ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) – Thanks to modern technology and some expert detective work, a nearly 400-year-old painting that had long been attributed to an unknown artist in Rembrandt’s workshop has now been judged to have been a work of the Dutch master himself.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – The Eiteljorg Museum is continuing a year of exhibits honoring the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage with a feature on quilts and the stories they tell.Continue reading
BIRMINGHAM, UK – A painting believed to depict William Perry “The Tipton Slasher” and Tom Sayers has sold for nearly 10 times its auction estimate at Fellows, in Birmingham. The fight scene sold on Monday, Feb. 17, and featured as Lot 872 in Fellows’ Antiques, Silver & Collectables sale. The stunning oil on canvas, conveying a 19th-century English fight scene, fetched a total of £3,062.40 ($3,980.48) against an auction estimate of £250-£300. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
BERKELEY, Calif. – PBA Galleries invites bidders to join them on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 11 a.m. Pacific time, for a sale of Rare Americana & Cartography, with the Robert M. Ebiner Zamorano 80 Collection. The auction will feature over 500 lots of rare and historically significant material on the Americas, ranging from cornerstones of California history to cartographic delineation of 20th-century development, with books, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, maps and atlases. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
DENVER, Pa. – Pristine toys from some of the world’s finest collections will cross the auction block at Morphy’s on March 10-11. More than 1,260 lots will be offered, including 150+ American tin toys, 100+ still and mechanical banks, a fleet of more than 150 cast-iron cars, trains, and hundreds of coveted character and Disney toys. The lineup continues with more than 1,000 fine German tin toys, as well as robots, a sensational array of antique European automata, and a broad selection of horse-drawn cast-iron, Japanese, and pressed steel toys. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers. Continue reading
NEW YORK – Morton Bartlett (1909-1992) was perhaps one of the best examples of what an Outsider artist is. The lifetime bachelor was remembered by his neighbors and friends in Boston as a kind, sweet man but perhaps lonely also.