THOMASTON, Maine – Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ Summer Auction on Aug. 25, 26 and 27 will present an extensive and diverse selection of fine art, ranging from Old Master works to creations by important 20th century artists. The three-day sale will also offer large collections of folk art, marine items, antiquities, early furniture, and 20th century decorative arts. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Photography as an art form became available to a wider audience through photoengraving, which is a photomechanical process for making halftone cuts by photographing an image on a metal plate and then etching. A photoengraving is a plate made by this process, and a print made from such a plate is also called a photoengraving. Jasper52 will sell a collection of these prints, the work of some of the foremost photographers of the 20th century, in an online auction on Saturday, Aug. 12. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK (AP) – Trinkets, statues and jewelry crafted from the tusks of at least 100 slaughtered elephants were fed Thursday into a rock crusher in Central Park to demonstrate the state’s commitment to smashing the illegal ivory trade.
SAN MARINO, Calif. (AP) – Blue Boy isn’t quite as blue as he once was – and that isn’t a good thing for one of the world’s most recognizable paintings.