Berry-Hill Galleries is presenting recent figurative bronzes by Gary Weisman. The New-York Historical Society will present a multimedia exhibition of its flock of rare, original John James Audubon watercolors. The Cleveland Museum of Art will exhibit 56 celebrated European paintings from the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries, including works by Degas, Van Gogh, Klee, Monet and El Greco. He retired as vice president of sales during the 1980s and participated in many antiques shows, primarily those run by the late Russell Carrell. The January Scott Antiques Market at the Atlanta Expo Center featured 2,400 booths filled with antiques from 1,500 dealers. Many dealers predicted this new show will surely build into an annual, much-anticipated event. Recently discovered in an attic trunk, the quilt sold to an unnamed museum. "Even the most exciting and personally fulfilling adventures must come to an end." When auction goers left this sale, snow had been falling for some time and cabs were almost as rare as some of the furniture. Every culture has used portraits to record personages, position, passages and pomp. Few are more expressive than the Latin American portraiture on view in this extraordinary exhibition. The Frick Art & Historical Center adds an important chapter to the history of American decorative arts and industry with the first comprehensive survey exhibition of Bakewell glass. Expert Jeff R. Bridgman of York County, Penn., was instrumental in identifying the stolen flags. The apex of subway-themed haute couture is on display at the New York Transit Museum. The MFA Houston exhibition focuses on varied depictions of women of antiquity with objects especially chosen from the Celia and Walter Gilbert Collection. Between Rembrandt and Vermeer, Borch captured intimate moments of everyday life with elegance and grace. The show will return in all its glory over this weekend, February 12 and 13. Those who attended on opening day, and the two that followed, were treated to a show with variety. Two unforeseen complications made the magnitude of its success this year hard to judge. Even so, most exhibitors seemed pleased with sales. The hotbed of activity, at least on opening night, was a fourth-floor gallery housing London specialists in early English pottery. The event was more than ever a colorful pageant of humanity - its hopes, preoccupations and never-ending passion for beauty. "Bidders also competed fiercely for classic Kangxi period blue and white and famille verte porcelains." The recent Christie's auction offered 192 lots with 146 selling, resulting in a 76 percent sold rate and a final gross of $25,930,840. Two world record prices for rare and important Patek Philippe wrist watches from the 1940s, according to the gallery. A new exhibition at the Albright Knox Art Gallery encourages the viewer, with the aid of site-specific photographs, to see a more abstracted relationship between O'Keeffe's subjects and paintings. This smallish but comprehensive exhibition will help solidify Noland's special niche in Twentieth Century American art. The show features a selection of paintings, drawings and two rare sculptures, all from the artist's personal collection. On view are this Baroque master's finest and most representative drawings, including dozens that have never before been exhibited in the United States. The four-acre garden will essentially replace what is now the museum's parking lot. "We are full for the fall show." Collectors could start with newly discovered artists, or they could invest in six-figure works by big-name outsiders with museum provenance and in some cases, auction track records. A standing-room-only crowd was on hand for Arts and Crafts period furniture, tiles, art pottery, art glass and metalwork. The auction grossed $13.3 million, up from $12.5 million a year ago, and instituted January 18, the new 20 percent buyer's premium went straight to the bottom line. At the end, it was down to two determined buyers - a phone bidder and auctioneer Carl Stinson, who was present for the sale. Grant Gallery, Tatiana Grant, 7 Mercer St, New York, NY 10013, 212-343-2919 West Wind Fine Art, PO Box 3390, Coeur D'Alene, ID 83816 Garzoli Gallery, John H. Garzoli, 930 B Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 Coryell Gallery at the Porkyard, 8 Coryell Street, Lambertville, NJ 08530 Hollis Taggart Galleries, Hollis Taggart, 958 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021 Childs Gallery, D. Roger Howlett, 169 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116 CRG, Inc, Lawrence J. Cantor, 960 North LaBrea Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90038 James Cox Gallery, 4666 Route 212, Willow, NY 12495 R. Fraser Sporting & Southern Art, Bob Fraser, 953 Covenant Square, Mt Pleasant, SC 29464 Schwarz Gallery, Robert Schwarz, Jr, 1806 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 Crane Collection, Bonnie L. Crane, 564 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA 02482 Bert Gallery, Cathy Bert, 540 South Water Street, Providence, RI 02903 P.H. Miller Studio & Gallery, Peter Miller, 495 Main Street South, Woodbury, CT 06798 Boston International Fine Art Show, Tony Fusco, 1 Murdock Terrace, Brighton, MA 02135 Arctic Artistry, Elaine Blechman, 50 Neustadt Lane, Chappaqua, NY 10514 Featured among the works will be 16 miniature oil on panel landscape paintings, all dating from 2002 to 2005. In honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Sommer, the RISD Museum is collaborating with the Newport contemporary ballet company Island Moving Co. to celebrate the artist's inventive and haunting work. New scholarship led by Princeton University will likely prompt significant reexamination of the Wu Family Shrine's long-accepted implications, including even its attribution to the Wu family. The New York market's increasing potential has the company's current attention as being key to its continued growth. The grant will fund a comprehensive, five-year program to digitize a substantial cross-section of the archives' most important holdings, including the papers of a highly diverse range of artists and arts-related figures from the Eighteenth Century to today. "That is what the concept for this show is all about: that it is okay to take antiques and put them in a modern setting." The auction, grossing more than $300,000, was highlighted by a collection of basketball sweaters from the estate of Frank Meehan, center for the New York Celtics basketball team during the late 1920s. The "Star of Australia," found "down under" with the use of a metal detector, was the star lot on the West Coast. With a price of $19,550, an oil painting depicting an arctic scene of the "Graf Zeppelin" by Alexander Kirchner was the auction's top seller. A retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art drives home the point that Dali was a serious artist of considerable intellectual vision and talent. |
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