Review and Photos by Andrea Valluzzo ORLEANS, MASS. – Waking up to a light but steady rain on Saturday, August 12, those with a lesser constitution might be tempted to groan, roll back over...
BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — At Nye & Co’s summer estate sale, August 16, a box of jade pieces, described in the catalog as “a large collection of carved jade including snuff bottles, many with stands,...
LONDON — The largest private collection of Andrew Grima jewelry to ever hit the block at one time is due to be sold at Bonhams’ September 20 sale. “He was unencumbered by technical knowledge...
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — A three-day sale at Northeast Auctions August 18–20 saw brisk bidding on a rare, large China trade oil on canvas painting. The circa 1870 view of a mother and child, an attendant...
NEW YORK CITY — The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns the only surviving images of the solar eclipse that occurred on May 26, 1854 — the first total eclipse of the sun visible in North America since...
FAIRFIELD, MAINE – James D. Julia’s three-day summer auction kicked off on Wednesday, August 16, with 645 lots of paintings and sculpture, followed on Thursday with 573 lots of folk art, weathervanes,...
SANTA FE, N.M. – With momentum building in advance of this weekend’s SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, the biggest contemporary presentation of its kind, collectors of vintage and historic fare...
Review and Onsite Photos by Laura Beach MIDDLETOWN, R.I. – One thinks of the lion as the symbol of Venice, but it was another city by the sea – Newport – that felt positively leonine...
Review and Onsite Photos by Laura Beach, Catalog Photos Courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions PLYMOUTH, MASS. – Every collecting niche values provenance. Perhaps none venerates it more than the field...
By Karla Klein Albertson WILLIAMSBURG, VA. – From clothing to comfort to décor, civilization – as we know it – is dependent on the presence of textiles. Without their pliable...
For Thomas Newbolt, possibly unaware of Lucian Freud’s comment that “painting is all about paint,” his art has always been all about oil paint and the discoveries that can be made with it, according...
Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack, Catalog Photos Courtesy Guyette & Deeter PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – A unique sleeping Canada goose decoy by Charles Safford led the Guyette & Deeter decoy...