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Expressionist pioneer Bauhaus artist later became a Nazi
09 September 2024Lithograph comes from 1920s series made long before Schreyer pledged allegiance to Hitler
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Impronte act as reminder of famous Grand Tour works
09 September 2024The DuMouchelles (24% buyer’s premium) July 19 sale in Detroit included a collection of ‘Grand Tour’ plaster intaglios and cameos by Paoletti of Rome.
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Sandoz bronze goose reduced to snail’s pace
09 September 2024Clars (26% buyer’s premium) brought a bronze sculpture by famed 20th century animalier Edouard-Marcel Sandoz (1881-1971) to market in Oakland, California, as part of the Summer Fine Art Sale.
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Adamson ice fisherman catches the attention at auction
09 September 2024Top lot at The Magnusson Group (25/15/12% buyer’s premium) at Morristown, New Jersey on July 24, was a 1898 bronze by the Estonian sculptor Amandus Heinrich Adamson (1855-1929).
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Bidders make Wiener Werkstätte buckles link
09 September 2024A rarity spotted in the Summer Gallery Auction at Hartzell’s (24% buyer’s premium) on July 29 was a pair of early 20th century women’s evening shoes with appliques by the Wiener Werkstätte.
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Ram trade sign hammers at $16,000
09 September 2024This handsome English trade sign in the form of a ram had a provenance to the London folk art dealership Robert Young Antiques.
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Pergay’s steel furniture proved to be a big hit
09 September 2024When the Romanian-born French designer Maria Pergay (1930-2023) was asked why she chose to make furniture out of steel, she responded that it was because she had a score to settle with Stalin. “You know his name means steel? So the more I hit it, the happier I am.”
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Examples of Namikawa’s intricate art excite many admirers
09 September 2024Five works by one of the greatest exponents of the intricate art of cloisonné enamel were included in Alderfer Auction’s (23% buyer’s premium) Collectors sale staged on July 24-25.
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Ritual ornament comes from Kansas collection of 22 jades
09 September 2024Revere Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) sale in St Paul, Minnesota, titled Eternal Beauty: Splendors in Asian Art was dominated by a group of Chinese jades that came by descent from the family of Jerry O’Brien (1902-51).
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Louis XVI bedroom panels on the move yet again after auction purchase
09 September 2024Painted wood panels from a partial Louis XVI boiserie-panelled bedroom were among the 250 lots at the Design for the Home and Garden auction at Andrew Jones (25/18/12% buyer’s premium) in Los Angeles on July 17.
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Whitman’s personal touch creates a surprise performance
02 September 2024An author printed and signed copy of Walt Whitman’s 'Leaves of Grass' sold for $37,500 (£29,400) with buyer’s premium at University Archives.
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On an original visit to Busytown
02 September 2024The children’s author Richard Scarry (1919-94) was at the peak of popularity when he published 'Nicky Goes to the Doctor' in 1972.
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Look through the keyhole courtesy of a grand picture book
02 September 2024The 504-lot book sale at Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) in Chicago on July 25 was topped by a four-volume set of one of the great records of the Gilded Age.
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Album evokes memories of Ulysses S Grant
02 September 2024The top lot in the American Historical Ephemera and Photography Online sale at Freeman’s Hindman (27/21/15% buyer’s premium) in Chicago was an album published in 1886 to mark the death of President Ulysses S Grant.
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Special lots from a locked room
02 September 2024Library items shelved away in now closed college include some of the first North American histories
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Surrealism and tribal in tandem
27 August 2024Themed exhibitions at this year’s Parcours des Mondes link ethnographic art with Surrealist movement
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Seven-figure successes help celebrate saleroom 70-year anniversary
19 August 2024This year, Munich auction house Ketterer (32/27/22% buyer’s premium) is marking its 70th anniversary and the evening sale provided plenty of opportunities for celebration.
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Sketch sourced from Austrian castle captures Cairo terror in Napoleonic era
19 August 2024Viennese auction house Tiberius (27% buyer’s premium) recently sold the inventory of Laudon Castle, a privately owned, moated baroque residence on the outskirts of the Austrian capital.
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Chinese works of art provide lots of reasons to raise a smile
19 August 2024Recent sales show the appetite for Chinese art from bidders with deep pockets is not at all diminished
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Cartier catches the mood and big bids at debut Stuttgart sale
19 August 2024Nagel’s (29.5% buyer’s premium) first sale dedicated to Fine Arts and Luxury in Stuttgart obviously caught the mood of the bidders.
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