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February 5, 2019NEW YORK CITY — Capping Sotheby’s Master Paintings Evening Sale was a portrait of Muhammad Dervish Khan by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun that achieved $7.2 million and set a record for any female...
February 5, 2019Review and Photos by Laura Beach NEW YORK CITY – The Winter Show, which completed its ten-day run at the Park Avenue Armory on January 27, turned 65 this year. To commemorate the occasion, The Magazine...
February 5, 2019Readers who watch Black Memorabilia, a 60-minute documentary airing this month on PBS’s Independent Lens, will no doubt thrill to the scenes shot at the Brimfield [Mass.,] Antiques Market, but the subject...
February 5, 2019Review and Photos by Marty Steiner COMMERCE, GA. – A winter folk pottery and folk art auction was presented on January 12 by the Rockabilly Auction Company, which is appropriately located on Pottery...
February 5, 2019Review and Photos by Tom O’Hara SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Salt City Antiques Show was on, “weather or not,” Steve Allman said, as the manager and promoter of this traditional mid-January...
February 5, 2019Review and Photos by Rick Russack PITTSFIELD, MASS. – John Fontaine was lucky on January 19. A major winter snowstorm that had been predicted for the weekend held off until late Saturday evening....
January 29, 2019MONROE, CONN. — You never know what’s going to come in through the door on appraisal day. It’s an auctioneer’s mantra, and it was borne out on January 18 when the top lot at Fairfield Auction’s...
January 29, 2019NEW YORK CITY — Sotheby’s January 24 sale of Fine Manuscripts and Printed Americana was led by the only known privately held copy of the celebrated William J. Stone facsimile of the Declaration of Independence,...
January 29, 2019WESTPORT, CONN. — Handwritten by the artist himself, a copy of Bob Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone” lyrics went out at $100,000, including buyer’s premium, in University Archives’ January 23 sale....
January 29, 2019ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Estimated at $80/120,000, a circa 1550 oil on panel by Master H.B. of the Griffin Head rose to the forefront of Brunk Auctions’ January 25–26 sale as it sold for $192,000 including...
January 29, 2019Having retired in 2015, Earle Shettleworth has the distinction of being the longest-serving director of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. Born in Portland, Maine, in 1948, his first interest...
January 29, 2019By Laura Beach MONTREAL, WASHINGTON, BOSTON, NEW YORK AND SANTA FE – Over the summer, I had the good fortune to see “Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience,” an exhibition now making...
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