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Back to the Future of Cool: Clarke Auction's Midcentury Selection for November 18th Sale.
Posted: November 14, 2012 13:57 Last Updated: | Joseph Ronan Clarke Taking the best of the 1950s and bringing it into the present has become the specialty of Clarke Auction in recent months. Theoretically, time travel has not been invented, but Clarke Auction certainly comes close by bringing midcentury back to the future. Firing up their flux capacitors for Sunday November 18th at 2pm are the top design names of Paul Evans, Mira Nakashima, Eero Aarnio, Paul Kjaerholm, Paul McCobb, Harry Bertoia, Bruno Matheson, Vladimir Kagan, and Karl Springer. Hoping to prove that lightning strikes twice, not only on clock towers, but at auctions as well, P...
A Rosewood By Any Other Name : Arne Vodder, Eames, and Evans at Clarke Auction's October 21st Sale.
Posted: October 16, 2012 13:55 Last Updated: | Joseph Ronan ClarkeMidcentury Modern furniture has been recently challenging the idea that only fine art is art. The combination of functionality, design foresight, elegance, and edginess has made the midcentury modern market bring fine art numbers at auction over the last several months. Clarke Auction in Larchmont, NY, Westchester's Premier Auction House, has successfully navigated the rough economy of late by providing its bidders with exceptional midcentury selections in its last several sales. The upcoming Sunday, October 21st sale at Clarke Auction will maintain the reputation for ...
Furniture Friendships : A Midcentury Hangout at Clarke Auction.
Posted: September 20, 2012 11:50 Last Updated: | Joseph Ronan ClarkeSpringer. Tiffany. Evans. Nakashima. What may sound like a Sunday night baseball lineup is actually more of a midcentury social gathering in Larchmont, NY's Clarke Auction. All of these makers of exceptional furniture and lighting come together at Clarke's upcoming Sunday, September 30th sale to make up an eclectic cast of characters. Nakashima, the creative genius and humble guru of the midcentury social club, brings the natural energy of his Conoid Table...to the table. The Conoid's arborous style, however, proves to be a point of personality conflict with the industrialist of the gr...
Indian Artist Krishna Hawlaji Ara Painting to Highlight Art at Clarke Auction
Posted: September 19, 2012 15:09 Last Updated: | Joseph Ronan ClarkeA beautiful and significant painting by renowned Indian artist Krishna Hawlaji Ara is coming to the block at Clarke Auction in Westchester, NY on Sunday Sept. 30th. The painting, a gouache on paper of multiple figures including beggars and a dog, is to be sold in as found condition. Ara, a founding member of the Progressive Artists Group in Bomaby (now Mumbai), was the first contemporary Indian painter to meticulously use the female nude as a subject not straying from the limits of naturism unlike his colleagues such as F.N. Souza. His work was rooted in the delig...
Sell It With A Flourish
Posted: January 12, 2012 12:05 Last Updated: | Antique HelperSome folks like to do things in a big way. They enjoy the spotlight, and blossom with a little extra attention. We’re sort of that way, too, so we understand. Even when it comes to selling an antique or collectible, we think it’s always more fun to make a splash. Why do anything the conventional way when you can make it fun? Do you remember that Super Hero Auction we had last year? We had national news coverage for that event, plus plenty of local headlines and spots on our local news networks. Our own John discovered he looked good in...
Anatomy of an Auction
Posted: May 24, 2011 15:25 Last Updated: | Bill RolandAs co-founders of Roland Auctions, Manhattan's newest auction house, my brother Rob and I face a recurring challenge. As soon as the property in the monthly auction is picked up, we have to start filling the gallery again. It often takes weeks of intense appraisals and negotiations before we are able to offer high caliber fine art, antiques and decorations from Manhattan's premier apartments and estates. That's why I say we're in the business of building relationships. For instance, it required strong relationship building and negotiation skills to bring three exceptional collections to ...
GALLERY GAZING IN SANTA FE by Laura Beach
Posted: December 31, 2010 06:05 Last Updated: | Laura BeachSANTA FE, N.M. – December is the best month to be in Santa Fe. Snow sugars the old town and farolitos – occasionally still the paper bag and candle variety of childhood memory – climb stepped adobe walls. Pinon scents the night air. At the nearby pueblos, feast day dances bind the generations in spiritual traditions as old as time. A first stop is Coulter Brooks Art & Antiques at 924 Paseo de Peralta. Jan Brooks and Lane Coulter – who is known for such well-thumbed references such as New Mexican Tinwork, 1840-1940; Navajo Saddle Blankets: Textiles to Ride in the American West and Co...
Antique Helper Express Auctions: Instant new decor.
Posted: October 19, 2010 10:54 Last Updated: | Antique HelperThe joy of instant gratification, combined with that pleasurable buyer’s rush, all mixed up in a compact four-hour sale mean that I can go to the auction, see my pals and bid on great area rugs and end tables and still make it home in time to pop dinner in the oven before running off for some afternoon errands. Now, my days of obtaining and taking home furniture have just become a little easier. Dan Ripley and my friends at Antique Helper have decided to offer weekday auctions where folks with the urge to purge can unload alongside the hunters and gatherers who crave some change.I ...
Most popular Fall 2009 press releases on ARTFIXdaily
Posted: December 31, 2009 12:19 Last Updated: | Julie Carlson WildfeuerThe three most-read press releases on ARTFIXdaily, published in the ArtWire section between September 1 and December 31, 2009, highlighted museum exhibitions: 1. Art and Illusions, Masterpieces of Trompe-l'loeil from Antiquity to the Present. On view through January 24, 2010, this major exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy, explores the art of optical illusion with 140 artworks. From Roman antiquity to Old Masters to present-day painters, artists whose work masterfully "fools the eye" seems to perenially delight viewers. 2. Paintings by Jay Connaway on view at Portland Museum of...
Barbra Streisand's Collection Heads to Auction (again)
Posted: August 10, 2009 12:24 Last Updated: | ArtfixDaily StaffFollowing the media-frenzy associated with the Michael Jackson auction that never happenend, Los Angeles-based Julien's Auctions once again offers up a dazzling celebrity cache. Fine and decorative arts from award-winning star Barbra Streisand’s New York, Beverly Hills, and Malibu residences will be auctioned on October 17 and 18 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. Proceeds will benefit Streisand's humanitarian foundation. The 400-lot selection features 19th-century American furnishings, Art Deco fixtures, Oriental rugs, Native American baskets, and Barbra's personal Yamaha Baby Grand...
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