The Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden will host a Decorative Arts lecture about Redware, Tuesday, June 5 at 7:00 pm at the Glebe House located at 49 Hollow Road, Woodbury, CT.
Samuel Herrup, redware expert and owner of Samuel Herrup Antiques in Sheffield, Massachusetts will speak about the newly acquired Redware Collection at the Glebe House. The 31 piece collection was donated by a private collector in December 2017 and is now on display in the Library – Gallery at the Glebe House Museum.
Tickets for the lecture are $5 for members of the Museum and $10 for non-members and may be purchased in advance by calling the Museum Director at 203-263-2855. Reservations recommended. Seating is limited.
The Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden located at 49 Hollow Road in Woodbury is celebrating its 93rd anniversary as a historic house & garden this year. It is open Wednesday through Sunday from 1:00-4:00 p.m. and for special group tours upon request. For more information about this program or other programs or events call the Museum or visit the website: www.glebehousemuseum.org” class=”redactor-linkify-object”>http://www.glebehousemuseum.or
Among the highlights there are a 1955 Lancia Aurelia B24s Spider, the Alfa Romeo 8c Pandion 2010, and the Bertone Nuccio 2012
For its first Classic Cars and Motor Vehicles Auction, scheduled for May 23rd at “La Pista di Arese” (Milan), Aste Bolaffi will present some of the most iconic vintage cars, with models that range from the pre-war period to the youngtimer, together with motorcycles and unique pieces from Stile Bertone bankruptcy procedure, including various original designs, style models and the last two prototypes created by the historic coachbuilder, Alfa Romeo 8c Pandion 2010 and the Bertone Nuccio 2012.
All the vehicles included in the auction catalogue are perfectly preserved or carefully restored, and meet the very high quality standards that since 1890 make Bolaffi a landmark in the field of collectibles. The selection of cars features around 60 models, with both interesting and iconic cars that are representative of the 20th and 21st centuries. The top lot is a 1955 Lancia Aurelia B24S Spider, a highly sought-after model made famous by the film “Il Sorpasso” by Dino Risi. This red model offered at auction was invited to participate in the 2014 Concorso d’eleganza di Villa d’Este (estimate € 900k-1.100k). Among the highlights there is also a rare 1931 Isotta Fraschini 8BLandaulet Imperiale from Carrozzeria Castagna Milano, an important example of meticulous restoration (estimate € 700k-900k). An exquisite 1930 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Cabriolet Gangloff, a 1951 Lancia Aurelia B51 Berlina Pininfarina, a 1956 Alfa Romeo 1900 Super Primavera by Boano, a 1982 Ferrari BB 512i, a 1973 BMW 2002 Cabrio and a 1969 Maserati Quattroporte Frua are highly anticipated lots as well. Porsche is strongly represented by a selection of 911s, including a 19702.2 S and a very valuable 1973 Carrera RS 2.7 originally sold in Italy to a private customer and recently professionally restored (estimate € 600k-800k).
A 1975 Alfa Romeo 1300 Spider will be part of the sale as well; it’s a unique custom-built car with personalized interiors thanks to the partnership between Garage Italia and Fratelli Cozzi Alfa Garage. Among the supercars there is a 1998 Lamborghini Diablo VT authenticated with the support of Automobili Lamborghini. The racing motorcycles are also highly represented, with the presence, among others, of a Triumph Trident 750 “Koelliker”, part of the team that participated in the 1972 Bol d’Or as team Koelliker, a Norton Manxproduced in 1960 and in perfect condition, and an AMF Harley Davidson 250 RA.
In the catalogue there are also some rare lots from the Stile Bertone bankruptcy procedure, including two “show cars”: the Alfa Romeo 8C Pandion 2010 (estimate € 250k-350k) and the Bertone Nuccio 2012 (estimate € 300k-400k). The first was designed for Alfa Romeo’s 100th anniversary, and the second was the last prototype created by the historic coachbuilder, before its foreclosure, to celebrate Bertone’s 100th anniversary. To fully preserve their historic importance, both cars will be auctioned off in groupe with other artifacts which include projects, photographs, prizes won and, in the case of the Nuccio, the 1:1 scale 3D style model that was presented in Geneva in March 2012 will also be included. Some design drawings related to the history of the cars and their styles will also be offered for famous or even some then never-produced cars including: the Fiat X1/9 and Ritmo Abarth, Jaguar Rainbow,Simca Shake Buggy, Ferrari 308 GT4, Porsche 911 Roadster and Citroën BX. To complete the section there will be some style models in 1:4 and 1:10 scale of some of the prototypes of the coachbuilder, such as the Lamborghini Athon, or models which later entered into production like the Lamborghini Urraco and Fiat Dino Coupé.
