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| 4/26/2005 | Stradivari Violin Sets New World Auction Record in New York Created in 1699 when Antonio Stradivari was 55 years old, The Lady Tennant violin illustrates the hallmarks of Stradivari's emerging Golden Period style. Read More...
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| 4/26/2005 | Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800 How Dr Kugelman, a semiretired physician, and his wife, a personal property appraiser with an avid interest in canine search-and-rescue operations, became mesmerized by Eighteenth Century Connecticut furniture is itself an intriguing story. Read More...
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| 4/26/2005 | A Closer Look: Record Prices for Watercolors Define Watershed Auction at Grogan At the firm's centennial sale, an impressive selection of paintings helped push the total over the $1 million mark. Read More...
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| 4/26/2005 | At William Bunch, a $126,560 Floor Lamp Is in Rare Form The sale totaled nearly $750,000 in an event marked by spirited competition from online bidders in 46 states, the District of Columbia and 22 foreign countries. Read More...
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| 4/26/2005 | The International Asian Art Fair The slip of bamboo that Anna and Brian Haughton planted a decade ago has taken over an entire mountainside. Read More...
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| 4/26/2005 | The Boston Antiques Show Diane and Meg Wendy put together a bright, attractive and seamless show. Read More...
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| 4/26/2005 | Bedford Spring Antiques Show Celebrates 20th Anniversary New this year were five exhibitors, new booth designs and an improved entrance and traffic flow plan. Read More...
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| 4/26/2005 | MoMA Exhibits Postwar Drawings from Its Superb Collection The artists featured introduced new subject matter and experimented with a host of new techniques. Read More...
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| 4/26/2005 | Rare Stone Copy of the Declaration of Independence at Colonial Williamsburg The museum will also display ten examples of signatures from signers of the Declaration of Independence. Read More...
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| 4/26/2005 | Fine American Art from 1845-1960 The Spanierman Gallery will feature more than 70 paintings, as well as a number of bronze sculptures and works on paper. Read More...
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| 4/19/2005 | Warm Reception for Wine Cooler at Christie's "Collectors found it fascinating for its uniqueness and untouched, original condition." Read More...
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| 4/19/2005 | Absentee Bidder Wins Top Banjo Clock in Upstate New York Auction Cottone's first fine art and antiques sale of the year saw competitive bidding, with much phone action and a full house. Read More...
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| 4/19/2005 | Glowing Prices for Tiffany in Indiana A Tiffany bronze and Favrile glass candlestick, a paw footed version of rare form, nearly doubled its high estimate. Read More...
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| 4/19/2005 | The Philadelphia Antiques Show "Good, better, best, never let it rest" could be the motto of the event, which goes from strength to strength each year. Read More...
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| 4/19/2005 | Antiques at the Center Everything about show was improved. Read More...
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| 4/19/2005 | New York Arts of Pacific Asia: The Yin and Yang of Pleasing a Crowd It is elegant but relaxed, exotic but accessible, scholarly and commercial. Read More...
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| 4/19/2005 | Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors The exhibit is In honor of the Hood Museum of Art's 20th anniversary. Read More...
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| 4/19/2005 | The Canton Connection Historic Deerfield features more than 120 objects from the museum's Asian art collection. Read More...
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| 4/19/2005 | Style, Status, Sterling: The Triumph of Silver in America The Newark Museum's newest exhibition traces this country's love affair with sterling silver. Read More...
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| 4/19/2005 | A New Museum to Celebrate the Shenandoah Valley The institution is a bold venture that heralds the distinctive arts and culture of the area. Read More...
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| 4/12/2005 | Wyeth's 'Buoys' Rise to $115,000 at Grogan The picture will be included in an upcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work. Read More...
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| 4/12/2005 | English Buyer Crosses the Atlantic for $28,750 Gothic Coffer The rare walnut piece was carved with a religious allegorical front panel made in the Fifteenth or Sixteenth Century. Read More...
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| 4/12/2005 | Jazz Buffs Groove for $2 Million Offerings in New York Guernsey Auctions, known for pop culture pageantry, recently staged its first single auction entirely devoted to jazz, playing before a packed house. Read More...
