�������� ����������������������������������������March 11, 2011

Published by The Bee Publishing Company, Newtown, Connecticut

w w w . A n t i q u e s a n d T h e A r t s . c o m w w w . A n t i q u e s a n d T h e A r t s . c o m

Originally Published in Antiques and The Arts Weekly, The Bee Publishing Company, Newtown, CT. Republished here with permission. May not be reproduced for further dissemination,

either in print or electronically, without express permission of the publisher.

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. —While the vast majority of thecountry bundled up in anattempt to fend off the lingeringcold snap that Old Man Winterhas served up this winter, spirit-ed crowds and brisk sales trans-formed February’s Palm BeachJewelry, Art & Antiques Showinto a virtual heat wave. Buoyedby a healthy top-end market, top

quality merchandise and facili-tated by the show’s proactive pro-moters, the event was once againtermed by management as arousing success.The show is promoted by the

Palm Beach Group, and manage-ment has a reputation for gettingthe crowds out to their shows.Palm Beach was no exceptionand the group rolled out the redcarpet for throngs of invitedguests on Friday evening, Febru-ary 18, for a gala preview partythat has not only become a pre-mier social event for locals, butalso a prime buying opportunityfor museum curators and seriouscollectors.The four-day show, open

through February 22, is the flag-

ship event for the promoters fea-turing 180 exhibitors. Dealersbring a wide range of merchan-dise that includes everythingfrom Monet paintings to dia-monds and jewelry that satisfieseven the most discriminatingtastes. Just how discriminatingare those Palm Beach tastes?One clue comes via a glancearound the show’s parking lotwhere there are more Bentley,Rolls Royce, Austin Martin andFerrari automobiles than you canshake a stick at.In just eight years, and with lots

of regional competition, this showhas distinguished itself, thecream easily rising to the top.“The combination of the high-

caliber dealers that participate in

Lillian Nassau, New York City

Norman Rockwell’s “Two Men Reading Detective Stories,” left,Maurice Utrillo’s “Restaurant Bibet a Saint Bernard, Ain,” cen-ter and Gil Elvgren’s “Gentlemen Prefer…” were among the

Art Nouveau furnishing and Tiffany lighting were featuredat Macklowe Gallery, New York City.

The C.B. Fish oil “Out for a Drive on the Open Road” wasattracting attention at Red Fox Fine Art, Middleburg, Va.,as was the bronze by Isidore Jules Bonheur.

The Joseph Lee oil “Schooner Mary E. Russ” was marked$85,000, left, and the Hayley Lever oil “Sailing at Marble-head” was $145,000 at Vallejo Gallery, Newport Beach, Calif. Modern-Decor, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Museum quality was the term dealer BillDrucker used for the rare hair comb in ster-ling with semiprecious stones designed byVivianna Torun Bülow-Hüde for GeorgJensen. Drucker Antiques, Mount Kisco,N.Y.

Review and Photos byAntiques and The Arts Weekly

David S. Smith, Managing Editor

Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antiques Show

Cavalier Galleries, Nantucket, Mass.Jeff Bridgman, York County, Penn.

The Robert Salmon painting“At The Shore” was $48,000,as was the Donald De Luebronze “Seated Woman”from 1934. Childs Gallery,Boston, Mass.

Galerie Peter Hardt, Radevormwald, Germany

ent to our guests is what weattribute to our success,” saidScott Diament, chief operatingofficer of the Palm Beach ShowGroup. “This is a show that trulyoffers something for every type ofcollector and every type of pricerange.”Plush, white-carpeted floors

add an air of elegance to theevent — not only does it lookwonderful, but it is easy on thefeet — a necessary thing whenpatrons are expected to maneu-ver the expansive floor for hourson end.While attendance numbers

were not quantified in preciseterms, management reported“tens of thousands savvy collec-tors, industry experts and seri-ous buyers flocking to the PalmBeach Convention Center” forthe show. Management noted“antiques industry icon” RonaldBourgeault was in attendance.“I’ve never seen such crowds atan antiques show — the previewparty was packed,” stated theNew Hampshire auctioneer.Celebrities and local wealth

