OAK PARK, Ill. – The John Toomey Gallery, in association with Treadway Gallery, will present a 20th Century Art & Design auction on Saturday, June 4, beginning at 10 a.m. Central. This 81-lot auction will begin with furniture and decorative arts primarily from the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements, including Gustav Stickley, Tiffany lighting, Teco and Rookwood pottery, Kalo silver, and architect-designed furniture and windows by Frank Lloyd Wright.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – An oil painting by American impressionist Edmund C. Tarbell that was rolled up and forgotten for more than a century has been restored just in time to be included in a large retrospective of the artist’s work.
MONROVIA, Calif. – John Moran’s June 18 decorative art auction features an interesting array of property, ranging from traditional Continental and French furniture and smalls to contemporary and mid-century modern design.
Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.com.
Western buyers will also be pleased to find a number of Western-genre paintings (above) and bronzes, many from the estate of Phoebe Hearst Cooke, as well as a small selection of Native American items within Moran’s June catalog. With approximately 270 cataloged lots, Moran’s sale will feature objects and art offered at a wide range of estimates.
The first pieces from a large collection of high-quality clocks consigned from a private Laguna Beach collection are to be offered at Moran’s June sale, and are only a small preview of the good things to come. Complementing the selection of Laguna Beach timepieces, a very fine Swiss cylinder music box (below) on stand by Baptiste-Antoine Bremond (1834-1925) is to be brought to the block with an impressive $15,000 to $25,000 estimate. Recently cleaned and repaired, the music box is in excellent working condition, and features flutes, whistles, drums and bells, which play 48 songs across eight interchangeable cylinders.
Excellent examples of 20th century design can be found throughout Moran’s June 18 catalog. Mid-century modern selections include a pair of Charles Eames for Herman Miller molded plywood LCW chairs (below) dating to the late 1940s.
For details contact John Moran Auctioneers via email: info@johnmoran.com or telephone 626-793-1833.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – Boulders shift, canyons erode, old trees fall, new ones grow and tourists crowd Yellowstone National Park, the length of their vacations barely any time at all in the stream of history.
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel has returned two looted ancient Egyptian sarcophagus covers to Egypt amid warming relations between the countries.
DALLAS (AP) – Three pages with the step-by-step computer procedures that U.S. astronauts followed to land the Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon’s surface in 1969 have sold at auction for $175,000.
LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. – Rago Arts and Auction Center will conduct a four-session auction of early 20th century and modern design on June 4-5.
Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.com.
The Early 20th Cecntury Design session consisting of 356 lots will be Saturday, June 4, beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern. Featured are rare and early Despondency (below) and Lorelei vases by Artus Van Briggle.
“Our June sale includes an extraordinary selection of American and European early 20th century decorative ceramics from five different private collections. This is by far one of our best ceramics sales in years,” said David Rago, partner and co-director of the 20th-21st Century Design Department.
More than 270 lots of mid-priced 20th century furniture, lighting and decorative objects will sell Saturday beginning at 2:30 p.m.
The Modern Design session consisting of 227 lots will sell Sunday, June 5, beginning at 11 a.m. Included will be furniture by the likes of Paul Evans and Carlo Mollino, lighting by Wendell Castle and Verner Panton, and wall hangings by Alexander Calder.
What is billed as the the largest and broadest collection of fine contemporary glass that Rago’s has ever offered will be sold Sunday, June 5, beginning at 2 p.m. The nearly 300 lots will include a group of works by by Yoichi Ohira and many gorgeous creations by Dale Chihuly including a chandelier (below).
DANIA BEACH, Fla. – The subtropical world of the Philippines came to subtropical south Florida at Kodner Galleries’ May 18 auction as a painting by Fernando Cueto Amorsolo sold for $187,550, inclusive of the buyer’s premium.Continue reading
MT. CRAWFORD, Va. – Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Inc. will conducting its sixth annual Virginia Decorative Arts Seminar on Saturday, June 11, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The all-day event features scholars and craftspeople presenting and demonstrating on all things woven in Virginia, and will be held at the Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates auction gallery located at 2177 Green Valley Lane in Mt. Crawford.
The deadline to register is Wednesday, June 1.
The exciting, one-day colloquium features six expert guest speakers who will present lectures and demonstrations relating to this year’s topic, Woven in Virginia: From Bedcovers to Chair Seats.
Speakers include:
The cost per person for the seminar is $95 (with lunch) or $85 (without lunch).
Visit the Education>Classes/Seminars page at www.jeffreysevans.com for links to the printable registration form, speaker bios, program schedule, and other details. For information and/or to arrange your registration for the seminar, call 540-434-3939 and press 0 for the office or email info@jeffreysevans.com.
NEW YORK – Guernsey’s, long-known for producing innovative, eye-opening auctions, will be entering the world of prestigious real estate when it sells at auction on June 8 one of New Jersey’s most prestigious properties: 75 Bluff Road in Fort Lee.
Online-absentee and Internet live bidding will be available exclusively through LiveAuctioneers.com.