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| 3/30/2004 | Sotheby's Asian Auctions Total $8.2 Million A pair of soft paste vases with six character Qianlong sealmarks hammered at $299,200. Read More...
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| 3/30/2004 | The Art of the Osage Although artist George Catlin sketched the tribe's chief Clermont in 1834, the material culture of the Osage remains little known among art historians today. Read More...
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| 3/30/2004 | Asia Week Sales for Christie's Reported as Highest Ever The auctions were closely followed by collectors, dealers and institutions worldwide and totaled $20,061,100. Read More...
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| 3/30/2004 | Stickley Plant Stand Commands Six Figures at Central Street Picked from a New Haven home within the past month, it sold for $104,500. Read More...
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| 3/30/2004 | Rare Eighteenth Century American Pewter Teapot Brings $18,700 in Pennsylvania The Philadelphia Queen Anne-form pewter teapot, circa 1752, bore the touch mark of Cornelius Bradford. Read More...
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| 3/30/2004 | The Wilton Historical Society Antiques Show Marilyn Gould's last show in Wilton had been scheduled for December 7 but was ultimately canceled due to a snowstorm. "One of the dealers suggested I change my name," she said with a chuckle, "so God won't know where I am." Read More...
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| 3/30/2004 | All the Details Count at the Bedford Hills Antiques Show There were at least 2,000 visitors to the show, many who came both days. Read More...
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| 3/30/2004 | Christie's International Reports $2 Billion in Worldwide Sales In Christie's salesrooms, 136 works of art sold for more than $1 million, led by Amedeo Modigliani's "Nu couché," which fetched $26,887,500. Read More...
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| 3/30/2004 | Robert Schwarz, 61, Fine Art Dealer Schwarz took the antiques business founded by his father in 1930 and turned it into one of the most respected art galleries in the United States. Read More...
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| 3/30/2004 | American Originals Original documents, photographs and items that endure in the national conscience are compelling touchstones in an exhibition currently on view at Hartford University's Museum of Political Life. Read More...
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| 3/30/2004 | North Carolina Museum Displays the Art of Gold The Mint Museum of Craft + Design presents 80 contemporary gold objects, including jewelry, hollowware, vessels and small sculptures. Read More...
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| 3/30/2004 | Light in the Landscape On view at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum is a series of dreamlike images from Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin's travels in the United States and Israel. Read More...
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| 3/23/2004 | Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford This masterful Nineteenth Century landscape painter is the subject of an overdue retrospective at the Amon Carter Museum. Read More...
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| 3/23/2004 | Clock Tops $2.4 Million Pennsylvania Sale The Pook & Pook sale was attended by a record number of bidders with more than 700 registered. Read More...
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| 3/23/2004 | European Antiques Capture the Limelight at Connecticut Auction A dealer from Westchester County, N.Y., won an English walnut chest on chest. Read More...
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| 3/23/2004 | Paintings from New Bedford Lead the Action at Willis Henry All three paintings came from the estate of J.C. Rhodes and sold to the same dealer bidding by telephone. Read More...
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| 3/23/2004 | American Spirit Returns to Hartford Against an economic backdrop that continues to sputter, collectors showed up to support the show with a hefty and steady gate on both days. Read More...
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| 3/23/2004 | Steady Stream of Customers for Cross River Cord Shows Ltd debuted its first annual Cross River Winter Antiques Show to nearly 1,000 people. Read More...
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| 3/23/2004 | Robert Francis Fileti, 53, Conservator, Consultant The trade has lost one of the nation's leading conservators and authenticators of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century furniture, and a fine man. Read More...
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| 3/23/2004 | The Currier Celebrates African American Art Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum are organized into an exhibition featuring 61 paintings, sculptures and photographs. Read More...
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| 3/23/2004 | Princeton Displays Recently Acquired Images by Robert Adams After gaining wide notice for his photographic exploration of the suburbs surrounding Denver and Colorado Springs, Colo., Adams turned his camera to the open spaces that had met the West's first explorers and settlers. Read More...