«The selection of cars and motorcycles – explains Massimo Delbò, Aste Bolaffi expert – is based on very strict selection parameters. The goal is not to have only economically important lots, but above all to have the “right” pieces, which are perfectly preserved or meticulously restored and equally importantly are able to tell a great story».
AUCTION AND EXHIBITION LOCATION The auction will take place on May 23rd during the week between the conclusion of the Mille Miglia Storica and the beginning of the Concorso d’eleganza di Villa d’Este, the two most important Italian events for historical motor vehicles. The cars, motorcycles, automobile-related objects and the auction itself will be presented in the building designed by architect Michele De Lucchi, which stands alongside the original Alfa Romeo test track in Arese, just outside of Milan. In addition to the “static” car show, there will also be an exhibition – a world first in the auction world – where attendees will be able to witness some of the cars up for auction in action on the 1.5 km racetrack of the famouscar manufacturer, considered one of the symbols of the former factory. The catalogue, in Italian and English, will be available closer to the event and will be available online at astebolaffi.it. To request a printed copy of the catalogue, contact [email protected].
THE CLASSIC CARS AND MOTOR VEHICLES DEPARTMENT Managed by Tommaso Marchiaro, with the contribution of Ezio Chiantello, the department is coordinated by Massimo Delbò and benefits from the scientific expertise of Antonio Ghini. It’s strength lies in the strict selection standards of the individual lots made by a group of highly qualified specialists in the automotive and motorcycle fields.
BOLAFFI QUALITY Since 1890 the Bolaffi Group has turned its passion for the objects that have written history into its business. Stamps, antique coins and books, posters, art and designs objects recount the journey of man transforming them into witnesses that one loves collecting. Motor vehicles also fit squarely into the fascinating world of collecting and the company has decided, through its subsidiary Aste Bolaffi, to welcome them among its areas of expertise, dedicating them the same care, attention and professionalism that have always characterized Bolaffi. With this first auction dedicated to the motor industry, Aste Bolaffi combines its distinguished and appreciated activities in the field of collecting rare and valuable objects with the commitment to offer to enthusiasts of the motor industry history prestigious vehicles, which are able to combine passion and value.
Culturespaces and the Musée Jacquemart-André are presenting a major retrospective devoted to Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) in Paris through July 23. Considered during her lifetime as the greatest American artist, Cassatt lived in France for more than sixty years. She was the only American painter to have exhibited her work with the Impressionists in Paris.
Mary Cassatt, Summertime, 1894, oil on canvas, 39 5/8 x 32 in. (100.6 x 81.3 cm), Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1988.25
The exhibition focuses on the only American female artist in the Impressionist movement; she was spotted by Degas in the 1874 Salon, and subsequently exhibited her works alongside those of the group. This monographic exhibition will enable visitors to rediscover Mary Cassatt through fifty major works, comprising oils, pastels, drawings, and engravings, which, complemented by various documentary sources, will convey her modernist approach — that of an American woman in Paris.
Born into a wealthy family of American bankers with French origins, Mary Cassatt spent a few years in France during her childhood, continuing her studies at the Pennsylvania Fine Arts Academy, and eventually settled in Paris. Therefore, she lived on both continents. This cultural duality is evident in the distinctive style of the artist, who succeeded in making her mark in the male world of French art and reconciling these two worlds.
Just like Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt excelled in the art of portraiture, to which she adopted an experimental approach. Influenced by the Impressionist movement and its painters who liked to depict daily life, Mary Cassatt’s favourite theme was portraying the members of her family, whom she represented in their intimate environment. Her unique vision and modernist interpretation of a traditional theme such as the mother and child earned her international recognition. Through this subject, the general public will discover many familiar aspects of French Impressionism and Post-impressionism, along with new elements that underscore Mary Cassatt’s decidedly American identity.
The exhibition brings together a selection of exceptional works loaned from major American museums, such as Washington’s National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Terra Foundation in Chicago; works are also loaned by prestigious institutions in France — the Musée d’Orsay, the Petit Palais, INHA, and the BnF (French National Library) — and in Europe, such as the Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, and the Bührle Foundation in Zurich. There are also many works from private collections. Rarely exhibited, these masterpieces are brought together in the exhibition for the first time.
On March 23rd – 24th, 2018 Brunk Auctions will host an auction of fine and decorative art in their gallery in Asheville, North Carolina. The sale will feature 845 lots of American and European furniture & paintings, jewelry, Asian decorative arts, and silver.
Fine 18th Century New York, Boston, Connecticut, and Philadelphia furniture from the Dudley and Constance Godfrey Foundation will be offered during the auction. The Godfreys were strong supporters of multiple charitable and artistic institutions including the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and The Milwaukee Art Museum. Seventy lots of furniture in the Early American taste will be included in the sale from the Wisconsin-area Foundation in the auction.
