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Here’s to you, Mrs Nicholson
18 January 2005The rise and rise of Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981) out of the shadow of her husband, Ben, can be compared to that of Gwen John, now recognised as at very least equal to the artistic talent of her brother Augustus.
Nelson, the Crimea and The Few – a top treble
18 January 2005IN late autumn there were three major sales of Orders, Decorations and Medals. Their combined total was £1,373,461 with 2592 lots offered. This compares with a total for 2004 of just over £6m and 6219 lots offered by the London auction houses. (The 2004 annual tabulation for numismatic sales will appear in a future ATG.)
Fund of designer silver
18 January 2005BIDDERS at this week’s sale of the Rowler Collection of Georg Jensen silver at Christie’s Rockefeller Center, New York, might be interested to learn that, according to Michael James, founder and director of Jensen specialists The Silver Fund, virtually the entire collection of some 800 pieces was acquired for Rowler by The Silver Fund over the past six years.
Worcester enthusiasts still wild about Harry
18 January 2005The 1150 lots offered at Essex auctioneers Ambrose (15% buyer’s premium) at Loughton on December 9 encompassed most areas of the market and, outside the jewellery, generally sold for three-figure sums.
Vintage is now height of fashion
11 January 2005SOUTH London based Paola-Francia Gardner who operates as P&A Antiques, has been a pioneer of the now booming field of vintage fashion and she holds her first fair of the year this Sunday, January 16.
Picabia’s flirtation with Surrealism
11 January 2005A Dada still life collage by Francis Picabia that came with an equally illustrious trail of previous owners headed the modern art sale at CalmelsCohen (20.33-11.96% buyer’s premium) on December 6.
British Boutique fashion finds the ticket to ride
11 January 2005THE 660-lot Passion for Fashion auction held on December 15-16 was the second sale mounted by Kerry Taylor Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) under the new arrangement where her sales are managed independently and held in association with Sotheby’s on their premises rather than as a department within the company.
Ivory and jade delights of Dales
11 January 2005The Orient played a significant part in Tennants’ (Buyers premium 15%) success in the Yorkshire Dales.
Lely’s couple make £38,000
11 January 2005The main talking point of Gorringes’ (15% buyer’s premium) December 7-8 sale in Bexhill-on-Sea was the remarkable £260,000 bid on the second day for the early 17th century pietra dura table top featured on the front page of Antiques Trade Gazette no. 1670 (25th December/1st January).
Louis XV at prayer
11 January 2005A prayerbook presented by Louis XV to Maria Leczinska as a wedding present in 1725 sold at Sotheby’s (23.92/14.35% buyer’s premium) for €280,000 (£200,000) on December 2, during an otherwise disappointing 194-lot royal provenance sale that brought €1.26m (£900,000) and was 72 per cent sold by value, but just 56 per cent by lot.
£6200 Euro-UK battle for snuffbox
11 January 2005The main head-turner at the Hove sale held by Scarborough Perry Fine Arts (15% buyer’s premium) on December 2-3 was this striking 19th century Italian, gold-mounted tortoiseshell snuffbox with a finely executed micromosaic lid, right.
El ingenioso Don Quixote
11 January 2005WHEN the first part of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha was published in Madrid in 1605, it proved an immediate success, but as the original publisher, Francisco de Robles, had failed to register copyright outside his native Castile, others were quick to jump on the Cervantes bandwagon.
Dresser tops day at Whitby
11 January 2005Richardson & Smith, Whitby, November 18 Buyer’s premium: 12.5 per cent Furniture produced the top lots in this routine 717-lot North Yorkshire auction, topped by an oak dresser and a plate rack with a shaped crest over four tiers.
A Border ballad takes Scott to new heights
11 January 2005An unusual picture, both in terms of its style and quality, was the star of the show at this year’s Fine Paintings sale held by the Scottish auctioneers John Swan (10% buyer’s premium) at Dryburgh Abbey Hotel near St Boswells on December 2.
Nadar – before the photos
11 January 2005Nadar (1820-1910), real name Félix Tournachon, is best known as one of the leading specialists in early photographic portraits.
Downtown Attractions
11 January 2005NEVER forget there is another armory in Manhattan, the one downtown at Lexington Avenue at 26th Street, and that one hosts some splendid shows throughout the year, starting in 2005 with the appropriately named Antiques at the Armory from January 21 to 23.
Two Japanese swords that have the edge
11 January 2005IN CONTRAST to Sotheby’s and Christie’s, who usually offer Japanese arms and armour in Japanese works of art sales, Bonhams (19.5/10% buyers premium) include theirs as a section in militaria auctions.
McIntosh Patrick’s Dresser metalwork under the hammer
10 January 2005ANDREW McIntosh Patrick, director of The Fine Art Society, is to sell his celebrated collection of metalwork by the Victorian industrial designer Christopher Dresser. Edinburgh auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull will conduct the projected £400,000 sale on April 19.
Aston Villa’s double
04 January 2005A Christie’s South Kensington sports sale of November 23 saw a bid of £5500 on a programme for the 1897 F.A. Cup Final at Crystal Palace in which Aston Villa completed a League and Cup double by beating Everton 3-2.
Redfield continues to give the right impression as expressionist Carles comes to the fore
04 January 2005AS recently as a decade ago, the Pennsylvanian Impressionists or New Hope School – perhaps the most recognisable group of painters to emerge from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) – remained a relatively untapped seam for ‘serious’ auctioneers of the Mid-Atlantic States.
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