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| 3/23/2004 | Light from the Past: Early American Rugs On view in New Jersey, these early sewn and hooked rugs created in the humble dwellings of colonial and post-colonial America provided warmth and color to many a dark, low-ceilinged room. Read More...
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| 3/16/2004 | Williamsburg Material Attracts Buyers to Northeast Large auction, large crowds and large prices as Ron Bourgeault posts an impressive $3.4 million total. Read More...
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| 3/16/2004 | Williamsburg Material Attracts Buyers to Northeast Large auction, large crowds and large price as Ron Bourgeault posts an impressive $3.4 million total. Read More...
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| 3/16/2004 | Dallas Sale Yields $2.3 Million for Comics Highlights included Captain America Comics #1 Mile High pedigree, which sold for $64,400. Read More...
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| 3/16/2004 | New Record Set for Montague Dawson in New York "Night Anchorage at Whampoa" beat its high estimate of $200,000 to sell for $309,900 to a private collector. Read More...
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| 3/16/2004 | Results for Cranberry Opalescent Offerings Sparkle During Virginia Glass Auction "Cranberry opalescent water pitchers, sugar shakers, syrups and pickle casters are still at the top of the market and show no signs of slowing down." Read More...
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| 3/16/2004 | Johnson Brothers Bring the Goods to Greenwich The show retains many of the "polished" dealers that have been setting up in Greenwich since the early days, dealers who know what the local clientele wants and deliver the goods. Read More...
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| 3/16/2004 | The New York Armory Antiques Show Many of the stands serve up a polished look with English and Continental furniture popular among the Park Avenue crowd, although swank specialties also generate quite a bit of attention. Read More...
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| 3/16/2004 | International Dealers and Buyers Attend the First Palm Beach Jewelry & Antiques Show On opening night, New York fine arts dealer Robert Simon sold an El Greco painting, "The Penitent Magdalene," offered at $1 million. Read More...
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| 3/16/2004 | LACMA Receives Houdon Masterpiece The extremely rare, life-size plaster sculpture depicts the famed Eighteenth Century writer and philosopher Voltaire. Read More...
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| 3/16/2004 | Honolulu Sole Venue for Spectacular 'Japan & Paris' Impressionism Exhibit The Honolulu Academy of Arts will be the only venue anywhere in the world to show masterpieces from 28 Japanese collections and one American collection. Read More...
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| 3/16/2004 | Making the Invisible Visible at the McMullen Museum of Art Boston College will present the first exhibition to "make visible" the Latin American influences that lend Matta's work its distinct aesthetic. Read More...
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| 3/16/2004 | The 1920s - and All that Jazz The Morris Museum travels back to the time of the flappers, bootleg gin and Model T Fords in its upcoming exhibition. Read More...
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| 3/16/2004 | Milton Avery: Two Colorful Spring Exhibits While both shows give well-deserved play to the artist and his place in Twentieth Century American painting, they underscore the vital importance of the collector to Avery and to the institutions that hold his work. Read More...
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| 3/9/2004 | The Miller Collection Of Roman Sculpture An exhibition featuring more than 30 Roman portrait heads, stone figures and relief fragments, dating from the first Century BC to the third Century AD will be at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts from March 13 through July 4. Read More...
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| 3/9/2004 | 'Bonjour Monsieur Courbet!' In 1854, art collector Alfred Bruyas invited Courbet to spend time in Montpellier, where the artist painted his masterpiece, "The Meeting," in which patron Bruyas is seen welcoming the artist to his town. The painting is one of the treasures of the Musee Fabre and a key work in any understanding of Nineteenth Century modernity. Read More...
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| 3/9/2004 | "Glories of Ancient Egypt" Opens At The High Museum Of Art The High Museum of Art presents "Glories of Ancient Egypt," featuring more than 200 works of art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston that evoke the splendor of Egyptian art and funerary practices over a period of 4,200 years. Read More...
