The 9th Annual Russo and Steele Scottsdale auction event will offer a range of highly elusive, legendary, and the never before offered at auction collector automobiles; for example, Academy Award-winning actor Nicholas Cage’s 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda […]
Monthly Archives: December 2008
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Collectors and admirers of Canadian art competed for works in oil and watercolour in Bonhams’ auction in Toronto on Tuesday evening (Dec. 2, 2008). The sale realised CAD$543,000, with 68% of the lots selling (85% by […]
Wings, badges, patches and more – all items up for bid in a special Commercial Aviation Wings and Memorabilia hosted by Manion’s International House on their online auction website: www.manions.com. “Aviation related items are very desirable,” […]
BOSTON, Mass. – December 03, 2008 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, will host an auction of 20th Century Furniture & Decorative Arts in its Boston gallery on December 20th at […]
James Bond’s Lotus from The Spy Who Loved Me fetches £111,500 at London auction With the 007 movie Quantum of Solace bringing James Bond back into the public eye, Bonhams today (1 December 2008) sold the […]
Hanns Bolz was one of the most influential precursors of Modernism in the early 20th century. A contemporary of his, the writer Karl Otten, pronounced that Bolz’s “pictures went further than even Delaunay and Picasso dared […]
Christie’s have announced an extraordinary group of watercolors by the great 19th century British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner. The five watercolors, including four landscapes and one rare study of a woman’s face, will be among […]
An important early oil on canvas, Al solco by Gino Severini (1883-1966), one of the leading members of the Divisionist and the Futurist Movements, will be offered for sale in the Impressionism & Modern Art sale […]
The National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA) announced today that hockey fans and friends of the late Luc Bourdon will have the opportunity to support the Luc Bourdon Memorial Fund through an online eBay.ca auction that […]
The participation of almost 1,100 on-site and online bidders from 61 countries helped keep prices strong at the unreserved public auction conducted by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers in Moerdijk, the Netherlands last week. The three-day auction generated […]
At Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels Auction in Geneva a Pejmani ring proved to be the top seller. The exquisite piece with an 8.02ct Fancy Pink pear-shaped diamond was sold for $1.32 million. Although none of the top […]
The metallic blue Hummer H1 originally owned by Mark Philippoussis sold unreserved for $69,000 at Shannons Melbourne Summer Auction on November 24 after an exciting serve and volley duel amongst a dozen floor and telephone bidders. […]
At its Fall Quality Auction of October 5 to 7, B.S. Slosberg, Incorporated Auctioneers, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, offered some 375 lots of painting, prints, and furniture during the first session, a similar number of lots of […]
Bloomsbury’s latest offering of 20th Century Prints is an impressive, bumper (612 lots) two day sale (4th- 5th December), consisiting of Modern British Prints, William Greengrass and the Artists of the Grosvenor School, the Curwen Press, […]