Over 95 paintings by American Women will be sold to benefit a Southern Institution during the March Auction. Artists include Jane Peterson, Grace Hudson, Adelaide Cole Chase, Ellen Day Hale, and more. These fine works will be sold in two sections.
The top lot in the auction is a pair of rare Georgian-Era 21 Carat Diamond Earrings. Consigned from a Private Atlanta, Georgia Collection. These dazzling Night and Day earrings are estimated at $50,000 to $70,000. Over 125 additional lots of fine and rare jewelry will be sold in the March Auction. Other jewelry highlights include an Antique Platinum, Sapphire, & Diamond Pendant estimated at $15,000 to $20,000 and an Art Deco Diamond, Sapphire, & Ruby Necklace estimated at $12,000 to $18,000.
Property from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation will be on the auction block during the two-day auction. American and British furniture from the institution will be sold with proceeds to benefit the Acquisitions Fund. Brunk Auctions sold a deaccessioning of maps from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in a November 2017 auction, setting many records at auction and achieving several exceptional results.
Fine paintings by Thomas Hudson, Richard Ansdell, Max Kuehne, William Aiken Walker, Ernest Lawson, and others will also be offered. The pre-sale estimates for this auction is $876,800 to $1,377,050. The sale is now available for preview and bidding at brunkauctions.com/. Printed catalogs are available by request.
A Rare Pair of Georgian-Era 21 Carat Diamond Earrings, offered in the March 23-24 Auction at Brunk Auctions Brunk Auctions
CLEVELAND, Ohio –Antique bottle and glass enthusiasts will want to mark their calendars for the long weekend of August 2nd thru 5th. That’s when the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) will hold its annual National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo for 2018, slated to be held this year at the Huntington Convention Center and adjacent Marriott Key Center Hotel in heart of downtown Cleveland. Cleveland, if you haven’t heard, was recently named to National Geographic Traveler’s 2018 ‘Best of the World’ list.
It’s easy to see why historical flasks are so coveted by collectors. They’re simply gorgeous to look at and are embossed with presidents’ busts and other images. Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors
“This will be the largest and most exciting antique bottle and glass event of the year,” said Ferdinand Meyer V, President of the FOHBC “It’s more than a convention and expo. It’s also a bottle show, live and internet auction, educational seminars, bottle competition, banquet plus many other events that will make for a packed itinerary. As of now, there are dealer tables that are still available.” This mega-event is open to FOHBC members and the public. You do not have to be a FOHBC member to attend. Of course, memberships are encouraged and available online at www.fohbc.org or at the show.
The 2018 Cleveland National is a must-attend for antique bottle and glass enthusiasts and members of the 100 or so antique bottle clubs scattered across the county in the four FOHBC Regions (Northeast, Southern, Midwest and Western). Antique bottle collectors are passionate about their glass, a category of collecting enjoying a meteoric rise in popularity, helped by TV shows like American Pickers and Antiques Roadshow. There will even be a free appraisal table for the public to bring in their finds and possessions.
This year’s convention schedule will kick off Thursday morning, August 2nd, with a FOHBC Board meeting, followed by a reception from 1-5 pm at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, one of Cleveland’s premier city attractions, about a half-mile from the Marriott Key Center Hotel. The reception will include light appetizers, a cash bar and a tour of the museum. This VIP event is for show dealers, helpers, displayers and early admission attendees.
That night, staying with the rock ‘n’ roll theme, a “Battle of the Bottles” will be held, back at the Marriott, from 7-10 pm in the Global Center Ballroom. Bottle registration will be at 6 pm in the same room. The three categories to enter in the battle are: Ohio sodas, Midwestern flasks and free blown/pattern molded Midwest tableware. Security will be provided for this and all events.
On Friday morning, August 3rd, from 7-8:30 am, a full buffet breakfast and annual FOHBC membership meeting will be held, in the 2nd floor Salons at the Marriott. The breakfast and meeting are for FOHBC members.
Friday is also the day the educational seminars will be held, six in all, from 9 am until 12 noon, at the Huntington Convention Center, Meeting Rooms 3, 4, 5 and 6, some simultaneously. Seminars are open to FOHBC members and the public.
This year’s seminars are as:
Privy Digging in Ohio, presented by Dennis and Nathan Huey, 9 am, Meeting Room 3
Friday evening will give attendees the chance to relax and socialize at a cocktail hour from 5:30 to 6 pm, in the Marriott 2nd floor east foyer Prefunction area. That will be followed by a banquet from 6:30-830 pm. The cost is $40 a person. Attendees are encouraged to reserve their place early, as attendance is expected to be quite heavy this year.
The guest speaker at the banquet will be Terry Kovel, the world-renowned author and collector, who will talk about her fascinating life’s work and share stories of the changing antique hobby and markets over the years. The evening will be capped with the honoring of new inductees into the FOHBC Hall of Fame and Honor Roll and award presentations for the FOHBC club contests. The first gallery of the Virtual Museum will also be unveiled.