were prevalent at opening, but sowere serious buyers. Maine deal-er Tom Veilleux reported twoimpressive sales during theopening night festivities. AJamie Wyeth ink and watercoloron paper, “Cushing Saw,” wasstickered at $110,000 and sport-ed a sold tag soon after the doorsto the show opened. Selling to alocal Palm Beach collector, the18-by-25-inch painting will beincluded in the Brandywinemuseum’s Jamie Wyeth exhibi-

tion in June.Hyannis, Mass., nautical dealer

Hyland Granby also reported agood showing in Palm Beach.From the stand in the front cor-ner of the exhibition hall, thedealer offered a wide variety ofmaterials ranging from ship por-traits to early marine-relatedcarvings. Among the early saleswas a large carved and gildedeagle by William Seward, circa1895. Granby related thatSeward was a ship carver thatworked in Baltimore and wasknown to have carved sternboards, although this particularcarving was believed to havehung in a public building.Marked $250,000, the eagle wassigned on the reverse with deepetched lettering, “W Seward.”A number of paintings also sold

from the walls of Hyland Gran-by’s booth, including a work byJames E. Buttersworth titled“New York Yacht Club Race.”Other sales included a miniaturewagon with folk art ads from aNew York brewery, circa 1880; ascrimshaw whale’s tooth featur-ing a female pirate; and a secondcarved wooden eagle. Referringto the large eagle, dealer AlanGranby commented, “I couldhave sold it three times — I wishI had three of them.”York County, Penn., dealer Jeff

Bridgman, known for his impor-tant selection of American flags,offered what he termed to be thebest historical flag, extremelyrare and important, the flag ofGeneral Philip Henry Sheridan,circa 1862. Bridgman listed the

flag among his sales, along with“two great Civil War flags, a won-derfully carved eagle dating tothe last quarter of the Nine-teenth Century that came out ofa federal courthouse in Colum-bus, Ohio, and a pair of beaded,doe-skin American Indian moc-casins with a circular Americanflag decoration, circa 1880.”Tenafly, N.J., dealer Michael

Borghi displayed an assortment

Russian enameled silver in the booth of John Atzbach, Red-

Select works at McColl Fine Art, Charlotte, N.C., includedthe Lucien Adrion oil “Galleries Lafayette,” left, $64,000;the J.G. Brown oil “Naptime,” center, $78,000; and theCharles Webster Hawthorne oil “Waiting” that was marked$98,000.

Works by Alexander Calder, center, were flanked by oils byRichard Pousette-Dart at Michael Borghi Fine Art, Tenafly,

English and Continental furniture atMichael Pashby, New York City. Valevio Antiques, Coral Gables, Fla.

Seventh Century Tang dynasty pottery figures were at J.R.Richards, Los Angeles.

William Cook, England

A.B. Levy, Palm Beach, Fla.Toulouse Gallery, Los Angeles

The monumental FrederickJudd Waugh, “70 DegreesNorth,” was a highlight atMichael Latragna Fine Art,Fort Myers, Fla.

Boasts Huge Crowds And Active Selling

w w w . A n t i q u e s a n d T h e A r t s . c o mw w w . A n t i q u e s a n d T h e A r t s . c o m

Tenafly, N.J., dealer MichaelBorghi displayed an assortmentof paintings that ranged fromworks by Richard Pousette-Dart,boldly displayed on the frontexterior walls of the stand, topaintings and watercolors byAlexander Calder, Hans Hof-mann and Norman Bluhm.Borghi reported the sale of aBluhm watercolor from 1957,along with an important Hans

Hofmann painting titled “BlueSymphony” that the dealer hadpriced at $165,000.Two interesting paintings by

Emile Munier were featured atRehs Galleries, New York City.Munier’s “Feeding the Rabbits,”was marked at $250,000, anddisplayed alongside of it was acharming scene depicting twocherubs that was titled“Armistice” and was marked

“price on request.”“Crowds have been great,” said

New Orleans dealer Bill Rau,M.S. Rau Antiques. “We’ve beenas busy as we can be and sold aselection of art, silver and jewelryto collectors from around theworld.” The dealers offered astunning selection of artworksthat included a Monet and aManet, as well as iconic Ameri-can works, such as NormanRockwell’s “Two Men ReadingDetective Stories,” and Gil Elv-gren’s pinup art painting “Gen-tlemen Prefer…”There is a considerable amount

of jewelry on the floor of the showand it ranges from the glitzy andwearable, to pieces bound formuseum collections.Camilla Dietz Bergeron sold

several important pieces of jewel-ry, including a Van Cleef &Arpels invisibly set sapphire and

Sallea Antiques, New Canaan, Conn.

