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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

    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 ...

Chihuly Garden and Glass, a Seattle exhibition looking at the career of Northwest artist Dale Chihuly, today launched online ticket purchasing for its opening week of May 21, 2012. Located at Seattle Center in the shadow of the Space Needle, Chihuly Garden and Glass features interior galleries, lush outdoor gardens with large art installations and a dramatic Glasshouse, housing one of Chihuly’s largest suspended sculptures, creating an immersive art experience for all ages. “With the install of each work in the Exhibition Hall and Garden we move one step closer to presenting an ...

  [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. ...

Three times a year, the rolling fields of Brimfield, MA that lie just outside the historic village of Sturbridge, turn into the Northeast's largest antiques market.  With twenty-three show promoters in as many fields hosting more than 6,000 dealers, the crowds swell to the hundreds of thousands.  To ease the confusion of how to go, what to do, where to stay - and how to stay longer and enjoy more, Antiques Weeks Media, LLC has launched a travel site named BrimfieldAntiquesWeek.com. The new site follows the same format as Antiques Weeks Media's other travel sites, among ...

 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 ...

Superlatives abound for the inaugural New York 20th Century Art and Design Fair (NYC20), which-thanks to its enormous popularity-had to prolong its closing time on Sunday, April 15, because people continued to stream into the Tent at Lincoln Center well past the official 5 p.m. closing time. Over 3,500 people attended the three-day show, which featured 36 top-tier 1stdibs dealers and was produced by Dolphin Promotions in association with 1stdibs.  The opening-night benefit preview for the Bard Graduate Center on Thursday evening, April 12, drew nearly 1,000 people. Spotted ...

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 ...

When the venerable Philadelphia Antiques Show opens it doors in the Convention Center in Philadelphia on Friday, April 27, and the 23rd Street Armory Show takes up residence in the armory of the same name, it will mark another running of Philadelphia Antiques Week. This year, for the first time, visitors will be able to get all the information they need about the shows, museums, and attractions at one website, PhiladelphiaAntiquesWeek.com    The fourth in a series of travel sites designed to serve consumers and collectors shopping the named market weeks, ...

During a visit to a Garrison, New York estate, Clarke Auction appraisers looked around and liked what they saw. While the eclectic mix of furniture and art was suitable for auction, it was only after they stood under a gorgeous and rare Tiffany Studios chandelier that the light bulb went on. Clarke Auction acquired the estimated $60,000 to $80,000 Tiffany Studios masterpiece. The rarity of the chandelier is derived from its large size, and its masterfully crafted "turtleback" top half. Turtleback glass is pressed from iron molds while it is still extremely hot, then typically cut into ...