MT. CRAWFORD, Va. – The Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Americana and Fine Antiques Auction on June 20 was a success by all accounts and boasted strong prices in virtually every category. The sale’s top lot, an important Shenandoah (now Page) County, Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, blanket chest (above) decorated by Johannes Spitler, sold for $356,500. The price set a new record for a Spitler-decorated blanket chest at auction. LiveAuctioneers.com provided absentee and Internet live bidding.
ATLANTA – At the start of each month, ACN columnist Ken Hall gathers top auction highlights from around the United States and beyond. Here’s what made headlines since last month’s report:Continue reading
NEW YORK – “China: Through the Looking Glass” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been extended by three weeks through Labor Day, Sept. 7. The exhibition, organized by the Costume Institute in collaboration with the Department of Asian Art, opened to the public on May 7, and has drawn more than 350,000 visitors in its first eight weeks. Continue reading
LONDON — Some art market research companies would have us believe that the heyday of art fairs is over and that the so-called “event-driven” marketplace is on the wane. It only requires an hour or two walking around London’s most prestigious art fairs during an unseasonably warm June to dispel such gloomy prognostications.
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – The Delaware Art Museum has sold two more paintings to retire its construction debt and replenish its cash.
CAIRO (AP) – For more than a decade, he was the self-styled Indiana Jones of Egypt, presiding over its antiquities and striding through temples and tombs as the star of TV documentaries that made him an international celebrity.Continue reading