This six-piece group sold recently at Leighton Galleries. Image courtesy LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Leighton Galleries.
ALLENDALE, N.J. – Leighton Galleries invites the public to bring the “finest jewels and baubles” to the auction company’s consignment days, Monday, Aug. 6, and the following Monday, Aug. 13. Consignments are being accepted for the first session of their Sept. 6 auction, which will feature Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers.com.
Leighton Galleries is also seeking high-end couture handbags, clothing and accessories for that auction.
Consignment day is an event held every Monday when customers are welcome to stop by Leighton Galleries’ showroom with items they are interested in selling at an upcoming auction.
They are encouraged to bring items to Leighton Galleries, 6-C Pearl Court, Allendale, NJ 07401. For details email info@Leightongalleries.com or phone 201-327-8800.
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This six-piece group sold recently at Leighton Galleries. Image courtesy LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Leighton Galleries.
‘Smith Cove’ by NSAA artist Charles Movalli. Image courtesy NSAA 2012 Live Art Auction. EAST GLOUCESTER, Mass. – Celebrating its 90-year heritage of prominent landscape and harbor painters, North Shore Arts Association continues the tradition of great painting by artist members from across the region, inspired by the beauty of Cape Ann. Original artwork from this region’s finest artists will be available to all bidders at the NSAA 2012 Live Art Auction on Saturday, Aug. 11. Internet live bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com.
Featuring juried selections from many NSAA artist members whose work can be found in private collections, the auction benefits the nonprofit cultural organization that has been connecting art and the community for 90 years. The event will take place at NSAA’s historic waterfront gallery in East Gloucester from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. (auction begins at 7 p.m). Tickets are $30 each and are available at www.nsarts.org or by calling 978-283-1857. Those interested in online bidding can view the artwork and register for the Auction at www.liveauctioneers.com/browse/sellerNSAA. Registration by 5 p.m. on Aug. 11 is advised.
Appraiser of antiques and fine arts Stuart Slavid from Skinner Inc. will serve as host and auctioneer that evening. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with an artwork preview party.
Selected through a juried process to ensure quality, nearly 100 distinctive works of art representing a wide range of artists, genres and mediums will be available for auction. Among the featured artists are David Curtis, Ray Crane, Ronalee Crocker, Paul George, Robert Gruppe, Ken Knowles, Judy Metcalfe, Charles Movalli, Tom Nicholas, Nathalie Nordstrand, Dale Ratcliff, Arlene Richardson, Betty Lou Schlemm, Peter Tysver and Jeff Weaver as well as other fine painters. Auction artwork will be on exhibit for previewing in the NSAA Gallery Aug. 5-11 during regular hours.
“Each year, NSAA strives to make the auction a memorable experience for our patrons, sponsors and artists while raising essential funds to support our work and mission,” said Art Auction Chair Monica Lawton. “This summer we’ll combine the best of the new with the tried-and-true, featuring innovative live online bidding and the expertise of Skinner Auctioneers, as well as the return of a single, combined event where guests and artists can mingle and enjoy a festive preview party before the bidding begins.”
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) – Andre Betit is visiting from Goffstown, N.H., to show off his shiny black 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk.
His father, who passed away last October, restored the car several years ago.
“This is the first time this car has been back in South Bend since it was made,” said Betit, who is among more than 2,000 people in town this week attending the Studebaker Drivers Club international meet. Row after row of Larks, Commanders, Avantis, Land Cruisers and other classic Studebaker models are on public display at the St. Joseph County Fairgrounds.
For Betit, 44, Studebakers have always been part of his life. “I came home from the hospital (as an infant) in a 1963 Studebaker,” he said. He now owns that same car and is restoring it.
He and many others share a fascination with Studebaker vehicles, which were produced in South Bend until the factory closed in 1963.
Studebakers “have classic lines. And they drive really well. For a car without power steering or power brakes, driving down the road you would never know,” Betit said.
The car show and swap meet continue through Friday.
At the meet, visitors can roam the rows of vehicles and talk with the owners. Swap meet booths offer original and replacement Studebaker hubcaps, steering wheels, nameplates, doors and other parts. Some vendors sell old Studebaker owner’s manuals, dealer catalogues, Studebaker Corp. magazines and other publications.
