The Art Thief by Noah Charney
On Art and Connoisseurship by Max J. Friedlander
Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts by Nina Fletcher Little
Creating Picturesque America by Sue Rainey
Chinese Export Porcelain: East to West by Shirley Ganse
Andrew Carnegie by David NasawPosted By UAA Team on February 7, 2010
In this series, the UAA team will list some of the interesting items that we have found in auctions, antique shops, shows or eBay. We neither own the items or have the capability of examining the items in person in some cases. It mainly serves as an inventory record of what interests us (not necessarily in [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Posted By Geo on February 7, 2010
I’m not sure where Hillary Clinton was for this interview, but I did recognize the porcelain behind her from a recent auction at Sotheby’s. A similar plate from the collection of Elinor Gordon brought $21,250 January 23.
Sotheby’s provided these details: ”A relatively small number of orange ‘Fitzhugh’ dinner wares appear to survive, and of these some [...]
Posted By Geo on February 6, 2010
A recently rediscovered work by Georgia O’Keeffe, Alligator Pear in White Dish, sold for $225,150 at Skinner Auctions recently, well above its estimate high of $150,000
Included in her Catalogue Raisonne, Volume II, and evidenced by a photograph her husband Alfred Stieglitz took, the painting had been considered lost since the mid-1950s when it was last [...]
Posted By Geo on February 4, 2010
In a few short weeks I’ll be relocated to Texas and far from the Met, Guggenheim, New York Historical Society, Newark Museum, Winter Antiques Show and all of the other art and culture haunts that have come to know me in New York City.
It will be a change for sure, but look forward to discovering [...]
Posted By Geo on January 29, 2010
The International Poster Center will offer more than 400 original vintage posters from the latter half of the 20th century in its second Modern Poster Auction. Featuring posters from around the world, this show explores the unbridled creativity that defined graphic advertising from the 1950s onward. All items are on view February 1 – February [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Posted By Geo on January 28, 2010
While convention may have it that American furniture isn’t the hot item it used to be, dealers at the premiere of Antiques in Charlottesville January 22-24 reported a high volume of furniture sales.
“If I had one word for what moved out the doors of the Holiday Inn last weekend it would be mahogany,” said Jay [...]
Posted By Melody on January 28, 2010
If you have never been inside The National Academy Museum it stood as a stately backdrop for the annual New York Ceramics Fair produced by Caskey Lees Inc. of Topanga, California. With the spiral staircase winding around to bring the attendees to the rare and valuable pieces above it more than fulfilled its purpose.
The opening [...]
Posted By Sun on January 28, 2010
Fifty-three-year-old Ma Weidu (or Weidu Ma in western tradition as Ma is his surname) began his collection in the 1980s. At that time, people rarely collected antiques and he just called what he bought “small old items”. The first antique he collected is a porcelain hanging panel, for which he spent 1,600 yuan, or over [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Posted By Geo on January 26, 2010
It took a while, but I finally was able to visit the Winter Antiques Show. The $20 admission cost seems like a lot to dish out, especially when re-entry costs another $20.
I’ve been to a number of high-end shows, among them the Armory Show and the Philadelphia Antiques Show and I expected something similar from [...]
Posted By UAA Team on January 25, 2010
The Right Angle: Fun first, passion second.
Regardless of the economy, the prospects for the antiques business would not look bright without extending its customer base to younger generations. But is there a sure-fire approach?
First of all, I strongly disagree that younger generations would not develop interests in antiques until they grow older. Most of [...]
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