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Gallery Report: March 2017
Todd Fisher Protects Family Legacy, Ultra-Rare 1866 Gold Coin, and More Fresh News
News and updates from around the arts and auction community:
- Todd Fisher considers himself the custodian of his mother Debbie Reynolds’ and sister Carrie Fisher’s legacies. He says that working on a display of their career memorabilia is helping to ease his grief. [Watch a video from Associated Press]
- On April 27 in Chicago, Heritage will auction one of only 10 surviving 1866 proof Liberty Head Double Eagle gold coins. A highly desirable specimen, it has quite a pedigree. [Read more from Heritage]
- Bidders from 22 countries took part in Christie’s series of auctions titled Betsy Bloomingdale: A Life in Style. The late fashion icon’s art, jewelry and other personal property took in $6,471,875. [Read more from Art Daily]
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has received an extraordinary gift — an important private collection of 92 works of Native American art. Built over four decades, the collection contains pieces dating as early as the 2nd century A.D. [Read more from The Met]
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Artemis Gallery to auction superior-quality ancient, Asian & ethnographic art, April 12
BOULDER, Colo. – With a timeline that starts in Ancient Egypt and progresses to the Pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas, Artemis Gallery’s April 12 auction is a fascinating retrospective on how the world evolved to what it is today.
Jeffrey S. Evans auction of two 19th century glass collections sets record
MOUNT CRAWFORD, Va. – Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates conducted a special auction of two important glass collections on March 18. The 568-lot sale comprised the open salt collection of Paul Harvey of Naples, Fla., and the Bryan Grapentine collection of cologne bottles from Phoenix, Ariz. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
Diverse selection of silver entered in Heritage Auctions’ Objects of Vertu sale April 20
DALLAS – Heritage Auctions will offer a rare Bell & Brothers coin silver cup manufactured in San Antonio, Texas, at a Silver and Objects of Vertu Auction on April 20. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
First edition of ‘Nuremberg Chronicle’ featured in PBA Galleries sale April 20
SAN FRANCISCO – On Thursday, April 20, PBA Galleries will make available at auction a first edition of Hartmann Schaedel’s Liber cronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus, otherwise known as the Nuremberg Chronicle. A very attractive copy of the Latin edition of this great work, it was published five months prior to the German language edition. The most extensively illustrated of all 15th century books, it presents the history of the world from the creation to the time of publication. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
Vonnegut museum searching again for new Indianapolis home
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – An Indianapolis museum devoted to novelist Kurt Vonnegut is searching again for a new location in his hometown.
National Portrait Gallery acquires last portrait of Duke of Wellington
LONDON – The National Portrait Gallery has acquired Sir Thomas Lawrence’s unfinished final portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, following a successful public fund-raising appeal, it was announced Thursday.