November, 2007 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly - Page 3

  • Treasures From The Silk Road To The Santa Fe Trail
    November 20, 2007

    Like the Santa Fe Trail and Silk Road of yore, a well-beaten path was formed over the weekend of October 26, this one leading up to the entrance of ⁔reasures &†From The Silk Road To The Santa Fe Trail.†Local buyers were out in force, seeking the treasures that traveled those very same roads centuries ago.

  • Russian Painting Hits 477,900 At Gene Shapiro Inaugural Auction
    November 20, 2007

    ⁔he Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming,†might well have been a chant heard around the world from an anxious crowd of art enthusiasts during the days leading up to October 20. Rather than Oscar hype, the excitement was for a stellar performance of another sort: a prime selection of Russian and Russian American works of art coming to the auction block at Gene Shapiro⁳ inaugural sale.

  • Four Centuries Of American Art Displayed At USArtists
    November 20, 2007

    The 16th annual USArtists glowed with the patina of success †a rich, glossy devotion to excellence. When the show opened October 18, the Women⁳ Board of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts revealed that it had once again assembled some of the foremost galleries in the country, as well as well-known private art dealers.

  • Bright And Colorful Fancy And Fun The International Vintage Poster Fair
    November 20, 2007

    Bright and colorful, The International Vintage Poster Fair opened for a three-day run at Metropolitan Pavilion October 19, with a preview party kicking off the show in gala style. Unlike most preview parties, the main attraction of the evening was not the libations. Instead it was the wide variety of posters that were being enjoyed by a large and close-knit group of collectors.

  • Nathan Hale Bronze Leads Nadeau Americana Auction
    November 20, 2007

    ⁔he sale did far better than we anticipated,†said auctioneer Ed Nadeau in regard to the annual Americana auction that Nadeau⁳ regularly schedules to coincide with the Fall Hartford Antiques Show. Consisting of more than 500 lots, the Important Annual Fall Antiques and Fine Art Auction conducted on October 20 came in well above estimates.

  • Declaration Of Independence Broadside Brings 693,500 At Skinner Auction
    November 20, 2007

    A broadside of the Declaration of Independence printed in Boston between July 12 and 16, 1776, sold for $693,500 at Skinner⁳ November 18 books and manuscripts sale.

  • Skinner Sells unday PrayersPainting For 831,000
    November 20, 2007

    The Civil War view ⁓unday Prayers†by Sanford Robinson Gifford sold for an impressive $831,000 at Skinner⁳ American and European painting sale November 16.

  • aintings From Modern ChinaAt Allen Memorial Art Museum
    November 20, 2007

    The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College presents ⁇reat Criticism: Paintings from Modern China,†an exhibition from the AMAM⁳ permanent collection that reflects the ongoing struggle between modernism and traditionalism prevalent in Chinese art during the second half of the Twentieth Century. ⁇reat Criticism†is on view in the museum⁳ Ambulatory Gallery until December 23.

  • Yale University Art Gallery Acquires Two Early 1500s German Altarpiece Panels
    November 20, 2007

    The Yale University Art Gallery has announced its acquisition, through partial gift/ partial purchase, of two of the six extant panels from a major altarpiece by the Meister der Heiligen Sippe (Master of the Holy Kinship), the last great painter of the Cologne School, active in northern Germany between 1475 and 1510.

  • Focus Ellsworth Kelly At MoMA
    November 20, 2007

    The Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann Gallery, fourth floor of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), will be devoted to 13 paintings and drawings by Ellsworth Kelly (b 1923) in an exhibition, ⁆ocus: Ellsworth Kelly.†Three of the paintings will be on view for the first time and are recent acquisitions.

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