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COVER PHOTOS:
The Ship Comes In, pg. 28-B
Ohio Decorative Arts, pg. 25-B
Great Scott, pg. 26-D
Star Quilt, pg. 12-B
Barry’s Bowl, pg. 29-B
Greater York Antiques Show Section
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While on a cruise in 1999, Mattie King
and her husband (now deceased) went to an
auction conducted by Park West Galleries,
Inc. They bought a complete set of Salvador
Dalí’s Divine Comedy prints, spending
$165,000. The set came with a certificate of
authenticity and appraisals.
Ten years passed and King decided to
sell her collection, but doubts were raised
over the authenticity of the prints. The Fine
Art Registry looked them over and ruled
that the prints were “most likely a forgery.”
King filed suit, but Park West’s lawyers
got the case dismissed, arguing that the stat-
ute of limitations had run out and that King
had failed to perform her due diligence.
King appealed and claimed that she
should be able to extend the two-year statute
of limitations for fraudulent concealment
and that the clock should have started tick-
ing when she discovered questions about
the prints.
In December 2014 the Michigan Court
of Appeals reversed the previous ruling
and agreed. The court ruling stated: “In
order to toll the statute of limitations...two
factors...must be met. First, the party seek-
ing to toll the applicable limitations period
must show that there was an affirmative act
on behalf of the concealing party that was
aimed at preventing inquiry or hindering
the acquirement of information disclosing a
cause of action.... [Park West’s] affirmative
act was to provide plaintiff with a certificate
of authenticity, as well as an appraisal for
each piece of artwork.
“Second, the courts require that the fraud
be of such a nature that, even through rea-
sonable diligence, the defrauded party did
not discover the claim within the statutory
period.”
The reasonable diligence question should
be decided by jurors, the appeals court
ruled.
The appeals court didn’t mince words,
and its ruling provides a warning for art
dealers: “The certificate of authenticity is
the most important document in this case.”
Under Michigan law, “an art merchant cre-
ates an express warranty as to the authen-
ticity of art by providing a non-merchant
buyer with a certificate of authenticity.”
While “certificate of authenticity” may
conjure up images of cheap collectibles with
legal-looking documents enhanced with
dime-store seal of approval stickers, the
court defines them as “a legal document that
certifies that the artwork, and signatures,
are exactly what they are represented to be.
Any deviance from the authenticity of the
statements made by that legal document are
actionable as a breach of warranty.”
King still has to try her case. Park West
hasn’t yet been found liable for anything,
but the appeals court has made it clear:
paperwork accompanying an art purchase
had better be accurate. S.C.P.
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CROSSING THE T’S AND DOTTING THE I’S
Editorial 3-A
by S. Clayton Pennington
The Meeting Place 4-A
Fragments 8-A
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Acquires Bingham Family Civil War
Memorial Secretary – Round Lake Antiques
Festival Gets New Promoter – Insurance
for Conceptual Art – Raise the Speaker’s
Roof – Indiana’s Religious Freedom
Restoration Act – Canadian Dealer
Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for
Smuggling Rhino Horns, Ivory, and Coral –
Metro Show Canceled for 2016 – Ivory
Fight Moves to the States – Neon Sign
Brings $143,750 – New Sales Tax Affecting
Galleries in Arizona – Philadelphia Show
to Be Revived – Washington Crossing the
Delaware Goes from White House to
Winona, Minnesota – Winterthur
Announces Acquisitions – New Show in
Ridgewood, New Jersey – The Stages of an
Antiques Collector’s Life—A Curious
Journey
Index to Display Advertisers 36-A
Index to Shows and Auctions 4-D
Classified Ads 24-D
AUCTIONS
Western Americana Sale Exceeds
Expectations 32-A
Bonhams, San Francisco, California
by Alice Kaufman
Horst Sells Tannehill and Coleburn
Collections 6-B
Horst Auction Center,
Ephrata, Pennsylvania
by Karl H. Pass
Asian and Continental Arts and
Country Americana 8-B
Garth’s Auctions, Delaware, Ohio
by Don Johnson
Julia Opens for $3.5 Million 12-B
James D. Julia, Inc., Fairfield, Maine
by Mark Sisco
Semi-Positive Bidding on
Negatives 16-B
Saco River Auctions,
Biddeford, Maine
by Mark Sisco
Important Maritime Paintings and
Decorative Art 28-B
Bonhams, New York City
by A.J. Peluso, Jr.
