Antiques & Arts Weekly and the New York Times feature our dealer, Menorah Galleries [Gallery 59 | 434.249.4696] as the successor to the premier Judaica store in the city. See new inventory and contact Menorah Galleries here. Excerpt from Eve M. Kahn’s New York Times article “Showcasing Jewish Antiques and Their Stories” below. Moriah Galleries, […]
The Novels of Jane Austen, 12 volumes exquisitely bound set of Jane Austen’s collected works. Bound in contemporary three quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated spines with leather labels, top edges gilt. American, 1899. Approx. 7″ tall. Manhattan Rare Books, Gallery #90/212.326.8907 It has been a busy year for Janeites. As New York Times […]
Newly added to our online catalog is this fantastic architectural Cityscape Coffee Table by Paul Evans (1931-1987), renowned modernist sculptor and designer. The “first comprehensive survey of Paul Evans’s work,” documenting his seminal role in the mid-century studio furniture movement, Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism, is on view at the Michener Art Museum […]
The Winter Antiques Show marks its 60th year at the Park Avenue Armory. As ever, the Show displays varied and wonderful pieces from 73 exhibitors from the United States and Europe. This year, the Show also features pieces and a presentation from the Peabody Essex Museum. The show runs from January 24- February 2, 2014. […]
In honor of Pablo Picasso’s birthday today, Oct. 25, we examine the open secret of one of his most celebrated paintings, which also happens to be one of our personal favorites. Picasso was only 22 in 1904 when he is believed to have painted this revealing portrait of a woman ironing, her skeletal frame bent […]
It is a good season for firsts in the museum world. In addition to Picasso Black and White which is the first exhibit to focus on Picasso’s penchant for monochrome (opening today, Oct. 5, 2012, at the Guggenheim), the Frick Collection announces an exhibition of Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, the first to be on […]
The sort of find that powers indefatigable flea market enthusiasts, the painting above, believed to be Renoir’s “Paysage Bords de Seine,” was bought in a Virginia flea market for less than $50 as part of a box lot. The Potomack Company, based in Alexandria, VA is scheduled to auction off the small river scene on […]
August 30, 2012–In a moving editorial in the New York Times, Eve. M. Kahn discusses the emergence of newly discovered pottery and fragments of vessels by David Drake, an enslaved 19th-century potter in Edgefield, South Carolina. Drake signed his works “Dave” and sometimes inscribed them with poems that were odes to the “noble jar” or […]
It may be hard to find a more perfect embodiment of the axiom “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” than New York City sanitation worker Nelson Molina’s collection. Tucked in the far corner of an otherwise elegant neighborhood, on 99th Street between First and Second Avenues, lives one of the Sanitation Department’s garages. Dark and […]
Reported by Eve M. Kahn in the New York Times, hundreds of unmarked 19th century French vases have been attributed to the master maker Haviland thanks to the incredible sleuthing of married couple, Robert F. Doares Jr. and Barbara Myers. With no institutional funding and no formal arts training, the couple follow the call of […]