CHICAGO – Potter & Potter Auctions‘ Outsider, Folk, and Fine Art Sale, which took place on June 28, totaled nearly $271,000. The sale offered 570 category-spanning lots and was the debut auction for Aron Packer, the company’s new director and specialist of its Fine & Outsider Art division. Absentee and Internet live bidding was facilitated through LiveAuctioneers.
LONDON – “There’s a lot of loot in the United Kingdom and we aim to shake it loose,” said CEO and Founder of Art Recovery International Christopher A. Marinello after the successful recovery of two eighth-century stone idols that had been illegally removed from a temple in Lokhari, India in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The recovery of a Yogini Camunda and a Yogini Gomukhi (aka Cow-headed One) brings the number to three important Yogini idols recovered by Marinello in the past two years.
NEW YORK – On Tuesday, July 18, starting at 7 pm Eastern time, Jasper52 will present a sale of 15th-19th Century Antique Books, containing almost 600 lots. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
CHICAGO – Until Tuesday, July 26, Hindman presents Summer Reading: 20th-Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection, featuring first editions of many of the most loved works by some of the most iconic authors of the 20th century. With strong offerings in fiction and biography, this private collection offers something for all readers, including everything from classics to fantasy to politics, and more. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK — Walter Benjamin Stephen (1876-1961) first proved himself in the pottery industry with Nonconnah Pottery, which he and his parents opened near Memphis, Tenn., in 1904 and made fine slip-decorated vessels that typically had floral decoration on simple matte backgrounds. The pottery was named for a creek that wound around Memphis and is an Native American word meaning “long stream.” After his parents died in 1910, Stephen searched the country for a region with clay and material that would be better for pottery-making. He decided on North Carolina, near the Pisgah Forest, after meeting C.P. Ryman from Skyland, N.C., with whom he formed a partnership to set up a kiln and studio in the state. Both believed the mountain feldspar and the clays in this region, which came in a variety of colors, would make for superior pottery.