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Herny Moore's Shelter Drawing: Seated Mother and Child, sold for £634,850 at Bonhams.

L.S. Lowry Painting Commands $8.8 Million; Records for Works on Paper
Bloomberg - November 21st, 2011 01:45

L.S. Lowry's "Piccadilly Circus, London," from 1960, recently sold for £5.6 million ($8.8 million) in London at Christie's. Works on paper by Lowry and Henry Moore (at left) set auction records at Bonhams...

Pluto and Proserpina, by Matthias Steinl, an Imperial Court sculptor in Vienna (1643/44-1727) and one of the greatest ivory carvers of all time.

Collecting Treasures of the Past VII Opens at Blumka Gallery in New York, January 2012
Release Date: 21 November 2011
OVER 80 EXCEPTIONAL MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, AND BAROQUE OBJECTS ON VIEW, INCLUDING "PLUTO AND PROSERPINA," A TOUR DE FORCE OF IVORY CARVING. Anthony Blumka of Blumka Gallery in New York and Florian Eitle-Böhler of the Starnberg, Germany-based Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler announce that ...

Mary Abbott (b. 1921) "Untitled", 1954, Oil and oil stick on paper mounted to canvas 18 x 24 in.

Painterly Abstraction: Spheres of AbEx at Heather James Fine Art
Release Date: 19 November 2011
Opening on Novemebr 26, 2011 at Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA, Painterly Abstraction: Spheres of AbEx presents a broad survey of the idiosyncratic American art movement by bringing together works from some of the major artists of the genre in addition to remarkable art by other ...

Straight Furrow Quilt from FISHER HERITAGE.

LOG ON………… BOLD CONTEMPORARY GRAPHICS = ANTIQUE LOG CABIN QUILTS
Release Date: 18 November 2011
Before there was computer technology to figure out iterations of pattern, 19th century quilt makers fiddled with narrow strips of light and dark toned fabrics to create intriguing optical illusions of a design known by the umbrella term LOG CABIN QUILT. A favorite graphic of NYC Americana ...

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	Edwin Dickinson In Retrospect November 28, 2011 - January 27, 2012 Babcock Galleries New York, New York Read more

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	Jon Francis: Paintings from the Drive Home Release Date: 18 November 2011 Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery presents the fourth solo exhibition for American Tonalist, Jon Francis. In his newest exhibition, JON FRANCIS: Paintings from the Drive Home, Susan Bush has curated a collection of his characteristically warm, vintage inspired paintings. Jon Francis is a ... Read more

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