MONROVIA, Calif. â John Moran Auctioneers rounded out the fall with its third installment of Art of the American West on November 30. The sale was so robust that a second online-only session followed the main sale making a combined total of 401 lots. The auctions showcased a wide variety of fine art, textiles, pottery, basketry and jewelry with an impressive 92% sell-through rate.
BOSTON (AP) â Works by Pablo Picasso, Mary Cassatt and Winslow Homer are among 30 pieces of art worth more than $20 million that alumnus and legendary investment manager Peter Lynch is donating to Boston College’s art museum, the university announced December 7. The works â 27 paintings and three drawings â were collected by Lynch and his late wife Carolyn.
MUNICH, Germany â Hermann Historica kicked off a stellar series of sales on November 22 with its Works of Art, Asiatica and Antiquities auction. Its catalog featured almost 900 lots, many of which were the subjects of keen bidding wars.
NEW YORK (AP) â The Metropolitan Museum of Art is dropping the Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces amid growing outrage over the role the family may have played in the opioid crisis.
NEW YORK â On Wednesday, December 22, starting at 7 pm Eastern time, Jasper52 will offer a sale of Exquisite Decorative Arts. Its more than 300 lots will include a circa-1960s abstract work by the late American artist Betty Parsons; a bronze cloisonne incense burner; a miniature sterling silver English tea and coffee set, intended for a doll house; a clock decorated with rearing horses carved from Baltic amber; a pair of Gucci crystal brandy snifters housed in a box lined with green velvet; a Gorham sterling silver centerpiece bowl for fruit; a bust of Caesar fashioned from several varieties of marble; a carved Chinese green jade perfume bottle; Murano glass paperweights; and a small Soviet porcelain plate featuring an image of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
OXNARD, Calif. â The Mullin Automotive Museum has announced it is the recipient of the 2021 Historic Motoring Awards title of Museum/Collection of the Year, which was revealed during the awards ceremony that took place at the Rosewood Hotel in London, England on November 18. This is the museumâs first win. It is the second Historic Motoring Award for Mullin founder and CEO, Peter W. Mullin, who won the Personal Achievement Award in 2016.
NEW YORK â The lyricist Irving Berlin once wrote a love song to his favorite musical instrument that included the lyrics, “I love a piano, I love a piano, I love to hear somebody play upon a piano …” He said the tune, dubbed I Love a Piano and debuted in the 1920 Broadway review Stop! Look! Listen!, was one of his best efforts. Berlin wasn’t singing about just any old piano, mind you, but a grand piano.