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18 JULY 2013 – CHINESE HORN CARVINGS & ASIAN WORKS OF ART
Released: June 19, 2013Richmond Hill, ON – 888 Auctions’ Thursday, July 18, 2013 sale of Chinese Horn Carvings & Asian Works of Art will begin at 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, featuring 647 lots of an exciting array of fine natural history collections, jade and jadeite items, Chinese paintings, porcelain, jewelleries, precious stones and metal wares. Highlighting the summer sale will be Lot 18, Chinese Watercolour Painting Book Pu Zuo 12 Pages, featuring 7 paintings and calligraphy by Pu Zuo with artist signatures and seals, it is expected to exceed its high estimate o...
Rago’s May 18 Fine Art Auctions Realize $1.9 Million
Released: May 21, 2013Rago’s May 18 Fine Art Auctions Realize $1.9 Million. Lambertville, NJ Rago Arts and Auction Center’s Fine Art auctions on May 18 brings an impressive $1.9 million. “Results for the Contemporary Art in the Joshua Smith Collection were strong and the collection exceeded the high estimate,” said Meredith Hilferty, who directs Rago's Fine Art department. The top price in Contemporary Art was for a Kenneth Noland painting entitled “Flown” from 1978 selling for $81,250. In the early 20th C. category, a small portrait by Milton Dacosta stole the sh...
Rago’s to Offer Two Sessions of Fine Art At Auction on May 18, 2013 Featuring Important Property from the Collection of Joshua Smith
Released: May 2, 2013On Saturday, May 18, 2013, Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold two fine art auctions. A sale of 19th/20th Century American and European Art opens the day at 10 a.m., followed by an auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Noon. The Post-War and Contemporary Art auction begins with a group of important works from the collection of Joshua Smith. Smith began collecting in the early 1980’s, building a body of works from forward thinking artists who challenged and changed what people would be willing to see as art. This is the second time Rago’s has sold work from the collection; a ...
Rago Auction's May 16 Open House Features Artist Peter Paone on Collecting Prints
Released: May 2, 2013Rago Auction's May 16 Open House Features Artist Peter Paone on Collecting Prints. Lambertville, NJ: The Rago Arts and Auction Center hosts an open house on Thursday, May 16, featuring a talk by artist Peter Paone on “The Rewards and Pitfalls of Collecting Prints” at 6 p.m. The talk takes place during the preview week for Rago’s May 18 Fine Art auction. Peter Paone will share important information for the print collector, a step by step description of the printmaking processes, the language, symbols, terminology and conservation of the print, and the...
Charles Arnoldi Bronze Offered at Clarke Auction March 17th
Released: February 26, 2013A notable bronze sculpture by renowned California artist, Charles Arnoldi (b.1946) will be offered at Clarke Auction on March 17th. The fresh-to-market 1986 Arnoldi bronze entitled “Buddy” was purchased by a consignor from James Corcoran Gallery in Santa Monica in 1987 and was kept in a Manhattan, NY estate. The piece is both signed and dated verso. Like Christie’s and Sotheby’s, who also have works by Arnoldi in their upcoming sales, the bronze offered at Clarke is of spectacular merit and provenance. Arnoldi, a prolific American sculptor, painter, and printmaker h...
Back to the Future of Cool: Clarke Auction's Midcentury Selection for November 18th Sale.
Released: November 14, 2012Taking 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 pr...
Rebuilding with Art: Clarke Auction's November 18th Sale Provides Renewal After Sandy.
Released: November 14, 2012After Hurricane Sandy, we are all reminded that we may lose our possessions, but we never lose our need to be surrounded by beauty and brightness. A force of nature forces changes in landscape, residence, and environment, so why not a change in what we fill our homes and our lives with? Clarke Auction, Westchester's Premier Auction House, appreciates the severity of destruction that Sandy has left behind, down to a personal level. They also appreciate people's need to rebuild and renew. On Sunday November 18th, Clarke Auction will provide over 400 lots of beauty and structure...
Rago’s to Offer Important Property from the Lydia Winston Malbin Collection at Auction on November 17, 2012
Released: October 16, 2012Works by Jean Arp, César Baldacchini, Piero Dorazio, Victor Vasarely kept in the family. Lambertville, NJ: On Saturday, November 17, 2012, Rago Arts and Auction Center will offer important works from one of the most distinguished collections of 20th century art, the Lydia Winston Malbin Collection. Acquired largely in the 1940s through the 1950s, these works have been held by her daughter since a large portion of the collection was auctioned for over $74 million dollars in May of 1990, shortly after Mrs. Malbin’s death in the fall of 1989. Property...
