(Oceanside, N.Y.) – A pair of original Charles Schulz “Peanuts” comic strips – one daily, one Sunday – sold for a combined $106,270, and original cover art by Dave Cockrum for the “X-Men” #99 comic book hit $55,370 at a multi-estate sale held April 26 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The Dave Cockrum piece was the top lot in a sale that saw about 750 items change hands and grossed $500,000. “I know I sound like a broken record, but even in a sour economy if you offer top-quality, fresh-to-the-market merchandise, then people will come to your ... Read the full story

EDINBURGH – The first of Sotheby’s bi-annual sales of Scottish Pictures will take place on Thursday, May 1, 2008 at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh. With a strong focus on the 20th century, the sale will showcase important and quality works from all periods and movements of Scottish Art over the course of the last century. Highlights will come from the Scottish Colourists, the Glasgow Boys, the Edinburgh Group and the New Glasgow Boys as well as from a major group of works by Alexander Goudie. 2008 marks the second year running that the Sotheby’s ... Read the full story

Bedford, PA – They say “a picture is worth a thousand words”, and in the auction industry that saying certainly holds true. AuctionZip.com the nation’s largest live auction website features over 20,000 auction listings from 11,000 auctioneers nationwide. About half of those listings have photo galleries attached showing the buyers items that will be found at the auction. Now for as little as 75 cents, those photos can be transformed into an advertisement driving traffic to an auctioneer’s listing, and more importantly buyers to ... Read the full story

The Classic MotorCycle Show, Stafford, 27 April 2008 Bonhams celebrated its best ever motorcycle sale at Stafford yesterday (27 April 2008), achieving several world record prices in a storming sale that realised £2,112,099. This is the highest ever sale total for any UK motorcycle sale, emphatically confirming Bonhams’ position as clear market leader for collectors’ motorcycles. This was the first of four dedicated motorcycle sales at Bonhams this year, and launched the 2008 calendar in commanding fashion, with 88% of all lots selling and the top ... Read the full story

Motorbikes owned by Steve McQueen, Evel Knievel, Private and Corporate Collections on the Block An exceptional offering of celebrity motorbikes and rare models from private and corporate collections come to auction at Bonhams & Butterfields’ second annual auction in concert with Legend of the Motorcycle, the eagerly-anticipated international concours d’elegance returning to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Half Moon Bay, CA. The auction takes place on Saturday, May 3, 2008 and features a sexy Steve McQueen Indian motorcycle, an Evel Knievel Harley, ... Read the full story

Proxibid, a leading provider of live auction webcasting services, will provide online bidding for an upcoming four-day auction featuring more than 4,000 pieces of jewelry valued at approximately $5 Million from Rochester, MN-based Rochester Lapidary Jewelers. The live auction event, presented by Grafe Auction Company, will take pace at the Mayo Civic Center April 30 through May 3 at 10:30 a.m. CDT. Pre-bidding and absentee bidding for this auction is already available at www.proxibid.com/grafe. “This is a high profile auction for the Rochester area and a ... Read the full story

There are certain ‘magic’ words that excite buyers, such as ‘fresh to the market’ and ‘a find’. Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of 20th century British Art has many ‘fresh to the market’ paintings, ‘a find’ and even one or two artists whose work has never been sold at auction before. Each sale is becoming more successful than the last, word is spreading amongst private established and novice collectors as well as the trade, that Bloomsbury’s Modern and Contemporary Art sales are to be watched and the sale on 8th May is no exception. The 20th ... Read the full story

BOSTON, Mass. – April 29, 2008 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, Inc., one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced that its spring painting sale will be held on May 16th in Skinner’s Boston gallery. The auction of American and European Paintings will include more than 500 fine landscapes, portraits, marine-scapes and modern works. American paintings One of the sale’s highlights is Animated View of Valparaiso Harbor (lot 93, est. $20/40,000) by Jacob C. Ward. The painting came directly from the artist ... Read the full story

A Clarice Cliff vase, featured on the cover of the Charterhouse April auction catalogue sold for a high hammer price of £5,800 despite the vendor hoping it could be worth a few hundred pounds. “The vase was a true piece of Art Deco geometric design boldly decorated in black and orange.” Commented Richard Bromell. “The vase was certainly the talk of the trade, it featured not only on our web site, but also other specialist auction web sites and was talked about in cyber space on the Clarice Cliff Collectors Club web site.” On the auction day, there ... Read the full story

On Sunday 4 May at 1pm, Bonhams & Goodman will conduct a Bay East Art auction at its Waterloo rooms at 224 Young Street. The auction of nearly 400 lots includes many collectable traditional and contemporary works by leading Australian and international artists. One of the more interesting lots is Rock Forms, Bondi circa 1903 by Petrus Van der Velden (1837-1913). Van der Velden emigrated to New Zealand from Holland with his wife and family in 1890, exhibiting with the Canterbury Society of Arts and setting up a studio for teaching in his Christchurch ... Read the full story