LONDON – Claude Monet’s enchanting vision of Venice, Le Palais Ducal, will be offered at auction for the first time in Sotheby’s London Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on Feb. 26. The oil on canvas is expected to sell for £20 million-£30 million/$25.3 million-$37.9 million.
WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. – Lisa and Steve Fisch of L & S Auctions have been in the antique and collectible business since 1981, selling at shows, group shops, their own shops and on the Internet. On Saturday, Jan. 19, L & S Auctions will conduct their first auction through LiveAuctioneers. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.Continue reading
SOUTHAMPTON, Pa. – At Stephenson’s Annual New Year’s Auction, it is not unusual to see a parking lot lined with cars bearing out-of-state license plates. The family-owned auction house is known for setting aside outstanding estate consignments specifically for its first sale of the year, a lively, well-attended event that’s “worth the drive,” as one bidder remarked at last year’s edition.
Terry Kovel, the grande dame and doyen of antiques and collectibles and editor of the longtime eponymous newsletter, once said of Anna Pottery pigs, “The first time I laid eyes on one I thought, ‘Why would anyone want to own one of these? They’re so ugly!’” She’s right, but therein lies their charm. Anna Pottery pigs – produced in the southern Illinois town of Anna from 1859 until its closing in 1890 – were made by brothers Cornwall (1814-1890) and Wallace Kirkpatrick (1828-1896). Their father Andrew was a potter and their brothers were potters, too.