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Mark Rothko's Untitled No. 17 (est. $18-22m) sold for $33.68m at Christie's in May 2011.

Auction market bullish in 2011, so far
ArtfixDaily Staff - July 21st, 2011 19:53

The market for fine and decorative arts roared through the start of 2011 at the world's two biggest auction houses. Christie’s reported worldwide sales for the first half of 2011 of $3.2 billion, up 15% over last year's figures. Sotheby's just breezed through a summer of blockbuster sales in London totaling in excess of £365 million ($589 million), including 49 artist record prices. Among the 95 works sold for over $1 million during Sotheby's four-week series, a Venetian scene by Francesco ...

Seymour desk and bookcase, 1798-1808, mahogany, reverse painted glass, photo courtesy White House Historical Association.

A rare look at objects in the White House Collection
Release Date: 21 July 2011
“'Something of Splendor’: Decorative Arts from the White House” opens Oct. 1 at the Renwick Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s branch museum for craft and decorative arts, and closes May 6, 2012. The exhibition features 93 objects from the permanent collection of the White ...

Artist Unknown (American, 19th Century) Our Flag is There,

Gray's to auction Civil War painting
Release Date: 22 July 2011
On July 28, Gray's Auctioneers will be selling lot 177, a rare Civil War painting from1865 entitled 'Our Flag is There'. The signature is indecipherable however the Gray's appraisal team has discovered a sketch by Thomas Nast which was featured on the cover of Harper's Weekly, February 13, ...

Monumental 34" high jade figure. Est. $3000-5000

A Summer Auction in "Two Acts" at Garth's
Release Date: 21 July 2011
“Summer stock” may regularly refer to acting, but in August, Garth’s will present theatrical productions of its own sort with a duo of summer auctions on its stage in Delaware, Ohio. Looking to dispel the dog days of summer with an array of cool choices from the August 5th Eclectic ...

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	The Nantucket August Antiques Show August 4-7, 2011 A benefit for the Nantucket Historical Association Nantucket, Massachusetts Read more

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	Metropolitan Museum Announces 5.68 Million Attendance, Highest in 40 Years Release Date: 21 July 2011 The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Thursday that 5.68 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, is the highest recorded in 40 years. The total was more than 400,000 greater than in ... Read more

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