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October 2, 2017BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. — Oh, Robert Crumb. The underground comix artist has approached icon-status as of late, with auction records north of $500,000 to prove it. Heritage Auctions brings one of Crumb’s...
October 2, 2017NEW YORK CITY — A large archive of Pond family missionary writings from the Minnesota frontier went big as it hit the block at Swann Auctions Sept. 28 printed and manuscript Americana sale, achieving...
September 29, 2017By Laura Beach NEW YORK CITY – When Arie L. Kopelman assumed the chairmanship of the Winter Antiques Show in 1995, he brought to the fair a mixture of corporate savoir faire and social elan. In an increasingly...
September 28, 2017WOODBURY, CONN. – Only 7 ½ inches tall and fashioned as a blockfront chest of drawers, a caddy of carved mahogany surged past its $2/3,000 estimate at Thomas Schwenke’s Woodbury Auction on September...
September 28, 2017ATHOL, MASS. — As it has virtually every five years since the mid-1970s, Athol Historical Society will display an array of paintings by James Franklin Gilman from 11 am to 3 pm on Saturday, September...
September 27, 2017“I was feeling faint, headed for a chair in Hilary Nolan’s booth, slipped on a rug and fell to the floor, but not before breaking a rib on one of Hilary’s pieces of furniture. I landed...
September 27, 2017ALEXANDRIA, VA. — A pair of Chinese huanghuali continuous yokeback armchairs, early Qing dynasty, more than tripled its high estimate September 23 to fetch $237,500 in Potomack Company’s American,...
September 27, 2017NEW YORK CITY — Sotheby’s September 26 auction of the collection of Edward Albee totaled $12.5 million. Every work on offer was sold, denoting rare “white glove” auction status, with three-quarters...
September 26, 2017In 1923, Raoul Dufy began a collaboration with the Catalan potter Josep Artigas that would produce a series of approximately 170 ceramic works. Artigas helmed the wheel, sculpting the form, and Dufy directed...
September 26, 2017This week’s Across The Block features a variety of Winter paintings that have been warming up the gavel recently, along with art and antique American glass, an African headdress, the always reliable...
September 26, 2017Review and Photos by R. Scudder Smith ADAMSTOWN, PENN. – It was raining; no, it was pouring, early Sunday morning, September 17, but that did not stop the dealers from arriving around 5 am at Renningers...
September 26, 2017Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack CAMBRIDGE, MASS. – Prices continue to improve at New England auctions. At CRN’s September 10 sale, estimates were surpassed in several categories as bidder...
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