Fine Art
Oscar-Winning Director Jonathan Demme’s Art Collection headed to Auction March 19
PHILADELPHIA – One world is enough for Material Culture, the Philadelphia auction house that respectfully celebrates the art of all nations and societies, past or present. On Sunday, March 19, the company will shine its spotlight on premier works from the folk and self-taught art collections of Academy Award-winning Hollywood director Jonathan Demme and his […]
10 BIRGER SANDZEN ARTWORKS, PLUS FRENCH CAMEO, MINIATURE LAMPS, NIPPON, LOETZ, ROOKWOOD AND MORE WILL BE SOLD BY WOODY AUCTION, FEBRUARY 18th
The 380-lot auction will be held in Woody Auction’s gallery, at 120 East 3rd Street in Douglass, Kansas. DOUGLASS, Kan. – The massive single-owner collection of Emerson and Freda Moore of Wichita, Kansas, consisting of ten artworks by the Swedish-born American painter Birger Sandzen (1871-1954), plus fine examples of French cameo, miniature lamps, Loetz, Nippon, […]
NEARLY 1,500 LOTS, PULLED FROM ESTATES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF ATLANTA, WILL BE SOLD AT AHLERS & OGLETREE’S NEW YEAR’S AUCTION, JANUARY 14-16
The Signature Estates Auction will be held in the firm’s Atlanta showroom, at 715 Miami Circle. ATLANTA, Ga. – A gilt bronze sculpture signed by Italian artist Arnaldo Pomodoro (b. 1926), a hand-modeled redware figure of a reclining whippet by noted Shenandoah Valley potter Solomon Bell (1817-1882), a dazzling GIA-certified 6.68-carat brown diamond engagement ring; […]
John Constable Sketch Sets Word Record at Bonhams Auction
A sketch by John Constable sold for £869,000 at Bonhams Old Master Paintings sale in London on 8 December, setting a new world record at auction for a small-scale sketch (under 10 inches) by the artist. Flatford Lock on the Stour looking towards Bridge Cottage, a study by Constable for Landscape: Boys Fishing, had been […]
IMPORTANT OIL PAINTING BY THE RENOWNED HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL ARTIST WORTHINGTON WHITTREDGE (1820-1910), WILL BE SOLD JAN. 14-16 IN ATLANTA
The painting is an expected top lot at Ahlers & Ogletree’s New Year’s Signature Estates Auction ATLANTA, Ga. – A stunning oil on canvas painting by the renowned Hudson School artist Worthington Whittredge (Am., 1820-1910), titled Campers in the Blue Ridge Mountains, artist-signed lower right, is an expected top lot at Ahlers & Ogletree’s New […]