Chinese Export Art 29-B
Christie’s, New York City
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Mountain Lake by Sandzén Tops
Massachusetts Auction 36-B
Carl W. Stinson, Inc.,
North Reading, Massachusetts
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo
Estates and Collections Contribute
to Auction Success 3-C
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee
by Karla Klein Albertson
The Thrill of the Hunt at Copley’s
Winter Sale 6-C
Copley Fine Art Auctions,
Charleston, South Carolina
by Pete Prunkl
Teapot by Paul Revere Jr. Brings
$233,000 10-C
Christie’s, New York City
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Okito’s Checker Box Brings
$12,000 in Magic Auction 12-C
Potter & Potter Auctions,
Chicago, Illinois
by Kay Manning
Two Phone Bidders Tango for
Sunlight in the Studio 14-C
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
by Jeanne Schinto
Calendar Clock Brings $27,600 16-C
John McInnis Auctioneers,
Amesbury, Massachusetts
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo
Furniture by Thomas Nisbet Tops
Auction 26-C
Tim Isaac,
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
by Peter Smit
Early Clocks, One Day Late: The
Abbott/Guggenheim Collection 31-C
Christie’s, New York City
by Bob Frishman
Neal Rolls the Dice on Rococo
Revival—and Wins 26-CS
Neal Auction Company,
New Orleans, Louisiana
by Karla Klein Albertson
Tlingit Mask Hits the Big Time
at Thomaston 28-CS
Thomaston Place Auction
Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
by Mark Sisco
Dogs in Show & Field 10-D
Bonhams, New York City
by Julie Schlenger Adell
The Louis Daniel Brodsky
Collection of Art Nouveau 21-D
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers,
Chicago, Illinois
by Danielle Arnet
An Important Discovery at
Cottone 26-D
Cottone Auctions,
Geneseo, New York
by Fran Kramer
Evans Cabinet Brings $183,750 30-D
Rago Arts,
Lambertville, New Jersey
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Fine and Decorative Arts Auction 32-E
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
by Don Johnson
SHOWS
Art of the Americas 34-A
Marin Show: Art of the Americas,
San Rafael, California
by Alice Kaufman
The Original Semi-Annual York
Antiques Show & Sale 32-B
York, Pennsylvania
by Lita Solis-Cohen
The 60th Washington Winter
Show—a Winner 23-C
Washington, D.C.
by Walter C. Newman
The 2015 Outsider Art Fair 28-C
New York City
by Julie Schlenger Adell
The Antiques & Garden Show of
Nashville: American Beauty in
Its 25th Year 34-C
Nashville, Tennessee
by Karla Klein Albertson
FEATURES
Prepare to Listen 26-A
Auction Law & Ethics
by Steve Proffitt
E-Mail Tips and Scams 30-A
Computer Column #317
by John P. Reid
Auction Prices Realized 3-B
Exhibitions 22-B
Garth’s Single-Owner Sale of
Native American Jewelry 23-B
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
by Mary Ann Brown
Tradition of Progress Exhibit 25-B
by Don Johnson
Changes Afoot for Sotheby’s
Boston Office and for Its Former
Director 38-C
by Jeanne Schinto
Letter from London 6-D
by Ian McKay
Sandy Doig, Somers, Connecticut 13-D
In the Trade
by Frank Donegan
TV Guide (to Antiques) 18-E
The Young Collector
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond
BOOK REVIEWS
Books Received 16-D
by M.A.D. Staff