Antiques, Collectibles and Auction News

Winner of Ford Motor Company Drag Race to Receive Mustang “Pink Slip” at Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Auction
Ford Also to Auction Cars with Proceeds to Benefit to “Salute to Education” Program

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March 27, 2008 - Ford Motor Company and the South Florida Ford Dealers will give the pink slip for a […]

On April 24, 2008 Sotheby’s and SCP Auctions will offer a spectacular selection of Important Sports Memorabilia and Cards. The sale will be highlighted by The Bill Nowlin Bat Collection that was formerly exhibited at the Ted Williams Museum and Hitters Hall of Fame in Tampa, Florida. Among the many significant bats set to hit the auction block from Nowlin’s collection is the only known “Shoeless” Joe Jackson Signature Model “Black Betsy” Game Bat Dating From His Major League Career (est. $200/300,000). A outstanding selection of property from the renowned collection of Dr. Richard Angrist will also be offered, including Mickey Mantle’s Signed 1958 World Series Bat (est. $80/$120,000) and one of the earliest known Ty Cobb Signature Model Bats, circa 1910-15 (est. $80/120,000).

The sale will also feature property consigned directly from “Smokin” Joe Frazier, a significant collection of Lombardi-Era Green Bay Packers Rings and Awards from Scout Lew Anderson, and a Set of four Scorecards signed by Bobby Jones in winning The 1926 British Open Championship (est. $7/10,000).

The sale of 204 lots, expected to bring $2.8/4 million, will be on public exhibition at Sotheby’s New York from April 18-23, 2008.

ACTION/ABSTRACTION: POLLOCK, DE KOONING,
AND AMERICAN ART, 1940-1976
OPENS AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM ON MAY 4
NEW YORK, NY - The Jewish Museum will present Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 from May 4 through September 21, 2008.  In the first major U.S. exhibition in 20 years to rethink […]

National Air and Space Museum Trophy 2008 Winners

WHAT: Announcement of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Trophy 2008 winners and unveiling of Trophy Artifacts case
WHEN: Thursday, April 3; 11 a.m.
WHERE: National Air and Space Museum, Independence Avenue at Sixth Street S.W.
WHO:  Gen. John R. Dailey, director, National Air and Space Museum
Col. Joseph W. […]

The May 1st and 2nd sale of Prints is distinguished by a strong selection of important works from private and institutional collections. Approximately 540 works are estimated to sell for $9.6/13.2 million and will be on exhibition at Sotheby’s New York’s 3rd floor galleries from April 27th through April 30th.

On offer from The Estate of Catherine Gamble Curran, Edgar Degas’ beguiling full portrait Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery (est. $400/500,000); two iconic images by Mary Cassatt, The Fitting (est. $125/150,000) and In the Omnibus (est. $60/80,000); and the haunting figure within Wasssily Kandinsky’s 1903 woodcut Dame mit Facher (est. $70/90,000). Additional property from Private American Collections are Pablo Picasso’s Taureau et Picador, a rincée, an impression with extensive hand additions in ink ($200/300,000); a beautiful large scale Jasper Johns monotype Primaries with Secondaries (Variant) (est. $500/600,000); the complete set of Andy Warhol’s iconic portfolio, Campbell’s Soup I ($250/350,000); and Richard Diebenkorn’s beautiful 1982 aquatint High Green, Version I (est. $150/200,000). Sotheby’s is pleased to offer Edvard Munch’s Madonna, a rare example of the 1895 lithograph without the sperm border (est. $600/800,000). A fine group of woodcuts by Blanche Lazell, executed in the first half of the 20th Century, range in value from $18/40,000.

Also please note that select offerings of prints will be included in the single owner sale of The Collection of Patsy and Raymond Nasher on May 9th, and a set of 18 lithographs by Barnett Newman, 18 Cantos (est. $1.8/2.5 million) will be offered in the May 14th evening sale of Contemporary Art.

[ June 3, 2008; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]
THE 30TH ANNUAL MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL
TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2008 FROM 6 PM TO 9 PM
FREE MUSEUM ADMISSIONS,
OUTDOOR ART ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN
New York, NY - Now celebrating its 30th year, the annual Museum Mile Festival (www.museummilefestival.org) will take place rain or shine on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, from 6:00 […]

Louisville (Hour One)
Host Mark L. Walberg welcomes ANTIQUES ROADSHOW viewers to Louisville, Kentucky, home of the world-famous Kentucky Derby. It’s also the birthplace of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, and Walberg and appraiser Mike Gutierrez head for the Muhammad Ali Center to talk about collecting memorabilia of the former World Heavyweight Champion. […]

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
Spokane (Hour Two)
In Spokane, Washington, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW host Mark L. Walberg joins appraiser Kathleen Bailey at the historic E. J. Roberts mansion to look at examples of a charming Victorian lighting fixture: the fairy lamp. At the Spokane Convention Center, appraisers brighten at the sight of such enchanting finds as […]

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Online Gets Makeover, and the Results are Priceless
Web Site Re-launch Complete at pbs.org/antiques
Unlike fine antiques, Web sites often benefit from a makeover. As part of ANTIQUES ROADSHOW’s 12th broadcast season on PBS, the popular series has launched a newly re-designed Web site at pbs.org/antiques with improved navigation, a first-of-its-kind searchable archive of appraisal […]

On the evening of April 7th, 2008, Sotheby’s will offer a photogenic drawing previously attributed to William Henry Fox Talbot, which leading photo historian and Talbot authority Dr. Larry J. Schaaf speculates could be instead by Thomas Wedgwood, an early photographic experimenter, or a member of his circle. Such an authorship, if confirmed, would make this photogenic drawing one of the most important discoveries in the history of photography. The vivid Leaf is one of six similar anonymous photogenic drawings originally housed in an album belonging to Henry Bright of England, which were sold individually at Sotheby’s London in 1984. Purchased by dealer Hans P. Kraus, Jr., who subsequently attributed the work to William Henry Fox Talbot, circa 1839, the Leaf was then sold to Jill Quasha, a private photography dealer representing the Quillan Company, in 1989. Dr. Schaaf has since questioned the Talbot attribution and has explored other possibilities of authorship, including Thomas Wedgwood and his associates. This photograph, which is credited in Sotheby’s catalogue as “Photographer Unknown,” will now appear at auction as part of The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs (full press release available), a choice offering of some of the most sophisticated photographic works ever brought together in one collection.