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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, January 25, 2010

Barbara Israel's booth, Winter Antiques Show

Winter Antiques Show sizzles with fast sales
Bloomberg - January 25th, 2010 04:56

Battered stock markets be damned! Judging from the buzz and sales last Thursday at the opening night of the 56th Winter Antiques Show, the antiques buyers are back Just ask Barbara Israel. In the first half-hour of the upscale art fair, the New York-based dealer who specializes in garden statuary sold 10 pieces, including a pair of life-size doe-and-fawn groups once owned by Doris Duke for $135,000.

Charlotte Park, "Zachary" at Spanierman Modern

Critic's picks: LA Art Show
Los Angeles Times - January 25th, 2010 05:48

Here's what caught the eye of the LA Times' art critic: A mustard-colored 1968 Minimalist abstraction by Robert Mangold (Gana Gallery); "Clivia," probably from the 1930s, by Henrietta Shore (1880 - 1963) of crisply painted pink blossoms, severed from any context other than art (Redfern Gallery); and Charlotte Park (b. 1918), a little-known Abstract Expressionist painter from New York (Spanierman Modern).

Disputed Van Gogh valued at up to $150 million
Canadian Press - January 25th, 2010 04:31

A Van Gogh painting at the centre of a dispute between Yale University and a man who believes the artwork was stolen from his family during the Russian Revolution is worth $120 million to $150 million, the man's attorney told The Associated Press on Friday. The evaluation is the first public estimate of the painting's value. Pierre Konowaloff, the purported great-grandson of industrialist and aristocrat Ivan Morozov, who bought "The Night Cafe" in 1908...

Jumbo-sized bowl sets American silver record at Sotheby's
Boston Globe - January 25th, 2010 04:47

A Colonial-era silver bowl that was hidden in Boston before the Revolutionary War and then languished in England for 230 years sold last week for an astounding $5.9 million. The bowl had been owned by Joshua Loring, a Tory who fled Boston in 1774 when harassment by colonials became untenable. Weighing more than 4 pounds and measuring more than a foot in diameter, the brandywine bowl was estimated at $400,000 to $800,000.

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