Review by Greg Smith, Photos Courtesy Ripley Auctions INDIANAPOLIS, IND. – Four collections local to the Indianapolis area combined for more than $350,000 on 325 lots in Ripley Auctions’ January...
By Greg Smith POMONA, N.Y. – The oft-quoted Alexander Graham Bell phrase has found a new vehicle in Outsider and Folk Art dealer Aarne Anton. To brief the inventor, “When one door closes, another...
Review by Greg Smith, Photos Courtesy New Haven Auctions NEW HAVEN, CONN. – Just one of the company’s four online platforms saw more than 1,000 bidders watching and bidding live at all times...
Among the island’s most esteemed historical institutions, the Nantucket Atheneum and the Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) have worked together since the latter’s founding in 1894. That...
By Jessica Skwire Routhier FORT WORTH, TEXAS – Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington are both mythic American artists. Their artworks represent what – for differing groups of art critics and consumers...
Notable sales in our February 5, 2021 issue lead with a portrait featuring dancer Harriet Hoctor en pointe by American artist Abram Poole that crossed the block at more than 30 times its high estimate....
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Photos Courtesy Andrew Jones Auctions LOS ANGELES – Andrew Jones Auctions, which began holding sales a little more than two years ago, typically sees its bread and butter...
DALLAS – “The World’s Most Famous Coin” is now “The World’s Most Valuable Gold Coin” after it sold for a record $9.36 million at a public auction of important...
SARASOTA, FLA. – Four Russian silver claret jugs, three of them signed Faberge, went well above the $500 high estimate to bring $52,920 in Sarasota Estate Auction’s January 23-24 sale. The examples...
MESA, ARIZ. – The Winchester 1892 SRC used by John Wayne in both True Grit and Rooster Cogburn was a highlight of Brian Lebel’s January 23 Old West Auction when it sold for $88,500 to an American...
PITTSFIELD, MASS. – Tying for top lot status at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery January 23 in its fine and decorative arts auction, not surprisingly, were two Tiffany Studios lamps that each fetched...