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 NasawHui | January 29, 2008
I have seen works by Western Pennsylvania painters such as George Hetzel or Joseph Woodwell fetch three or four times higher than their estimated value at auction. But one week ago, such misvaluation might have reached a record as the item was auctioned 1000 times higher than the estimation.
A cracked and damaged claret jug listed [...]
Geo | January 27, 2008
A hansome pair of Joseph Ryan Woodwell paintings sold at auction this weekend. Wiederseim auction house had estimated the paintings would fetch between $200 and $300, far short of the $2400 they ended up bringing. The last Woodwell painting I know of to come up at auction was in October of ‘06. That painting, somewhat [...]
Geo | January 27, 2008
Hui | January 25, 2008
On the comment I made that two hundred pairs of shoes are way too many for one person, not to mention the headache of storage place, my friend, who is going to move to NYC answers: When the right shoes with the “right price” shows up, I can’t resist it.
Such response may apply to museums [...]
Hui | January 24, 2008
Feb. 10, 2:00–3:00 PMMember only, reservation required
From CMOA website:
To realize the ambition to collect “the Old Masters of tomorrow,” in 1896 Andrew Carnegie established the Carnegie International. Tour the collection and discover how artworks purchased in the Internationals reflect not only changing aesthetics, but also political and social issues of the day.
Hui | January 22, 2008
Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District Friday, January 25th 5:30 – 9:00 pm
More can be found at http://www.pgharts.org/education/gallerycrawl.aspx
Hui | January 21, 2008
The day of the opening reception of Douglas Cooper’s new exhibition “Stairways to Heaven” at the Concept Gallery happened to be gray, cloudy and cold, typical of Pittsburgh weather in January.
Inside the Concept Gallery, the reception was crowded and light warm and amicable. Yet no viewers would fail to recognize those six foot vine-charcoal drawings [...]
Hui | January 17, 2008
GoAntiques caught my eyes once because of a painting attributed to Gainsborough. I had seen that painting before from some seller on ebay auction and dismissed such a stretch of an attribution. But when it reappeared in GoAntiques, at one time I thought I was wrong. After all, big auction houses have experts and appraisers [...]
Hui | January 16, 2008
Even when Met was packed like a sardine can, visitors at Frick Museum can still walk leisurely with enough space and time to ponder. A lot of rooms inside the Frick Mansion are still kept as what they were like when Henry Frick was alive. Knowing that all these extraordinary art works were amassed through [...]
Geo | January 16, 2008
Q. I have a tansu chest i think it is very old. How can i get to know the value of it without dragging it to an antique shop?
A. In order to get the best idea of how to find the value, you may have to drag it out, but an antique shop may not [...]
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