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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, January 28, 2010
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 | Art museums make Super Bowl bet
Wall Street Journal - January 28th, 2010 00:24
Two directors from Super Bowl contender city art museums–the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art–are getting in on the Big Game by wagering major art loans on the outcome of the Saints-Colts matchup. If the Colts win, IMA will get a three-month loan of NoMA’s 1644 painting “Ideal View of Tivoli” by Claude Lorrain. If the Saints win, NoMA will get to borrow IMA’s Joseph Turner oil painting “The Fifth Plague of Egypt."Read more | |
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 | In with the old
The Economist - January 28th, 2010 00:14
A year ago the Winter Antiques Show changed its definition of antique, from objects more than 100 years old to those made before 1960. Fortunately this allowed for the appearance this year of an eye-catching, whimsical chandelier from 1920, brought by Frank & Barbara Pollack. The piece consists of three wrought-iron arms, each cut into a silhouette of an elk, with hanging acorn-shaped lights. It was love at first site for one visitor, who snapped it up for a five-figure sum soon after the ...Read more | |
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 | Winter Antiques Show simmers on through Jan. 31
Artnet - January 27th, 2010 23:16
In a Winter Antiques Show overview, writer Brook S. Mason declares Hirschl & Adler's stand---centered on paintings by Rembrandt Peale and Benjamin West---as 'best in show.' American art has sold well overall, including a lovely Mary Cassatt portrait of a girl (shown), whisked away from Adelson Galleries, and a Frank Benson etching which departed the Old Print Shop booth. English and Continental furniture, folk art, and 20th-c. decorative art sales are going strong as well...Read more | |
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 | Ammi Phillips double portrait blasts past estimate
Antiques and the Arts - January 28th, 2010 01:03
A rare double portrait by Ammi Phillips reached $782,500 (with buyer's premium) at Christie's auction of important folk art on January 22 in New York. A direct descendent of the sitters consigned "Double Portrait of Theron Simpson Ludington (1850–1922) and His Older Sister Virginia Ludington (1846–1865)," circa 1855, which was estimated to bring $300/500,00.Read more | |
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