NEW YORK CITY- Just months after the company went public on the London Stock Exchange, Auction Technology Group (ATG) has proposed a buyout of LiveAuctioneers, the leading auction platform in the United...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Catalog Photos Courtesy Quinn’s Auction Galleries FALLS CHURCH, VA. – When a lot of two Chinese bronze vessels in the June 12 Fine and Decorative Arts Auction...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Catalog Photos Courtesy Roland Auctions GLEN COVE, N.Y. – When antiques dealer Albert Yagoubzadeh decided to retire, he turned to Roland Auctions, which offered him a dedicated...
Review by Rick Russack, Catalog Photos Courtesy William Smith Inc PLAINFIELD, N.H. – Bill Smith’s June 12 sale was “live” under two large tents. Smith was one of the staunch holdouts...
BEIJING, CHINA – The world record for a Chinese ceramic has been reset at $41.6 million, which Poly Auctions realized on June 7. The intricate four-piece Imperial yangcai ruby ground with carved...
By James D. Balestrieri TOLEDO, OHIO – Why is it that on those shows where some young, semi-literate group of gullibles goes a-hunting – for ghosts, or Big Foot, or UFOs, or Hodags –...
Talk to Laura Bickford, curator at the Art Preserve, the newly opened branch of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center devoted to exhibiting artist’s environments, and the conversation will eventually...
Notables that crossed the block in our July 2, 2021 issue included Chinese porcelain, Asian bronzes, American landscapes and other sundry temptations. A 56-inch-high marble sculpture by Italian artist...
WILLISTON, VT. – An unsigned American school oil on canvas of the schooner ship H. Babson, which had descended in the Babson family, sailed to a strong finish in the June 18 Fine Art and Americana...
LARCHMONT, N.Y. – The top price of $50,000 was realized by two lots in Clarke Auction Gallery’s June 20 Estate Auction, one a carved figural jade group of two carp swimming among sea foliage...
NEW YORK CITY – The top lot in Swann Auction Galleries’ June 17 Fine Books & Autographs auction was a large octavo volume of James Joyce’s Ulysses, published in London in 1936. It was number...