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    Rare Finds at Bakker Online Auction

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    Bakker Antiques is having its live online winter auction on Saturday, December 19th at 1 p.m. via bakkerproject.com.

    It includes works by Karl Knaths, Peter Busa, Ross Moffett, John Grillo, Chaim Gross, Henry Hensche, Paul Resika, Sol Wilson, George Yater, and others. There will be several works by women artists, including Trees and Figures by Edith Lake Wilkinson, the subject of the 2015 documentary Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson. Other notable artworks include Africa 7 by Robert Motherwell, part of his 1970 Africa Suite, and a rare print by Hans Hofmann.

     

    Provincetown Arts Holds Gala Fund-raiser Online

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    The annual arts journal Provincetown Arts, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year and memorializing its founder, Christopher Busa, who recently died, will hold a virtual gala and auction via Zoom on Tuesday, November 19th, at 7 p.m. Local artist Jay Critchley will host, and there will be a poetry reading by Nick Flynn, raffles, and special appearances by artist Sasha Chavchavadze and others. Tickets ($50-$150) are available at provincetownarts.org.

    The silent auction will include the original painting The Arrival, by Mimi Gross, which was the 2020 cover image of Provincetown Arts, as well as works by Peter Busa, Marian Roth, Joel Meyerowitz, Carmen Cicero, Kahn & Selesnick, Vicky Tomayko, Sarah Lutz, and Mark Adams. Bidding will commence on Sunday, November 1st, and continue until the gala on November 19th.

     

    Bidding Starts at Bakker’s Online Summer Auction

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    James R. Bakker Antiques is holding its summer auction of Provincetown art completely online, with live bidding happening now through Saturday, August 29th, at 1 p.m. Among the 150 lots, there are some high-priced masterworks available, from Peter Busa, Ross Moffett, Salvatore Del Deo, Marion Hawthorne, and Jean Cohen Miller, and pieces by Arthur Cohen, Nanno and Pat de Groot, Henry Hensche, William Littlefield, Bruce McCain, Ray Nolin, Tony Vevers, Nancy Whorf, Sol Wilson, and many more. To learn how to bid and sample all the offerings, go to bakkerproject.com.

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