MONROVIA, Calif. – John Moran Auctioneers’ April 16 auction is the first of the company’s decorative arts auction events to take place on a Saturday and is expected to draw a large number of bidders both remote and in-person.
NEW YORK (AP) – A New York City exhibition explores the career of one of the foremost woodcut artists in America.
Ukrainian-American artist Jacques Hnizdovsky was a master of intricate woodcuts of stylized flora, fauna – and also of paintings, including one that depicts a post-World War II refugee camp.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – An Alabama collector says he bought a unique Civil War jacket fair and square, and he’s waging a court fight against the leaders of a Confederate memorial museum who say it was stolen from the New Orleans facility decades ago.
DALLAS – Extraordinary and rare examples from history’s finest silversmiths and manufacturers – including a pair of Paul Storr silver wine coolers, circa 1808-09 – highlight Heritage Auction’s spring presentation of fine silver and vertu auction April 12.
BEVERLY, Mass. – Kaminski Auctions will present a single-owner unreserved auction consisting of the lifelong collection of a Kansas City, Mo., family on Saturday, April 9. The family’s collecting interests were wide and varied. Among the highlights of their collection is a large selection of important East Asian art and antiques.
ABERDEEN, Miss. – Hundreds of antiques and collectible items, pulled from prominent estates and collections throughout the South, will be sold in a spring auction planned for Saturday, April 9, at Stevens Auction Co. starting at 9 a.m. Central time.
STANSTED MOUNTFICHET, UK – Sworders auctioneers of Stansted Mountfichet in Essex, England, will offer an extremely rare head-and-shoulders bronze of Sir Winston Churchill at their April 12 auction. It is one of only six casts taken from the statue erected in London’s Parliament Square in 1973 to honor the man voted the greatest Briton ever to have lived.
NEW YORK (AP) – A monumental flag painting by the influential American impressionist artist Childe Hassam has been gifted to the New-York Historical Society.
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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) – After Syrian government forces recaptured Palmyra from the Islamic State group, Syrian antiquities experts said Monday they were deeply shocked by the destruction the extremists had carried out inside the town museum, with scores of priceless relics and statues demolished.
DALLAS – A never-before-seen contact sheet of David Bowie – shot by Helmut Newton in 1983 at the peak of their careers – is expected to sell for $20,000 to $30,000 in Heritage Auctions’ April 17 photographs auction in New York. Only two of the 36 frames on the sheet have ever appeared at auction outside of Newton’s studio, said Nigel Russell, director of photography at Heritage.