‘Charlotte’s Web’ Cover Art Fetches $155K at Heritage Auctions in New York City

NEW YORK (AP).- The original 1952 cover art for “Charlotte’s Web” has sold at auction in New York City for more than $155,000. Heritage Auctions says the artwork drawn by Garth Williams fetched more than five times its estimated sale price on Friday and is a record for any of Williams’ art. Heritage spokesman Barry Sandoval says the buyer is a New York collector who wishes to remain anonymous. The original 1952 cover art by Garth Williams for the beloved [...]

New Book Says Painting Stored Behind a Couch for 25 Years may Be a Michelangelo

TONAWANDA (AP).- Could a painting of Mary holding the body of Jesus that hung for years in an upstate New York family’s home really be a 16th century Michelangelo? An Italian art historian thinks so after undertaking years of research, which he documents in a new book, “The Lost Pieta.” Now the painting’s owner, Martin Kober, is encouraging the rest of the art world to take a close look with the hope the work will be universally accepted as a [...]

Sotheby’s to Sell Long-Lost Art Trove of Ambroise Vollard

LONDON.- Sotheby’s yesterday announced the sale of a group of works whose story must surely rank among the most compelling in art market history. The works, a long-lost treasure trove of paintings, prints, books and drawings by key avant-garde artists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, belonged to Ambroise Vollard, the legendary Parisian art dealer who played a pivotal role in the development of the Impressionist and Modern Art market: the artists he represented ranged from Renoir to [...]