What Is Folk Art Auction?
What is Folk Art Auctions?
What is Folk Art Auctions?
Folk art auctions usually feature a varied range of objects that display the artist's craft traditions and traditional social standards. Folk art is produced by people who have very little or no academic artistic training. What they do is to use established techniques and styles of a specific region or culture which they are familiar with to work on the piece of art.
Such folk art auctions include paintings, sculptures and other decorative art forms. Some artists also consider practical objects like tools and costumes as folk art. For the most part, this type of folk art auctions exclude works by expert artists.
It has been my experience that folk art auctions have something for just about anyone in different walks of life. Recently, I found a folk art painting of a cat in a peach tree that was done by the artist Tascha, who also involved in creating unique ceramic tile art too.
Many years' back, my mother bought a blanket chest for me of which I have it listed in a folk art auction. The chest was made about two hundred years ago and is very beautiful and elegant. It was so well maintained that the unique painted decorations on the chest are still intact.
In the same auction, a very special "carnival knock-down dummy" in the shape of a large cat, caught my eyes. It was made around in 1930 and is twice the size of an alike item displayed. I did some research on this item on a non-auction site and found that it is worth a lot. It was definitely the bargain of the day!
There are a lot of different folk art auctions. My heart is still swayed towards Americana folk art auctions. I recently fell in love with a painting that I found in an auction where Elvis was on a Harley in front of a huge American flag. It was spectacular sight! The stretched canvas was painted with acrylics.
Halloween themed folk art auction is also one of my other favourite. This particular one that I have attended, was presented by Sister Raya New Orleans Folk Art. There is one painting, titled, Little Spooky The Cat Awaiting The Great Pumpkin, was painted in classic vintage technique and used gold maple, red sapphire, blue pearl, white, pumpkin orange, sable brown, amber rust and jet black to complete the piece. A lovely painting indeed! I would love to have this hanging on my wall all through the autumn months, if I can.
Another folk art auction that I attended was so depressing as I couldn't afford to bid as it was beyond my budget. It was a handmade set of minuscule dominoes. The set was in a folk art decorated maple box. The set dates from the mid to late 1800's. It was really exquisite and I'm unhappy that I have missed out on it.
I really like a new folk art auction that I found for a modern fraktur. A fraktur is a special kind of Pennsylvania German folk art. The fraktur I found was a watercolor of a matrimony record. It was very colorful and looked like it had held a very special importance to its first owners.
In the same auction, I found a firewood box from Maine that really appealed to me. It was pretty tiny, but was painted chrome yellow and was trimmed in forest green. The paint was crazed and worn and it was made in the late nineteenth century. There were no visible nails and the hardware was reported as looking original.
There was also another folk art that I missed out on that day, was way out of my price range. It was for an Andrew Clemens sand bottle. The sand bottle was date 1887 and was covered in patriotic decorations. It was an apothecary design bottle with a stopper and it contained at least ten dissimilar colors of sand. The bottle ended up selling for eighty five hundred dollars. I'm convinced that this piece will end up as one of the superb collection for its owner.
Another item that I found quite amusing in folk art auction is for three wooden carvings. The name of the piece was entitled Three Articulating Folk Art Whimseys and they were all made by the same artist. The carvings were accented with sheet metal neckties. The first carving was of a cobbler, a blacksmith and a gentleman with a donkey. The second carving was a diminutive soldier and the third was a cobbler smoking a pipe. I think that this piece of Americana was purchased at a low price of three thousand dollars but I speculate, it was worth much more.
by: St Charlotte Francis
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