It has been circulated for a while that Spanierman Gallery, one of the leading gallries in New York City specializing 19th and early 20th century American Art, will change its business model to embrace modern and contemporary completely. Although the Doyle Auction catalog has been out for a few weeks, which features paintings from the … Continue reading Spanierman Goes All Modern and Contemporary
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Girl or Boy + Cat or Dog = Sale
You’ve heard it time and again, anything with a child and cat or dog in it will sell. So was the case at today’s Doyle at Home auction. Reading Old Masters, New World, it's interesting to note here Henry G. Marquand's first purchase for the Metropolitan Museum of Art was James Stuart, Duke of Richmond … Continue reading Girl or Boy + Cat or Dog = Sale
Should of, Could of, Would of, Didn’t
Just back from Doyle auctions and wanted to follow-up on the items discussed earlier. The hammer price on the game table was $3,500--about right in my estimation, maybe a little on the low side. The classical sofa went for $1,500, which even with a small piece of carving missing was a great price for the lucky … Continue reading Should of, Could of, Would of, Didn’t
John Francis Murphy — The Landscape Within
Both antebellum French Barbizon school and post-war American painters have found civilized landscape peculiar yet intimate compared to saved and untamed. Yet fundamentally their views of humanized nature were far apart. [...]
Urban Art & Antiques 