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In a Nutshell: Blaze of Glory
All Fabergé objects are emblems of a vanished world, but the cigarette cases made by the great Russian luxury firm also represent a vanishing custom. “It was positively eccentric not to smoke in 1900,” says Geoffrey Munn, managing director of Wartski, a London dealer that specializes in Fabergé.
Market: Encore in Paris
By: Sallie Brady Here we go again. Underbidders at February’s historic $483 million sale of couturier Yves Saint Laurent’s collection of art and antiques have another chance to own a piece of the tastemaker’s legacy when the final portion of the estate goes up for sale Nov. 17–20 at Christie’s Paris. This time, look for…
Market: Prints Charming
By: Sheila Gibson Stoodley The International Fine Print Dealers Association fair returns to the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan on Nov. 5–8 with 84 dealers offering, among other things, strong works by artists who excelled in more than one medium. Included in the British prints that the Fine Art Society will bring is C.R.W. Nevinson’s…
Market: Autumn’s Appetites
By: Jenna Curry Despite a tough economic year for the art world, Christie’s and Sotheby’s have high hopes for their New York Impressionist, modern and contemporary evening sales this month. Christie’s kicks off the season on Nov. 3 with its Impressionist and modern sale, featuring Pablo Picasso’s 1943 oil-on-canvas Tête de femme (est. $7–10 million),…
Market: House Party
By: Sheila Gibson Stoodley The second annual American Art Fair will take place at the National Academy & School of Fine Arts in New York on Nov. 30–Dec. 3. All but one of the 11 exhibitors from the inaugural fair will return to the second-floor galleries of the mansion-turned-museum. Each dealer may choose to mark…
Market: Doubly Modern
By: John Dorfman This month, for the first time, Modernism (in its 24th edition) will be merged with Art 20 (in its eighth edition) into one event, to be held at New York’s Park Avenue Armory on Nov. 13–16. According to fair producer Sanford Smith, the decision was made in response to current market conditions….
Market: Eyes on the Past
By: Jenna Curry Art objects and ethnographic artifacts from across the globe—from Africa to Southeast Asia to the Americas—will be brought together for the 19th annual Los Angeles Asian and Tribal Art Show, running Nov. 14–15 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. About 60 international dealers will offer bronzes, ceramics, textiles, wood sculptures and other…
Talking Pictures: Maid in Manhattan
By: Jonathan Lopez As a salute to New York on the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage to America—a Dutch-financed venture that aimed to find the Northwest Passage to the Orient but instead found the waters around Manhattan island—the Rijksmuseum has placed Johannes Vermeer’s famed Milkmaid on temporary loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting…
Books: A Kleptocrat’s Collection
The great complexities of provenance research are little known to those outside the profession. Claimants of looted art, lawyers, judges and most journalists, unaware of the difficulties, often think that the exact history of a work of art is easily found. In her extraordinary book on the paintings collection of Hermann Goering, Nancy H. Yeide, chief of provenance research at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., makes clear that that is not the case.
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