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Art Basel 2013, Unlimited, Impression Art Basel Bursts with Big-Ticket Offerings from Moore to Magritte
ArtfixDaily Staff - June 11th, 2013 22:24
Following a heady series of auctions in New York totaling $1.1 billion, Art Basel brings up another $2.2 billion worth of 20th-century and contemporary art for sale. The annual Swiss fair has ushered in...

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Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey Gives $12 Million to Smithsonian's African American Museum
ArtfixDaily Staff - June 11th, 2013 22:24
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey has donated $12 million to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a new museum planned for Washington, DC's National Mall.

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Lincoln letter sold at Charlton Hall Auctions for $18,720 (including 17% Buyer’s Premium). Abraham Lincoln Letter Appraised on Antiques Roadshow Sells at Auction
Release Date: 11 June 2013
A letter written and signed by Abraham Lincoln months prior to his election as President of the United States recently sold in South Carolina at auction for $18,720 (including 17% Buyer’s Premium).  A South Carolina woman inherited the letter from her father, but was unaware of its true ...

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This vintage 1950s brass floor lamp by Gino Sarfatti sold for $15,930 at Nadeau's, May 11th. Vintage 1950s brass floor lamp by Gino Sarfatti brings $15,930 at Nadeau's
Release Date: 30 May 2013
 (WINDSOR, Conn.) – A vintage 1950s brass floor lamp designed by legendary Italian lighting designer Gino Sarfatti (1912-1984) for Arteluce, the manufacturing firm he founded in 1939, sold for $15,930 at an auction held May 11 by Nadeau’s Auction Gallery, in the firm’s gallery located at 25 ...

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© Ahae, THE EXTRAORDINARY WITHIN THE ORDINARY AHAE - THE EXTRAORDINARY WITHIN THE ORDINARY
June 25 - September 9, 2013
Orangerie Hall of the Palace of Versailles, France
Paris, France
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Important Wythe Co., Virginia paint-decorated poplar blanket chest dated 1802 in excellent original condition. Of the roughly two dozen decorated Wythe Co. blanket chests known, this is the only example that incorporates both the astragal and the rectangular panels; it was designated the “transition chest” by Moore. Published: J. Roderick Moore, “Painted chests from Wythe County, Virginia,” Antiques 122, no. 3 (September 1982), p. 521, fig. 6. Estimate: $20,000-30,000. JEFFREY S. EVANS & ASSOCIATES’ JUNE 22 AMERICANA, FINE & DECORATIVE ARTS AUCTION TO INCLUDE MANY RARITIES FROM THE SOUTH
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates’ June Americana, Fine & Decorative Arts sale on June 22 includes some of the strongest material the auction house has offered in years. The sale includes furniture, objects and fine art from the entire Southern Region and many great examples of Virginia decorative ...

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