LONDON — Art Recovery Group has helped recover an indigenous Colombian artifact. The ceramic sculpture was offered for sale at a London auction house earlier this year, 80 years after a mysterious and inexplicable...
NEW YORK CITY — Christie’s concluded its Asian Art Week with a combined total of $58,591,063 achieved over four days of eight sales, September 13-16. The auctions saw deep bidding levels from Greater...
PHILADELPHIA, PENN. — The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents “Classical Splendor,” an exhibition to showcase the furniture suite designed in 1808 by Benjamin Henry Latrobe for the house...
SOESTERBERG, NETHERLANDS—The first American flag to arrive at Utah Beach on D-Day in 1944, and auctioned by Heritage Auctions in June 2016, will arrive at the Dutch National Military Museum September...
NEW YORK CITY — Over the course of two days, Sotheby’s sales of Chinese art brought a total of $14,748,350 – well over the $7.4/10.8 million estimate. The auction was led by a series of outstanding...
CHICAGO, ILL. — Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ September 11–12 jewelry auction offered an array of antique highlights, colored stones and signed jewelry. The sale totaled $4.5 million, with the top five...
By Kate Eagen Johnson COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — “It is ‘a curator’s dream.’ You don’t have to guess or speculate and that’s not true of most pieces.” Independent scholar and author Robert Shaw,...
Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy of Lyon & Turnbull EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND — An annual specialist sale by Lyon & Turnbull — the Scottish silver and applied arts auction — brings out the best...
Review and Photos by Tom O’Hara MADISON, CONN. — The sun rose on the last Saturday of August, and here on the town green dozens of vans, pickups with trailers and wagons jockeyed into their places....
WILMINGTON, DEL. — Brock Jobe, Clark Pearce and Christie Jackson are completing a book on the Federal-era cabinetmaker Nathan Lombard (1777–1847), who worked in Sturbridge and later in Sutton, Mass....
Review and Photos by Greg Smith NEW CANAAN, CONN.— As we walked down the driveway toward Philip Johnson’s Glass House, our tour guide asked us to stop as she began a brief synopsis of the property...
Maurine St Gaudens’ childhood was steeped in art and creativity. As the granddaughter of San Francisco jeweler Maurice Saint-Gaudens, and the third-cousin of noted sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Maurine’s...