Indo Heriz rug, 11 feet 9 inches x 18 feet 2 inches. Estimate: $4,000-$7,000. Image courtesy of Kaminski Auctions.
BEVERLY, Mass. – Kaminski Auctions’ Jan. 8 sale will be composed of Middle Eastern and Oriental carpets. With over 300 carpets of different sizes and designs, this sale will appeal to connoisseurs and collectors of all tastes. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.
Highlights from this outstanding collection include large Sino-Tabriz, Persian Isfahan and Persian Bijar rugs.
The auction will take place on Sunday, Jan. 8, starting at 11 a.m. Eastern. Previews are being held through Saturday, Jan. 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., as well as 9 a.m. the morning of the sale. The sale will be at Kaminski’s gallery, 117 Elliott St. (State Route 62) in Beverly.
For more information call 978-927-2223.
View the fully illustrated catalog and sign up to bid absentee or live via the Internet at www.LiveAuctioneers.com.
Survivor Horswell Titanic Collection with Original Wage Slip, Estimate: $4,000-$6,000
CROWN POINT, Ind. – In honor of Conrad Kraft’s 35th anniversary in business, Kraft Auction Service is planning to hold their annual anniversary antique auction on Jan. 7, 2012. The sale will be held at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Crown Point, Ind., and Internet live bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com.
Top lots in this year’s sale include a collection from a survivor from the Titanic, an original Tiffany lamp, collector car, and a Joseph Kleitsch oil painting. The most historically interesting pieces in the auction are the Titanic items from the estate of Albert Horswill. The collection includes Horswill’s original wage slip that he carried off the ship as it sank. Horswill manned lifeboat number one off the ship with other crew members and first class passengers. The lot also includes his summons letter to the Royal Court only days after that faithful night to give his story of what had happened. Other pieces in the collection include an original oil painting of the Titanic painted for Horswill by co-workers of the local painters union he was a member of in northwest Indiana, an original photo of Horswill, and a variety of newspaper articles for which he was interviewed.
Topping the sale of decorative art is an elegant Tiffany green linen-fold table lamp. The shade measures 18.5 inches at its widest point and sits on a 533 Tiffany base. Base and shade show proper patina. The linen-fold design was created in 1913 by L.C. Tiffany exclusively for lamps, and it was only shortly afterward that he stepped down from actively working within his company. Other Tiffany items in the sale include a Tiffany pottery lamp base, sterling silver cup, and a gilt bronze mantel clock.
A variety of high-quality art will pass the auction block as well on Jan. 7. The leading painting of the sale is a Joseph Kleitsch oil on canvas of an impressionistic California countryside scene. Kleitsch is known as one of the premier early members of the California school of Impressionism painters. The painting is fresh out of an estate where it had been held for more than 50 years.
For the car enthusiast, there is a great collection of cars in the sale. If you are into early cars, there is a 1931 Ford Model A Deluxe fresh from a Cleveland estate. The owner reportedly used it all the time to drive to the grocery store. For the muscle-car-era collector, Kraft has a 1974 Chevrolet Corvette with 6,000 original miles. Original survivor car equipped with A/C, 4 speed, and two tops. For the adventurist, Kraft will offer a 1997 Land Rover Defender 90 sport utility truck. A great offroad vehicle, the truck is in pristine condition and is a true 100-point truck.
A variety of quality furniture will be sold including a 1820s-1830s Federal-style corner cabinet with all original glass and brass key. The most unusual piece of furniture is a 4-section room screen dating to the 1840s, with all original paint. Each panel features folk art of a chicken, swan, dog, and fox. For the Art Deco collector, there is an original Brunswick Balke Collender front and back bar in excellent condition. It even lights up.
These items are just the tip of the iceberg for this auction. Over 2,000 lots will be sold with five auction rings running all day. Other items in this auction include sterling silver, estate jewelry, 125+ firearms including early dueling pistols, a brass diver’s helmet, antique furniture, advertising, dolls, toys, Arts & Crafts, Orientalia, and much more.
For additional information on any lot in the sale, call Jonathan at 219-973-9240.