The FOHBC Electric Bottle Auction – so-named because the excitement it generates is expected to electrify the crowd – will be held Saturday morning, August 4th, in the Global Center, Ballroom A, of the Huntington Convention Center. An auction preview will begin at 7 am, with a window wall of natural daylight flooding the display tables for optimal viewing. The opening gavel is at 9 am. Online bidding will also be accepted. Consignments are now being taken and are welcomed. The public is encouraged to come.
Saturday night will see the continuing tradition of hotel room hopping, for attendees staying at the Marriott. In the main lobby will be an easel, on which anyone can attach their bottle business card, with their corresponding room number. A card on the board means that person is “open for business” and ready to receive visitors from 7:30 until 9:30 pm (or later, if the person decides).
Participants will be furnished with a special “I’m open, come on in” announcement sign that they would then affix to their door. This is a signal that the person is ready to receive visitors to chat about antique bottles and glass, or even to show and tell and sell. The idea is to have some fun.
Lest the children of attendees feel left out, there will be two Youth Corner activities planned for Saturday and Sunday, August 4th and 5th. One is a Children’s Bottle Grab Bag, where kids 10 and under are given a bag containing a hand-blown antique bottle in good condition. The other is a Children’s Junior Scavenger Hunt, for kids 8 and up, who must find the items on a list.
Mr. Meyer said that, as strong and dedicated as the core base of bottle collectors is, it’s undeniably an aging demographic that needs an infusion of new blood. “We want to cross-pollinate and grow,” he said, explaining that pickers, diggers, historians and frequenters of flea markets and junk shops would be prime candidates to make the leap into bottle collecting if they knew more about the hobby. With the growing popularity of online antique bottle and glass sites such as Facebook, etc. this will be your opportunity to see the real thing.”
“That’s one reason why the annual Convention & Expo is so important, and why we rotate venues around the country each year,” Meyer said. “The more people that are introduced to this fascinating hobby and realize what they’re holding isn’t just a beautiful object but a true slice of history, the more they may want to start a collection, regardless of their age. Every bottle has a story.”
Meyer said there are many sub-categories to bottle collecting, such as early American glass, stoneware, fruit jars, insulators, breweriana, milk bottles, food containers, lightning rod balls, target ball, marbles, and vintage advertising related to the hobby, basically anything glass will be represented at the show. He said efforts like the FOHBC’s bi-monthly 72-page color magazine Bottles and Extras, as well as the aforementioned virtual museum, which is about to be unveiled, are helpful tools in reaching and educating the public. All this is available to FOHBC members.
For more information about the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) and this year’s National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo, slated for August 2nd thru 5th at the Huntington Convention Center and nearby Marriott Key Center Hotel in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, please visit www.fohbc.org.
For the past half century, auctioneer Jim Julia has been a purveyor of memories.
From the rifle that first shot Bonnie and Clyde before police riddled their car with bullets, to artifacts from Custer’s Last Stand, sharpshooter Annie Oakley’s gun collection and George Washington’s 1781 map of the Battle of Yorktown, Julia’s appraisal and auction house on U.S. Route 201 in Fairfield has opened a window onto history, generating an estimated $600 million to $700 million in auction sales over the years.
Auctioneer Jim Julia, 71, displays a Freedom box and a ship’s log from the USS Constitution that could sell at auction for $200,000 each. Staff photo by David Leaming
A past auction item was a Colt single-action Army revolver used by one of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer’s men in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Staff photo by David Leaming
Now it’s Julia’s turn to remember.
James D. Julia Auctioneers Inc. has been sold and will hold its final two auctions in February and March.
In December, Dan Morphy, of Morphy Auctions in Pennsylvania, acquired the company founded in the late 1960s by Julia’s father, Arthur.
“There’s two feelings,” said Julia, 71. “First of all is a sense of sadness; this is something I built. I thought I was going to do this until the day I died. The excitement was extraordinary.
“Being in this business was like being in the Klondike in 1896. Every day I come upon some more gold nugget. But also, in addition to all that, it’s an extraordinary relief. When I had two burdens – the business and my wife – there wasn’t any question what was more important.”
Last year, Julia’s wife of 18 years, Sandy, 71, was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Julia took time off during the months since the diagnosis to look after his wife and turned daily operations over to the company’s CEO, Mark Ford.
“My company last year grossed about $45 million, and the Morphy company grossed around $34 million,” Julia said. “The combination of the two companies put them in a position to generate perhaps as much as $80 million a year. If they do, they will become the fourth- or fifth-largest antique auction house in the world.”
Julia’s, with a satellite office in the Boston area, was one of the top 10 antique auction houses in North America, with Jim Julia himself hammering the gavel and barking out bids from his station at the front of the auction hall. Items auctioned at Julia’s included high-end collectibles, firearms and decorative arts, lamps, glass, fine jewelry and fine art.
