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Optimism, sales at New York's Armory Week
Luxist / March 7th, 2010
The modern and contemporary art fairs last week were upbeat. Luxist lists four reasons: Big names brought in buyers, solo booths let collectors focus on one artist, big-ticket sales were back, and traditional art provided a counter-point to the cutting-edge. Recent record-smashing auction ...
New York art fairs this weekend
New York Times / March 4th, 2010
The ADAA's Art Show, the Armory Show, and all the peripheral fairs are in full swing. Milton Avery's Wild Moon and Sea (1961) is one stand-out from Knoedler & Company at the Art Show. Click to view more highlights in a photo gallery compiled by the New York ...
Defunct museum sued for trying to sell Ansel Adams collection
associated press / March 4th, 2010
The son of famed photographer Ansel Adams is suing California's Fresno Metropolitan Museum to keep the bankrupt museum from selling six works by his father. He says the sale would violate a donation agreement. Museum officials have been talking to various auction houses about selling ...
Bernard Goldberg to close Madison Ave. gallery
Bloomberg / March 3rd, 2010
The successful hotelier and art collector who became a dealer in 20th-century American art, Bernard Goldberg, 77, is exiting the business. His New York gallery's inventory of 175 artworks and furnishings, estimated at up to $10 million, will head to Christie's to be auctioned in several upcoming ...
School offers no guarantees on auctioned art
NJ.com / March 3rd, 2010
A landscape listed as the work of 19th c. American artist William Mason Brown was bought at a school fundraising auction by a New Jersey man in 2001. The catalog gave the 25-by-30-inch framed painting an estimate $18,000 to $25,000. He paid $16,000. Fast forward to 2009, the man takes the ...
The best of the best lures collectors to Maastricht
Financial Times / March 2nd, 2010
From a newly discovered “Winter Landscape with Skaters” (1611) by Adam van Breen – one of the earliest winter landscapes by any Dutch painter - offered by exhibitor John Mitchell, to a stunning Cycladic marble head from 2500-2400BC from dealer Rupert Wace, word is getting out about the treasures ...
"American Moderns on Paper" puts tucked-away treasures in full view
Star-Telegram / March 1st, 2010
Texas is in for a treat. About 100 works on paper by American masters from Georgia O'Keeffe to Andrew Wyeth---many rarely exhibited because of their delicate, light-sensitive constitutions---will be on view through May 30 at Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum in a special loan exhibition from ...
Showdown of Western art auctions on the horizon
Great Falls Tribune / March 1st, 2010
Since 1969, the Great Falls Ad Club's annual Russell Auction has raised about $5.6 million for the C.M. Russell Museum, founded in honor of the great Western painter, in Montana. A controversial split with the Ad Club was orchestrated recently in an attempt to raise more funds ...
C.M. Russell's true story of the Wild West
Antiques & Arts Weekly / February 25th, 2010
"The Cowboy Artist" Charles M. Russell, who once worked as a cowpuncher, infused his work with details that only an artist with experience on the open range could capture. His paintings are prized for their genuine and sophisticated depictions of the American West's fading ...
TEFAF aggregates the world's best art for sale
Hello Magazine / February 25th, 2010
Over 30,000 works of art, from antiquities to modern paintings, much of it desirable for pedigree, rarity, and beauty, will descend upon the Dutch town of Maastricht from March 12 to 21. With 263 top-tier exhibitors bringing the best of their blue-chip art, plus special sections for design, works ...
Sign of the Times: A pared down Whitney Biennial
Reuters / February 24th, 2010
New York's Whitney Museum staged a smaller version of its influential annual show featuring up-and-coming American artists. Just 55 artists were showcased this year, a reduction due, in part, to the wobbly U.S. economy. The curators didn't give the show a theme, but commented that "creepy" and ...
Bradford painting, mocha pottery on the block in Boston
Auction Central News / February 23rd, 2010
A luminous William Bradford oil depicting a whaleship off New Bedford (est. $60,000-$80,000) is among the highlights in Skinner's March 7 Americana auction. Also of note is an elegant Simon Willard tall clock in a classic Roxbury case (est. $30,000-$50,000), an enormous collection of mocha ...
University faces more legal hurdles in art collection sale
Tennessean / February 23rd, 2010
Attorney General Bob Cooper issued a statement on Tuesday saying that a collection of 110 works of art, given by artist Georgia O'Keeffe to Fisk University, can not be moved. The Tennessee Supreme Court refused to hear the case so the fate of the artwork will be decided in chancery court within ...
Financial fortunes rise for Boston's Gardner Museum
Boston Business Journal / February 22nd, 2010
Rich in works by Old Masters and American impressionists, the palazzo-like Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum says its investment portfolio closed out the year valued at $161.6 million — some 53 percent higher than at the end of June, the close of its last fiscal year. A rise in the stock market and ...
Americana Dream: J.J. Astor progeny puts presidential portrait on the block
USA Today / February 18th, 2010
Estimated at $200,000 to $300,000, a Gilbert Stuart painting of George Washington, desirably unrestored, goes under the gavel at Cottone Auctions in Geneseo, New York, on March 27. The great-great-great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor is selling this work by the first American ...
Mid-market art stolen from Europe often lands in U.S.
Naples News / February 18th, 2010
Robert Wittman, the de facto head of the FBI’s art theft program from 1988 until 2008, has tracked down stolen Goyas, a Rembrandt, and five Norman Rockwells, among many other multi-million dollar artworks. Art and antiques originating in theft hotspots like Europe, South America, and ...
'Cezanne and American Modernism'
Washington Post / February 17th, 2010
A fascinating exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art traces the exuberant, all-over-the-map responses of 33 early 20th-century American artists to Cezanne's works in the decades when his oils and watercolors were more a matter of rumor than a mainstay of modern museums.
Signs of Rebound in Antiques Market
New York Times Art / February 17th, 2010
After 12 months in which antiques sales were down and prices fell, collectors and dealers again flocked to major antique shows last month in New York. Red dots were plentiful, but according to some of the shows' exhibitors, there are still good buys to be had in certain categories, such as ...
Lingering thoughts of Tiffany, other tantalizing treasures at Winter Antiques Show
Canadian Press / February 16th, 2010
January's Winter Antiques Show is still generating buzz. Among the unveilings at the presitigious New York fair was one of the most significant Tiffany lamps to come on the market in decades. The exquisite example, with cascading pastel lilies and a lily pad bronze base, ...
Everett Ruess: Enigmatic hiker-artist drawn into the wild
The Daily Sound / February 11th, 2010
When 20-year-old Everett Ruess trekked into the scorching canyon country of southern Utah in 1934, he likely had little notion that the fragments of his life that he’d left behind would serve as a mysterious reminder of his healthy lust for wilderness. Ruess disappeared, but the budding artist's ...