Charles Birch (1867-1956), swan, Willis Wharf, Virginia. Estimate: $90,000-$120,000. Image courtesy of Copley Fine Art Auctions LLC. BOSTON – Following the success of last year’s inaugural Winter Sale, Copley Fine Art Auctions LLC is once again returning to New York City for their premier American art event. The sale, held in conjunction with Keno Auctions, marks the start of Americana Week on Jan. 16 in Wallace Hall at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Park Avenue. This major sale of sporting art includes over 450 lots of paintings, prints, decoys, duck calls, fish carvings, rods, reels, Navajo blankets, Nantucket baskets, folk art, and over 300 books from a sporting library.
LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.
After a stellar performance at the July 2011 Sporting Sale, Copley has assembled several significant collections containing notable decoys and decorative bird carvings. Among the most important birds offered is a Charles Birch (1867-1956) swan ($90,000-$120,000). This swan, with its graceful down-turned head, long slender neck and sleek body, ranks as one of the finest Birch examples known to exist.
Another notable lot, consigned by a direct descendant of John Blair, includes a swimming bluebill drake ($20,000-$40,000) by John Blair Jr. (1881-1953) and John Blair Sr.’s (1843-1929) Belgian side-by-side muzzle-loading eight-gauge shotgun.
Copley will offer several top tier decoys from the Mid-Atlantic. Among the highlights are a Bishops Head swimming Canada goose by the Ward brothers (Lemuel T., 1896-1983 and Stephen, 1895-1976) and an Obediah Verity (1850-1910) black bellied-plover ($25,000-$40,000). Decoys from New Jersey are well represented, and include a rare “hook bill” curlew by William Roberts ($20,000-$30,000), as well as a bufflehead ($30,000-$50,000) and brant ($5,000-$7,000) by Harry V. Shourds (1861-1920).
Copley will auction off numerous carvings by the East Harwich maker A.E. Crowell (1862-1952). In addition to the full-size preening greater yellowlegs ($40,000-$60,000), flying green-winged teal drake ($50,000-$70,000), standing preening black duck ($30,000-$60,000), and preening Hudsonian curlew ($60,000-$90,000), Copley has assembled a variety of miniature decorative bird carvings. Headlined by a complete set of 25 miniature waterfowl ($100,000-$150,000) the sale will include over 70 miniatures in total, with an array of species represented.
The Winter Sale 2012 will also showcase numerous birds from the Mason Decoy Factory (1896-1924), including some of the finest shorebird examples known, such as a salesman’s sample golden plover ($12,000-$16,000), two rare robin snipe, one in spring plumage ($8,000-$12,000) and one in winter ($6,000-$9,000), and a dowitcher ($8,000-$12,000); as well as a pair of premier grade mallards ($50,000-$70,000) from the coveted G.K. Schmidt rig, along with several other lots of Mason waterfowl.
Among a number of important late additions to the sale are a high-head pintail hen ($50,000-$70,000) from the Kankakee marsh and a three-piece Dexter/Gardener (Dr. Clarence T. Gardner, 1844-1907, and Newton Dexter, d. 1901) Willet ($40,000-$60,000).
In part two of the sale a stately oil painting of moose by world-renowned wildlife artist Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869-1959) titled In the Cedar Swamp ($150,000-$250,000) aims to follow the success Copley saw with other works by the artist in their 2010 Sporting Sale when they sold five oils out of the H. Wendell Endicott Rungius collection for a total of $1.34 million.
A large Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) painting of wild turkey ($20,000-$40,000) is not only one of the premier depictions of this North American game bird ever to come to market, but is also perhaps the most important work by the artist to be offered at auction.
Waiting for its Master ($100,000$-$200,000), a canine painting by Alexander Pope Jr. (1849-1924), represents some of the artist’s finest work and is another of Copley’s highlights. This painting displays Pope’s talent for depicting rich texture and minute detail. An expertly rendered trompe l’oeil still life of hanging game ($20,000-$30,000) by Pope’s contemporary, R. LaBarre Goodwin (1840-1910), is also expected to have a strong showing.
Bob Kuhn’s (1920-2007) A Two Brooks Idyll ($20,000-$40,000) features famous fly reel maker Stanley Bogdan fishing on the Restigouche River. Although Kuhn was an avid fly fisherman, he rarely depicted his hobby in his paintings.
