Restored Painting Unveiled 50 Years after Flood, Tintin Art Could Reach $1M, and More Fresh News News and updates from around the arts and auction community: Fifty years after it was damaged in a flood in Florence, Italy, a restored painting of The Last Supper by Renaissance artist Giorgio Vasari has been unveiled. In 2006, restoration technologies had advanced to the point that it was considered safe to attempt the […]
Euro elegance, Latin art headline Morton Kuehnert sales June 24, 26HOUSTON – Antiques and decorative objects representing the finest artisans of 19th- and early 20th-century Europe will be sold at Morton Kuehnert Auctioneers & Appraisers’ catalog auction on Thursday, June 24. LiveAuctioneers will provide Internet live bidding for the 7 p.m. Central auction. More than two dozen antique or new rugs will be auctioned, including […]
Victorian finery to be featured at Woody Auction Dec. 2DOUGLASS, Kan. – Part 2 of the Fred and the late Maxine Zumthurn collection – which features figural napkin rings and quality pickle casters as well as includes art glass pieces, Wave Crest, Mount Washington, R.S. Prussia and Victorian antiques – will be held Saturday, Dec. 2, by Woody Auction. Absentee and Internet bidding is […]
Art glass in all its glory to be offered by Woody Auction Sept. 9 DOUGLASS, Kan. – Fred and the late Maxine Zumthurn of California accumulated so many pieces of art glass and other antiques over the course of their lifetimes it will take at least two auctions to liquidate their entire collection. The first of these auctions is planned for Saturday, Sept. 9, in the gallery of […]