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Explore Avant-Garde Artworks and Art Deco Furniture in Nadeau’s Annual New Year Sale
Raoul Dufy was a Fauvist painter well-known for capturing public events. His colorful urban scenes portray Fauvist elements and Cubist perspectives. The upcoming New Year’s Day Auction from Nadeau’s Auction Gallery presents Araut La Course by Raoul Dufy. This painting, which depicts a horse race with air washes and bold brushstrokes, expresses…
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Satsuma Vases, Lalique Crystal, and More for New Year’s at Akiba Antiques
The upcoming New Year Collection auction from Akiba Antiques features an intricately carved coral figural group showing immortal women surrounded by cherry blossoms and village people. The carved coral piece is from the 19th century and weighs 1,886 grams. It rests on a carved rosewood base. In Chinese mythology, the…
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Nadeau's Auction Gallery of Windsor, CT Rings In The New Year With Their Highly Anticipated, Premier New Year’s Day Sale On January 1, 2022
This auction presents over 700 lots of important jewelry, silver, fine art, rugs, furnishings, and decorative and ethnic art specifically curated for this annual signature event. Windsor, CT, December 13, 2021 - Nadeau's Auction Gallery is excited to announce their annual New Year's Day sales event starting at 10am. This…
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Decorative Art by Daum & Louis Majorelle to Appear in Upcoming New York City Estate Auction
Founded by Jean Daum in 1878, Daum is a glassware manufacturing company. The brand is primarily recognized for its pâte de verre technique. Characterized by meticulous designs, Daum glass items are often associated with the Art Nouveau style. The brand notably collaborated with French decorator and furniture designer Louis Majorelle…
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Skinner Offers Rapa Nui Moai Sculpture and Other Important Artifacts
The Rapa Nui Indigenous Polynesian people make up a significant percentage of the population of Easter Island and mainland Chile. For most of their income and livelihood, the Rapa Nui depend on tourism, with the main attraction being their giant sculptures called moai. These sculptures resemble human figures and represent…
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Steuben, Tiffany, Baccarat, and Paul Stankard Glassware Star in the Fabulous Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Schultz
This winter, Akiba Antiques is bringing the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Schultz to auction. Leading the catalog are glassware items from Steuben, Tiffany, Baccarat, Paul Stankard, and more. A tall Steuben Cintra cologne bottle stands out. Designed by Frederick Carder, the paperweight-style multi-faceted crystal cologne bottle has vibrant hues…
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Abstract Gouache by Alexander Calder and Bronze Relief Plaque by Boris Schatz Highlight Fairfield Auction’s December Sale
Alexander Calder was an American sculptor celebrated for his groundbreaking kinetic mobiles and massive static public sculptures. He is also remembered for his Modernist abstract paintings. Calder often transcribed the bright visual aesthetics of his sculptures into two-dimensional mediums. An abstract gouache work by Alexander Calder, titled Butterfly, Mouse, and…
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Akiba Antiques Upcoming Sale Presents Important Collectibles, Including Warren Telechron Clock
The November Capsule auction, presented by Akiba Antiques, will feature over 500 lots of antique furniture, fine art, and collectibles. One of the highlighted items in the event is a large antique Warren Telechron train station clock. This early 20th-century train station clock is crafted from cast bronze and includes…
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The Collection of Herb and Gloria Berkowitz
Lion and Unicorn will be auctioning the collection of Herb and Gloria Berkowitz, one of the largest collections of Royal Doulton and British Pottery amassed. For over 30 years, the Berkowitz’s traveled around the world to antique shows and auctions building this tremendous and discerning collection of art pottery. The…
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Louis Pierre Ledoux’s Collection of Sepik River Artifacts Comes to Auction
This November, Willow Auction House will offer over 250 items from the anthropological explorations of Louis Pierre Ledoux. The young scholar set off for Papua New Guinea after graduating from Harvard University in the mid-1930s. Ledoux interacted with the Murik people of the eastern Sepik River region. He eventually gathered…
