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Noteworthy Sales: John Singer Sargent Drawings
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Spring 2005
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Genre drawings by Sargent are extremely rare, especially ones that have come directly from the artist, which were intended as gifts and not meant to be sold. These two works came from...
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Noteworthy Sales: N.C. Wyeth, Painting of Lincoln
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Spring 2005
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This painting, which has been in a private collection until recently, was created as an illustration for America: A History of Our Country, a textbook...
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Noteworthy Sales: John Singer Sargent
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Spring 2004
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From a private collection, this charming work has only been exhibited publicly once in the last forty years, during a 1989 traveling exhibition in
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Noteworthy Sales: Mary Cassatt
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Spring 2004
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Pennsylvania native Mary Cassatt was exhibiting to great acclaim in the Paris Salons from 1868 to the mid-1870s when
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Noteworthy Sales: Painted Leather Six-Panel Screen
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Spring 2004
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An in-depth study of leather screens in the journal of the Furniture Society of
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Noteworthy Sales: Pair of Dominique Armchairs
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Spring 2004
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In 1922, André Domin and Marcel Genevriere founded the furniture firm Dominique on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore in
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Noteworthy Sales: Sterling Silver Flatware Service
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Spring 2004
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Francis I is among the most highly sought-after of sterling silver flatware patterns. This awe-inspiring, 589-piece service for
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Carved Giltwood Girandole Looking Glass
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Summer 2003
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This is a most unusual example of an English girandole mirror. It has the conventional elements of a convex plate set within an ebonized and reeded slip, surrounded by a cavetto molded circular frame carved with cross hatching and divided by four ring tur
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Chippendale Carved Mahogany Secretary Bookcase
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Summer 2003
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This Queen Anne Newport secretary displays many of the hallmarks present on the finer furniture from this dynamic crafts community: elegant, slender proportions; paneled tympanum; fluted finial; and a distinctive shell-carved interior with a fitted well,
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Dodge MacKnight--Lantana Grounds, Somerset Parish, Bermuda
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Summer 2003
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Ranked with contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer as one of the top American watercolorists at the turn of the twentieth century, Dodge MacKnight was critically acclaimed for his vibrant Fauve-inspired color palette and lively brushwork. Hi
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