Copley will auction off several important watercolors, including a superb driven grouse scene ($30,000-$50,000) by Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983). Other significant items in the painting sale include notable, original works by George Browne (1918-1958), Frank W. Benson (1862-1951), Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969), Harry Curieux Adamson (b. 1916) and contemporary artists John Swan (b. 1948), Chet Reneson (b. 1934), Luke Frazier (b. 1970), and Brett J. Smith (b. 1958).
Also featured in the sale is a rare complete set of 12 prints from A.B. Frost’s (1851-1928) Shooting Pictures ($7,000-$10,000), along with the original folio and information sheets from 1895; four top-notch bronze sculptures by William Koelpin (1938-1996); a gentleman’s sporting library with over three hundred titles; and several diverse lots of American folk art, including nine noteworthy Navajo weavings in various textures, colors, and patterns ($8,000-$12,000); a historic John Bellamy (1836-1914) eagle ($20,000-$30,000); and Nantucket lightship baskets.
Copley will once again kick off the week with their Scotch and Smoked Salmon Preview Party, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Eastern on Saturday, Jan. 14. The one-day sale will commence at 11 a.m. the following Monday, Jan. 16. For details, a full schedule of events, or to order a catalog, contact Aimee Stashak-Moore at info@copleyart.com, call 617-536-0030, or visit www.copleyart.com.
Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC is located at 268 Newbury St. Boston, MA 02116.
Charles Birch (1867-1956), swan, Willis Wharf, Virginia. Estimate: $90,000-$120,000. Image courtesy of Copley Fine Art Auctions LLC.
Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869-1959), ‘In the Cedar Swamp,’ oil on canvas, 36 by 42 inches. Estimate: $150,000-$250,000. Image courtesy of Copley Fine Art Auctions LLC.
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927), ‘Wild Turkey,’ oil on canvas, 30 by 50 inches. Estimate: $20,000-$40,000. Image courtesy of Copley Fine Art Auctions LLC.
Alexander Pope Jr. (1849-1924), ‘Waiting for its Master,’ oil on canvas, 36.5 by 30.5 inches. Estimate: $100,000-$200,000. Image courtesy of Copley Fine Art Auctions LLC.
Herman R. Trinosky (1874-1956), Kankakee pintail hen, Kankakee Marsh. Estimate: $50,000-$70,000. Image courtesy of Copley Fine Art Auctions LLC.
This earthenware sugar bowl is a rare Alamance County, N.C., piece, originally bought by Titus Geesey from Joe Kindig Jr. in 1930. Estimate: $10,000-$20,000. Image courtesy of Pook & Pook Inc. DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. – Pook & Pook Inc.’s first sale of the year will begin an exciting calendar of collections in 2012. The 1,100-lot auction will showcase items from various estates, collections and educational institutions and will encompass a myriad of objects to include fine art, silver, American and Continental furniture, Pennsylvania folk art, carpets, textiles and decorative accessories. The sale will begin on Friday, Jan. 13, at 6 p.m. Eastern and continue on Saturday, Jan. 14, at 9 a.m.
Online live bidding will be made available through LiveAuctioneers.com.
Friday night will have a selection of pieces from three collections including Margaret Schiffer of West Chester, Pa., the Studdiford family of Point Pleasant, N.J., and a southeastern Pennsylvania collection.
Margaret B. Schiffer is a well-known Chester County, Pa., author and expert in the antique field and a specialist in historical needlework, toys and Christmas ornaments. The volume Historical Needlework of Pennsylvania, written in 1958, was a definitive reference book for the time, recording the origins and progression of the art in the 18th and 19th centuries primarily in southeastern Pennsylvania. With her husband, Herbert, and son Peter, Schiffer Publications, printed numerous books on antique furniture and accessories.
The Saturday session will begin at 9 a.m. with a variety of pieces from Charlene Sussel of Garrett Park, Md. Her father-in-law was the pioneer collector Arthur Sussel. This group of 236 lots will be the beginning of several sales with items from the same collection. This selection includes paintings, furniture, silver, fine porcelain, Asian objects, textiles and accessories.