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Willow Auction House to Feature Papua New Guinea Artifacts in Upcoming Sale
After his graduation from Harvard University, Louis Pierre Ledoux set out for Papua New Guinea. He planned to study the Murik people of the eastern Sepik River. Ledoux enjoyed the support of pioneering cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead throughout his travels. Willow Auction House’s upcoming sale will feature artifacts, documents, and…
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The Louis Pierre Ledoux Papua New Guinea Collection
Adventurer, Academic, Industrialist: Louis Pierre Ledoux’s 1936 New Guinea Expedition Lincoln Park, NJ – October 4th, 2021 – Willow Auction House is proud to present The Louis Pierre Ledoux Papua New Guinea Collection for Auction After a year of meticulous research, Willow Auction House is proud to announce the Louis Pierre…
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Edgar Alwin Payne Oil Painting Featured in North American Auction Company’s Best in the West Event
An oil painting by American artist Edgar Alwin Payne leads this Best in the West auction, hosted by North American Auction Company. Payne was mostly a self-taught artist, apart from his brief time at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1907. He was perceived as one of the first plein-air…
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Pre-Columbian Olmec Jade Mask and 260 Million-Year-Old Permian Shark Fossil Lead Artemis Gallery Auction
This autumn, Artemis Gallery will bring museum-worthy items from pre-Columbian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and other civilizations to auction. The Exceptional Antiquities Ethnographic Fine Art auction will open with a pre-Columbian Olmec jade maskette. The finely carved green omphacite jade mask dates back to 900 to 600 BCE. By that time,…
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Artemis Gallery to host Oct. 7 Exceptional Auction featuring museum-quality antiquities, Asian, ethnographic, fine and visual art
Featured: Fine Roman Imperial Period marble torso of Bacchus, Olmec jade maskette of transforming were-jaguar, giant fossilized Asaphus trilobite colony, signed Warhols BOULDER, Colo. – Authenticity and provenance have always formed the bedrock of Artemis Gallery’s auction business. In their lavishly illustrated catalogs, Artemis provides bidders with a virtual history…
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The Long, Strange History of Napoleon Memorabilia at Auction
Hat worn by Napoleon during campaign in Poland. Image from Sotheby’s. Few figures' successes and failures are under more constant review than those of Napoleon Bonaparte. His reign as Emperor of the French saw the building of one of the most ambitious empires in world history and the spread of…
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Sarasota Estate Auction Presents “Sphinx” Painting by Byron Browne
Byron Browne was a leader of the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 40s and one of the early Abstract Expressionists. Though his work is stylistically abstract, it bears the influence of European Cubism and Surrealism. The imagery and references in Browne’s abstract art pieces are drawn from everyday…
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Oswaldo Guayasamín Portrait Will Lead Akiba Antiques Auction
Born in 1919 in Ecuador, Oswaldo Guayasamín rose to prominence following his first exhibition at the Salón Nacional de Acuarelistas y Dibujantes in 1948. The artist eventually became known for his Cubist style and depictions of Latin American people. He spent his career explicitly addressing issues of oppression, violence, poverty,…
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Whaling and Marine Memorabilia at Rafael Osona Auctions
In 1659, English settlers arrived on the island of Nantucket. They hoped to earn a living through farming and shepherding. They soon noticed that every autumn, whales surrounded the island until spring. From 1690 until around 1840, Nantucket was known as the top whaling port in America. However, as Nantucket’s…
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Stair Presents Americana, Ernest Lawson Landscapes, and Furniture
A street painting by Ernest Lawson (1873 - 1939) will lead Stair’s upcoming Americana auction. The charm of American Federal-style architecture is captured in this painting. It depicts New York City Hall’s front façade along with a nearby park and a monument. Often called a Romantic by contemporaries, Lawson painted…
