Ramping things up a notch, the Princeton Fall Antiques and Fine Arts Show recently celebrated its fifth anniversary by tweaking the typical antiques show format with the addition of special touches above and beyond dealer displays.
As a general rule, bidders pack the gallery and fill up the phone lines when CRN Auctions runs a sale and the October 17 sale here was no exception.
The artistry of the Amish quilting tradition will be on full display when the de Young Museum presents “Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown” in the Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Textile Gallery November 14 through June 6.
The Greenwich Civic Center may not have the ambience of a sumptuous hotel ballroom, but a fine display of architecturals and wrought iron at the center’s entrance put together by Bob Withington, York, Maine, set an elegant tone from the get-go for the Greenwich Kiwanis Fall Antiques Show October 17–18.
On October 22, the final day of the 20th running of Brian and Anna Haughton’s International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show at the Park Avenue Armory, signs of a successful show were still to be seen everywhere.
The third annual Jackson Hole Art Auction, recently hosted by Trailside Galleries and Gerald Peters Gallery, offered past and present Masters of American West and realized just under $6 million in sales.
Jerry Lopilato, a well-known Massachusetts antique dealer, recently died at Emerson Hospital after a long battle with heart and lung disease.
The Jewish Museum will present “Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention” November 15 through March 14, a major exhibition considering how the artist’s life and career were shaped by his turn-of-the-century American Jewish immigrant experience and his lifelong evasion of his past.
A late Eighteenth Century Pennsylvania Chippendale tiger maple desk, probably Lancaster County and crafted from figured tiger maple, was a standout at $41,400 during Leland Little's recent multi-estate Historic Hillsborough auction.
“F. Luis Mora and the Expression of Beauty” is the first comprehensive museum exhibition of this important artist since 1927 and assembles the best works representing his long and successful career. It is on view through February 7 at the Mattatuck Museum.
The glass collecting community lost a dedicated scholar when Duff S. Allen Jr died on October 20, at the age of 80. As members of the Westchester Glass Club, the Allens managed the club’s premium glass show from 1986 to 1996. The Onassis Cultural Center will bring together a group of Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century paintings, including early works by El Greco, in the exhibition “The Origins of El Greco: Icon Painting in Venetian Crete,” from November 17 through February 27.
The fall edition of the popular Rhinebeck Antiques Fair filled the four buildings at Dutchess County Fairgrounds on October 10 and 11 with a familiar lineup of 180 exhibitors to successfully cap the show’s 33rd year.
Exceptional jade objects from a collection formed in the 1940s in Beijing brought bidders from around the world to Skinner’s Asian art works sale October 17-18.
Antiquorum held a highly competitive auction of important collectors’ wristwatches, pocket watches and clocks on September 17, resulting in two world records for price paid at auction and total sales of $9,214,974.
Alexander Calder, one of America’s best-known and best-loved sculptors, famed for his kinetic abstract mobiles and huge grounded stabiles, was in many ways an artistic Renaissance man. In addition to his celebrated sculpture, he excelled at creating paintings, drawings, book illustrations, jewelry, tapestry, toys and stage sets. His effervescent personality infused all facets of his oeuvre with elegance, vigor — and fun. Throughout his long career, Calder created scores and scores of etchings and lithographic prints. In terms of style and subjects, many reflected links between his graphic art and his famous sculptural works. As its title suggests, “Alexander Calder: Printmaker,” an exhibition on view at the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Conn., through January 31, features nearly 30 of his fine arts prints, along with several watercolors and small pieces of sculpture. They demonstrate his long-term interest in making prints and his proficiency in a number of printing techniques.
Copake Auction’s unreserved cataloged estate sale on October 24 veered from the firm’s usual showcase of estate Americana but it also attracted a record number of left bids, 852, according to co-owner Seth Fallon. What accounted for such keen interest? “The stuff,” Fallon quipped.
The Hudson River Museum is marking the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage to the New World with the exhibition “Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture,” on view through January 10.
