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There are hundreds of these paintings attributed to one artist: a man named Ammi Phillips. One of Phillips’ most beloved portraits – “Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog” – is about to go ...
Christie’s is kicking off the new year with news of an exciting discovery for collectors of American art and folk art. At its upcoming sale in New York on January 24, the auction house is ...
Of the hundreds—or possibly thousands—of portraits that itinerant American folk artist Ammi Phillips painted in his career spanning the early 19th century to the American Civil War ...
Christie’s annual sale of Important Americana totaled $8,320,684, selling 143 percent hammer and buyer’s premium against low estimate, with 84 percent of lots sold. The Ackland Art Museum at the ...
Created in 1833, Ammi Phillips ’ 1833 portrait Woman with Pink Ribbons shows ... In January 2019, Phillips’ Girl in a Red Dress with a Dog sold for US$1.7 million at Christie’s, the artist ...
Portrait of Annatje Eltinge (1748-1827) done by Ammi Phillips in the 1820s. The painting was stolen from the Historic Huguenot Street building in New Paltz in 1972 and recovered 50 years later.
This chart shows whether Ammi Phillips’s total sales are going up, and if so, whether this is because more artworks by the artist have been offered and sold or because more high-value artworks have ...
It was in 2017 that Melanie Marks, owner of Connecticut House Histories, was charged with the task of identifying two portraits painted by Ammi Phillips, an artist born in Colebrook in 1788 who ...