Furniture highlights include a Chester County, Pa., mahogany tall-case clock by Benjamin Garrett of Goshen Township, Pa.; a William and Mary armchair, circa 1735, early Chester County or southeastern Pennsylvania example with a baluster back and old black painted surface with punched star decorations; a Philadelphia William and Mary mahogany spice or valuables box on frame from the William E. and Johanna Studdiford collection. of Point Pleasant, N.J.; a rare Delaware Valley walnut armchair, circa 1715; and an important Pennsylvania or Maryland lowback Windsor bench.
Also selling in Friday’s session is a Chester County sampler wrought by Mary Graves under the tutelage of Hannah G. Carpenter. It is pictured in Historical Needlework of Pennsylvania by Margaret Schiffer, page 61.
The Kriebel name is well known in the field of Schwenkfelder fraktur drawings. These bright colorful pictures were executed in Montgomery County, Pa., in the mid-19th century. The fraktur in the auction was probably executed by Sarah Kriebel for a family member, Regina Kriebel. This is one of a number of fraktur by various artists in the collection including works by Brechall, Peterman, Krebs, Faber and others.
Paintings will include an oil on zinc scene of the Berks County Almshouse by John Rasmussen, a Pennsylvania itinerant painter; a painting titled Boy with Sheep by John Edward Costigan that was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 118th annual exhibition; a Ghent, Belgium, street scene by Pierre Francois de Noter; an industrial illustration done for the Speakman Co. of Wilmington, Del., by Stanley Massey Arthurs; and the painting of the American side wheeler J.B. Schuyler by James Edward Buttersworth.
Other artists represented include Fern Coppedge, Antonio Martino, Arthur Meltzer, Samuel Phillips, John Barnes, Hans Bebie, Bruce Crane, Bela De Tirefort, Alfred Bricher and many more.
Miscellaneous lots include a selection of English pearlware; Chinese carved jade; Boston silk on linen needlework memorial by Louisa Nouvse; and a fine group of turned woodenware by the maker Joseph Lehn working in Lancaster County, Pa., in the 19th century.
The sale will continue with items from the estate of Thelma Bennett of Toms River, N.J.; James and Sally Sorber of Chester County, Pa.,; as well as the estates of William Guyton and Richard Cloney.
A vibrantly painted Rhode Island sleigh, circa 1840, the decoration attributed to Thomas Frederick Hoppin will be sold. It was exhibited at the Rhode Island School of Design 1988.
A tobacconist Indian figure attributed to Thomas V. Brooks of New York will be offered. It has a $20,000-$25,000 estimate.
For further information please go to www.pookandpook.com or call 610-269-4040.
This earthenware sugar bowl is a rare Alamance County, N.C., piece, originally bought by Titus Geesey from Joe Kindig Jr. in 1930. Estimate: $10,000-$20,000. Image courtesy of Pook & Pook Inc.
Hooked rug by Magdalena Briner Eby, Perry County, Pa., second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Measuring 45 inches x 115 inches, it is one of the largest examples of her work known. Estimate: $3,000-$6,000. Image courtesy of Pook & Pook Inc.
Soap Hollow miniature painted blanket chest dated 1868, with stencil decoration on a salmon ground. Estimate: $4,000-$8,000. Image courtesy of Pook & Pook Inc.
This English silver tray bears the touch of Robert Garrard. Estimate: $4,000-$7,000. Image courtesy of Pook & Pook Inc.
An entrancing snow scene of a Quakertown, Pa., street by Walter Emerson Baum. Estimate: $25,000-$35,000. Image courtesy of Pook & Pook Inc.
Elie Nadleman sheet iron Angel Gabriel weather vane. Estimate: $1,500-$2,500. Image courtesy of Pook & Pook Inc.
Gold stater from Pantikapaon with the image of a mythological satyr’s head, sold for $3.25 million (hammer) on Jan. 5, 2012 at Baldwin’s. Image courtesy of Baldwin’s.
NEW YORK – The eight-hour auction of the renowned Prospero coin collection concluded at 3:30 this morning, and when all was said and done, the team at Baldwin’s auction house had a lot to smile about.
Although results are still in the process of being confirmed, initial figures released by the company state that the sale total for all 642 lots is approximately $25,000,000 (inclusive of 17% buyer’s premium at 17%). The gross more than doubled the total presale estimate.
