Latest News Articles by Anne Crane
Cameo appearance in Kansas
19 September 2022Woody Auctions in Kansas is selling the collection of Van and Karen Turner from Oklahoma on September 24.
Majolica game pie
19 September 2022Specialist majolica auction house Strawser in Indiana includes this George Jones cobalt ground game tureen in its sale on October 15.
Get set for the Getty collection
19 September 2022Ann and Gordon Getty sale turns focus to the best of British and Continental furnishing.
Wright of Derby in Asheville
19 September 2022Brunk of Asheville, North Carolina, is selling works from the estate of the well-known dealer Peter Tillou over two days from September 29-30.
Qianlong ewer with provenance
19 September 2022One of the highlights of Cottone’s mixed-owner auction is this 10½in (27cm) high Chinese blue and white Qianlong mark and period ewer in Ming style.
Klee's Destruction and Hope
19 September 2022This lithograph and watercolour from 1916 by Paul Klee (1879-1940) is offered in the sale of prints and multiples at Hindman in Chicago on September 29.
Put some chrome in your home
19 September 2022Among the pieces included in Freemans’ Art and Design sale is this Womb chair by the Finnish-American designer Eero Saarinen, a design from 1947-48.
Café society in Florida
19 September 2022This oil on canvas by Edouard Leon Cortes (1882-1929) titled Café de la Paix will be included in a first 350-lot mixed-owner session at Helmuth Stone.
‘Gang of Five’ robot takes $70,000 at Morphy Auctions
05 September 2022A well-preserved and boxed version of the 1960s Japanese Masudaya Machine Man robot was the highest flyer in the Morphy Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) August 9-10 toys and collectables sale in Denver, Pennsylvania.
Bizarre goat rider and monkey combination
05 September 2022Bertoia’s sale of the collection of Bill and Stevie Weart will be held over two days in Vineland, New Jersey, on September 8-9.
Russian Futurist’s US view offered at Doyle
05 September 2022Doyle in New York is holding a Fine Art auction on September 14 offering a selection of affordable paintings, prints and sculpture that spans the late 19th through the 20th centuries.
Single-owner Parisian collection includes Louis XVI commode
05 September 2022A single-owner sale of property from a Parisian collection will be on offer at Artcurial in Paris on September 21.
Time waits for no-one at French auction
05 September 2022'Une histoire du temps' (a history of time) is the title of the sale to be held by Aguttes in Neuilly on September 28.
English embroideries impress at US auction
05 September 2022Massachusetts sale includes elaborate examples of early needlework from across the Atlantic
Rediscovered painting by German Symbolist von Stuck emerges in Missouri
05 September 2022A rediscovered painting by the German Symbolist and Munich Secessionist artist Franz von Stuck (1863-1928) is to be offered by Soulis Auctions in Lone Jack, (suburban Kansas City) Missouri, on September 23.
Get your teeth into T-Rex
05 September 2022Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr is holding a sale in Paris on September 21 of a cabinet of curiosities given over to natural history, entomology and minerals.
Tile could be a star of the show at the Paris ceramics event
29 August 2022Paris’ annual gallery-based ceramics event - the Parcours de la Céramique et les Arts du Feu - takes place this year from September 20-24.
Bordeaux date for local delights
29 August 2022On September 15 in Bordeaux, Briscadieu will be holding a sale featuring a large group of around 100 lots of locally produced porcelains from the Verneuilh and Vanier factory, which began in the 1780s, all domestic tablewares variously decorated with floral, topographical, figural or pastoral scenes.
Tribal art: Worlds of opportunity in Paris
29 August 2022International array of visitors will be strolling the streets during the Parcours des Mondes to peruse and buy tribal art
Dessert service with noble origins on the menu in British Columbia
29 August 2022Maynards in Richmond, British Columbia, which offer this Chamberlain’s Worcester armorial part dessert service.