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The Surreal Deal: Rare Richard Oelze Oil Painting Discovered by Clarke Auction
Released: May 24, 2013In one of those rare and anticipated moments when an appraiser goes to a location to view what are usually copies, the opposite happened. Peering out from under an old sheet, Clarke Auction art specialist Nelia Moore and owner Ronan Clarke then discovered what would turn out to be a long lost and magnificent oil on canvas by the German surrealist artist Richard Oelze. The large and intricate painting entitled Archaic Fragment was executed in 1935 when the artist was in Paris. The work was included in the major 1942 surrealist exhibition, First Papers of Surrealism, in New...
Garth’s Adds Firearms & European Decorative Arts Specialist
Released: April 6, 2013Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers of Delaware, Ohio is pleased to announce the addition of Firearms and English Furniture and Decorative Arts Specialist, David Jackson. A native of Lancashire, England, David comes to Garth’s with a lifelong passion for antiques including a Bachelors with Honours in Fine Arts Valuation from Southampton Solent University, Southampton, England. David successfully attained his degree while continuing a 25-year career as a police officer which included positions with the Lancashire Police Art and Antiques Division, the Armed Response Officer Team (SWAT...
Clarke Auction Midcentury Selection is a Who's Who of Modern Design.
Released: April 4, 2013Some of the most sought after and respected names in midcentury furniture and design will be featured at Clarke Auction on April 14th 2013. The extensive arrangement of midcentury furniture and design includes important selections from designers and craftsmen Mies van der Rhoe ,T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, George Nakashima, Paul McCobb, Tommi Parzinger, Ray and Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, George Nelson, Robert Shultz, Fritz Hansen, Milo Baughman, Harvey Probber, Pierre Cardin and more. A set of important Mies van der Rohe...
Fritz Bultman | The Missing Irascible | April 3 - May 11, 2013 | Edelman Arts
Released: March 26, 2013FRITZ BULTMAN: The Missing Irascible APRIL 3 – MAY 11, 2013 OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday, April 3, 6:00 to 8:00 pm RSVP info@edelmanarts.com New York, March 26, 2013 -- Edelman Arts is pleased to present The Missing Irascible, a comprehensive exhibition of recently re-discovered work by historic American Abstract Expressionist Fritz Bultman (1919 - 1985). Exploring a multi-faceted body of work that spanned more than four decades, from the heyday of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s and 1950s to the close of his career in the mid 1980s, the exhibition includes pain...
The McNay presents REAL/SURREAL
Released: February 5, 2013Drawn entirely from the deep holdings of the Whitney's collection, Real/Surreal: Selections from the Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art focuses on the tension and overlap between two strong currents in 20th-century art: realism and Surrealism. Real/Surreal features paintings, drawings, photographs, and prints that elucidate how artists-depending on intention and influence-developed degrees of reality in which imagination held more or less sway. Among the notable artists included in the exhibition are Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, Joseph Cornell, Philip Guston, Edward Hopper, Man Ray, Ben Sha...
Barridoff Announces Spring Auction of Important Paintings
Released: February 18, 2013Barridoff Galleries will hold the first of its biannual auctions of American and European Art on April 24, 2013. The auction will be held as always at the Institute of Contemporary at Maine College of Art, 522 Congress Street in Portland, Maine. Students work at the auction where they earn some pocket change while learning about a part of the art world not commonly taught. Barridoff makes a percentage donation to the school after each auction. Owner and CEO of Barridoff, Rob Elowitch, says that the atmosphere is wonderfully "artful" and raises the auction to a cultural level as well as the...
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Garth's to Begin Chinese New Year (of the Dragon) with Amazing Asian items & more
Released: January 11, 2013With Asian material encompassing more than half of the 762 lots offered in their late January auction, Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers is hoping to celebrate the Chinese New Year just a few weeks early with fireworks in the sale room. “The variety and quality in this auction is terrific,” comments Garth’s owner, Amelia Jeffers. “Just choosing a cover image for the printed catalog was tough. After considering jewelry, paintings, jade, snuffs and scrolls, we finally settled on a monumental ivory carving that came to us from a wonderful Cleveland, Ohio estate.” Th...
Fine Art Starts the New Year at Clarke Auction
Released: January 3, 2013Clarke Auction of Larchmont, New York welcomes the New Year with a marvelous selection of Fine Art on Sunday January 6th at 2pm. The collection includes nearly one hundred works of art that range from works of Old Masters to the late 20th Century American. The American selection is of particular note and includes a large lot of American Artist Group prints. The lot is comprised of over 40 un-cataloged prints. Individual artists in the grouping include Reginald Marsh, Joe Jones, and...
27th Annual Wilton Fine American Craftsman Show
Released: October 26, 2012Barn Star Productions and the Wilton Historical Society are proud to announce the 27th annual Wilton Fine American Craftsman Show will take place this November 10 & 11 at the Wilton High School Field House, Wilton CT. The show and sale will feature sixty select artists and artisans known for their creativity, talent and displaying exciting current production from holiday and original traditional crafts to designer floor cloths, exceptional jewelry, red ware pottery, inspired folk art, original oil paintings and prints, silver and pewter, wearable fiber art, custom and period reproduct...
