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These stunning jewelry pieces will all come up for bid on Sunday, August 3rd, on-site in Newtown, Conn., as well as online.

Dazzling estate jewelry, gold and silver coins, artwork, more to be sold on-site August 3rd in Newtown, Conn.

Released: July 22, 2014

NEWTOWN, Conn. – The contents of a gorgeous 4,000-square-foot home on Silver City Road in Newtown valued at over $500,000 – 10 rooms, all of them beautifully decorated with quality items purchased 4-5 years ago and ready for immediate use – will be sold at an on-site auction on Sunday, Aug. 3rd, starting at 1 p.m. Eastern time, by Tim’s, Inc. Auctions, based in Bristol, Conn. “This is an exceptional opportunity for people to bid on items they need and can use right away,” said Tim Chapulis of Tim’s, Inc. Auctions. “It’s a blend of old and new but just about everything was purchased r...

Very Fine Antique Chinese Carved Jade Boulder on Stand

Wooten and Wooten Auctioneers: Fine Items Sold to a Global Audience

Released: July 18, 2014

Wooten and Wooten Auctioneers presents Summer Estates and Collections, a diverse catalog sale that reinforces the company’s strengths and offers a variety of stand-out pieces from prestigious, nationwide estates. In keeping with the success of online auctions, for the first time bidders will be able to participate through four online platforms, Live Auctioneers, Invaluable, Auctionzip, and Asia’s EpaiLive, in addition to in-house, phone, and absentee bidding. With its high quality items and worldwide marketplace, Wooten and Wooten sits poised at the forefront of the auction world. The July...

San Francisco -- Hawaii Overnight! Via Pan American -- To the Orient, circa 1939

"Timeless Journeys": 21st Annual Summer Poster Show!

Released: July 15, 2014

Timeless Journeys: 21st Annual Summer Poster Show! At International Poster Gallery On view through Labor Day September 2, 2014 BOSTON, MA: International Poster Gallery (IPG) proudly presents the 21st Annual Summer Show: Timeless Journeys. Travel posters awaken our dreams of adventure, nostalgia, beauty, and wanderlust perhaps more than any other poster category. Experience traveling to these exotic vistas through more than 50 posters from the Golden Age of Travel to Mid-Century Modern. Highlights include early Pan Am posters, a spectacular range of Air France posters...

Two oil paintings by the British painter Christopher Le Brun (b. 1951), including this work titled Day Painting, will be sold Aug. 9-10 in Atlanta.

Original paintings by Le Brun, Meier, others will be sold at Ahlers & Ogletree's Aug. 9-10 auction

Released: July 18, 2014

ATLANTA, Ga. – Around 1,000 lots of quality, fresh merchandise in a wide array of categories – fine art by noted listed artists, wonderful period and modern furniture pieces, a collection of antique tortoiseshell items, decorative accessories and more – will be sold the weekend of Aug. 9-10 by Ahlers & Ogletree, in the firm’s gallery at 715 Miami Circle (Suite 210) in Atlanta. Start times for both days of the Summer Estates Auction will be 11 a.m., Eastern time. This will be yet another packed auction for Ahlers & Ogletree, a firm that has made its mark in a short time as one...

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art prepares for fall debut of "State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now"

Released: July 16, 2014

On November 11, 2013, the second anniversary of the museum’s opening, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced a major new initiative to discover and exhibit recently created artwork from across the United States. As part of the initiative, museum president Don Bacigalupi and assistant curator Chad Alligood traveled to all regions of the country to visit nearly 1,000 artists in studios and conduct hundreds of hours of one-on-one conversations. Now, planning and research is complete and the museum has selected 102 artists for the resulting exhibition, State of the Art: Discovering A...

The Stowe Rosso Antico Obelisco della Minerva. Roman, c. 1800. Rosso antico marble. Height: 73.5 cm. Asking price: in the region of £40,000. Tomasso Brothers Fine Art

COLLECTORS AND CURATORS CONVERGE ON THE CAPITAL FOR LONDON ART WEEK

Released: July 16, 2014

London Art Week (LAW), 4 to 11 July 2014, a week-long celebration of paintings, drawings and sculpture in Mayfair and St James’s, has proved to be a winning formula with dealers reporting significant sales and important international visitors. Many of the dealers staged special exhibitions and Tomasso Brothers Fine Art brought the Grand Tour to town, selling 20 of the 32 pieces on display including a marble obelisk that once graced the Music Room at Stowe to a private European collector, (asking price £40,000). The ancient obelisk, which inspired this piece, was fou...

Lyme Art Association Presents "August Light" and "Pastel Brilliance"

Released: July 27, 2014

The Lyme Art Association, at 90 Lyme Street, Old Lyme Connecticut, will present an exhibition celebrating landscape, still life, and figurative scenes captured on canvas and in sculpture on view from August 1 through September 20, 2014. The August Light: Summer Painting and Sculpture Exhibition for Members is on view in the Association’s three front galleries. A separate juried show, Pastel Brilliance, in the Goodman Gallery will highlight the talented artist-members of the Connecticut Pastel Society. The opening night reception for both exhibitions will be ...

Pop-up Exhibit of Hand-Crafted Studio Furniture opens in Boston August 1st

Released: July 16, 2014

For two weeks only, a vacant gallery space on Newbury Street will be home to a pop-up showcase of beautifully hand-crafted studio furniture produced by members of a New Hampshire-based group that represents some of the top artists working in the furniture-making field today. “Furniture Masters: Artistic Visions” gives Boston area visitors a look at the best examples of contemporary furniture being produced in New England. Pieces in the exhibition will reflect a range of distinctive furniture styles - from Early American and Shaker to Contemporary and Art Furniture. The free, public e...

1954-55 Ted Williams “Harry Agganis” game-worn uniform

JIM BROWN’S 1964 NFL CHAMPIONSHIP RING, A 1954-55 TED WILLIAMS GAME-WORN UNIFORM AND THE FIRST AND ONLY TRUE “BASEBALL” CAR HIGHLIGHT THE LELANDS.COM SPRING CATALOG AUCTION

Released: July 15, 2014

Jim Brown’s 1964 NFL championship ring, a 1954-55 Ted Williams “Harry Agganis” game-worn uniform and the first and only true “baseball” car – a custom-designed Volkswagen Beetle featuring a white exterior with red baseball stitches, Rawlings baseball glove seats, a baseball gear shift and baseball bat emergency brake – are among the one-of-a-kind sports memorabilia being offered as part of the Lelands.com Spring 2014 Catalog Auction, which closes July 25. The auction at www.lelands.com also features a 1960s Willie Mays “It’s cold outside” San Francisco Giants game-worn jacket,...

Rep. Nadler on the ART Act, Hearing on Artists’ Resale Rights

Released: July 15, 2014

On Tuesday, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, delivered an opening statement at the subcommittee’s hearing of “Moral Rights, Termination Rights, Resale Royalty, and Copyright Term.” Congressman Nadler introduced the American Royalties Too (ART) Act, which will be discussed at the hearing, in order to ensure visual artists are compensated when their original artwork is resold. His legislation would bring fairness to American artists who, unlike their fellow visual artists...