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Original Salvador Dali engraving turns up at thrift shop
NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) – An original Salvador Dali wood engraving hangs on the wall of Seaside Art Gallery in Nags Head after being discovered among the donated items of an Outer Banks thrift shop.
Museum reveals engraving hidden in Lincoln watch
WASHINGTON (AP) – For nearly 150 years, a story has circulated about a hidden Civil War message engraved inside Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch. On Tuesday, museum curators confirmed it was true. A watchmaker used tiny tools to carefully pry open the antique watch at the National Museum of American History, and a descendant of the […]
Trio of M.C. Escher prints bewitch bidders at Swann’s April 30 sale
NEW YORK – Speaking about his 1957 color wood engraving and woodcut dubbed Whirlpools, shown above, Dutch artist M.C. Escher said: “I doubt that ‘the public’ will ever understand, much less appreciate, how many gymnastics of the brain, fascinating to me, have preceded the construction of such a picture.” Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher (1898-1972) was, […]
Pie crimper and pocket knife collection carved out a respectable performance at Eldred’s
EAST DENNIS, Mass. – Peter Goldstein’s first collecting passion was scrimshaw and maritime artifacts. Buying since the late 1970s (he attended Sotheby’s sale of the famous Barbara Johnson collection in 1982) he held a particular weakness for the marine ivory pie crimpers or jagging wheels that in the hands of 19th-century American craftsmen evolved from […]
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