Video of Lou Salerno on “Made in America” Panel
As previously promised, here is some video footage …continue reading or post a comment
Lou Salerno on “Made in America” Panel
Recently, Questroyal’s own Lou Salerno was invited to join a panel discussion at the 2012 Architectural Digest Home Design Show. …continue reading or post a comment
Don’t Underestimate the Importance of the Louvre’s Exhibition
To this point, the market for American nineteenth century paintings is best characterized as insular, with nearly all of its participants residing in North America. However, for the first time in its history, the Louvre has …continue reading or post a comment
The Heart of the Market
Comments on the American Paintings Sales: December 2011
There is only one way to arrive at the “heart of the market”, to gain a genuine understanding of its nature and likely course. Many will doubt the credibility of the approach I advocate but the success of this gallery depends on it. I place my trust and faith in instinct, which I define as the summation of all the varied intellectual, psychological, and emotional indicators which inform a reliable understanding of that mystical entity we call, “the market”. The use of traditional tools and methods such as buy-in rates, gross sales, averages, and medians, provide insight into a specific sale but are of little value in interpreting the greater and ever evolving overall market. …continue reading or post a comment
Join Questroyal at the Fifteenth Annual Boston International Fine Art Show
Next week, Questroyal Fine Art will exhibit at the Fifteenth Annual Boston International Fine Art Show, from November 17– 20, 2011. Questroyal will be one of forty galleries represented. For complimentary tickets, please email gallery@questroyalfineart.com, or call (212)744-3586.
If you are planning to attend the show on Friday, November 18, do not miss the chance to hear Questroyal’s owner, Louis M. Salerno, participate in the panel discussion …continue reading or post a comment
Questroyal Makes Unprecedented and Historic Guarantee
An excerpt from our most recent catalogue, Timeless: Important American Paintings Volume XII:
Consider the collector who came to the gallery not long ago and desperately wanted to buy three expensive paintings. He became increasingly agitated, unable to summon the conviction to complete the sale. I asked him what was his greatest concern. He replied, “Lou, I love the paintings, but everything is so unpredictable. Sometimes it feels like the world is coming to an end.” …continue reading or post a comment
Two Watercolors From Burchfield’s Golden Years
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893–1967) has been commemorated with several major museum and gallery exhibitions in the past decade, including the 2010 retrospective, Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the 2009 exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art, The Architecture of Painting: Charles Burchfield, 1920.
While recent exhibitions have focused on the full span of Burchfield’s life and career, his early period merits special attention. …continue reading or post a comment
Jasper Francis Cropsey, Autumn in America, Now Part of the Questroyal Fine Art Collection
A man had two masterpieces by the great Hudson River School painter, Jasper Cropsey, in his playroom and didn’t know it. They had survived decades of ping pong games and assorted childhood mischief. The New York Times reported that he was offered $250 for both by a company that was handling the disposition of his mother’s estate and he nearly accepted. He was wise enough to have them appraised and sold them at auction for nearly $1,000,000. We now own one of the pair. …continue reading or post a comment
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Review of the Major American Paintings Auctions, May 2011
American Art Auction Week showed improvements, records, and some downright disappointments.
The Westervelt Company (formerly the Gulf States Paper Corporation) sale of paintings generated considerable buzz in the weeks before Christie’s auction. Originally known as the Warner Collection, named after Jonathan Westervelt Warner—former chief executive of the company—included spectacular works by Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, William Merritt Chase, and many other American superstars. Speculation escalated in the days prior to the Christie’s auction catalogue release with the question “Would Christie’s offer the Warner masterpieces?” on everyone’s mind. …continue reading or post a comment
The Questroyal “Top Ten” List
This May Questroyal decided to enter a “David vs. Goliath” competition by submitting our top ten paintings for comparison against those offered by the major auction houses. We’ve even gone a step further by ranking our paintings to give you an idea of how we value our acquisitions. Download our booklet by …continue reading or post a comment
