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Artist Spotlight: Melissa Payne Baker

April 16, 2012

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Gracing the walls of our newly opened North Atlanta Office, is a collection of Melissa Payne Baker’s artwork. The kindness of this young artist is easily seen in her work through the use of thick acrylics that are subtle and graceful.  Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty specializes in “artfully uniting extraordinary homes with extraordinary lives”  and Melissa’s […]

The Gallery-Like Home of Atlanta's Doyenne of Contemporary Art

November 3, 2011

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Click on image for link from CURBED-Atlanta  The home photographed above belongs to Fay Gold. Fay Gold is in the art business; in some ways, Fay Gold started the arts business in Atlanta. Were one to conjure an image of what the home of a contemporary art impresario would look like, we’re guessing it would […]

Restoration Hardcore- Repair Wardrobe Investments

October 27, 2011

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Q:What do all three of these have in common?   A: They were all wardrobe investments.  So what happens to them when they break, get a stain or are attacked by moths? Who do you trust  your family heirlooms or investment pieces to? I have found an article that unearthed the country’s best wardrobe restoration […]

High Museum: Salvador Dali Exhibit

August 26, 2010

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  Recently while driving through Midtown Atlanta on Peachtree Street, I noticed a very large banner hanging from The High Museum announcing an upcoming exhibit of Salvador Dali’s late works. As a teenager I attended a wonderful exhibition of Dalí’s jewelry creations in the Birmingham Museum of Art, and was captivated by his eccentric and […]

Sotheby's Sells Giacometti for Record $104.3 Million

February 8, 2010

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    From the wsj.com (February 3, 2010) A 1960 Alberto Giacometti sculpture sold for £65 million ($104.3 million) at Sotheby’s, setting a record price for a work of art at auction and signaling a potential resurgence in the art market. In a tense contest at the company’s London salesroom, bidding on the spindly bronze “Walking […]