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Auction House closed without any farewell

Posted by admin on June 2nd, 2010

Auction House closed without any farewell
Tepper Galleries, the auction house at 110 East 25th Street in Manhattan, has folded quietly. The auction house was founded in 1937 and specialized in midmarket antiques, jewelry, and paintings.

This house was a delight every other Saturday for bargain hunters trying to pick up sterling flatware from abandoned safe-deposit boxes, Art Nouveau ceramics, or gilded console tables in different Louis styles.

From Nytimes.com:

Tepper’s owners, Kenneth Hutter and Max Drazen, did not return several phone calls. Adam Hutter, an auctioneer at the company, referred calls to his brother Kenneth. The firm’s Web site still promises guidance “through all phases of the appraisal, consignment and auction process.”

Tepper’s lease still had eight years left when the gallery owners packed their goods into a few trucks, said Myles Schwartz, an executive managing director at Colliers International, which oversees the Tepper building. “If you can find them, let me know,” he said. “There was nothing we could do to hold them. They just brought everything out the front door.” Colliers will pursue legal action against the auction house, he said, “whatever we can do to recoup.”

Tepper held its highest profile auction in 2008 when paintings by Fernando Botero and whimsical woodcarvings like long-eared monkeys and armchairs shaped like clamshells filled by the interior designer David Barrett.

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Inspiring Quotations for Antique Collectors

Posted by admin on June 2nd, 2010

Inspiring Quotations for Antique CollectorsWhen it comes to finding complete access to inspiring quotations for antique collectors, there is nothing better than motivating quotes. These inspiring words have been collected from the web to infuse motivation in you.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.  – Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.  – Edgar Degas

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job.  It releases tension needed for his work.  – Henry Moore

The artist’s world is limitless.  It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away.  It is always on his doorstep.  – Paul Strand

Very few people possess true artistic ability.  It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.  If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.  – Fran Lebowitz

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.  The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.  – Henry Miller

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself.  What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done?  A painter has only one language.  – Pablo Picasso

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.  - Georgia O’Keeffe

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.  – Willa Cather

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Best Quotes on Antiques and Collectibles

Posted by admin on June 1st, 2010

Best Quotes on <b>Antiques and Collectibles</b>\If you are looking for the best quotes on antiques and collectibles, this blog will be useful to you in more than just a way. The blog will help you “come closer” to the world of antiques and collections in no time.

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art. - Angela Carter

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith. - Salman Rushdie

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion. – Camille Paglia

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman. – Sinclair Lewis

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