Lot 213, the catalog cover coin set a new world auction record for an ancient Greek coin, when it sold for a phenomenal $3.25 million on the hammer. This beautiful example of a gold stater from Pantikapaion depicts the head of a satyr, a character from Greek mythology. The coin is one of the most important numismatic objects to have survived from the classical world and is one of the most admired of all Greek coins.
Around 200 bidders were in attendance at the auction venue, the Vanderbilt Suite of the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Anticipation was high prior to the sale, and bidders appeared unrestrained as they offered three, four and five times the presale estimates on various coins in the sale. There was a noticeable presence of bidders from Europe and the United States.
“The sale of the Prospero collection has far exceeded our expectations. It has truly been a once in a generation auction and one that will go down in numismatic history, said Paul Hill, Baldwin’s ancient coin specialist. “It was an honor and a privilege to catalog this collection…”
Additional highlights included noteworthy sales included lot 149, a 5th century silver tetradrachm of Naxos, $850,000; and lot 411, a stater of Phaistos with exceptional provenance, $650,000 against a presale estimate of $40,000.
Some say the Prospero auction, which was the highest-grossing event in Baldwin’s 140-year history, may very well set the benchmark for ancient Greek coin prices going forward.
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Gold stater from Pantikapaon with the image of a mythological satyr’s head, sold for $3.25 million (hammer) on Jan. 5, 2012 at Baldwin’s. Image courtesy of Baldwin’s.
Tiffany ‘Aztec’ presentation dagger designed by Paul G. Farnham, a highlight of Clars’ Feb. 19 Antiques and Fine Art sale. Estimate: $10,000-$20,000. Clars image.
OAKLAND, Calif. – Clars Auction Gallery will be offering a rare Tiffany “Aztec” presentation dagger in their Sunday, Feb. 19, Antiques and Fine Art Auction.
Online live bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com.
Designed by G. Paul Farnham in the early 1900s, this powerful yet diminutive piece is executed is sterling, ivory and faceted obsidian. His use of obsidian was in homage to the Aztec culture, where they used obsidian to create the sharpest daggers possible.
Farnham’s creations are scarce and highly sought-after worldwide. In 2009, his Tiffany “Aztec” bowl, executed in sterling and copper, sold to the Dallas Museum of Art for $305,000.
“It is a pleasure to be handling such an important piece of American decorative art,” said Deric Torres, specialist at Clars. “The beauty of this piece is testament to his creative genius and will be the highlight of our February sale.”
Farnham was Tiffany’s chief jewelry designer from 1891 to 1908 and is regarded as the best designer Tiffany ever employed. Inspired and trained by his predecessor Edward C. Moore, Farnham became an unequaled colorist in design and his creations reflected international sources including Asian, Egyptian, Russian, Celtic and Native American. Charged with creating significant presentation pieces for Tiffany to be judged at world expositions, Farnham’s work received a gold medal for jewelry at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889, the grand prize for his Native American-style silverware at the Paris Exposition of 1900, and a gold medal for silverware at the Pan-American Exposition for his jeweled and enameled “Viking” and “Saracenic” silver.
For details on this important piece and Clars Feb. 18-19 Antiques and Fine Art sale, 510-428-0100 or email: info@clars.com.
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Tiffany ‘Aztec’ presentation dagger designed by Paul G. Farnham, a highlight of Clars’ Feb. 19 Antiques and Fine Art sale. Estimate: $10,000-$20,000. Clars image.
Richard Russek (right), president of Grey Flannel Auctions, visits with basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman during the taping of Discovery’s All Star Auctions. Photo by Michael Russek.
SILVER SPRING, Md. – Has Richie Russek of Grey Flannel Auctions got a deal for you! From rare game-worn jerseys to vintage bats that helped shape the game of baseball, the vaunted history of sports holds untold treasures, and Richie, with sons Michael and Darren, is on the hunt to find them all in the brand new series All Star Dealers. The show will premiere on Tuesday, Jan. 24 at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time.
