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Insights on Auction Sales: A Terracotta Sculpture, a Hobby Race Car Model

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Whimsical Yet Refined This terracotta sculpture by Salesio Lugli sold for $184,500 at Morphy’s. Morphy’s recent Decorative Arts Auction was full of surprises, with the standout lot being a terracotta sculpture by Salesio Lugli that dramatically exceeded expectations. averaging $78.80 WorthPoint—Discover.

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Insights on Auction Sales: Howard Pyle Painting, Pokémon Cards

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One of Only Twelve Made This striking Baccarat seated silverback gorilla sculpture sold for $10,312.50 The day also roared with strong results for animal and figural pieces, with a standout lot coming from Lion and Unicorn : a striking Baccarat seated silverback gorilla sculpture that commanded $10,312.50. at Lion and Unicorn.

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Insights on Auction Sales: A Tobacco Can, a Russian Painting

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In the delightful oddity department, Lion and Unicorn Auctions featured a flock of Murano glass sculptures, the most whimsical being a vibrant toucan by renowned glass artist Licio Zanetti. While the piece showed some age-related wear, it didn’t ruffle any feathers among bidders who saw its collector value.

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Artistic Mediums of 2025: Where Touch and Technique Meet

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For some, this medium allows them to reconnect with age-old traditions of making in a conversation across time. Contemporary artists working in ceramics have continued to experiment with surface to create charged works that both channel tradition and speak to the current age. Exhibitions Rashid Johnson – The Crowd.

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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

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In 1994, Madeleine Bessborough moved the New Art Centre , the sculpture gallery she established in London in 1958, to Roche Court in Wiltshire, built for Lord Nelson in 1804. But Hauser & Wirth is not alone in realising that a commercial gallery can take on a whole new character, audience and purpose in a rural location.

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Introducing Julia Day, the Frick’s new chief conservator

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Critics and visitors alike oohed and aahed at the restored 1914 mansion, still the centrepiece of its celebrated holdings of Old Master paintings, Italian and French sculpture, fine decorative objects and furniture. That will not change. Frick Collection Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation J.

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A quartet of key art market players join forces to form ‘super group’ consultancy

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There were relatively few clients, but they were very committed clients of a certain age who were collecting classic 19th- and 20th- century art,” Dolman says. Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen that completely disintegrate in front of our eyes—much to the benefit of the volume of sales.