Historic Charleston Foundation celebrates 70th anniversary with antiques show
The Charleston Antique Show show starts with a preview cocktail party 7-9 p.m. Thursday at the Gaillard Center and runs through Sunday afternoon. More than 30 art and antiques dealers will be exhibiting at this years event. Our gallery will have … More…
Scholarly research is flourishing but curators’ ability to judge an object’s quality is not
Wonderful story by Mark Jones in The Art Newspaper. We see this in many part of the art world today … not just at the museum level. Fakes move freely through the art market because there is money to be … More…
Man Smashes Bottle Over Security Guard’s Head At Metropolitan Museum of Art
A guard at the Met was struck on the head with a glass bottle by a man who complained that a paintings was not hanging perfectly straight. My question is … why was a man allowed into the museum with … More…
Picasso Finds Possible Digs in Harlem $2.5 Billion Art Port
Katya Kazakina give us an update on the tax free art port that is scheduled to open on 146th Street this July. The project cost in excess of $40 million and has taken two years to complete. Source: Picasso Finds … More…
AVAILABLE: Jehan Georges Vibert’s “Convicting Proofs”
Source: Convicting Proofs – another gem by the 19th century French academic artist Jehan Georges Vibert (1840-1902) has been added to our available online inventory. By 1867 Vibert had turned his attention to genre scenes and the most widely known were those of … More…
Christie’s to Close a London Salesroom and Scale Back in Amsterdam
Scott Reyburn updates us on some changes taking place at Christie’s. By the end of this year, they will scale back operations in Amsterdam and close their South Kensington operation — sad to see the latter go. Source: Christie’s to … More…
A $59 Million Klimt Tops a Landmark Sotheby’s Auction in London
This past week’s sales in London were very strong and at the end of the month we will cover all the action. I am posting this short article because I found the last paragraph very interesting: Before the auction, Klimt’s … More…
SOLD: Edouard Cortes’s “L’Arc de Triomphe”
Source: L’Arc de Triomphe – this 1930s Paris Street scene by Edouard Cortes (1882-1969) came and went before we could add it to our available inventory. The Arc de Triomphe, the most illustrious symbol of French national history, stands in the … More…
Market Shifts Away from Auction Model Towards Dealer Sales
Tefaf’s annual report on the health of the art market is out and there were some interesting findings. First, there is a new author – Rachel Pownall, Professor of Finance at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (Clare McAndrew … More…