“We’ve handled some of the greatest gun collections sold in this country in the last 20 years,” he said from his desk at the auction house, buzzing with 20 or 30 employees preparing for the 2018 Las Vegas Antique Arms Show, scheduled for Jan. 19-21.
Julia said he took over his father’s business after college and layered operations into a structured business, unlike most single-owner auction houses.
The Winter Antiques Show is pleased to announce the selection of six new exhibitors: Hirschl & Adler Modern (New York), Jason Jacques Gallery (New York), Lillian Nassau LLC (New York), Lobel Modern (New York), Spencer Marks (Southampton, Massachusetts), and Galerie Anne-Sophie Duval in collaboration with continuing exhibitor Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz (Paris). Returning to the Show after a one-year hiatus are Peter H. Eaton and Joan R. Brownstein (Newbury, Massachusetts).
Gorham, Bird’s eye view of the Vase or Bonbon Dish Sterling Silver and ‘Translucent’ Enamel 2.75 inches high by 6.25 inches in diameter New York, NY, 1893 Spencer Marks
The new and returning exhibitors complete the 2018 Show’s roster of 70 renowned experts in fine and decorative arts from around the world, dating from ancient times to the present day. The fair, which benefits East Side House Settlement, will be held at the Park Avenue Armory, January 19-28, 2018.
Returning for a 22nd year, the Show’s Presenting Sponsor is Chubb, with Fran O’Brien, Division President, Chubb North America Personal Risk Services, as Chair of the Opening Night Party. Wendy Goodman, Thomas Jayne, and Gil Schafer, eminent figures in the world of interior design and architecture, are the Show’s 2018 Design Co-Chairs.
Arie L. Kopelman, distinguished longtime Chairman of the Winter Antiques Show, becomes Chairman Emeritus in January 2018. In celebration of his achievement, Mr. Kopelman will be presented with a leadership award honoring him for his service to the Show and the charity.
Returning exhibitors at the 2018 Winter Antiques Show
Peter H. Eaton and Joan R. Brownstein, returning to the Winter Antiques Show after a one-year hiatus, is the joint gallery of specialist dealers Joan R. Brownstein American Folk Paintings and Peter Eaton Antiques. The focus of the gallery is a mix of American folk art paintings, particularly portraits, and early New England antique furniture. Peter Eaton specializes in New England furniture made between 1650 and 1820, with a particular emphasis on William and Mary, country Queen Anne, and Federal period furniture from eastern Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Connecticut River Valley. Joan R Brownstein specializes in identifying, researching, and selling New England folk art paintings of the 18th- and early 19th-centuries that are of exceptional quality in terms of concept, design, and state of preservation.
New exhibitors at the 2018 Winter Antiques Show
Hirschl & Adler Modern has developed a stable of emerging and established realist artists, and also features American and European art from the Post-War period. Each year, the gallery assembles a dozen special exhibitions exploring historical and contemporary themes, or examining the work of individual artists past and present. At the 2018 Winter Antiques Show, the gallery will present the work of Elizabeth Turk (b. 1961) and Stone Roberts (b. 1951), among other notable artists.
Founded in 1991, Jason Jacques Gallery is the preeminent purveyor of late 19th- and early 20th-century works of art – particularly Art Nouveau and Japonist pottery and European ceramics. The gallery launched its contemporary program in 2010 and is known for exhibiting contemporary ceramics within historical contexts, mounting special exhibitions in the United States and Europe, and participating in fairs in Miami, Florida; San Francisco, California; Maastricht, The Netherlands; and New York, selling to private and institutional clients worldwide.
Lillian Nassau LLC, owned and directed by Managing Director Arlie Sulka, are world-renowned specialists in Tiffany Studios lamps, favrile glass, favrile pottery, mosaics, windows, desk pieces, and Louis C. Tiffany paintings. The gallery is credited with almost single-handedly reviving the interest in the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany and has been a leader in the field for 72 years. With over 30 years of experience working for Mrs. Nassau and her son, Paul, Ms. Sulka is now considered one of the foremost experts on Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany Studios, maintaining the gallery’s world-renowned status. Ms. Sulka has established enduring professional relationships with distinguished private and museum clients from around the world.
Lobel Modern was established by Evan Lobel in New York City in 1998 to promote important vintage mid-20th century design, with a focus on exceptional craftsmanship and materials, and on furniture that crosses over into art. Lobel Modern has since become an important resource for designers, architects, and collectors around the world seeking the best 20th-century modern furniture, lighting, art, and decorative objects. Lobel’s featured artists include Karl Springer, Gabriella Crespi, Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, Paul Evans, Vladimir Kagan, Tommi Parzinger, Edward Wormley, Harvey Probber, Milo Baughman, and Anzolo Fuga.
