Review by Rick Russack, Additional Photos Courtesy Skinner Inc. MARLBOROUGH, MASS. – Skinner combined two Connecticut collections, each built around objects with original surfaces, into a very successful...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Catalog Photos Courtesy Freeman’s PHILADELPHIA – It is always a good thing when a high price is realized early in an auction. That was the case in Freeman’s...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Catalog Photos Courtesy Scottsdale Art Auction SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – If one logged into Scottsdale Art Auction’s (SAA) live-streamed sale on April 9 and 10, the sounds...
Though the William King Museum of Art bills itself as an ever-changing gallery, it makes time to look back at its regional foundations. On through October 31 is “Tennessee Fancy: Decorative Arts...
Notable lots that share the spotlight in our April 30, 2021 issue include a Korean six-fold painted paper floor screen from the estate of Roberta Wright McCain that brought six-figures at Sloans &...
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, ESSEX, UNITED KINGDOM – In the words of Mark Wilkinson, head of Sworder’s annual “Out of the Ordinary,” a taxidermy alicorn (winged unicorn) was “the...
DALLAS – A 2000 Upper Deck combo game jersey card signed by the late Laker, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan, which was graded BGS NM-MT+ 8.5 Auto 10, brought $516,600, almost twice its estimates...
SANTA FE, N.M. – “After The Ceremony,” an oil on board by Bert Geer Phillips (1868-1956) sold for $75,000 at Santa Fe Art Auction on April 17. It came to sale in the firm’s Community...
CINCINNATI – Cowan’s April 16 Native American Art sale was led by a Cheyenne River pictorial tobacco bag attributed to Edith Claymore (Miniconjou, 1858-1910), which brought $100,000. The bag was made...
WINDSOR, CONN. – Eclipsing its $4/8,000 estimate, a large, framed, rare Sino-Korean monastic portrait of “Yuan Chiao Kuo Shih Chih Hsiang,” ink and oil on silk, circa Fourteenth/Fifteenth...
NEW MILFORD, CONN. – Brian Corcoran’s April 12 sale at the Auction Barn was led by an original watercolor illustration by Constantin Alajalov (Armenian-American, 1900-1987) for the April 13, 1946,...
NEW YORK CITY — Just when you think vintage comic book values cannot go any higher, another record falls. This time, an exceedingly-rare Action Comics #1— the legendary 1938 comic that marks Superman’s...