Happy New Year from The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center! We hope the new year brings you many special new – and old – things. See the new old items we’ve added to our catalog in 2016 here. Above (clockwise left to right) – “Significant Italian Alabaster Sculpture of Romeo and Juliet” [F & P […]
Alskom Art Gallery, in Gallery #30, has an eclectic mix of period art, including: Paintings, furniture, lighting, sculptures and many unusual art objects dating from the late 18th Century to the 19th Century, and 20th Century. There are treasures to be found for everyone. Here are just a few: Continental Sterling Silver Centerpiece Limoges Porcelain […]
Original casting of Rodin’s “Head of Bibi” – signed Rodin, France, early 20th century c. 1903-04. Alskom Art Gallery (Gallery 30/646.319.6889) On this day, November 12, in 1840, the father of modern sculpture, Auguste Rodin (d. 1917) was born. Classically trained, Rodin didn’t set out to buck sculpture tradition but so he did through realist […]