DALLAS – More than a dozen competitive bidders pursued a British portrait of a gentleman in Turkish dress, traditionally thought to be Edward Wortley Montagu (1713-1776) to $27,500 to claim top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions’ Fine & Decorative Arts Including Estates Auction Dec. 7-9. The strong return helped lift the total for the sale to $1.26 million. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
BOCA RATON, Fla. – Carstens Galleries is having its variety auction of art, antiques and a jadeite collection on Dec. 29 at 3 p.m. Eastern time. Live and absentee bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
RIDGEFIELD, Conn. (AP) – A painting that was stolen during World War II and later spent decades in a Connecticut home will be returned to an art museum in Ukraine, according to U.S. and Ukrainian officials.
VENICE, Italy (AP) – A Venetian cloth dyer’s son, Tintoretto spent his entire career in Venice, becoming widely considered the last great painter of the Renaissance.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The acquisition of 1,500 documents and artifacts for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum a decade ago firmly established Illinois as a leading repository of all things Lincoln, the prairie lawyer who led the U.S. through the Civil War.