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| 4/12/2005 | Antiques from Round Top to Bottom: It Happens in Texas, Twice a Year Over 30 years the events have grown, with satellites and tailgate shows in more than a half dozen contiguous towns. Read More...
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| 4/12/2005 | Round Top, the Original, Gets a Fresh Start The shows' new owners, Susan and Bo Franks, welcomed more than 300 dealers to the venues scattered about this village halfway between Houston and Austin. Read More...
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| 4/12/2005 | Marburger: The Texas Farm that Grows Antiques John Sauls continued to build on his success this spring with another sold-out event in tents, sheds and farm buildings. Read More...
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| 4/12/2005 | Wilton Historical Society's 38th Annual Antiques Show A deluge of rain and scheduling snafus did nothing to diminish strong presentations by 83 dealers. Read More...
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| 4/12/2005 | Michelangelo of the Menagerie Bronze works by Antoine-Louis Barye will be on view at Brooklyn Museum's second-floor Mezzanine Gallery. Read More...
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| 4/12/2005 | Cleveland Adds Hallucination and Reality to Its Schedule The Cleveland Museum of Art has added an exhibition of Michaël Borremans' work as part of the Project 244 series. Read More...
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| 4/12/2005 | Color Matters in Providence Bert Gallery presents an exhibition of contemporary and historic paintings exploring the evolving language of color. Read More...
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| 4/12/2005 | Fenimore Art Museum Salutes New England Limner John Brewster Jr Brewster gets his proper due as the museum showcases the works of this prolific folk portrait painter, considered by many to be the greatest of his time. Read More...
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| 4/5/2005 | Phyfe-Attributed Bookcase Leads Northeast Auction Bidding opened at $45,000 and fluttered between the phone and prominent dealers in the room. The phone bidder prevailed six figures later. Read More...
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| 4/5/2005 | That Ain't Snuff: Asian Week Sales Total $26.2 Million for Christie's An imperial famille rose enameled octagonal lot became the most expensive snuff bottle ever at $665,600. Read More...
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| 4/5/2005 | From Pinup Art to Pulp Painting, American Illustrators Fare Well in Dallas "From paperback covers to magazine art, this is an area that has seen a great deal of interest over the last few years." Read More...
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| 4/5/2005 | Catalogues, Bindings, Rare Books Fetch $4.2 Million in New York The Lauderdale set of 71 early English auction catalogs,1674-1701, was purchased by a New York dealer on behalf of the Grolier Club for $168,000. Read More...
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| 4/5/2005 | A Last Winter Cruise for Antiques at New York's Piers Show That the show was shoehorned into two piers rather than the normal three - and obviously short some 200 dealers as a result - seemed moot to most folks. Read More...
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| 4/5/2005 | Ephemera Society of America Hosts 25th Conference, Show and Auction Somewhat resembling a fantastic voyage through different lands, cultures and times, the event treats attendees to a small slice of history as recorded on paper. Read More...
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| 4/5/2005 | Full House Marks Atlantique City's 18th Year "There were huge crowds waiting for the opening and our advance ticket sales were the highest since we have been running the show." Read More...
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| 4/5/2005 | The Southport-Westport Antiques Show Goes into 'Hibernation' "It's too valuable to give up. It's one of the best shows north of New York City." Read More...
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| 4/5/2005 | American Beauty Following a successful European tour, Pittsburgh's Frick Art & Historical Center is the final US destination for paintings and sculpture by many of America's most celebrated artists. Read More...
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| 4/5/2005 | What's up Doc? "The Art of Warner Bros Cartoons" at the James A. Michener Art Museum looks at the rambunctious birthplace of characters that have become part of American folklore. Read More...
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| 4/5/2005 | Prints by Paul Gauguin The Clark will draw from its extensive holdings of works on paper to present this special installation. Read More...
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| 4/5/2005 | The Metropolitan Acquires Gilman Photographs Collection It is widely regarded as the world's finest assemblage of photographs in private hands. Read More...
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| 4/5/2005 | Freeman's: America's Oldest Auction House Celebrates 200 Years It all began with a dry goods auction in a Philadelphia coffee house on November 26, 1805, when Tristram Bampfylde Freeman hammered down two bales of "superfine and common cloths." Read More...
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