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| 3/9/2004 | Million Dollar Sales At Works On Paper Works on Paper, an art show whose name explains it all, opened to an enthusiastic crowd on Wednesday evening, February 25, with a gala preview during which at least one $1.5 million sale was recorded. Read More...
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| 3/9/2004 | The New York Vintage Fashion And Antique Textile Show The heart of the Manhattan's Fashion Center district came alive when vintage fashion dealers from all over the country brought their wares to the Seventh New York Vintage Fashion and Antique Textile Show and Sale. Read More...
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| 3/9/2004 | 38th Annual Tolland Antiques Show The Tolland Antiques Show packs all of the excitement of a major country Americana event into a one-day small town New England show. Read More...
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| 3/9/2004 | Eastman Johnson Oil Leads At Northeast Auctions Brisk bidding was witnessed for many of the 1,000 cataloged lots at Ron Bourgeault's Northeast Auctions sale this past weekend, March 6 and 7, with the auction house releasing a $3.4 million total for the two days. Read More...
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| 3/9/2004 | Jade Carving Brings $182,000 At Skinner Top lot of Skinner's record-breaking $2.7 million sale of European and Asian furniture and decorative arts was a dark green jade mountain carved intricately with pavilions, granaries, figures, water buffalo and foliage. Read More...
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| 3/9/2004 | Rare Stenciled Bed Cloth Brings $231,000 At Gould A rare stenciled bed cloth attracted national attention from folk art dealers and collectors at a small country auction in Maine. Read More...
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| 3/3/2004 | Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser at Cooper-Hewitt The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present the first full-scale retrospective of Dresser's work, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the designer's passing. Read More...
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| 3/2/2004 | Modern American Masters in Cleveland The Cleveland Museum of Art will host an exhibition highlighting the private collection of Cleveland native and Grammy Award-winning record producer Tommy LiPuma. Read More...
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| 3/2/2004 | Hong Kong Dealer Purchases Rare Screen for $65,130 at Grogan Applause swept the gallery when the handsome Chinese screen sold after a heated telephone bidding contest. Read More...
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| 3/2/2004 | Pedigree and Provenance: Massachusetts Collections Star in Boston The Sunday morning sale attracted buyers from Maine to Pennsylvania to the fashionable Park Plaza salesroom that Skinner's executive vice president Stephen L. Fletcher says is slowly but surely developing a strong retail following. Read More...
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| 3/2/2004 | Christie's Sale of American Indian Art Totals $1,017,005 A Sioux wood effigy feast bowl went to the US trade for $81,260, while a San Ildefonso blackware jar sold to an American private buyer for $57,360. Read More...
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| 3/2/2004 | Sweet Sixteen Sanford Smith has continually groomed and manicured ADAA's The Art Show, nurturing it all along the way to achieve its current robust stature. Read More...
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| 3/2/2004 | Gramercy Park Antiques and Fine Art Show Although it has formal roots, Gramercy does maintain a strong eclectic presence that surely pleases the downtown crowds. Read More...
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| 3/2/2004 | Heart of Country The emphasis after 23 energetic years is still on the furniture, accessories, folk art and classic country Americana. The 220-plus exhibitors show it and they sell it. Read More...
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| 3/2/2004 | An Enduring Vision A major survey of Japanese paintings by master artists from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century opens at Japan Society Gallery - its exclusive East Coast venue - on March 9. Read More...
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| 3/2/2004 | Martin Johnson Heade's 'Gems' on view at Yale Sixteen of the 20 paintings of hummingbirds that Heade intended as illustrations for a lavish book are on loan to the university from the Manoogian Collection. Read More...
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| 3/2/2004 | Push Your Buttons: Politics in Action How did politicians ever get their messages out to voters prior to the days of television? A display of political buttons and other presidential campaign materials on view at the Cape Fear Museum provides the answer. Read More...
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