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New Orleans Auction Galleries, Inc. is pleased to announce their Two-Day Estates Auction, taking place Saturday, May 19 and Sunday, May 20, 2012. This sale features over 1400 lots from a variety of private collections and estates. The first session begins at 10:00 A.M. CST on Saturday and includes lots 1-813. The Sunday session starts at 11:00 A.M. CST and includes lots 814-1444. Guests are welcome to preview daily from 9-5 for two weeks in advance of the auction, excluding Sundays. And a late evening preview party will be held on Thursday, May 17 from 5:30 – 8:00 P.M. The exhibition ...

  The Curator’s Eye (http://www.CuratorsEye.com/), the global high-end art marketing organization, celebrates the success of its New York City gallery management division. Seol Park, as Regional Director, is responsible for sales, marketing, and cultivating partnerships in the New York dealer community. Originally from Seoul, Korea, Ms. Park worked in corporate brand consulting before earning an MA in American Fine and Decorative Art at Sotheby’s Institute in New York. Prior to joining The Curator’s Eye, she worked in client development at Christie’s. Founder and CEO Sarah ...

Aspire's May 2012 online auction has 1495 lots with special categories pertaining to lifetime collections of Nautical Instruments, Snuff Bottles and Tobacciana. Another special category of thirty-five Clyde Singer paintings are being offered from a private Youngstown Ohio collection. Some highlights of the auction include five pieces of Wedgwood Fairyland luster, a pictorial frieze of sixteen Grueby tiles estimated $20,000/30,000, three sculptures by Arthur Putnam, a watch category including a Breguet 18k Chronograph, a circa 1920's rare Movado 41701 Jump Hour 14k gold ...

Cowan's Auctions Fine and Decorative Art Auction will take place on May 19, 2012. The 390-lot sale will be held at Cowan's Auctions   salesroom. This sale will feature pieces from the Lewis Cotlow Collection of Salamgundi Club paintings and Japanese porcelain. The collection is being sold to benefit the Cincinnati Museum Center. In 1987, Cotlow donated his 260-piece, million-dollar collection, which included artifacts, films, and photography, to the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. The auction will also include Cincinnati and Kentucky paintings, fine groupings of 19th and ...

Richmond Hill, Ont – 888 Auctions is proud to present its Chinese Antiques & Asian Works of Art sale on 24 May 2012 featuring traditional paintings, ceramics and bronze cloisonné pieces, jade and Tianhuang stone carvings, and exceptional rhinoceros horn carvings. A truly rare find can be found in 888 Auction’s first summer sale of the year at Lot 268. Dating back to the 17th or 18th Century, the lotus cup is shaped in the form of a lotus pad and rests delicately on a signed horn carved pedestal base. Estimated at $5,000 to 10,000, it is expected to garner the most attention in ...

Picking has been great this month for the Clarke appraisal team. They have managed once again to put together what -- in the humble opinion of Irish owner and founder, Ronan Clarke – is one of the most diverse and exciting auction offerings in the New York area this month.   While Sotheby’s, Doyle’s, Christy’s, etc. all have great art sales this month, Clarke not only has great art but also a diverse and eclectic mix of midcentury modern, silver, porcelain, rugs, continental furniture and collectibles.   As always, Clarke has its usual gathering of furniture and even ...

May Means MATA! Madison Ancient & Tribal Art, an alliance of international dealers specializing in the art of traditional cultures, will present an exhibition of select objects for five days only, May 9-13, 2012, at the Arader Gallery, located in a magnificent Beaux-Arts townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, near the Whitney Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The opening reception is 5-9pm Wednesday. Show hours are: Wednesday, May 9, 11am – 9pm; Thursday – Saturday, May 10 – 12, 11am – 7:30pm; Sunday, May 13, 11am – 5pm. The goal of MATA is to offer to new and seasoned ...

