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Purvis Young’s ‘Angels Free Us’ leads our five lots to watchPurvis Young, ‘Angels Free Us’ DANIA BEACH, Fla. – Just months after achieving a massive new auction record for Purvis Young (1943-2010), Akiba Galleries is offering another large-scale work by the African American Outsider artist. The monumental mixed media on plywood painting from the 1990s is estimated at $10,000-$30,000 on Tuesday, April 2. Young, who […]
‘Protest furniture’ by Brazilian Jose Zanine Caldas featured at Wright March 28CHICAGO — A signature example of ‘protest furniture’ by Brazilian designer Jose Zanine Caldas (1919-2001) is among the starring lots in the Wright Design sale on Thursday, March 28. Previously in a collection in Sao Paulo, the Namoradeira tete-a-tete rocker dating to circa 1963-1967 was consigned by a vendor in New York and is estimated […]
Walter Dorwin Teague, dean of industrial designNEW YORK — Dubbed the dean of industrial design, Walter Dorwin Teague (American, 1883-1960) began his career in advertising and expanded into typography and commercial packaging before focusing on industrial design in the late 1920s. This proved to be a key time for the nascent field, as the United States would soon suffer severe economic […]
Denim king Robin Chretien‘s vehicular Americana collection rolls into Abell’s Feb. 29BELL GARDENS, Calif. — Robin Chretien may have been born in France, but his love for American iconography is unmatched. As a star in the denim apparel industry (he founded and owns Robin’s Jean in Los Angeles), he’s been able to amass a stunning and often highly eclectic collection of vehicular Americana that now comes […]