Spencer Marks are experts in American and British antique silver from the early 18th to the 20th century. Mark McHugh and Spencer Gordon have been in business together as Spencer Marks since 1987, and have placed works in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Winterthur Museum; Yale University Art Gallery; Art Institute of Chicago; Dallas Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Galerie Anne-Sophie Duval, specialists in French Art Deco furniture, will join longtime exhibitor Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz, expert in antique wallpaper, for a special booth collaboration at this year’s Winter Antiques Show. Thibaut-Pomerantz’s color-saturated papier peints, block-printed between the early 1800s and the Art Deco period, will provide the dramatic backdrop for Duval’s selection of superb works, which include works by Josef Hoffman, Giacometti, and early 20th-century French design masters.
2018 Winter Antiques Show Exhibitors (complete list)
A La Vieille Russie, Inc.
Adelson Galleries, Inc.
Alexander Gallery
Apter-Fredericks
Arader Galleries
Aronson of Amsterdam
Barbara Israel Garden Antiques
Bernard & S. Dean Levy Inc.
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC
Bowman Sculpture
Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz
Cohen & Cohen
Cove Landing
Daniel Crouch Rare Books
David A. Schorsch~Eileen M. Smiles
American Antiques
Didier Ltd
Donzella
Elle Shushan
Frank & Barbara Pollack
American Antiques & Art
Galerie St. Etienne
Gemini Antiques Ltd.
Geoffrey Diner Gallery, Inc.
Gerald Peters Gallery
H. Blairman & Sons Ltd
Hill-Stone, Inc.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc.
Hirschl & Adler Modern
Hyde Park Antiques, Ltd.
James Infante
James Robinson, Inc.
Jason Jacques Gallery
Joan B Mirviss LTD
Jonathan Boos
Kelly Kinzle
Kentshire
Keshishian
Lebreton
Lillian Nassau LLC
Liz O’Brien
Lobel Modern
Lost City Arts
Macklowe Gallery, Ltd
Maison Gerard
Michael Altman Fine Art
Michael Goedhuis
Michele Beiny, Inc.
Nathan Liverant & Son, LLC
Olde Hope Antiques, Inc.
Peter Fetterman Gallery
Peter Finer
Peter H. Eaton and Joan R. Brownstein
Peter Pap Oriental Rugs, Inc.
Philip Colleck, Ltd.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.
Robert Simon Fine Art
Robert Young Antiques
Ronald Phillips Ltd
Rupert Wace Ancient Art
S.J. Shrubsole Corporation
Schwarz Gallery
Spencer Marks
Stephen & Carol Huber
Stephen Score, Inc.
Tambaran
The Old Print Shop, Inc.
Thomas Colville Fine Art
Thomas Coulborn & Sons Ltd.
Thomas Heneage Art Books
Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc.
Tillou Gallery
Incoming Exhibitors:
Hirschl & Adler Modern
Jason Jacques Gallery
Lillian Nassau LLC
Lobel Modern
Peter H. Eaton and Joan R. Brownstein
Spencer Marks
Galerie Anne-Sophie Duval (collaboration with Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz)
Outgoing Exhibitors:
Elliot & Grace Snyder
Glass Past
Hostler Burrows
Maison Gerard
Todd Merrill Studio
Wartski
About the Winter Antiques Show
The Winter Antiques Show celebrates its 64th year as America’s leading art, antiques and design fair, featuring 70 renowned experts in fine and decorative arts from around the world. All net proceeds from the Show benefit East Side House Settlement, a nationally recognized community-based organization in the South Bronx. The Winter Antiques Show runs from January 19-28, 2018, at the Park Avenue Armory, 67th Street and Park Avenue, New York City. Hours of admission are 12 PM–8 PM daily, except Sundays and Thursday, 12 PM–6 PM. Daily admission is $25, which includes the Show’s award-winning catalogue. To purchase tickets for the Opening Night Party on January 18, 2018, call (718) 292-7392 or visit winterantiquesshow.com.
About East Side House Settlement
East Side House Settlement is a community-based organization in the South Bronx. Recognizing education as the key to economic and civic opportunity, East Side House works with schools, community centers, and other partners to bring quality education and resources to individuals in need, helping approximately 10,000 residents of the South Bronx and Northern Manhattan improve their lives each year. For more information, please visit eastsidehouse.org.
