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 28, 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, in some cases, have the capability of examining the items in person. It mainly serves as an inventory record of what interests us (not necessarily [...]
UAA 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 [...]
UAA Team | February 10, 2010
A snowstorm in New York doesn’t seem to have kept bidders away from Christies Interiors sale. Today the sale moved from paintings to furniture and decorative arts. I wondered if many items would sell below estimates. While results are mixed, some items are performing well–especially the hurricane shades. Some furniture also proved to have significant [...]
UAA Team | February 9, 2010
Christie’s Interiors sale is in progress. We had the opportunity of previewing this auction made up of furniture and paintings from the United States and Europe. Many of the furniture pieces seemed to be in need of repair and we found most of the paintings uninspiring, but the problem may be in our tastes. Several [...]
UAA Team | 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 [...]
Geo | 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 [...]
Geo | January 23, 2010
A Chalmers Catawba wine bitters bottle graded 9.8 for condition and considered one of the top five western bitters known, sold for $ 19,600 in an Internet and catalog auction that ended Jan. 18 by American Bottle Auctions (www.AmericanBottle.com). The bottle was the top lot in a sale that saw around 325 rare and vintage [...]
Hui | January 21, 2010
If you have followed our report of the first session of the housing works’ auction of early American prints, you will be familiar with Kathleen Guzman’s work: “The more you pay, the more it’s worth.” It was a sensational sale and a lot of items were sold 20-40 times more than their estimates. Ms. Guzman [...]
Geo | January 13, 2010
A large wall-mounted mirror clock made by the New England clockmaker Joseph Ives (Bristol, Conn., 1782-1862) sold for $9,200 at a two-part auction that featured nearly 250 lots of vintage clocks and horology-related items. The auction was held Dec. 29 at the Italian-American Club in Wayne, Pa., by Gordon S. Converse & Co.
The reverse painted [...]
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