MASSACHUSETTS ARTISTS WILLIAM BRADFORD AND EDWARD SIMMONS TO LEAD GROGAN’S SEPTEMBER AUCTION
Released: September 14, 2012Dedham, MA – Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers announces their upcoming September 30th Auction will include over 700 lots of Fine Art, Furniture, Decorative Works of Art, Silver, Jewelry and Oriental Rugs, and will span five centuries of artistic expression and craftsmanship from various estates and collections throughout New England. The highlight of the fine art offerings is Low Tide, Labrador, a 20 x 30 inch oil on canvas by celebrated 19th century Hudson River School artist William Bradford. Born in New Bedfor...
Another Cropsey Discovered in New York
Released: September 7, 2012A fresh to market oil by Hudson River School artist Jasper Cropsey was recently authenticated by the Newington-Cropsey Foundation with the help of Clarke’s Fine Art Specialist, Nelia Moore, and will be put up for auction at Clarke’s Larchmont, NY, location on September 10th, 2012. The Cropsey oil had been kept away in a private collection since the mid 1960’s and was unavailable to the market until now. The emergence of this newly discovered Cropsey comes a little more than a year after a Clarke Auction consigner brought in two unknown paintings, which were later verified as original Cr...
Picasso’s Visage de Femme ceramic pitcher headlines Gray’s Summer Auction
Released: July 28, 2012July 31 at 11am, Auctioneer Deba Gray will be offering 387 lots at her eponymous auction house with live bidding provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, including a stamped, marked and numbered, partially glazed ceramic pitcher by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) entitled Visage de Femme. Conceived in July, 1953 and created at the famed Madoura Pottery in Villauris, France where he met his second wife Jacqueline Roque, this curvaceous Picasso ceramic is listed in the auction at Lot 206. Numbered 71 from an edition of 200 it is catalogued in Alain Ramié's catalogue raisonné of Picasso's ceramic edi...
AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISTS: Selected Works from 1880 through 1920
Released: May 18, 2012Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery presents AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISTS, a remarkable salon of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Tonalist paintings by some of the giants of the American School. Around the late 1880s, the rapid brushwork and bold colors found in European salons began appearing in American museums and galleries. Artists like Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, and Louis Ritman traveled abroad to learn the grand tradition of painting only to discover that the rules of classical, Academic painting had been broken. These artists and the others...
Garden of Love: American Still Life Painting, 1880-1930
Released: May 13, 2012Garden of Love: American Still Life Painting, 1880-1930 is now on view at Catherine Dail Fine Art through the end of May. This sumptuous Spring exhibition of American still life and garden painting was curated with inspiration from the poetry of William Blake and the new music of Martha Redbone. Garden of Love is the title of one of Blake's Songs of Experience - in which he wrote, illustrated and included the stanza: "I went to the Garden of Love/And saw what I never had seen/A Chapel was built in the midst/Where I used to play on the green." Like many of the 19th-century Ameri...
The Magazine ANTIQUES Celebrates its 90th Anniversary
Released: March 26, 2012This spring marks the landmark 90th year of continuous publication for The Magazine ANTIQUES. The May/June 2012 issue will celebrate the 90th anniversary of The Magazine ANTIQUES, a publication devoted to the universal passion for antiques and fine art. The issue will feature a variety of perspectives on the past, present, and future of the fields we cover and includes, among other things, three landmark collections of painting and decorative arts by widely admired collectors. Institutions such as the Barnes Foundation and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens w...
100 Unearthed Lots and Asian Art Headline Clarke Auction's March 18th Auction for Asia Week 2012
Released: March 13, 2012The last 100 lots of Clarke Auction’s March 18th sale include a variety of American and International oil paintings, drawings, and prints that the Auction had unearthed from a storage unit, earlier this week, but the discovery of the fine art is not the only conquest of Clarke Auction for the upcoming auction. The day’s auction, starts at 2:00pm, will include a worldly collection of art, furniture, and silver. Just as Mark Antony adored Cleopatra, so too does Clarke have a fondness for Egyptian beauty, as exemplified in the oil and sand on masonite painting, entitled “Le Menestral,” by...
Martha Richardson Fine Art to Present a Retrospective of Works by John Wilson at “AD20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries” March 15-18, 2012
Released: February 21, 2012Boston, Massachusetts - Martha Richardson Fine Art of Boston will present a retrospective of works by African American Boston artist John Wilson (b. 1922) at the fifth annual AD20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries, March 15-18, 2012 at The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street in Boston's South End. Martha Richardson, already known for her previous exhibition of John Wilson's prints and drawings now represents the artist in New England. Wilson, a skilled painter, sculptor and printmaker, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts ...
