Geo | May 31, 2009
A preview of an upcoming sale at Doyle in Manhattan came with some entertainment. A Polyphon Walnut Music Box from Leipzig, Germany estimated at $5,000 to $7,000 will be auctioned next week. An associate was happy to wind it for us to the effect of a rich rendition of “She was one of the early [...]
Geo | May 28, 2009
This afternoon I had the opportunity to interview clock restorer David Sokosh. The owner of Clinton Hill Clocks, David has a wealth of knowledge about clocks and clock repair, including a history of clock manufacturing in the United States. We discussed both the past and future of clocks, the importance of time, collecting clocks and [...]
Geo | May 27, 2009
Francis Bacon, it seems liked to drink and talk day and night (Hui commented in that way I am like him). That was part of the personal insight into the life of this provocative artist provided by author Michael Peppiatt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 23 in his lecture titled Francis Bacon: The [...]
Geo | May 22, 2009
Hui | May 22, 2009
In 1868 Boston writer James Parton called Pittsburgh “hell with the lid off.” The “black” town, however, has never been short of talented artists. For some, the smoke and dirt pushed them to find pastoral retreat nearby; for others like Christian Walter, “no other place in the world has the wealth of material that can [...]
Geo | May 21, 2009
On my first visit to the reopened American Wing at the Met, I walked past rooms from Richmond, glass from Pittsburgh and pottery from Cincinnati. Nothing in the exhibit that day struck me as much as a Louis Sullivan staircase from Chicago, however. Perhaps with American on the mind, this was because there’s no place more [...]
Geo | May 20, 2009
Brock Jobe narrates a really well-produced online gallery tour of the Harbor and Home display at Winterthur. The exhibit closes May 25, 2009. Click and listen.
Hui | May 20, 2009
May 21, 2009 Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective This one-day symposium gathers leading international scholars to discuss a variety of topics related to the exhibition “Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective.” The first major exhibition in New York in twenty years devoted to one of the most compelling painters of the twentieth century, it features some [...]
Hui | May 19, 2009
With exception of a few paintings, the majority of the deaccesioned works by the Monclair Art Museum will be auctioned by Cristie’s tomorrow. The name list of the artists is long, among them there are Albert Bierstadt, Robert Henri, Childe Hassam, Edward Redfield, Edward Henry Potthast, George Benjamin Luks, Julian Alden Weir, William Merritt Chase, [...]
Hui | May 19, 2009
Neither Impressionists nor Ashcan schools were in demand at Doyle auction today. There is a high percentage of unsold among more than 250 lots, even things that were sold seldom met the low estimation. Compared to relative upbeat results from Skinner, the sale at Doyle auction indicates that buyers are more cautious and conservative, especially [...]
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