Sandra Studebaker, of Fraser, Mich., is staffing a booth that provides information about the Studebaker Family National Association, a genealogical group specializing in research about those with the Studebaker surname. The group has a reunion every five years in Tipp City, Ohio.
Ernest Loga, 65, of Eau Claire, runs Loga Enterprises, a firm that specializes in Studebaker interior parts.
Studebaker enthusiasts “all remember the vehicles from their childhood. Their grandparents and parents had Studebakers,” he said.
Loga’s been running the part-time business since 1981 and owns at least 10 Studebakers, including a 1917 model.
His favorite is a 1951 Studebaker Commander convertible, which he recently finished restoring. He’s always had a fascination with those bullet-nose models.
The meet is being held in conjunction with the Avanti Owners Association International and the Antique Studebaker Club.
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PARIS (AFP) – A controversial statue of Carla Bruni depicted as a worker has been erected in a Paris suburb but fans of France’s former first lady will struggle to catch a glimpse of a work that has embarrassed almost everyone connected with it.
The bronze was the brainchild of Jacques Martin, the mayor of Nogent-sur-Marne and a close political ally of Bruni’s husband, former president Nicolas Sarkozy.
Martin came up with the scheme to use a likeness of Bruni to represent the mostly Italian immigrant women who used to work at a feather factory in the town—an idea branded “grotesque” by the Socialist opposition on the town council.
Opposition to the 7-foot-high statue hardened when it emerged in February that it was going to cost 82,000 euros ($100,000).
The ensuing outcry forced Martin to abandon his plan to cover half the cost from the public purse and his office confirmed on Thursday that the statue had been completed with private funding and put up in a private residence.
The row in February embarrassed Bruni, who let it be known that she had agreed to model for sculptor Elisabeth Cibot without knowing that her name would be linked to the statue.
‘Electric Cord’ by Roy Lichtenstein disappeared in 1970 after it was sent out to be cleaned.
NEW YORK (AP) – A painting by the late pop artist Roy Lichtenstein that disappeared 42 years ago has turned up in a New York City warehouse and is in legal limbo.
Lichtenstein’s black and white Electric Cord was reported stolen after it was sent out to be cleaned by owner Leo Castelli in 1970 and never returned.
The painting shows a tightly wound electrical cord. Court papers say it re-emerged last week when the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation notified Castelli’s widow, Barbara Castelli, someone was trying to sell it.
Castelli’s court filings say the painting recently was on display at a museum in Colombia. They say Castelli is “deeply concerned” the painting may disappear again.
A judge on Tuesday signed an order barring the Manhattan warehouse from selling or moving the painting until a hearing next week.
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‘Electric Cord’ by Roy Lichtenstein disappeared in 1970 after it was sent out to be cleaned.
While this in not the portrait of the former South Carolina first lady, George Whiting Flagg painted ‘Lady Jane Grey Preparing for Execution,’ 1835. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – A Clemson University scientist is helping restore a portrait of a former South Carolina first lady.
The school says Benjamin Rennison is using 3-D scanners and digital X-ray equipment to examine a painting of Harriet Lowndes Aiken at a North Charleston lab.
Rennison is working with the Historic Charleston Foundation this week to plot a digital image of the 9-foot-by-5-foot painting.
The school says Rennison will use the scanner to see how the surface of the painting has broken down over the years.
Conservators will use his work to look at the different layers of paint and figure out a plan for restoring the piece painting by George Whiting Flagg.
Aiken was married to Gov. William Aiken, who was South Carolina’s governor in the 1840s.
George Whiting Flagg (June 26, 1816-Jan. 5, 1897) from New Haven, Conn., was a painter of historical scenes and genre pictures.
Barbara K. Nork wrote in the South Carolina Historical Magazine in 1982 that when Flagg died his obituary in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography stated that “many of his best works are in the South” including the portrait of first lady Aiken. Nork added, “Today, however, this artist and his works are almost totally forgotten.”
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While this in not the portrait of the former South Carolina first lady, George Whiting Flagg painted ‘Lady Jane Grey Preparing for Execution,’ 1835. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
