Frenzied International Bidding Pushes Total to $1.82 Million at John W. Coker Sale

NEW MARKET, TN.- Knoxville’s McGhee Tyson Airport experienced a mini traffic boom during the weeks leading up to John W. Coker’s Sept. 15, 2010 auction, as potential bidders converged on the region with one goal in mind: to preview and buy artworks from the collection of the late Dr. Albert K. Chapman. Coker’s $1.82 million sale of the former Eastman Kodak CEO’s Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art collection contained 83 paintings, each offered without reserve. This added enticement attracted bidders from [...]

‘Turner to Czanne’ is a hit at Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse

In 1908, two straight-laced Welsh sisters became the world’s unlikeliest avant-garde art collectors. Gwendoline and Margaret Davies were strict Calvinists, teetotalers and spinsters. They also had a passion for sumptuous Impressionist paintings — and the means to gratify it. Granddaughters of a railway magnate, each received the modern equivalent of $195 million at age 25. For 12 years, they hunted down seductive canvases by Monet, Renoir, Czanne and others. The astonishing results of their shared obsession have arrived at Syracuse’s [...]