It was all treats and no tricks for the crowd in attendance at the opening of the newest antiques show on the circuit, Frank Gaglio’s Autumn Hartford Antiques Show. Kicking off on the morning of All Hallow’s Eve, October 31, the show opened for a two-day run amid fanfare and mild trepidation.
As a Pop Art trailblazer in the 1960s, Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) captivated the art world with a fresh, new and exciting visual language. His iconoclastic style melded imagery from popular American culture with hard-edged commercial techniques from advertising and comic strips. His precisely applied bold primary colors, slanting stripes, Benday dots and thick black outlines made his work stand out. In choosing his subjects, Lichtenstein cast a wide net. With wit and skill he appropriated ideas from such Twentieth Century artistic titans as Picasso, Millet, Matisse and Monet, and popular entertainment characters like Dagwood Bumstead, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. The means by which the artist arrived at his iconic images is explored in a fascinating exhibition, “Lichtenstein in Process,” which is on view at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, Tenn., through January 17. Originally organized by the Fundacion Juan March in collaboration with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, the show comprises 65 preliminary sketches, drawings and collages, 1970s–1990s, which offer rare glimpses into the artist’s creative process.
Love a good mystery? A new exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art contains the elements of an art history whodunit — a carefully crafted forgery, a persistent art scholar and a painting thought to be lost for more than 100 years. The exhibition, “Identity Theft: How a Cropsey Became a Gifford,” is on view November 21 through March 27.
An album of Plains Indian pictographs sold for $34,365, nearly triple the estimate, at Skinner’s recent sale of American Indian and ethnographic art.
Stella Show Mgmt Co set up its Modern Show on the 11th floor of 7 West 34th Street, with views of the Empire State Building as a fitting Art Deco backdrop. The show ran October 16–18 to rave reviews from dealers and shoppers alike.
A car burglary was reported following the Greenwich Antiques Show the weekend of October 17–18. Stolen from a dealer’s van were items that had been purchased by a collector at a Pennsylvania auction and given to the dealer to be framed. Auctioneer Jeff Evans has fond memories of early American glass aficionado Duff S. Allen Jr of Falmouth, Mass., who died on October 20, at the age of 80. Rembrandt, Renoir and Rauschenberg. Just three of the scores of impressive names spanning the history of printmaking, past and present, that were recently displayed during the International Fine Print Dealers Association’s annual show, printfair 09.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents “Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life,” the first US-exhibition in 25 years of Eighteenth Century Spanish painter Luis Meléndez, on view through January 3.
Man Ray (1890–1978), the enfant terrible of American Modernism, made his greatest contribution to the movement through his pioneering photographs of African masks, headdresses and figures. These images influenced the work of European and American avant-garde artists, and promoted appreciation of African objects as works of art. Man Ray’s Modernist photographic aesthetic had a significant impact on ways in which African art was interpreted at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Man Ray was part of a movement between the world wars in which photography emerged as a major vehicle of creative expression. The developing medium was embraced by artists on both sides of the Atlantic in search of new art forms that responded to the profound social upheavals of the era. Man Ray led the way in introducing radical approaches to the art of photography. His achievements as avant-garde provocateur and gifted photographer are celebrated in “Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens,” on view at The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., through January 10.
“There was a great energy on the floor” stated show manager Allison Kohler of JMK Shows in the days following the most recent edition of the Morristown Armory Antiques Show. Opening on Saturday, November 7, for a two-day run, management reported that more than 3,000 customers made their way through the door.
Collectors and dealers gravitated to the Center of New Hampshire on October 25, drawn irresistibly by the very good estate materials offered at Northeast Auctions’ fall sale.
A monumental mahogany front and back bar made around 1893 by Brunswick, Balke & Collender Co., the desirable Los Angeles model and with an original matching liquor cabinet, soared to $302,500 at Showtime's October 2–4 auction at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds.
On November 11 at Sotheby’s, Andy Warhol’s monumental masterpiece, “200 One Dollar Bills,” brought $43,762,500, soaring past the presale estimate of $8/12 million.
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University will present “Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939” from November 20 through February 28.
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