LONDON — Queen Elizabeth has formally agreed to make the Ivory Act 2018, a bill that proposes a near-total ban on the trade in ivory into an Act of Parliament within six months time. Experts say they...
PARIS – A bronze dragon head, one of the six missing heads from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace “Zodiac Clock” fountain, is speculated to have been sold December 17 at auction house...
COPAKE, N.Y. – Copake Auction’s 39th annual New Year’s Day sale saw its top price of the day cross the block 148 lots in when an Eighteenth Century diminutive Chippendale dropleaf table...
MANCHESTER, N.H. – Barn Star Productions of Rhinebeck, N.Y., has announced that the 25th annual MidWeek in Manchester Antiques Show will introduce a new format during Antiques Week in New Hampshire,...
In the summer of 2018, Sofie Scheerlinck was appointed managing director of The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) New York, the American edition of the European art fair in Maastricht, Netherlands. With a strong...
DALLAS – The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) presents the debut solo museum exhibition of works by Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe and the most comprehensive survey of the artist’s work to date. “Ida...
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Brunk Auctions will sell the Dick Button skating collection of paintings, posters, folk art and figure skating memorabilia. The collection is included in Brunk Auctions’ premier...
Review and Onsite Photos by Greg Smith BERLIN, CONN. – Nest Egg Auctions auctioneer Ryan Brechlin posited that his firm had been doing a New Year’s sale for approximately 15 of the house’s...
What is it that makes an Edward Hicks “Peaceable Kingdom” painting so alluring? It no doubt lies somewhere in the notion of brotherly love, tied into the words of Isaiah 11:6-9 that speak of an idealized...
Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack WILLISTON, VT. – Sometimes the auctioneer and a prospective buyer agree on what will be the highest priced group of things in the sale. Ethan Merrill and Joe Martin,...
By Laura Beach BOCA RATON, FLA. – Stripped of the gilded bacchanal that is Art Basel Miami, Florida’s cultural life, at least in the outsider’s fevered imagination, resembles a book by Carl...
By Rick Russack PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – As fast-paced as the auctioneer’s calls are, faster are the dynamics of the business behind the scenes. For 72-year-old Ron Bourgeault, a time of reckoning...