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Market Stalls at the Boston Design Center provides antiques dealers a presence where
designers and their clients can integrate antiques into contemporary interiors.
Norma Ann Antiques, Boston, showed the mid-19th-century oil on panel (lower
left) by Brussels-born Charles Henri Leickert (1816-1907) depicting a village
scene. Leickert began his artistic training at the ripe old age of 11. The signed
painting was priced at $7000. Above, the watercolor of Venice by Raffaele
Mainella was $1100. The watercolor of irises with a butterfly, circa 1900, by J.H.
Garratt was available for $1300.
Powers Gallery, Acton, Massachusetts, showed Cape Cod native Sam Vokey’s
Into the Sunlight
, a 24" x 36" oil on linen landscape with a stream that was
tagged $16,500. To the left of the Vokey picture are two floral still lifes by Jan
McElhinny, each a 24" x 24" oil on board,
Iris and Plums
(top, $2200) and
Dance
of the Iris
($2600).
Renjeau Galleries, Natick,
Massachusetts, showed
Blonde II
, a 60" x 48"
mixed media on canvas
by Peter Kuttner that was
tagged $6800.
Two dealers and an arts
lawyer converged as
Richard LaVigné (left)
of Knollwood Antiques
greeted Drew Epstein
and Sandy Jacobs.
The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, showed
zoomorphic constructions by Breon Dunigan (b. 1961) of Truro,
Massachusetts. “Trophy Heads” is a series made from repurposed
furniture and textiles.
Argyle
(top), 18" x 28" x 16", was tagged
$2800, and on the left,
Phineas
, 17" x 16" x 11", was priced at
$2400. The gallery also showed the 2016 42" x 48" acrylic on
canvas
Pink Table
by New York artist Donald Traver (b. 1957).
The 35-year-old gallery Sedia, Boston, specializes in furniture reproductions made
in Italy of early 20th-century master designs in Bauhaus and mid-century work and
more recently in late 20th-century established and Italian manufacturers. The Sedia
booth was busy, and good commissions were made.