BEACHWOOD, Ohio – Collectors from every century have had problems of storage, display and inventory records.
Kovels Antiques and Collecting: Week of June 22, 2015
Reading the Streets: Alexis Diaz
NEW YORK – Alexis Diaz creates incredible, surreal species that may not yet be found in nature, but are so photographically detailed, so precise that you might believe that an elephant-octopus hybrid, or even a zebra-chimp, do exist and are currently wandering somewhere around the world. You are just a nonbeliever who hasn’t had the pleasure of meeting one. However, sometimes this precision is used not to adorable effect, but something more sinister and captivating. Like hearts. And skulls.
Cartier ring, French clock get top billing at Capo auction June 27
NEW YORK – New York’s Capo Auction Fine Art and Antiques in Long Island City will present their first summer auction on Saturday, June 27, at 11 a.m. with a select group of jewelry, decorative items, antique furniture and fine art sharing the spotlight. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide absentee and Internet live bidding.Continue reading
Bees have visitors swarming into Italian expo’s sculptural hive
MILAN, Italy (AFP) – The World Expo in Milan is abuzz about a giant aluminum hive that hums in harmony with 40,000 bees making honey 870 miles (1,400km) away in Nottingham, England.
Collectors spend $1.57M on rare toys, trains and banks at Bertoia’s
VINELAND, N.J. – There was something special to view with every turn of the page in Bertoia’s May 8-9 “In May We Play” auction catalog. The especially diverse 1,521-lot sale crossed the entire panorama of antique toys and banks, a factor that kept the level of interest – and bidding – lively from start to finish. Internet participation was nonstop through LiveAuctioneers, helping to push the total to $1.57 million, inclusive of buyer’s premium.
Clars to sell fine Chinese ceramics collection June 27-28
OAKLAND, Calif. – Clars Auction Gallery will offer an exceptional collection of Chinese ceramics from the estate of Dr. Graeme Hanson of San Francisco during the Sunday session of a two-day auction, June 27 and 28. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide absentee and Internet live bidding.
John Moran stakes a claim with successful American West auction
ALTADENA, Calif. – John Moran Auctioneers conducted a successful American West auction May 30, achieving a respectable 86 percent sell-through rate. The auction featured California and American Western paintings and works of fine art by notable Native American artists as well as American Indian basketry and weavings.