BEVERLY, Mass. – Kaminski Auctions will hold an estate auction Feb. 2 and 3 starting at 10 a.m. Eastern featuring high-end furnishings from a Biltmore, Palm Beach residence. Painting highlights include a specially commissioned Emile Gruppe waterfront scene, two modernist paintings by John Millard Ferren and a collection of sculptures by Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese-American, Boston-born artist and sculptor. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Militaria runs the gamut from weapons such as swords, daggers, pistols and rifles to helmets, military division flags, patches, uniforms and other equipment or military collectibles. Militaria collectors are an especially patient lot, driven to collect but waiting for true and authentic items to hit the marketplace, often after being stored away in attics and basements for decades, likely being opened, or unfolded, for the first time since being packed away after a soldier or sailor returned home from service.
AMSTERDAM (AP) – A “full body scan” carried out on the Van Gogh Museum’s version of the Dutch master’s iconic “Sunflowers” has shown the painting is not fit to travel because it’s in “stable but vulnerable” condition, the museum’s director said Thursday.
PROVO, Utah (AP) – A self-proclaimed Latter Day Saint antiquities dealer has pleaded guilty to stealing books from the Brigham Young University library.
LONDON – Starting May 31, Tate Britain will present the first major retrospective of work by Frank Bowling. Since the early 1960s Bowling (b.1934) has explored and expanded the possibilities of paint, influencing generations of artists through his spectacular kaleidoscopic paintings. This long overdue celebration of his work will be the first exhibition to span the full breadth of Bowling’s practice, bringing together rarely seen works and iconic series that highlight the quality and range of the artist’s remarkable six-decade career.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present the Felicia Michalski Collection of Decorative Arts on Sunday, Feb. 10, at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time. Offering over 350 lots acquired over five decades, the sale features a wide array of decorative arts from America, Europe and Asia. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
BRIMFIELD, Mass. – Morean Auctions is conducting an online auction of premium breweriana that will conclude Sunday, Feb. 3. This auction features the balance of the incredible Don Augenstein tip tray collection, a large selection of rare and unique beer cans, advertising signs and serving trays. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – After five decades, Jimmy Page’s dragon has re-emerged from its lair.
NEW YORK – Auctions at Showplace has acquired the Estate of Peter Knoll, son of Hans Knoll, founder of Knoll Associates, a furniture and design company whose reputation for combining design excellence and technological innovation with mass production techniques attracted the talents of such luminaries as Harry Bertoia and Eero Saarinen. Peter Knoll, who died last winter at the age of 75, had an unmatched eye for fine cars, books, watches, art, furniture, silver and decorative arts. On Feb. 3 Auctions at Showplace will offer Part I of this magnificent collection to be followed on Feb. 17 by Part II. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.Continue reading
AMSTERDAM – The retrospective Maria Lassnig – Ways of Being is on view in the Stedelijk Museum from April 6 through August 11, 2019. The Austrian artist Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) is internationally regarded as one of the leading artists of the 20th century. She made her name with her ‘Körperbewusstseintbilder,’ or ‘body awareness’ paintings, in which she depicts the sensations experienced by her body, by means of which she defined her relationship to the world.
