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February 2, 2021Notable sales in our February 12, 2021 issue start with the oil on canvas “A Happy Elephant” by David Shepherd that sold at DuMouchelles for five figures. A Korean scroll painting of Avalokesitesvara...
February 2, 2021By Greg Smith BOSTON – While cities like Los Angeles, Detroit and New York City tout credibility as hubs for Twentieth Century tattooing, a new title by Derin Bray and Margaret Hodges inserts the city...
February 2, 2021Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Photos Courtesy Christies NEW YORK CITY – Christie’s Americana Week sales began with an online-only auction of 107 lots of Chinese export art on Wednesday, January...
February 2, 2021NEW YORK CITY — One of the finest portraits ever painted by Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli sold on January 28 at Sotheby’s for a record $92.2 million. In a sale that marks the first major auction...
February 1, 2021DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. – A near pair of Eighteenth Century Philadelphia combback Windsor armchairs sold for $79,950 in Pook & Pook, Inc’s January 28-29 sale. The circa 1765 examples differed...
February 1, 2021KNOXVILLE, TENN. – An oil on canvas by William Oliver The Younger (France/UK, 1823-1901) sold for 28 times its high estimate when it brought $40,960 at Case Antiques Auctions’ January 30 sale....
February 1, 2021FALLS CHURCH, VA. – A Nineteenth Century American School portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), American art collector, philanthropist and patron of the arts, earned more than 25 times...
February 1, 2021HUDSON, N.Y. – A Queen Anne painted “Heart and Crown” armchair with a rush seat showed heart at Stair’s two-day Americana sale on January 28-29, pushed by 50 bids from its $300/600...
February 1, 2021LOS ANGELES – A Chippendale carved cherry and walnut block-front slant-lid desk, attributed to the Martinsburg, Va., workshop of John Shearer, achieved the top price in the sale, realizing $37,812...
January 26, 2021Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy Show Dealers ONLINE – The walk through the galleries of historical and tribal art arrayed at the Santa Fe Virtual Show was a cerebral one, perhaps fitting for a collecting...
January 26, 2021PHILADELPHIA – Using innovative technology, the Penn Museum peers inside a fascinating, hidden world with a new 1,100-square-foot special exhibition, “Invisible Beauty: The Art of Archaeological...
January 26, 2021Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy Blackwell Auctions CLEARWATER, FLA. – Rarity remains a differentiator – even in the rarified world of Hummel collectors. That was clearly evident in Blackwell...
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