March 17, 2009 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • Yves Saint Laurent Auction At Christie Makes 4838 Million
    March 17, 2009

    The three-day sale of the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé at the Grand Palais, offered by Christie⁳ in association with Pierre Bergé & Associates auctioneers on February 23′5, realized $483,835,144.

  • Tiffany Lights Up Savoia
    March 17, 2009

    A Tiffany Studios whirling leaf hanging fixture with a 22-inch dark green glass shade flecked with patterns of leaves in bright fall colors sold for $28,750 at Savoia⁳ Auction on March 1.

  • Rock Island Regional Sale Sees Vibrant Gun Market
    March 17, 2009

    After setting a new industry record for yearly sales in 2008, Rock Island Auction Co. started off the new year with its February 6 and 7 regional sale reaching a record-setting $2.2 million †doubling any other previous regional sale in Rock Island history.

  • Richmond 47th Benefit Antiques & Fine Arts Show
    March 17, 2009

    Two allied, medically oriented organizations united again for the 47th Benefit Antiques & Fine Arts Show at the Science Museum of Virginia, February 6‸.

  • A Mystery Unraveled Salem Cabinetmaker Nathaniel Gould
    March 17, 2009

    The peculiar convergence of curiosity, history, persistence and technology has placed a formerly fairly obscure name in the canon of American furniture masters ⁓alem cabinetmaker Nathaniel Gould †and established him firmly as an Eighteenth Century furniture maker of superb artistry. The unraveling of the mystery of Nathaniel Gould began more than two years ago when antiques dealer Todd Prickett called on independent furniture scholar Kemble Widmer to research a bombé block front mahogany desk-and-bookcase, circa 1780. That it was a Salem piece was clear; Prickett knew that it related closely to the desk-and-bookcase in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the only known signed Gould piece. Similar pieces were attributed to another Salem cabinetmaker, Henry Rust. Widmer, who has studied Gould for more than 20 years and never believed the Rust attributions, enlisted the help of Joyce King, a researcher and colleague of more than two decades, and the two were off and running. An Internet search led them to the Massachusetts Historical Society where ledgers, the estate inventory and several examples of Gould⁳ furniture remain on view at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, through April 30.

  • W Samuel Tarlton, 87, Antiques Dealer & Historic Preservation Specialist
    March 17, 2009

    W. Samuel Tarlton, well-known antiques dealer and historical preservation professional, died on March 12, at Mayview Convalescent Center; he was 87 years old. He was a former partner in Craig & Tarlton, Inc, and owner of Glenwood South Antiques and Fine Art.

  • Richard E Kramer, 78, Heart Of Country Antiques Show Founder
    March 17, 2009

    Richard (Dick) E. Kramer, owner of Richard E. Kramer & Associates, an event management company known for its Heart of County Antiques Show, died Wednesday, March 11, while in Nashville, Tenn., overseeing the opening of Heart of Country. He was 78 years old.

  • Holliston Draws Large Crowd To 41st Annual Antiques Show
    March 17, 2009

    The larger than usual crowd waited eagerly for the opening of the 41st annual Holliston Antiques Show, and then surged into the high school gymnasium where they rushed the dealers who awaited them.

  • Cross River Antiques Show Beats The Snow
    March 17, 2009

    The impending nor⁥aster snowstorm being forecast by weather reporters and confirmed by Pennsylvania dealers en route to the Cross River Winter Antiques Show may have resulted in a couple of booth cancellations, but it did little to deter the buying public.

  • Frank Stella oby DickAt Grand Rapids Museum
    March 17, 2009

    The Grand Rapids Art Museum presents the work of Frank Stella in an exhibition by one of the great living American artists. ⁍oby Dick: Frank Stella and Herman Melville†is on view through May 3.



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