Review by Laura Beach, Photos Courtesy Crowther & Brayley WAVERLEY, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA – “Pivot is the word we use here,” says Halifax-area auctioneer Bill Brayley, describing the way Nova...
By James D Balestrieri ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Expression conceals as it reveals. To say art secretes meaning is to say the word “secrete” in its binary, antipodal meanings: secrete as discharge,...
CHESTER, N.J. — It has been a home run of a year for record-setting baseball cards but Honus Wagner’s 1909-1911 American Tobacco Co.,-issued T206 is now back on top after Robert Edward Auctions sold...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Catalog Photos Courtesy Stair Gallery HUDSON, N.Y. – An exceptionally detailed English carved bone three-masted prisoner of war ship set the high watermark early in the August...
Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy Rafael Osona Auctions NANTUCKET, MASS. – “It was an exciting two-day sale, with competitive bidding in all categories,” said Carolyn Walsh, director...
Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy The Cobbs Auctioneers PETERBOROUGH, N.H. – Antiques dealers and collectors in the know used to head for the historic mill building known as Noone Falls Mill...
Bargaining Power. It’s a phrase you probably won’t see in any US museum’s mission statement. A wave of organizing that began about two and a half years ago, however, has led museum employees...
Review by Rick Russack, Photos Courtesy Guyette & Deeter ST MICHAEL’S, MD. – The second of Guyette & Deeter’s three cataloged decoy auctions this year took place on August 6-7....
Paintings from three American artists share this week’s highlights of notable lots from across the United States, realizing four, five and six-figure results at Burchard, Eldred’s and George...
BEACON, N.Y. – A Chinese porcelain dish with a central image of a stork in a landscape took 88 bids in Hudson Valley Auctioneers’ August 9 sale. Its final price: $118,750, well over the $500...
SANTA FE, N.M. – The top lot at Santa Fe Art Auctions’ three-day American Indian and Tribal auction August 13-15 was “Red Feathers in a Salmon Sky” by Frank Howell (1937-1997),...
DALLAS – The nearly 400-lot sale of the estate of Phyllis McGuire, the last surviving of three sisters who made up the McGuire Sisters singing group popular in the 1950s-60s, crossed the block at Heritage...