As the show unfolds, Grey Flannel receives lots of items. Some are all-stars, poised to reap thousands for the consignor and Richie; while others get benched after being revealed as cheap knock-offs or having forged signatures. How can a collector separate the MVPs from the DOAs? That’s up to Richie’s army of expert authenticators. SportsCenter meets CSI as the Grey Flannel team uses detailed investigation methods and state-of-the-art tools to determine what items are the real deal.
“Sports is more than just what happens on the field; it is rich with emotion and history. All Star Dealers opens the door into the world of incredible sports memorabilia where every stitch and smudge tells a story, raising the stakes for buyer and seller alike,” said Nancy Daniels, Executive Vice President of Production and Development for Discovery Channel.
From the extraordinary — a long-forgotten Mickey Mantle autographed baseball, to the extraordinary — Mike Tyson’s cup — get ready to play in the big leagues with All Star Dealers.
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Richard Russek (right), president of Grey Flannel Auctions, visits with basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman during the taping of Discovery’s All Star Auctions. Photo by Michael Russek.
Click below to view sneak previews from the show:
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All Star Dealers is produced for Discovery Channel by Fly on the Wall Productions. Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan are executive producers. For Discovery Channel, French Horwitz is executive producer.
‘Chief Wahoo’ has been the Cleveland Indians mascot for many years. This decal advertising the ‘Cleveland Press’ newspaper dates to the 1950s. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Homestead Auctions.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio’s history museum is planning a sequel to last year’s exhibit of provocative items that included the state’s old electric chair and a Ku Klux Klan robe.
Starting Feb. 29, the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus will display a Nazi flag, late 19th-century art with caricatures of blacks and a 1940s Cleveland Indians jacket featuring the “Chief Wahoo” mascot. The Columbus Dispatch reports the new exhibit will be called “Controversy 2: Pieces We Don’t Normally Talk About.”
Last year’s exhibit was titled “Controversy: Pieces You Don’t Normally See.”
The follow-up also will include a work by Dayton poet Paul Laurence Dunbar written in Southern black dialect and an early 1900s bowling set for children, with ethnic figures as pins.
Museum director Sharon Dean says it’s all “difficult” stuff.
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Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com
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‘Chief Wahoo’ has been the Cleveland Indians mascot for many years. This decal advertising the ‘Cleveland Press’ newspaper dates to the 1950s. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Homesteat Auctions.
The National Museum in Warsaw, where art student Andrzej Sobiepan hung his own painting, was founded in 1916. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn’t want to wait decades for his work to appear in museums. So he took matters in his own hands, covertly hanging one of his paintings in a major Polish gallery.
By Wednesday, the young artist was getting plenty of attention after a nationwide TV channel reported on his stunt at the National Museum in the southwestern city of Wroclaw. He told reporters he hoped galleries would give more exhibition space to young artists as a result.
“I decided that I will not wait 30 or 40 years for my works to appear at a place like this,” Sobiepan told TVN24. “I want to benefit from them in the here and now.”
Sobiepan, a Wroclaw Fine Arts Academy student whose last name means “his own master,” said he was inspired by the elusive British graffiti artist known only as Banksy. His own painting is small, white and green, and partly uses swine leather to show a drooping acacia leaf.
On Dec. 10, Sobiepan put it up in a room with contemporary Polish art when a guard at the museum was looking the other way. Museum officials didn’t notice the new painting for three days.
Museum director Mariusz Hermansdorfer told TVN24 on Wednesday that the action revealed some security breaches, but that he also considered it a “witty artistic happening.”
“It has shown that the young generation of artists, unlike their predecessors, wants to see their works in museums,” Hermansdorfer said.
The museum has kept the painting on display—in its cafe. It will be offered for sale at Poland’s biggest charity auction on Sunday.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – Gov. Andrew Cuomo Andrew Cuomo recently rooted through a warehouse in Schenectady County’s Rotterdam and picked out dozens of state artifacts for display in the Capitol in Albany.
The documents, antique automobiles and even an Adirondack guide boat are being readied for display in time for his State of the State address on Wednesday.
Cuomo tells The Associated Press he wants the historic items from the executive and legislative branches and the press corps to be available for tours by school children.
Cuomo says they’ll help bring state history alive to students and attract more tours.
The displays will be outside his office in the Hall of Governors and in front of the Assembly and Senate chambers and press row.
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