Weschler's Capital Collections Estate Auction Premieres February 3
Released: January 20, 2012On Friday, February 3rd Weschler’s will hold their first Capital Collections Estate Auction in the Nation’s Capital. The new auction format will now combine American & European furniture & decorations, Asian works of art, jewelry, coins & watches, fine art and 20th century decorative arts. “This new format will allow the bidders interested in multiple categories of items to bid on them in one event, either onsite or online”, explains Tom Weschler. With the change, the Capital Collections auctions will now be held on Fridays at 10:00am, with exhibi...
IMPORTANT SALE OF ESTATE ANTIQUES FEATURING AMERICANA AT CRN AUCTIONS
Released: January 9, 2012CRN Auctions of Cambridge, MA., announces a major winter Americana sale to be held at their gallery on Sunday, January 29th at 10:00 a.m. The auction is primarily comprised of material from a northern New Jersey estate as well as items from a Boxford, MA collector. Most of the items have not been on the market for years. The auction itself is made up of fine American antique furniture, American and European paintings, a fine collection of clocks, silver, decorative accessories, antique English furniture and accessories, and Oriental rugs. Furniture is highlighted by an 18th centur...
WESCHLER’S TO AUCTION JEWELRY & FINE ART ON DECEMBER 3
Released: November 17, 2011[WASHINGTON, D.C.] - Weschler's holiday auctions of Jewelry, Coins & Watches and American & European Fine Art will be held on Saturday, December 3rd. The exhibition will begin on Saturday, November 26th in Weschler's Washington, D.C. gallery. The jewelry session will feature stunning pieces ranging from the Antique, Victorian, Edwardian, Art Deco and Modern eras including an exquisite Art Deco platinum and diamond cocktail bracelet ($6,000-$8,000); an Art Deco 14-karat yellow and white-gold, platinum and diamond mesh evening bag ($4,000-$6,000); a gentleman's 14-karat yellow-gold...
Weschler's to Auction Property from a Virginia Collection on December 2
Released: November 11, 2011(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- Weschler's will auction a collection of American folk and sporting art, furnishings and decorations from a single owner on Friday, December 2nd at 10 am. The collection will go on exhibit beginning Saturday, November 26th at Weschler's Washington, D.C. gallery, along side their holiday auctions of Jewelry, Coins & Watches and American & European Fine Art. Highlights from the collection will include a James II spool-turned walnut Flemish tapestry upholstered settee ($1,500-$2,500); a George III style ebonized and satinwood inlaid mahogany serpentine side...
Maurice Prendergast Paris Scene Oil Painting Unearthed at Clarke Auction
Released: October 18, 2011While sifting through a large box lot of art dropped off at the Larchmont, NY gallery by what is known in the trade as a “picker,” Nelia Moore, Art Specialist/Auctioneer at Clarke Auction spotted a beautifully executed but very dirty painting on panel of a woman in a veil. After dusting it off and studying the painting she spotted the Prendergast Paris signature on the lower right of the panel. The quality and style of the small oil lead both Mr. Clarke, auction owner, and Ms. Moore to believe they had made a very important discovery, especially relevant in a time of economic gloom. Thou...
Artfact Live! Offers Live Online Bidding at John Moran Auction
Released: October 12, 2011Artfact Live! will offer live online bidding on works by leading American and California artists spanning the mid-19th to mid- 20th centuries at John Moran Auctioneers’ third California and American Art Auction of 2011. The sale represents a broad survey of the American experience, with 210 oils and watercolors including Impressionist landscapes, still lifes, Westerns, American Scene subjects and California School watercolors, as well as sculptures. With estimates ranging from under $1000 up to $80,000, the sale presents excellent opportunities for new collectors entering the market as we...
“Toward a National Cartography: American Mapmaking, 1782-1800”
Released: October 6, 2011SOUTHAMPTON, MA – Boston Rare Maps, one of the country’s premier specialist dealers in rare and unusual antique maps, presents AmericanMapmaking.com, a virtual online exhibition of antique American maps from the late 18th Century. Originally hosted at the Harvard Map Collection, Toward a National Cartography: American Mapmaking, 1782-1800 traces the evolution of mapmaking during the formative years after the American Revolution, revealing the ways in which Americans sought to transform the landscape to suit their newly established economic and political goals. Included in the exhibition...
Artfact Live! Offers Live Online Bidding at Swann African-American Art Auction
Released: September 29, 2011(Beverly Hills, CA) Artfact Live! will offer live online bidding at Swann Auction Galleries’ African-American Art Auction on October 6, 2011. Featured in this exciting auction are rare works of fine art by renowned artists such as Charles White, Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff and many others. A wide selection of additional paintings, fine prints and sculpture, all by African-American artists, is also included in the sale. For additional information, or to bid live online from anywhere in the world on Artfact Live! please visit www.Artfact.com. Highlighting the sale is a 1953 illustra...
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