(New York—October 31, 2017)Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is proud to announce that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has acquired the Barbara Chase-Riboud sculptureThe Albino (aka All That Rises Must Converge/Black), 1972. This major acquisition coincides with her current solo exhibition Barbara Chase-Riboud—Malcolm X: Complete (now on view thru Saturday, November 4, 2017) at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. The Albino (1972) joins several other works by Chase-Riboud already in MoMA’s collection: an early woodcut, Reba, purchased for the museum by curator William Lieberman in 1955 and three dynamic charcoal and pencil drawings (Untitled, 1966; Untitled, 1967 and Untitled, 1971). Untitled (1967) was recently on view at MoMA in last summer’s blockbuster exhibition Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction (April 19-August 13, 2017). Known primarily for her sculptural forms that wed fiber and metal, this exciting acquisition of The Albino (aka All That Rises Must Converge/Black) adds depth to the museum’s holdings of this multi-faceted artist.
Barbara Chase-Riboud with “The Albino” (aka “All That Rises Must Converge/Black”), 1972, bronze with black patina, silk, wool, linen, and synthetic fibers, 138″ x 137″ x 30″ / 350.5 x 348.0 x 76.2 cm Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY. Ph…
For over five decades, Barbara Chase-Riboud has created abstract art with a deep and nuanced understanding of history, identity, and a sense of place. Her celebrated work operates on several dichotomies that have become central to her practice: hard/soft, male/female, flat/three-dimensional, Western/non-Western, stable/fluid, figurative/abstract, powerful/delicate, brutal/beautiful, violence/harmony. In 1958, she developed her own particular innovation on the historical direct lost-wax method of casting bronze sculpture. Creating thin sheets of wax that she could bend, fold, meld, or sever, she developed singular models that she would then bring to a local foundry for casting. This new approach to a centuries-old process enabled her to produce large-scale sculptures comprised of ribbons of bronze and aluminum. In 1967, she added fiber to these metal elements, creating an ongoing dialogue and relationship between the two materials that have continued to inform both her two-dimensional and three-dimensional work.
The Albino (aka All That Rises Must Converge/Black) comes out of Chase-Riboud’s explorations of linear, totem-like sculpture for which she is known, transforming how sculpture is viewed by creating a work that is at once both horizontal and vertical. When the sculpture is presented horizontally, two wings outspread with a centralizing anchor that sits on the floor, it is known as The Albino. When presented closed, forming a tall pillar, it is known as All That Rises (Black) Must Converge. These notions relate to Chase-Riboud’s idea of levitation, a term she has used to explain the process she originally undertook in the late 1960s to transition from horizontal to vertical abstract sculpture.[i] Treated as two different sculptures, the sculpture defies any one interpretation, but rather, opens itself up, quite literally, to multiple readings.
The Albino relates to a poem by Chase-Riboud of the same title, first published in 1974, that explores complex notions of identity, a conceptual practice that has occupied much of the artist’s career. Albinism is a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes. For African American albinos, societal expectations of skin color are subverted, creating a seemingly contradictory duality in visual perception as well as questioning the existential basis of skin color as it relates to ethnicity and identity – to quote from Chase-Riboud’s poem: “If color exists then the absence of color must exist.”[ii]The Albino, in both literary and sculptural forms, speaks to the multi-faceted interpretations of color and how they relate to perceptions of race, thereby attempting to undermine categorical labels and universalize humanity. Later in the poem Chase-Riboud writes: “I am as white as I am black.” She concludes by asking: “The absence of color / Is that the answer / To a moral question?”
All That Rises Must Converge/Black takes its title from Flannery O’Connor’s short story, Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965). A moralizing tale set in the American South of the early 1960s, the story explores multi-layered notions of sacrifice, class and race through the eyes of a white mother and son and their interactions with black characters. O’Connor’s story appropriated its title, in turn, from a phrase written by French Jesuit priest, paleontologist and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in his essay Omega Point (published posthumously in his book The Phenomenon of Man, 1955). Teilhard believed in an evolutionary progression in the universe that converges to a final point, from diversity to unity. He writes: “Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.”[iii]
Indeed, Chase-Riboud’s sculpture, when opened as The Albino, rises up, closing in on itself to converge at a final point, monumentally becoming All That Rises Must Converge/Black. This final iteration of the sculpture is a culmination of both physical and conceptual proportions: divisions of race, class and gender fluctuating – open and close – to ultimately rise and converge from the individual to the universal. Conversely, the wide stance of The Albino embraces a loaded concrete and symbolic space, seen perhaps as a metaphor for humanity, while All That Rises Must Converge/Black encompasses itself, tightly centralized and closed off from the world: it exists for itself, to be viewed in all its totemic elegance. When the sculpture opens up back out again to The Albino, to borrow from Chase-Riboud’s poem, “a single body becomes dual.”
Other major institutions with work by Chase-Riboud in their permanent collections include the Berkeley Art Museum, University of California; Library of Congress (Washington, DC); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY); National Collections of France, Ministry of Culture (Paris, France); Newark Museum (NJ); New Orleans Museum of Art (LA); New-York Historical Society Museum (NY); Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA); National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC); and The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY).
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is the exclusive representative of Barbara Chase-Riboud.
