Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy Cottone Auctions GENESEO, N.Y. – Two days of antiques and fine art across the block at Cottone Auctions, May 5-6, resulted in more than 300 lots finding new homes,...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Photos Courtesy Freeman’s PHILADELPHIA – “Twenty-six percent of our bidders were new clients, which is really a huge number,” Lynda Cain proclaimed....
Review by Z.G. Burnett, Photos Courtesy Skinner, Inc MARLBOROUGH, MASS. – There were a few unusual top lots at Skinner, Inc’s Americana sale on April 23, some being that ubiquitous temptation...
When hostess extraordinaire Martha Stewart wanted to raise money for the Martha Stewart Centers for Living, geriatric wellness centers that she has recently established in partnership with Mount Sinai...
By James D. Balestrieri NEW YORK CITY – In his oft-cited essay, “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” poet T.S. Eliot wrote that “the difference between the present and the past...
DALLAS – A Justh & Hunter gold ingot sold for $1.32 million and an 1863 Liberty Double Eagle, PR65+ Cameo from the Bob R. Simpson collection closed at $1.02 million to lead Heritage Auctions’...
WARWICK, N.Y. – On April 30, Collector Fine Art Auctions conducted a selective Live Sale of American and European paintings from different art consignors. Drawing strong interest from online, absentee...
ROCKVILLE, MD. — Was there cosplay in French Eighteenth Century art? You bet. Ladies of the nobility and female members of the royal families have been depicted as goddesses in many paintings. “Portrait...
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Having moved South to be closer to family members, Dr Doris Soldner selected Hyde Park Country Auctions to sell her lifetime collection of antiques, mostly Americana and early primitives...
MAMARONECK, N.Y. — “Bridge at Moret-sur-Loing,” painted by Francis Picabia (French, 1879-1953) in 1902 more than spanned its $60/80,000 estimate when it sold for $91,000 in Shapiro Auctions’ May 14 Important...
NEW HAMBURG, ONTARIO, CANADA — A new world auction record for Maud Lewis (Canadian, 1901-1970) was set in Miller & Miller’s May 14 Canadiana & Decorative Arts auction when “Black Truck,”...
CHICAGO — Hindman’s May 10 American and European Art auction led with Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s (French, 1841-1919) “La Baie de Villefranche-sur-Mer,” a glimmering landscape done in oil on canvas...