Adelaide Alsop Robineau - Artist Info

About Adelaide Alsop Robineau

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    The following information was written by Barbara Nicholson Bell, and published on "Syracuse Then and Now", Suite101.com

    Adelaide Alsop Robineau, Master Ceramist

    Art & Antiques Magazine calls The Scarab Vase by Adelaide Alsop Robineau the most important piece of American ceramics in the past century. The home and studio Robineau built for herself still stand on Robineau Road, overlooking Onondaga Park in Strathmore.

    On July 5, 2000, a rare piece of ceramic sculpture was sold by the JMW Gallery of Boston, Massachusetts for the price of $162,000. The covered jar, sold from one private collection to another, established the record price for Adelaide Alsop Robineau's body of work to that date. (Maine Ant...

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