
    DALLAS — A flurry of competitive bids from multiple collectors drove the result for a Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939) half sheet Style A to $108,000, with buyer’s premium, to claim top-lot honors in Heritage...
  • Rediscovered Jean-Antoine Houdon Busts Sell For $1.475 Million At Cottone Auctions
    March 26, 2019
    GENESEO, N.Y. — Two rediscovered marble busts by the French Eighteenth Century sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828) sold at Cottone Auctions’ sale on March 23. The busts, reductions in Serevezza...
  • Edgefield Fu-Manchu Face Jug Leads Crocker Farm At $82,600
    March 26, 2019
    SPARKS, MD. — An Edgefield, S.C., alkaline-glazed stoneware face harvest jug led Crocker Farm’s March 23 sale as it sold for $82,600. The circa 1845–70, 8½-inch-high jug features an applied and twisted...
  • American Masonic Flask Leads Heckler’s Aprill Auction At $71,370
    March 26, 2019
    WOODSTOCK VALLEY, CONN. — The first session of the renowned collection of Dr. Charles and Jane Aprill, featuring a selection of bold, beautiful and blue early glass bottles, flasks and more, closed at Heckler’s...
  • Monsters & Myths: Surrealism And War In The 1930s And 1940s
    March 19, 2019
    By Jessica Skwire Routhier BALTIMORE – The Minotaur – the fearsome half-man, half-bull monster that haunts the center of the labyrinth in Greek mythology – is one of the most recognizable...
  • Divine Art & Sculpture At The Met
    March 19, 2019
    NEW YORK CITY – The Metropolitan Museum is known for its blockbuster exhibitions that fill large galleries with color, light and sometimes sound. “Atea: Nature and Divinity in Polynesia,”...
  • Toys Galore:
    Bertoia’s Signature Sale Takes $2.3 Million
    March 19, 2019
    Review and Onsite Photos by Greg Smith VINELAND, N.J. – Four early toy collections converged in Bertoia Auctions’ March 9-10 Signature Sale. The auction, all 810 lots of it, was a colorful...
  • Q&A: Deborah Norman
    March 19, 2019
    With many antiques shops now gone and fewer still keeping regular hours, we turned to Deborah Norman, the warm, gracious proprietor of Grand & Water Antiques in Stonington, Conn., for insight into...
  • Sheldon Peck Portrait, $231,000, Tops Skinner’s $1.12 Million Americana Sale
    March 19, 2019
    Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack BOSTON – The predicted heavy snow did not appear and there was a good-sized crowd in Skinner’s Boston gallery for its March 2 sale. The offerings were...
  • DC Big Flea & Antiques Show Overflows Chantilly Halls
    March 19, 2019
    Review and Photos by Tom O’Hara CHANTILLY, VA. – Joan Sides and her daughter Marthia Sides again filled the two connected halls of DC Expo at this Washington, DC, suburb with more than 700 booths...
  • Across The Block
    March 19, 2019
    Artist Felix Gonzales Torres shone bright this week as an untitled work led the way across the block at Christie’s, sparking a final bid of $857,000. At Kaminski Auctions, a painting of a snail by surrealist...
  • The 53rd Tolland Antiques Show
    March 19, 2019
    Review and Photos by Laura Beach TOLLAND, CONN. – It takes discipline to stick to one’s principles, as the Tolland Antiques Show has done for much of its 53 presentations. This small show in a bucolic...

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