WESCHLER’S LAUNCHES TUESDAY METRO ONLINE AUCTIONS
Released: August 29, 2012Tuesday sales at Weschler's Auctioneers and Appraisers have been a staple of Washington, D.C.'s auction world for over one-hundred and twenty years. Located in their 905 E Street, NW gallery, Weschler's weekly Metro Auctions offer 100s of moderately priced, mid-market estate lots ranging from antique to contemporary furniture and fine art, to jewelry and collectibles. Now the city's premier auction house is adding an online auction feature to their Metro auction: Metro Online. In select Metro auctions, a portion of the lots will be offered simultaneously online usi...
Mazzolani among Painting highlights at Gray’s May 3 Auction
Released: April 25, 2012Cleveland, OH - Gray's Auctioneers' Fine Furniture, Paintings and Decorations auction takes place on May 3rd at 11am in Cleveland, Ohio. Live online bidding for this auction is provided by Live Auctioneers. Comprising of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, as well as fine furniture, jewelry, rugs, and decorative collectibles, Gray's May auction promises exceptional treasure for every taste. Auction highlights include a number of artworks by modern masters. Lot 22, Snake in a Landscape, is a fantastic, late-career Surrealist drawing by Salvador Dali done on stationary from Hotel M...
Aspire Auctions March 29th Auction
Released: March 28, 2012The March fine art & antiques online auction is almost over with lots starting to close Thursday morning, starting at 10:00 am est. The categories for the day include paintings, workes on paper, sculpture, watches, fine jewelry and unmounted diamonds & gemstones. Part two of the auction will close Friday morning, also starting at 10:00 am est. These lots include Tiffany Studioes & glass, porcelain, pottery & ceramics, ethongraphic arts including African, Asian arts, decorative arts and lastly, oriental carpets. View the catalog and bidding directly through the website at ww...
Aspire Auctions March 29th Auction
Released: March 28, 2012The March fine art & antiques online auction is almost over with lots starting to close Thursday morning, starting at 10:00 am est. The categories for the day include paintings, workes on paper, sculpture, watches, fine jewelry and unmounted diamonds & gemstones. Part two of the auction will close Friday morning, also starting at 10:00 am est. These lots include Tiffany Studioes & glass, porcelain, pottery & ceramics, ethongraphic arts including African, Asian arts, decorative arts and lastly, oriental carpets. View the catalog and bidding directly through the website at ww...
William Mozart McVey (American, 1905-1995)
Released: October 15, 2011Most sculpture lovers easily recognize the work of William McVey, who served as the head of the sculpture Department at the Cleveland Institute of Arts, Cranbrook Academy, and as a guest professor at The Ohio State University. His public commissions include statuary at Rice University; in Washington, DC, the National Zoo and all over Cleveland. "Gree-Deep", a large scale bronze of a frog perched on a pedestal displayed in the National Zoo, is one of the more recognized pieces at Aspire Auctions, as they're offering the smaller version. Seven sculptures in all are being offered for auc...
Sales Total Over $1.1 Million at Cowan's Inaugural Asian Art Auction August 26-27
Released: August 29, 2011Cowan's is thrilled to announce that its first auction dedicated solely to Asian Art was a huge success. With sales coming in at $1,116,846.25, Wes Cowan and staff could not be happier. "We are delighted with the results of our first Asian art auction. It validated for us the strength of the market for quality Asian antiques. This was a learning experience and believe me, we learned a lot." -Wes Cowan, President and Principal Auctioneer "We are quite pleased with the results of our inauguaral Asian art sale." - Michelle Johnson, Specialist - Fine and Decorative Art The auction was h...
Cowan's to Offer Original Remington Broncho Buster in March 25 American Indian & Western Art Sale
Released: March 1, 2011Cowan’s will offer in its March 25, 2011 American Indian and Western Art Auction an original bronze cast of Frederic Remington’s Broncho Buster, estimated to bring $200,000/300,000. Exceptional examples of American Indian Art, including fresh-to-the-market beadwork, carvings, weavings and basketry, will also be offered. This particular Broncho Buster, cast 37, is an early lifetime cast of approximately 90 known to have been produced. The piece was owned by William Cooper Proctor (1862-1934), President of Proctor and Gamble from 1907-1930, and gifted to his niece, noted collector Mary J...
Gray's Auctions Rare Degas
Released: October 14, 2009Gray’s Offers Rare Degas Bronze, Le Tub Gray’s Auctioneers is pleased to announce the sale of a rare Hébrard foundry bronze sculpture by Edgar Degas, known as Le Tub. Deba Gray, auctioneer and owner of Gray’s Auctioneers, immediately recognized the sculpture when she first discovered it in a warehouse in New York. What intrigued her was the fact that the sculpture’s bronze base had been violently removed and it seemed to have evidence of fire damage. Here begins the mystery that Ms. Gray set out to solve. She immediately thought that the bronze may have been stolen d...
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