October 24, 2006 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • Powder Horns Open Windows Into Soldiers Lives During 1750s
    October 24, 2006

    Historic Deerfield will explore the lives and legacies of provincial soldiers forced to fight in 350 years ago in the country’s early days through a three-day symposium titled “Steal Not This Horn: The Material Culture of Conflict During the French and Indian War.”

  • Germanys Royal Treasury
    October 24, 2006

    When Germany’s great collector, Augustus the Strong, Saxon Elector and King of Poland, died in 1733, he left behind the world’s first museum of applied arts and Dresden’s royal treasury.

  • Nagel Posts Good Results In All Traditional Areas Of Collecting
    October 24, 2006

    The liquidation of a major private collection from the Rheingau containing furniture and works of art from the classical revival period enabled Nagle Auktionen’s 500th Anniversary Auction of Art and Antiques to get off to a positive start.

  • American ABC Will Open At Portland Museum Nov 2
    October 24, 2006

    “American ABC: Childhood in Nineteenth Century America,” one of the most comprehensive exhibitions in recent decades to deal with American childhood, will be on view at the Portland Museum of Art November 2–January 7.

  • Brice Marden A Retrospective Opens At MoMA October 29
    October 24, 2006

    In an unprecedented gathering of works from all phases of artist Brice Marden’s long career, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will be the first stop of an exhibition of more than 50 of Marden’s paintings and the same number of drawings, opening October 29 and on view through January 15.

  • Walton Fords Tigers Of Wrath At Brooklyn Museum Nov 3
    October 24, 2006

    The Brooklyn Museum will present the exhibition, “Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford,” November 3 through January 28.

  • North River Auction Sells Paintings, Black Americana & Tramp Art
    October 24, 2006

    Two paintings by Johann Berthelsen led the action at North River’s late summer sale where two New York City oils on board sold for $20,700 and $13,800. A Benjamin Franklin signed document was another star when it sold for $11,500 to a collector.

  • Cowans American Indian Art Sale Achieves Record 1,303,634
    October 24, 2006

    Cowan’s Auctions’ September 16 American Indian art auction generated $1,303,634 from 580 lots of American Indian art and artifacts. The highest selling item was an early Delaware bandolier bag for $115,000.

  • Team Breker Breaks Records At Photography Auction
    October 24, 2006

    The leading Specialty Auction Photographica & Film by Auction Team Breker during the World Fair of Photography (photokina), again proved the high interest in outstanding and rare cameras and photohistorical collector’s items.

  • Eighteenth Century Chinese Jade Carving Rams Through To 171,000 At Skinner
    October 24, 2006

    Even Skinner’s old Asia hand Jim Callahan was surprised when an Eighteenth Century Chinese jade carving of three rams brought $171,000 at Skinner’s October 21 Asian arts sale.

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