Eve Stone finalizes a sale during the preview party. EveStone Antiques, Woodbridge, Conn.

Marsden Hartley, top, and John Marin paintings at GodelFine Art, New York City

Guarisco Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Asiantiques, Winter Park, Fla.

Two works by Emile Munier were featured at Rehs Galleries,New York City, with “Feeding the Rabbits,” left, marked at$250,000, while “Armistice” was “price on request.”

A Fourteenth Century seated gilt-bronzeBuddha from Central Tibet was at TK AsianAntiques, New York City. It was flanked by apair of dreamstones from the YunnanProvince.

Malcolm Magruder, Millwood, Va.

George Shultz’s “Summer Afternoon,” left, William Clos-son’s “Preparing for the Pageant,” center, and Lillian BurkMeeser’s “The Chinese Vase” were featured at Brock & Co.,Concord, Mass.

A silver and mixed metalsJapanesque water pitcherby Tiffany, circa 1878, was ahighlight at Spencer Marks,East Walpole, Mass.

The Roy King wooden sculpture “Horse andRider” was flanked by works by RockwellKent, Charles Burchfield and AndrewWyeth from the Tom Veilleux Gallery, Port-land, Maine.

Works by Fernando Botero at Frederic GotGallery, Paris

Hyland Granby, Hyannis, Mass.

rings, a Buccellati sapphire anddiamond cuff and a monumentalpair of antique diamond dropearrings.Las Vegas and Manhattan jew-

elry dealer Fred Leighton was onhand for the show and the seduc-tive selection kept a crowd ofshoppers in front of the booth atall times. Manned by a smart-looking staff, owner RalphEsmerian was not seen behindthe counter at preview.New York City dealers Mack-

lowe Gallery reported the sale ofa “significant collection of ArtNouveau jewelry” that wasbought up by one collector.Museum quality was the term

dealer Bill Drucker used for arare and stylish hair comb ofsterling and semiprecious coloredstones that had been designed byVivianna Torun Bülow-Hüde forGeorg Jensen. Among severalpieces of Jensen jewelry in thebooth, the Mount Kisco dealersalso offered a stunning selectionof Jensen silver, including anexceedingly rare figural lampdesigned by Johan Rohde in1920, number 382, that retaineda custom green silk shade. Otherstandouts from the Jensen silverincluded a samovar, a candelabradesigned by Harald Nielson and

a rare covered bonbonniere from1926.Other sales reported from

around the floor included amakassar ebony buffet with nick-eled hardware and a marble topby French maker Maurice Rinck,circa 1930, at Valerio Antiques;Audubon prints at Graham Arad-er; a collection of original artwatercolor children’s book illus-trations at Carlson and Steven-son; a Nineteenth Century silvertray by London maker BenSmith at Robert Lloyd; and a dra-matic Albert Paley hand-forgedsteel stand at Lillian Nassau.Also popular was the show’s lec-

ture series that featured GloriaLieberman of Skinner jewelrydepartment; Tom Gregersen, cul-tural director of the MorikamiMuseum and Japanese Gardens;and Gordon Lewis, senior direc-tor and vice president of the FineArts Conservancy. Among thedealers presenting lectures wereJanet Drucker, Robert Lloyd andElias Martin of Floating WorldGallery.The next show for the Palm

Beach Group will be the Balti-more Summer Antiques Showscheduled for August 25–28. Forinformation, 561-822-5440 orwww.palmbeachshow.com.

Galerie Vivendi, Paris

Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antiques Show