UAA Team | March 30, 2010
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present the first exhibition to survey the achievement of the great Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) during the last three decades before his death. From June 17 through September 6, some 80 of the artist’s paintings, sculpture, and drawings will be on view, accompanied by a selection of works [...]
UAA Team | March 30, 2010
Collectors everywhere coveted the striking and extremely rare Insert Movie Poster for Fritz Lang’s groundbreaking 1927 sci-fi classic Metropolis – from the collection of Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett – in the $1.27 million Friday, March 19 Signature Movie Poster Auction at Heritage Auctions. In the end, however, it came down to just two devoted collectors [...]
UAA Team | March 29, 2010
A major exhibition featuring the works of the foremost American portrait painter of the late 19th-century, John Singer Sargent, opens at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York on May 29, 2010. John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women features approximately 25 paintings of Sargent’s portraits of American women and connects the artist’s [...]
Geo | March 28, 2010
I saw a folk art figure looking at me from a wine bottle in a suburban Dallas supermarket Saturday. It turns out Ballet of Angels is not only a painting at the New York State Historical Association, Copperstown, it’s a semi-dry, fruity white wine. The maker’s web site provides some insight. “Our Ballet of Angels [...]
Geo | March 26, 2010
Dealers and aficionados of antiques and art now have a new resource for planning their events calendar with the launch of the Calendar of Antiques. The beta version of the site includes a calendar visible by agenda, month or week and active links to show sites. The site was the result of brainstorming between Eric [...]
UAA Team | March 23, 2010
Doyle New York’s Asian Works of Art auction on March 22, 2010 attracted strong competition from an international audience of buyers. The mostly Asian audience in the salesroom offered formidable competition against absentee bidders, internet bidders and telephone bidders from a number of countries. In all, the sale totaled a stunning $3,166,554 — well over [...]
UAA Team | March 21, 2010
One of the most innovative and influential artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso was at his most inventive between 1905 and 1945. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is currently exhibiting Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris (February 24 – April 25, 2010) surveying Picasso’s remarkable output during these years, from the pioneering role he [...]
ewmiller | March 15, 2010
Some of the best promoted antique shows use a piece of history to add excitement to a show. Sometimes there’s a display from a local museum, sometimes there’s a dealer who might have an item once owned by a president of the early Republic. This time the item was a wooden trunk that many years [...]
Geo | March 11, 2010
The Plano Antique Mall was on the agenda for the day. For some odd reason the GPS found what seemed like a very round-a-bout way to get there and a much shorter way to get back. I had high hopes for this mall, hopes which for the most part failed to be met. The percentage [...]
ewmiller | March 8, 2010
One of the things I’ve been looking forward to in the Dallas Fort Worth area is visiting the museums. The first of these was the Dallas Museum of Art. I didn’t quite know what to expect, of the museums in the region the one I had heard the most about was the Kimbell Museum in [...]
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