Just when we all got over the Elizabeth Gibson/"Tres Personajes" drama, another stolen painting has surfaced in Manhattan. Filched from the Martin Lawrence Gallery in 1998, one of Warhol's Dollar Sign portraits re-surfaced when a man named Jason Beltrez tried to consign it to Christie's. The auction house is holding the painting, which is on the Art Loss Register, while the gallery sues for its return. The register's general counsel remarked "It really was a textbook case for us. You had a seller who may not have been your typical Andy Warhol consigner and you have a major auction house that's doing the right thing."
OK, but who IS a typical Warhol consigner? Are they that easily recognizable?
On to the shows ... reading between the lines, it sounds as if attendance was off at the New York Ceramics Fair; they're blaming bad weather and football. If you want to get an idea of who showed what and what it sold for, check out these reports on the Winter Antiques Show and Antiques Manhattan. I'm wondering how Phyllis Sauter made out with Antiques Show Chelsea . . . Phyllis?
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