Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack, Additional Photos Courtesy Casco Bay Auctions FREEPORT, MAINE – Andy Davis conducted the 12th sale for his recently formed Casco Bay Auctions on March 13. The business,...
Notable sales in our April 2, 2021 issue start with a late 1950s abstraction by Elaine de Kooning that soared past its estimate of $40/60,000 to land well into six figures at Doyle. Meanwhile, a snowscape...
The last time Antiques and The Arts Weekly encountered Carroll Swam of South York, Penn., he was seen walking toward the exit of the spring 2018 Greater York Antiques Show with a small instrument case...
By James Balestrieri DALLAS – It’s hard to imagine an artist like Juan Gris, whose works regularly top $1 million at auction – and whose world record topped $50 million at Christie’s...
AMESBURY, MASS. – Around 1800, Connecticut sisters Mary Way and Betsy Way Champlain produced numerous miniature portraits. Some, however, were a little different than the portrait miniatures usually...
LONE JACK, MO. – A Union Pacific tall cast blue globe lantern sold for $46,200 in Soulis Auctions’ March 20 sale offering the single-owner, 50-year collection of Railroadiana from Steve “Packrat”...
SARASOTA, FLA. – Fetching $27,675, including buyer’s premium, at Amero Auction’s spring sale on March 21 was an antique Chinese porcelain plaque folding table screen. Exhibiting the continued...
BEDFORD, N.Y. – They may have just been garden basins, but they were not just anyone’s. With provenance to the estate of Peggy Mellon, a set of four baroque-style basins cast in lead, likely...
OAKLAND, CALIF. – Nearly 1,650 lots crossed the block at Clars Auction Gallery between Saturday, March 20 and Sunday, March 21, but the brightest lot of all was an 8.58-carat very light blue pear...
DALLAS – A pair of Martian meteorites each sold for $187,500 to share top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions’ Nature & Science Platinum Night sale on March 19. Found in 2001, the NWA 1950...
EAST DENNIS, MASS. – One of several highlights in Eldred’s three-day sales of Asian works of art March 17-19 was a large Meiji period Japanese ink, color and gold leaf on paper six-fold screen...
NEW YORK CITY – On March 17 in Sotheby’s New York salesroom, a Ming dynasty, Yongle period exceptional and rare blue and white “floral” bowl originally purchased for $35 at a Connecticut...