Antiques & The Arts

@TheBeeAntiques

Since 1963, 'Antiques and The Arts Weekly' has delivered essential information and breaking news to collectors, dealers and auctioneers.

Newtown, Connecticut
Joined April 2012

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  1. 19 hours ago

    The U.S. said that a painting of Ivan the Terrible stolen during WW II will be sent back to Ukraine. A couple inherited the painting when they bought a home in Ridgefield, CT., in '62 from a man who emigrated to the U.S. from Switzerland years earlier.

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  2. 22 hours ago

    Check out this week's Q&A with Jonathan Fairbanks who is well-known to most students and collectors of American decorative arts.

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  3. Jan 3

    A collector redefined “shake, rattle, and roll” in a final bid for a Native American Tlingit rattle — shaking other bidders and rolling out of the Bonhams auction house door for $500,000. Check out this lot and others in this week's "Across The Block."

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  4. Jan 3

    A Frederick Douglass Carte de Visite shot by James P Ball approaches the block at Heritage Auctions, joining a number of other top lots from around the United States in this week’s top picks.

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  5. Jan 2

    The Lincoln museum’s fundraising foundation, which borrowed $23 million in 2007 to buy a trove of its namesake's items from a private collector, still owes $9.2 million on a note due in Oct 2019. Will things need to be sold?

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  6. Jan 2

    Check out this week's cover story, a review of the exhibition “Working Like A Dog,” at Pebble Hill Plantation in Thomasville, GA through April 25th!

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  7. 30 Dec 2018

    On Dec 12, the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms broke ground on a new Education Center, the construction of which is scheduled to begin imminently. Click for more info!

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  8. 30 Dec 2018

    Check out (and bid on) our "Top Picks" for notable auction lots near & far. Beatles lunch box with matching thermos in mint condition starts us off this week.

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  9. 29 Dec 2018

    Not your run-of-the-mill rug sale: Check out the results of Material Culture's Dec 17th auction of high-end, decorative and collectible oriental rugs. The highest lot brought a final bid of more than $37K.

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  10. 29 Dec 2018

    Check out this week's Q&A with Lindsay Simon, head of valuations at Barnebys/ValueMyStuff and Mads Hallas Bjerg, co-founder of , to learn about the new frontier of online appraisals in art and antiques.

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  11. 28 Dec 2018

    Skinner’s Dec 9 auction included the second part of the Ronnie Newman collection of early Oriental rugs and more than 150 rugs of widely varied ages, sizes and origins consigned by other collectors for an overall sale of about 300 lots. Check it out!

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  12. 28 Dec 2018

    This week's "Across The Block" highlights a Christie's record-setter: a 2010 Hermès matte Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Birkin 35 handbag w/ 18K white gold & diamond hardware that brought a gavel down at $295,938. Click to review more notable auction sales!

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  13. 27 Dec 2018

    In a recent publication of Antique Trade Gazette, a UK auction house said it would charge £10 for condition reports on lots that are estimated at less than £100. Fair? Click for more details on this.

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  14. 27 Dec 2018

    Top 2 lots at DuMouchelles 1,400 lot Dec 14-16 sale were both by Tiffany Studios. Check these final sales & others including fine/decorative art, premium jewelry, antique & modern furniture, silver and more.

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  15. 26 Dec 2018

    Check out this week's cover: a review of "Masterpieces of French Faience," an exhibition of 75 pieces from The Sidney R. Knafel Collection at the Frick Collection in NYC through September 22nd.

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  16. 23 Dec 2018

    About 2 dozen people were on hand Dec 7 to bid at the toy auction put together by Pook & Pook with Noel Barrett, Antiques & Auctions Ltd. In the end, 96.4 percent was sold at a grand total of $621,530. Check it out.

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  17. 23 Dec 2018

    At 9 am sharp on December 5, Dan Morphy took to the podium to start 1,613 lots of fine and decorative art to be sold.

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  18. 22 Dec 2018

    Freeman’s December 10 single-owner auction offered the collection of Bonnie O’Boyle, exhibiting the style of the late editor, collector and patron of the arts.

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  19. 22 Dec 2018

    Joan Sides continued her string of sold out shows with the November 3-4 DC Big Flea & Antiques Market at the Dulles Expo Center, which hosted more than 600 booths filled to overflowing with , and early period .

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  20. 21 Dec 2018

    After a six-year upward ride, online auction group Everything But The House has announced that it will close its Baltimore and Washington, DC branches, citing a planned restructuring.

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