Matthew's Galleries of Lake Oswego, Oregon, announces a summer art auction, June 19, 2012.  The gallery is seeking consignments of American and International art from Old Masters to the 20th century, including paintings, watercolors, fine prints and sculpture.  Already included in the sale is "Family" by Paul Guiragossian (Armenian, 1926-1993).  The 15" x 18" oil on canvas was painted about 1963, and carries an estimate of $10,000-15,000.  From the selection of Amerian art is "Guarding the Move" by Ace Powell (1912-1978), a Western oil on canvas measuring 20" x 30" ...

    TABLESCAPES BY NEW TRAD DESIGNERS: ALLISON HENNESSY AND CHRISTINA MURPHY. During the Spring Show NYC from May 3 through May 6 at the Park Avenue Armory, fair-goers will encounter tablescapes created by two young, up-and-coming talents named to Traditional Home’s hot list of New Trad Designers for 2012: Allison Hennessy and Christina Murphy. Each brings her own distinctive look to tabletop decor, taking inspiration from works of art showcased in the Spring Show and reinterpreting them with a fresh modern twist.  Says Hennessy of her tablescape: “I've always ...

Weschler's May 18 Capital Collections Estate Auction will feature a wide selection of furnishings, decorations, jewelry and fine art from various local estates and private collections. Exhibition for the Friday spring sale begins Saturday, May 12th in Weschler's downtown gallery located at 909 E Street, NW Washington, DC. Highlights of the American and European fine art offerings include an oil on canvas by French artist Maximilien Luce (1858-1941) titled Baigneurs, which is estimated to bring between $80,000-$120,000; a vibrant oil on canvas, Le Pont Saint-Goustan à Auray: Morbihan ...

Dedham , MA-  Albers, Mapplethorpe, Avery, Picasso, Hundertwasser and Poons are just a few of the Modern masters to be offered at Grogan and Company’s upcoming May 20th auction.  The auction, which will include American and European Paintings, Prints and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th  century, will also include a large collection of Old Master Drawings from a Wellesley, Massachusetts estate, as well as Furniture, Decorative Works of Art, Jewelry, Silver and Oriental Rugs and Carpets.         The featured lot is Josef Alber’s ...

  [Washington, D.C.] Weschler's Capital Collections Estate Auction held Friday, March 30, showcased an impressive selection of American and European fine art and Asian Works of Art, enticing many determined bidders in the gallery and from around the world. The sale offered 384 lots, with over 81% of the property selling and totaling $995,022. The top lot of the day was a Chinese gilt-bronze enamel and celadon hardstone mounted cloisonné vase. The vase exceeded its estimate of $1,500-$2,500 amongst a sea of competitive phone and floor bidding and was hammered down at $81,850. ...

 Rago Arts and Auction Center’s 2300+ lot three-day weekend marathon auction on April 20, 21 and 22 brought home a whopping $1,833,325 for the auction house and its consignors. The top lot was a figural bronze by Leonid Vladimirovich Posen, “The Jewish Carter”, part of a group of Russian bronzes, which provoked competitive bidding from the U.S. and Russia. The three day sale included a Great Estates auction of 764 lots, a no-reserve Discovery sale and an unreserved Jewelry and Silver sale. “The interest level was high and strong prices were achieved in all areas of collecting,” said ...

During the four days of the Spring Show NYC - running from May 3 to May 6 at the Park Avenue Armory - not only will fair-goers enjoy feasting their eyes on world-class art and antiques, they'll also enjoy the chance to get even more up-close-and-intime with those subjects through their lectures. Presented by leading experts in their fields, the diverse topics cover the gamut of fine and decorative arts including Hollywood movie-set design, lady power-decorators Dorothy Draper and Elsie De Wolfe, Chinese art and Empress Eugenie's outré Oriental Chamber at Chateau Fontainebleau. The ...

Astute organizers of art and antique fairs pursue a dual mission. On the one hand, they must appeal to museum professionals and seasoned buyers, and on the other, they want to welcome neophytes. No art and antiques fair anywhere in the world fulfills those two goals with more aplomb than the Spring Show NYC, which opens on May 3 and runs through May 6 at the Park Avenue Armory. There, in a hospitable, non-intimidating setting, fairgoers of all backgrounds are comfortably united in awe and appreciation of the wide range of the fair’s offerings. Spring Show NYC dealers were asked to select ...