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 NasawUAA Team | February 20, 2010
Would you like to see a fly resting on your shirt? Probably not. Think again.
Americana continues to perform well at auctions, and today was no exception. Estimated at $300 to $600, we had a hunch this portrait of a young man with a fly on his shirt would bring much more. It closed at $4,000 [...]
UAA Team | February 19, 2010
Black History Month gives reasons, if one were to be needed, to celebrate the art of African-Americans and provides an overview at New York’s galleries and auction houses. Two of those exhibits are being held at Swann and Babcock Galleries. The one artist that has a prominent position in both exhibits is Edward Mitchell Bannister.
Known [...]
Hui | January 19, 2010
Perhaps because of the iconic status of the tower, Goldstrom democratizes the pictures by putting the tower near the side of less importance. The clock tower building is there, as we unconsciously move around it and psychologically marginalize its relevance to our life. When most Brooklynites’ sensibility are overtaken by their sense of existence, Goldstrom paints the landmark within, and reminds us that the beauty can be observed and enjoyed. [Read More...]
Hui | January 12, 2010
Among the mediocre auctions of 2009, Yves St Laurent estate auction was the most invigorating and discussed one. It proves glamor and connoisseurship are fail-proof recipes of successful sales. Quite often, single estate sales bring out the personalities and tastes of collectors up to the front; thus adding additional tangible values to the pleasure of owning things. [Read More...]
UAA Team | January 10, 2010
West Meets East in this small tankard, offered at New Orleans Auction
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 [...]
UAA Team | January 10, 2010
We were wondering, as we looked at the partially full decanters of liquor in a handsome wooden box, if there might be a mixture that kept Elinor Gordon alive, or did her in. The box is arranged with about a hundred other items belonging to the late, prominent collector and dealer in Chinese Export Porcelain [...]
Pearl | December 2, 2009
On the morning of Dec 2, 2009, three generations of Wyeth paintings were auctioned in the Christie’s Important American Painting and Sculpture Sale. A large egg-tempera on panel by Andrew Wyeth Above the Narrow was the top lot of the sale. When the auctioneer hammered down the price of 6.1 million dollars given by a [...]
ewmiller | December 1, 2009
It won’t be the first Grif Teller painting to come up at auction in recent years, but it is the first original created for a Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) calendar I’ve seen. In terms of the estimated price anyway, that can make all the difference in the world.
Coming up December 8 at William Bunch is the [...]
Hui | November 29, 2009
There were a good crowd at Christie’s in the first afternoon preview of American Painting Sale. Among the consignors, there are museums such as Delaware Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery and other art institutions. Geo commented that one hundred years ago the first generation of collectors and philanthropists such as Cargenie, Frick, Morgan and Mellon, conglomerated [...]
Pearl | November 28, 2009
It is amazing to see such a great number of Paul Manship displayed in Smithsonian American Art Museum. A lot of reduction works are also exhibited in Luce Center on the third floor. Here are photos fresh from our visit yesterday.
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