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is located at 100 Eleventh Avenue, New York, NY, 10011. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00AM – 6:00PM. For visuals and additional information, please contact Marjorie Van Cura at (212) 247-0082 or [email protected].
[i] Barbara Chase-Riboud to Lawrence Rinder in Memory and Material: A Conversation with Barbara Chase-Riboud, conversation at the Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, March 6, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcxsOnZysoU. Accessed May 2, 2017
[ii] Chase-Riboud, “The Albino,” Every Time a Knot is Undone, A God Is Released (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2014), 266-267
A capacity crowd. Battling phone calls. Bated breath. Someone in the room waiting, quietly, until sweeping in and moving the conversation toward the half-million dollar mark. Multiple records broken. Ten minutes that felt like forever.
That room was Cowan’s Auctions last weekend for their fall fine and decorative art auction. And the subject of all that drama and anticipation? A 200-year-old desk and bookcase once owned by Captain John Cowan (no relation). It went for $425,000—$498,750 once you count the buyer’s fee—making it the highest-priced piece of Kentucky furniture ever sold (and the second highest out of the South).
Alive from 1748 until 1823, Captain Cowan is something of a force in Kentucky history. One of the first settlers to come to the state, he helped found the first permanent settlement there, Harrod’s Town; was part of creating the most accurate map of the area; and just about two decades after arriving was one of the wealthiest residents in the commonwealth. He was also a slaveholder, a fact any recap of this chapter of American history should not gloss over in favor of nostalgia—the number of slaves he owned were listed on his tax roll; these were not great moral times. But as a man of significant means was wont to do, he commissioned this large desk and bookcase (to stock with still-rare books) to prove it. (Insert Ron Burgundy quote here, though this guy’s made out of walnut, not mahogany.)
As for the piece of furniture itself, it clocks in at 8.5 feet tall and 3.5 feet wide. But the most important (in our opinion) thing to know is that it contains nine secret drawers. Before there was password encryption, there was securing the old fashioned—and if we’re honest, probably safer—way, which we can only hope the new owner takes full advantage of. And it shows signs of its history with the occasional ink stain and inscription, but for a desk made in 1796, it’s in remarkably good shape.
Cowan’s didn’t release the name of the buyer. But he/she was in the room, which stuck out to us for an auction house that sells all over. So all we’re saying is keep an eye out at holiday parties. And for the love of a half-million dollars, use a coaster.
New Orleans, LA (September 22, 2011) – New Orleans Auction Galleries, Inc. is pleased to announce its three-day Major Estates Auction, taking place Friday, September 30 through Sunday, October 2, 2011. The sale features 1,971 exquisite lots, with a special Friday afternoon session which includes 389 Asian lots, such as ivory, jade, cloisonné and artwork. Bids may be submitted in person at the Gallery, online and over the phone; live video/audio bidding will be available through Live Auctioneers. Exhibition is currently running Monday through Saturday from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. and will conclude on Thursday, September 29 at 8:00 p.m. with a special late-evening reception.
Pieces from this sale came from locations across the country, including one of America’s premiere antique shops, David Marshall’s The Antique Room, in Brooklyn, New York; the collection of noted art dealer and connoisseur, the late Luba Glade; and the Estate of Fernando Jimenez-Torres are just a few of the contributors to the upcoming sale. Notable pieces include:
· Vintage couture from the Succession of Elizabeth Turnbull (New Orleans, LA); a Denver, CO collector and a New York fashion editor · Important works of art by Diego Rivera, Ansell Adams, Albert Bierstadt, Bernard Buffett, Raoul Dufy, Kenneth Riley, Yves Brayer, Louise Nevelson, Constantin Brancusi, Benjamin Chambers Brown, Edmund William Gracen, and Carl Oscar Borg, among others · A rare cabinet from the American Aesthetic Movement with inscription, likely a private commission from Pottier and Stymus or Herter Brothers (New York, NY) · 311 gold pesos weighing over 4,700 grams of pure gold · Impressive Musical Irish Regency gothic clock inspired by Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill · Collections of Paris porcelain, porcelain clocks and Meissen figures · Collection of Regency Tea Caddies and Tortoise Shell Boxes · American furniture by John Henry Belter; J. and J.W. Meeks; Alexander Roux; Charles White and Cook & Parkin, to name a few
For more information about this Major Estates Auction or the Gallery or to view a complete catalog listing, please visit www.neworleansauction.com. For an evaluation and auction estimate of your piece, please call 504-566-1849 or email photos to [email protected].
Founded in 1991 by President Jean R. Vidos, New Orleans Auction Galleries, Inc. is the preeminent auction house of the South. The company has received worldwide recognition for the quality and variety of pieces sold. For more information on New Orleans Auction Galleries, Inc. please visit www.neworleansauction.com, call 504-566-1849 or visit the Gallery at 801 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70130.
