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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Dale Chihuly, Lime Green Icicle Tower, installed in the Shapiro Family Courtyard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Museum launches public appeal to buy Dale Chihuly piece
Boston Globe - July 26th, 2011 20:07

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has begun a campaign to raise more than $1 million to acquire the 42-foot-tall “Lime Green Icicle Tower,’’ a signature work by glass artist Dale Chihuly...

Esmerian used this $2.4m Boucheron 'Endymion Butterfly Brooch' to secure a loan. He allegedly stole or double pledged at least $40 million in assets used to collateralize loans.

Jeweler Ralph Esmerian gets 6-year prison sentence
Courthouse News Service - July 26th, 2011 22:51

The former owner of luxury jeweler Fred Leighton who was once a major donor to New York's American Folk Art Museum, Ralph O. Esmerian, was sentenced on July 22 to 6 years in federal prison for...

Nearly one ton of endangered elephant ivory was allegedly smuggled through Kennedy International Airport by African art dealer Victor Gordon.

Philadelphia dealer charged with smuggling elephant ivory
Philadelphia Inquirer - July 26th, 2011 19:39

A Philadelphia African art dealer was arrested Tuesday by federal agents and charged with the illegal importation and sale of African elephant ivory. A staggering one ton of ivory was seized by federal agents...

Aiden Lassell Ripley, "Springers and Pheasants," 1948, Oil on canvas, 35.5 by 48 inches, Estimate: $100,000-$200,000

Copley sets auction records for Crowell decoys, A.L. Ripley painting
ArtfixDaily Staff - July 26th, 2011 22:48

Copley Fine Art Auctions' July 21 to 22 sale, featuring over 700 lots of antique decoys, folk art, books, and American art, smashed auction record prices for bird carver A. Elmer Crowell (1862-1952) and sporting artist Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969).

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