I’ve had a really great time sharing my stories from attending the Richmond taping of Antiques Roadshow last weekend. For this last post, I met up with Matthew Quinn, an appraiser for the show, at his family’s auction house in Falls Church, Virginia. We had a nice conversation about the show, the auction business, someRead more
Today’s guest post from Weschler’s demystifies the auction process for all the newbies out there. Photos from the upcoming Prints & Works of Art auction are courtesy of Weschler’s. Plus, if you’re in the DC area and a member of the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s 1869 Society, you can attend Auction Buying 101 tomorrow nightRead more
Stick a fork in this one, it’s done! Or rather, stick some bottles, glasses and bar tools in it. About five years ago, I saw this radio at an auction. I had no idea what I would do with such a thing, but I had to have it. So I bid on it and gotRead more
When I was a senior at Georgetown, I took a class called something like “Washington Art Collections”. We went to several private homes, the Kreeger Museum, several Smithsonians and Weschler’s auction house. Not only did we learn quite a lot about art collections here in DC, we also learned a lot about buying art, sellingRead more