2 days LeftFrost & NicklausPrincess Maria of Austria, Saxony Queen of Poland, 1720s Engraved by Sysang$50
Georg Jensen flatware sets add polish to World Auction Gallery March 10EAST MEADOW, NY — Two Georg Jensen sterling silverware sets from Long Island homes are key lots at World Auction Gallery on Sunday, March 10 in its Exceptional Late Winter Estate Auction. The catalog is now open for bidding at LiveAuctioneers. The one with the highest estimate — at $8,000-$10,000 — is a Georg Jensen […]
Photo exhibit documents revival of Polish Jewish lifeWARSAW, Poland (AP) – American photographer Chuck Fishman was just 21 when he began traveling behind the Iron Curtain in 1975 to document a Jewish community on the verge of dying out after centuries of existence in Poland. He couldn’t have foreseen a Jewish revival that came after the fall of communism in 1989.
Polish official withstands da Vinci purchase criticismWARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland’s culture minister survived a no-confidence vote Wednesday after he was accused of wasting public money for paying 100 million euros ($120 million) to a Polish-Spanish aristocrat for an art collection that includes Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine.”
Polish museum exhibits US artist Frank Stella synagogues WARSAW, Poland (AP) – An exhibition is opening in Warsaw of abstract works by prominent American painter Frank Stella that were inspired by painted wooden synagogues that once existed across Poland but were destroyed by the Nazis during World War II.