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Collecting: Training Wheels
When Donald Kaufman was a boy in Massachusetts in the 1930s, he wished for a pedal car but never got one. As an adult, though, he fulfilled his childhood desire more than 200 times over, by amassing one of the greatest collections of pre-World War II toys, including 200-odd pedal cars, over almost six decades. This month, Kaufman, a 78-year-old retired toy company executive, is selling it all through Bertoia Auctions of Vineland, N.J., a specialist in pre-World War II toys that will disperse the hoard (which exceeds 10,000 objects) in at least five sales, the first of which will be held March 19–21.
Design: Living Color
When Raoul Dufy’s intricately carved woodcuts first debuted in 1911, as illustrations for Guillaume Apollinaire’s book of poems Le Bestiaire ou cortège d’Orphée, the quality and importance of the French artist’s technique went relatively unnoticed by his contemporaries. Yet one man, the couturier Paul Poiret, recognized Dufy’s gift for innovation and would later offer him an opportunity to expand his talents through textile design—where Dufy would make a vibrant impact on the world of fashion.
Market: Treasures From a Trust
By: Sheila Gibson Stoodley After a 15-year hiatus, the Arthur M. Sackler Collections Trust is sending some of its Chinese artworks to auction. A variety of items, including classical paintings and furnishings, Buddhist sculpture, bronze vessels, jades and Tang and Song ceramics, will comprise the 200 lots at Christie’s New York on March 18. The…
Obituary: Andrew Wyeth
By: Jonathan Lopez New York—In 1986 Art & Antiques executive editor Jeffrey Schaire asked Andrew Wyeth’s wife, Betsy, why her husband had depicted an attractive female neighbor, naked and clothed, in more than 240 paintings and drawings—a sprawling and mostly secret oeuvre, 15 years in the making. She replied slowly with a provocative one-word answer:…
Market: Making It New
By: Christy Grosz New York—To celebrate the organization’s three decades of promoting the connoisseurship and collecting of photography, the Association of International Photography Art Dealers will unveil a new program simply titled Innovation during its annual Photography Show, which takes place March 26–29 in New York at the Park Avenue Armory. AIPAD president Stephen Bulger,…
Market: No Fair
By: Sheila Gibson Stoodley New York—Haughton International Fairs has canceled the 2009 International Asian Art Fair, which had been scheduled for March 11–15 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. The London-based fair organizer posted a short announcement on its website in mid-December that blamed “the present global economic situation” for the move and…
Exhibitions: Seeing Justice Done
By: Christy Grosz New York—When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940, a prominent Jewish art dealer fled Amsterdam, leaving behind his stock of nearly 1,200 Old Master paintings. Jacques Goudstikker hoped to return to his gallery one day, but the 42-year-old died falling down a flight of stairs aboard a freighter that was carrying…
Dialogue: Feats of Clay
By: Sheila Gibson Stoodley Joan Mirviss stood out from the day she started her business in 1977—she sold Japanese prints and paintings when her peers offered either one or the other. Since she added contemporary Japanese ceramics in 1984, the artworks have grown to account for half her receipts. In the wake of the demise…
John James Audubon’s ‘Birds Of America’ Sells for $8.8 Million
If there was ever a book to put a man on the map, John James Audubon’s The Birds of America is it. Prior to its publication, Audubon struggled for recognition as a naturalist and artist. He spent years trying to make ends meet as a businessman in the booming frontier towns of 19th-century America.
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